Past/ Previously on View
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Ceremony
Chris Watts 19 Oct - 20 Dec 2023 Welancora Gallery is pleased to present Ceremony, the first solo exhibition at the gallery of work by Chris Watts. The show opens with a reception on Thursday, October 19 from 6pm- 8pm, and will remain on view through Wednesday, December 20, 2023. The exhibition includes several new works called, ‘ambient... Read more -
Weh Dem? De Sparrow Catcher?
Cyle Warner 27 Jul - 10 Oct 2023 Welancora Gallery is proud to present Weh Dem? De Sparrow Catcher? , a solo exhibition of new work by Cyle Warner (b. 2001), on view from July 27 to October 10, 2023. Warner’s first exhibition at the gallery brings together a reimagined archive of photographs and textiles to reveal a... Read more -
In My Home Clothes: Renluka Maharaj
8 Jun - 13 Jul 2023 Welancora Gallery is pleased to present, In my Home Clothes, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Renluka Maharaj. The exhibition will take place from June 8 to July 13, 2023. This will be Maharaj’s first solo exhibition with Welancora. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Renluka Maharaj utilizes... Read more -
Teff Teffa
Meron Engida Hawke 30 Mar - 11 May 2023 Welancora Gallery is proud to present Teff Teffa , a solo exhibition of new, mixed-media paintings and sculpture by Meron Engida Hawke (b. 1987). The exhibition opens on Thursday, March 30 and remains on view until May 11. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Ancient Ethiopian... Read more -
Tamia Alston-Ward: Le Déracinement
26 Jan - 18 Mar 2023 Welancora Gallery is proud to present Le Déracinement (The Uprooting), the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Philadelphia-based artist Tamia Alston-Ward (b. 1999). Through a suite of delicately toned metalpoint drawings and paintings on paper and wood panel, Alston-Ward explores the removal, decontextualization, and rebuilding of cultural and personal identity as... Read more -
MIGRATING SUN PART 1
Demetri Burke, Ryan Cosbert, Kim Dacres, Meron Engida, Renluka Maharaj, Naye Perez, Omar E. Saad, Khari Raheem, Cyle Warner 8 Sep - 12 Nov 2022 Read more -
Open Doors at Galerie Lelong and Co., New York
Carl E. Hazlewood, Helen Evans Ramsaran, Chris Watts 30 Jun - 5 Aug 2022 Read more -
Oasa DuVerney
A World To Live In 4 Jun - 6 Aug 2022 Welancora Gallery is proud to present Oasa DuVerney, A World to Live In. The exhibition opens on June 4 and runs until August 6, 2022. Through a new series of graphite drawings on hand cut paper, A World To Live In, reimagines elements from both the natural and urban landscape... Read more -
CARL E. HAZLEWOOD:BLACKHEAD LYRICISM
12 Mar - 7 May 2022 BlackHead Lyricism “ denotes the presence of an element of Black joy and creativity that persists, even during uncertain political and social times. The word BlackHead, appears in many titles of works I’ve done over the past several years. He is mostly me – and others like me. It’s a... Read more -
BEHOLD
Oasa DuVerney, Sana Musasama, Komikka Patton, Roberto Visani, Chris Watts 2 Oct 2021 - 31 Jan 2022 Read more -
RED
Curated by Nico Wheadon 12 Jun - 21 Aug 2021 The color red has long embodied a paradoxical tension. It motivates yet cautions, loves yet rages and—all too often—marks both the giving of life and its mortal end. Despite its ubiquity red is, however, uniquely defined by its context. In this group exhibition, twelve artists working across mediums share their... Read more -
TO HEAL AND PROTECT
Lakela Brown Layo Bright Hakeem Olayinka 20 Mar - 28 May 2021 Read more -
AKIN:AISHA TANDIWE BELL
AKIN 7 Nov - 31 Dec 2020 Aisha Tandiwe Bell: She’s All That Building a body of work not only as an act of social commentary, but as an act of personal transformation speaks to an ethos of active personal responsibility. It reflects a desire, whether fully conscious or not, to show up in the collective as... Read more -
HOW DID YOU GET THIS?: THE SPACES WE INHABIT
Zalika Azim Elliott Jerome Brown, Jr Collette Veasey Cullors Melvin Harper Daonne Huff Anders Jones Deborah Willis 14 Mar - 13 Sep 2020 Blueprints in Black By Diana McClure In a deft act of deflection, the group exhibition How Did You Get This?: The Spaces We Inhabit turns an absurd question posed by strangers into a rhetorical one. When confronted with a destabilizing sense of cognitive dissonance, a result of an... Read more -
Helen Evans Ramsaran
12 YEARS 20 Oct - 19 Dec 2019 Helen Evans Ramsaran- 12 Years By Antwaun Sargent For many decades, Helen Evans Ramsaran has developed a research based sculpture practice of bronze reliefs, stone cravings, and paper amulets to ponder personal and collective histories that have existed in nature. Often wedding African motifs with an African-American... Read more -
IN THE FUTURE WHEN.....
Damien Davis Delano Dunn Tiffany Smith 22 Sep - 18 Nov 2018 ANTICIPATING FREEDOM By Diana McClure The exhibition In The Future When…falls within a cultural moment when the black speculative arts, astro- blackness, and Afrofuturism are gaining momentum in popular culture and academia. Cultural artifacts known and unknown, are in fact bountiful in regard to the movements ever-evolving tenants, some of... Read more -
MIRRORED BY NATURE
Oasa DuVerney David Rios Ferreira Tajh Rust Adrienne Elise Tarver 14 Apr - 17 Jun 2018 MIRRORED BY NATURE: Intersections is Psychic and Geographic Space by Diana McClure In what comes across as a meditation on the relationship between individual agency and collective force, Mirrored by Nature, seems to be in conversation, tangentially, with today’s political climate. Four artists, Oasa Duverney, Tajh Rust, David Rios... Read more -
CONJURE:AISHA TANDIWE BELL
Curated by Derrick Adams 4 Nov 2017 - 14 Jan 2018 Aisha Bell: Conjure by Diana McClure The work of Aisha Bell can be described as a dialectic between many pairs of opposites. In its most abstract iteration, form and formlessness. In its most literal, socially constructed identities and freedom of expression. In a sense, the spiritual power of conscious awareness... Read more
