Future Exhibitions
Strand Gallery
April 12 - July 6, 2025
Brandon Ballengée
The Sea of Lost Children
Brandon Ballengée’s exhibition, The Sea of Lost Children, is presented in observation of the 15th commemoration of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. The exhibition features Ballengée’s monumental sculptural installation, Collapse, made in response to the threat and potential unraveling of the Gulf’s food chain following the DWH oil spill. The piece includes 26,162 preserved specimens arranged into a pyramid, representing 370 species of fish and other aquatic organisms collected from the Gulf Coast. Specimens are arranged according to the place they occupy in the food chain, with empty specimen jars representing species in decline or those that have already been lost to extinction. The installation also includes work from the series La Mer des Enfants Perdus (The Sea of Lost Children) composed as flags depicting X-rays of missing Gulf Species flanking the gallery in a tribute to these ghosts of the Gulf.
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1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries
June 14 - August 3, 2025
Kingsley Onyeiwu
Crowned in Contradictions
Crowned in Contradictions is an exploration of identity at the intersection of history, culture, and irony. Kingsley Onyeiwu’s exhibition navigates the layered complexities of Afropolitanism—where colonial legacies collide with contemporary expressions, and beauty is both a celebration and a critique. The figures within Onyeiwu’s works are adorned not just with crowns, jewelry, and fabric, but with symbols that challenge singular narratives about Africa and its diaspora. They are regal yet rebellious, occupying spaces where elegance coexists with defiance. Through towering forms, muted abstractions, and satirical undertones, this body of work asks: What does it mean to be crowned by histories we inherit, subvert, and redefine?
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