• TAJ MATUMBI: A SPIEL - PAUL R JONES MUSEUM in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

    March 7 - May 2, 2025

    opening reception Friday, March 7 (5-8pm)

    ”History, pop culture, urban folklore, and improvisation drive my work as an image maker. I’m interested in how this source material translates to shape, text, and color that coalesce into meaning within abstract fields. In recent paintings, I blend formal abstraction with poorly rendered figures that recall my primary school days - an intentionally naive and self-taught drawing approach that allows my subject matter to more fluidly inhabit both real and imagined worlds.”

UPCOMING

  • CLAYTON COLVIN: THE DESCENT

    April 4 - May 16, 2025

    opening reception: Friday, April 4 (6-8pm)


    Colvin has developed a practice of painting that is both challenging and seductive, using a hybrid of figurative and abstract approaches to create delicate, fantastic, and concrete spaces - the immediate and intimate nature of drawing infusing his paintings with an hypnotic mix of familiarity and mystery. The artist’s recent work continues what critic Cinque Hicks described in Art in America as his “naked search for new answers to old questions.” (…)

  • DANIEL WHITE: KNOCK SEVEN BELLS

    May 23 - July 4, 2025

    opening reception: Friday, May 23 (6-8p

    Does memory create its own landscape, or does it just make those events more bearable? In the end, does it all work out? What is real between us? What isn’t real? There is just something tragic about growing up, and no one is spared the harsh truths. Before you know it, you can’t remember what it was like wandering down trails that led to nothing or holding your breath underwater. Memory is a push/pull and so is painting alongside art history. (…)