Jordan Eagles presents "Bases Loaded," a solo exhibition at Brooklyn's Pioneer Works that explores his lifelong fandom of the New York Mets through works made with donated blood and medical waste. The show features three bodies of work: large-scale reproductions of New York Post covers about the team, cast-resin sculptures of home plate filled with blood and family artifacts, and T-shirts given to blood donors at the Mets ballpark that Eagles cropped and splashed with blood from HIV-positive gay men, arranged by color into orange and grey factions.
The exhibition matters because it connects Eagles' long-standing critique of US blood-donation policies that discriminate against LGBTQ+ people to broader themes of belonging, identity, and political polarization in America. By using blood from HIV-positive gay men—who are excluded from donating—Eagles transforms a symbol of exclusion into one of connection, challenging the rhetoric that uses blood as a tool for division. The show also personalizes these issues through Eagles' own experience as a Mets fan on PrEP who cannot donate blood, making the political deeply intimate.