Miami Spice

TYRRELL WINSTON (B. 1985)
Miami Spice
signed on the reverse of the upper-right basketball used basketballs, liquid plastic, steel and epoxy
36 x 45 x 9 inches (91.4 x 114.3 x 22.9 cm)
Executed in 2025.

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Born in Southern California in 1985 and now based in Detroit, Tyrrell Winston is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines sport, celebrity, memory, and the systems through which cultural value is assigned. His practice began with collecting discarded objects from the streets and basketball courts of Manhattan and Brooklyn. By reorganizing worn basketballs, abandoned nets, and other found materials, Winston transforms overlooked objects into records of use, aspiration, and collective experience.

In Miami Spice, Winston arranges sixteen used basketballs into a precise four-by-four grid. Each ball bears the marks of its former life: faded branding, scuffed surfaces, discoloration, and the physical wear of repeated play. Fixed within a steel framework, the discarded objects are transformed into a unified sculptural composition without losing their individual histories.The orderly grid contrasts with the irregularity of the weathered basketballs, balancing repetition with variation. Winston refers to these traces of use as “embedded history,” treating each object as a record of the people and places it has encountered.

Winston’s work has been presented internationally, with solo exhibitions at Cranbrook Art Museum, Library Street Collective, Stems Gallery, Volery Gallery, and LANDMARK and Belowground in Hong Kong. His work is held in collections including Cranbrook Art Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, Nike, Aimé Leon Dore, and the Detroit Pistons.

Read our interview with Tyrrell Winston here.