Upcoming Exhibitions

Southbound: A Survey of New and Previous Works by Y. Malik Jalal

August 25th - December 5th

Working through sculpture, collage, and photography, Jalal approaches the image as both a material object and a geography. Rather than treating photographs as pictures, he considers their circulation, framing, and exchange as conditions that shape meaning. Sourced from auctions, flea markets, and online resale platforms, discarded family photographs have been severed from their original custodians, transforming personal images into commodities. Their reappearance within the work raises questions of possession, memory, authorship, and value. Framing becomes a cartographic act, relocating images within new historical, formal, and psychological relationships.

The automobile and the roadside constitute a parallel geographic interest. Jalal understands the interstate as one of the defining landscapes of modern life: familiar yet fundamentally uninhabitable, a space organized around circulation, production, and impact. Throughout the work, the automobile functions as both object and metaphor—a site where aspiration, labor, violence, and fantasy converge. Across his practice, collision is positioned as a generative force through which loss and inheritance acquire material form.

Please join us for the joint public reception on Thursday, September 17th, 5:30 - 8:30pm. Malik Jalal will also be giving an artist talk at the reception. This event is combined with the reception for The Bennett Prize.

The Bennett Prize: Rising Voices 4

September 15th - December 5th

Rising Voices celebrates women figurative realist painters from across the U.S., showcasing finalists and the winner of The Bennett Prize® — one of the largest art prizes for women painters worldwide.

This marks the 4th iteration of The Bennett Prize®, continuing its mission to amplify the voices of women painters and transform the landscape of figurative realism.

In addition to Rising Voices, the traveling exhibition season features a special solo show: Deng Shiqing — The Cost of Life. Winner of The Bennett Prize® 3, Deng explores the deeply human, complex, and emotional realities of surrogacy through figurative painting. Her work illuminates questions of identity, motherhood, and the value of human life.

Please join us for the joint public reception on Thursday, September 17th, 5:30 - 8:30pm. Malik Jalal will also be giving an artist talk at the reception. This event is combined with the reception for Southbound.