Walton Ave & Friends brings together sculpted portraits from across the oeuvres of John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, beginning with The South Bronx Hall of Fame (1979), a suite of 21 singular busts produced at the alternative art space Fashion Moda, the site of the artists’ initial encounter. As founding director Joe Lewis wrote, “[Fashion Moda] was an outlet for the disenfranchised, a Salon des Refusés that cut across the uptown/downtown dichotomy, across the black/white/Hispanic isolation.” Their storefront castings quickly attracted a curious crowd of everyday Bronx residents: mothers and fathers running errands, children returning home from school, and patients from a nearby methadone clinic—ordinary people, unlike the war heroes, royalty, or the divine typically glorified in the pages of art history.