My practice investigates the notion of home and comparative identity, coalescing my Middle Eastern and North African heritage with my American home. I am an immigrant. My parents are, and so were theirs. I moved across 20 homes or so and have not been to my homeland yet – Palestine.

– Abdulkarim

Known for her installations, paintings, and objects reflecting the palette and politics of skin tone, specifically Brown and Black skin, the gallery is excited to introduce the mixed-media paintings of Pilar Agüero-Esparza. The works on view are a hybrid of formal, hard-edged geometric abstraction, accentuated by her coded palette, intersecting with her family’s tradition of huarache-making (woven leather Mexican sandals).

We're excited to present selections from the series Posies, an exquisite collection of still-life floral portraits by J. John Priola. The photographs are included in a 2022 monograph published by Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg covering 20 years of Priola’s romance photographing the natural world. Along with images of nature are the facsimiles of nature, forever preserved with the vibrancy of life.

Amalia Galdona Broche's considers the effects and duration of her immigration: “I was a child of the Cuban Revolution during the Special Period, a time of extreme economic adversity. Through sculpture and time-based media, I explore the fluid nature of identity, faith, memory of identity, transculturation and immigration.

This exhibition features a large-scale mixed media sculpture representing a Glorieta, an architectural symbol of community and gathering for special events, entertainment and politics from Galdona Broche's childhood home in Cuba. Glorieta was recently exhibited at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, an affiliate of the North Carolina Museum of Art.