Events

Sick Play, a solo exhibition of new works at Sleepwalker Collective gallery Friday December 12, 2025, from 7–10 PM at 324 East 23rd St, Baltimore, MD 21218. The show will be up until 1/21 and the gallery is open by appointment (feel free to email alx.velozo@gmail.com or sleepwalkercollective@gmail.com) 

Sick Play explores how a chronically ill and disabled experience informs and troubles sensation and power exchanges. This exhibition lenses a BDSM hanky code through a standardized hospital color system and collapses the sick body, its navigation of the Medical Industrial Complex, and its complex sensory experience into predicament bondage. In this sick-centered landscape the abstracted body becomes both the trap and the trapped and kink-coded bandanas break out into patterned rashes of medical sock grips.

Visual description: A teal-toned poster features a distorted net being tugged by a dark metal chain hanging down diagonally to the left side. Bold black text at the top reads “SICK PLAY,” and the name “ALX VELOZO” appears on the right inside a break in the net. Along the bottom, event details list an opening reception on December 12, 2025, from 7–10 PM at Sleepwalker Collective at 324 East 23rd St, Baltimore.

Full Access information: 

Space: This artist-run gallery is housed in the first floor of a historic row house. The main entrance is up 5 steps of stairs with an interior step between the entrance and the main gallery space. The exit to the backyard has 6 stairs, a raised door sill, and a final step to the alley. 

Covid: Masks are required and will be provided for events. An air purifier will be running in the central gallery space. 

Bathroom: A public bathroom is available on the first floor. It unfortunately is not ADA accessible for wheelchair users and does not have infant changing tables.

Signage: all works are visually described and a printed copy is available to support low vision/ blind folks. Screen reader compatible visual descriptions will also be connected to QR codes throughout the exhibition.

Tactile: There are touch objects installed throughout the show and multiple works can be directly touched. Touchable work will be indicated clearly. 

Content warning: written texts in the exhibit include mentions of bondage, blood, and piercing. This text may not be suitable for children or your own tastes. There will be a short alternative printout with age appropriate text for the young reader.

Parking: street parking is available directly out front. The sidewalk has a curb cut less than half a block from the space.

Public transit: The nearest bus stops are is the red line at Greenmount Ave & 22nd and the purple route at Charles and 22nd 

*** a note around access choices for this exhibition:

As a disabled artist that depends on mobility access devices, it was a difficult choice to exhibit this work in a space that is not wheelchair accessible. We will be sharing a video tour shortly after the opening to virtually share the work with those that cannot be with us in the space. This choice was made with the intimate knowledge of how few physically accessible exhibition spaces there are for early career artists in Baltimore. Let’s change this by supporting the efforts of local disability-led organizations like "Baltimore: The City of Accessible Arts!"