Baker Artist Portfolios

Wickerham & Lomax is the collaborative name of Baltimore-based artists Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax. Since 2009, they’ve treated the installation as stage, the exhibition as interface, and friendship as form. W&L are new media artists invested in how digital environments, social structures, and image-based technologies shape identity and community. Their work is born from digital logic and nightlife thinking—where presentation is performance. They use CGI, industrial materials, double-sided prints, and sculptural display systems to produce images that behave like people—coded, contradictory, and hungry for attention.

The studio functions more like a nursery than a factory—ideas get raised. Their approach mirrors the parasexual strategy of the cuckoo bird—laying its egg in another’s nest—as a metaphor for co-authorship without inheritance. Biology remains a working metaphor in their practice: not for essentialism, but for variation, camouflage, and reproduction by other means.

The duo encourages viewing great friendships as creative enterprises, deserving artistic scrutiny. Within the worlds they construct, W&L move between roles—showrunner, designer, guardian—transforming the studio into a site for filming, writing, and thinking in costume. They draw-on your experiences; the secret erotic energy of debauchery in what might be called nightlife’s epistemology. 

They traffic in public consciousness and cultural ephemera that’s too trashy for traditional theory, also pulling from ACT UP’s simultaneity, Lagerfeld’s recombinance, speculative fiction, sitcom syndication, and internet-era romance. Across all of it runs an interest in images as socially co-authored, emotionally recombinant, and strategically performed. They don’t stage shows—they construct speculative ecologies, populated by synthetic offspring, para-social myths, and recombinant aesthetics. Their images don’t explain themselves—they behave, metabolize, and wait to be carried home. We don’t care who made it—we care who will raise it.