After making a splash in Manhattan, an artist gets his due back home

Music by the Rolling Stones blared from speakers at the Ritz nightclub on East 11th Street in New York’s Manhattan borough as men and women walked side by side down the runway. More than 1,500 audience members, a sheen of sweat glistening off their necks in the tightly packed space, sized up the glow-in-the-dark creations under strobe lights.

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But this show did not take place last…