Settler colonies and occupations are, among other things, laboratories of social control and incubators of technological innovation toward this end. As settler colonialism is a totalizing social structure, the methodologies and technologies developed to enforce and sustain it necessarily operate at various scales. Innovations emerge and are tested and deployed in one location at one time and, if successful, can quickly spread within imperial zones, across imperial projects, and back home to metropoles.
Here Everywhere at Nicelle Beauchene offers a retrospective glimpse of selected artworks created over nearly fifteen years. The “In Resin” series features objects encased in yellow resin, transformed into three-dimensional geometries that reveal glimpses of the items trapped within.
In their final body of work, artist Nancy Brooks Brody, who died of ovarian cancer in December of 2023, retains their fidelity to minimalism and a deeply personal studio practice, creating seven vertical works of tissue paper on canvas that make up Nancy Brooks Brody: Ode at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery.
Cunningham, an alum of President Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign and subsequent White House, reimmerses us in the full swing of that first race to November. Great Expectations’s topline narrative is focused on the landmark campaign of an unnamed Black senator from Illinois, as experienced by a young Black staffer working the campaign, coming to the job with curious eyes, new to electoral politics.