Past
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Audacity in Motion
26 Apr - 18 Jul 2025 Audacity is the refusal to shrink in the face of challenge. It is movement—bold, unrelenting, and necessary. The artists of Audacity in Motion do not ask permission; they claim space, celebrate complexity, and demand engagement. Through color, collage, portraiture, and layered symbolism, these artists transform personal and collective histories into... Read more -
Freedom: Forward March
22 Nov 2024 - 22 Mar 2025 Freedom is more than just an ideal; it is a deep, resonant calling, a relentless struggle, a contest of will, and ultimately, a profound feat of deliverance. It demands that we not only approach it with an open heart but that we also wield it with unwavering courage, meeting its... Read more -
Holding Space: Dreams and Memories
21 Jun - 18 Oct 2024 Ella West Gallery presents Holding Space: Dreams and Memories, an exhibition featuring the work of Isabel Lu (she/they), Julia Rivera (she/her), and Toni Scott (she/her). Three artists whose paintings investigate and reimagine what it means to embody the experiences of migration, intergenerational tradition, institutional exclusion, and gender variance, their works... Read more -
Stephen Hayes: Reclaiming the Discarded
3 Feb - 6 Apr 2024 Artist and Duke University Art professor Stephen Hayes began his craftsmanship journey when he was in only first grade. After watching his brother repair a remote control car, Stephen developed a fascination with building, tinkering, reconfiguring, and reimagining, finding scraps of material to transform into his own unique creations. From... Read more
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Persistence: On Our Terms
4 Nov 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 Ella West Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition featuring the work of Maya Freelon and Sachi Rome. Through their respective practices rooted in abstraction, Freelon and Rome explore the terrain of the margins, interrogating how identity and representation can be expressed outside of the boundaries and expectations of dominant... Read more -
Return to Parrish Street: A Dream Realized
17 Aug - 21 Oct 2023 Taking inspiration from Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, the exhibition’s title is based on two poems: A Dream Deferred (1951) and The Dream Keeper (1932). Within Hughes’ extensive body of work on the subject, this pair of poems embodies the aspirational elements of dreams as goals, and their more enigmatic... Read more
