Goldfarb Gallery of York

Goldfarb Gallery of York September-December 2026

Curator: Lillian O'Brien Davis
Project assistant: Raven Spiratos

Project Page: research, notes, working text, timeline, work samples and loans

For this project, I'll examine Bird and Lava's development and process. The exhibition will include new and former work.

New work: This work is a meditation on forming and transforming in liminal space without the promise of stability. This project explores mind/body sensoria in relation to the beauty and love in impermanence.

Note: I want to be alive in my impermanence and forming at the scale of memory and imagination. -My expression in the new work explores no terminus in (environmental) liberation and no stability to be achieved or performed, but where colonial/imperial projects of capital extraction become artificial reefs, meant for the feral and the improvisational.

Bird and Lava

Guided by ecology, scale, distance, and space questions, 2016 I wrote: "I am certain that the beauty in black indeterminacy, from sound to science, from architecture to migration, will continue to guide our solutions to climate and form. Forms that are deeply spatial, generous, and haunting. In this moment of environmental precarity, we must be both liquid and mountains, bird and lava. And it is the density of black grace that will always be the thing that keeps us in our own humanity." I followed this idea with a series I've titled Bird and Lava. The series has become a recognition of the liminal in black geography, that there is liberation between the bird and the lava, between the liquid and the mountain—the liminal space of flight/gravity/heat/motion/scale and the magnificence of black state change. Our state change is related to the ecology of this planet and the universe. The beauty of transformation is in being able to connect on every scale.

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