Past Exhibitions

Earth Sanctuary seeks to celebrate the natural world and the legacy of African American women gardeners in Virginia. In this exhibition of abstract works Burrowes explores vibrant color, texture, and rhythm in recent mixed media paintings on paper referencing botanicals found in local gardens.

In EMERGENCY BLANKETS, Shadwell makes large scale charcoal and pastel drawings of space blankets (aka solar blankets, emergency blankets, thermal blankets, etc) which are made of a compact lightweight material used to regulate temperatures of things like spacecraft and human bodies in cold circumstances.

We view the world through our eyes, limited by a narrow color spectrum and depth of vision. But what if we had compound eyes like insects, sonar like dolphins, and used other senses to enhance our vision? In his exhibition Hybrid Baroque, Bahadori explores new sensoria by abstracting and recomposing elements of nature, architectural structures, and human figures. 

In the exhibition In-Between beings, Te-Mao Lee contemplates the question of existence through a series of video works that gaze toward a future two thousand years from now. Along Taiwan’s east coast, tectonic forces have gradually uplifted ancient coastal settlements to elevated sites—prehistoric traces now suspended above sea level—revealing that ancient peoples once lived by the sea. This vertical dimension of spacetime prompts a descent 20 meters below today’s sea level, where the artist explores a yet-to-arrive mode of being through the materiality of seabed sand.

The inner workings, spiritual strivings, and transformation of Black Women Spiritualists are explored in a vision which layers alternative photography processes, the mixed media collage practice, and literary art to reveal the story of Archival Janie. She is altogether Black Women Spiritualists of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Landed began with a simple experiment: hanging a lace painting outdoors and watching it come alive. What started as curiosity about “women’s work” during a residency grew into an ongoing practice of placing paintings in unexpected settings, where their presence—and the environments around them—are both transformed.