sing, unburied, sing
Curated by Charles Moore
On view March 14th - APR 18th 2026
Opening reception MAR 14th 5-8pm
Sing, Unburied, Sing gathers a constellation of visual artists whose works echo, refract, and reimagine the emotional and metaphysical terrain of Jesmyn Ward’s novel of the same name. Like the book, the exhibition moves along the fault lines between the living and the dead, the spoken and the withheld, the remembered and the erased. Here, the “unburied” become more than ghosts; they become a narrative strategy, a curatorial framework for understanding the repercussions of history that insist on surfacing. The exhibition proposes that haunting is not a rupture but a continuity. It is a reminder that memory refuses to be silent and that ancestral presence permeates contemporary life in ways both tender and unrelenting.
Featuring artists:
Esperanza Cortes, Alexandria CouchAristotle Forrester, Kim Clayton Klauss, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, Otis Quaicoe, Raelis Vasquez, Telvin Wallace.
Image: Aristotle Forrester, Egungun Dance, oil on canvas, 24 × 24” 2025
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Guy Stanley Philoche’s paintings present Black figures isolated against uninterrupted, solid color fields creating spaces emptied of narrative distraction yet charged with symbolic weight. These monochrome grounds function as emotional and political stages, allowing the figure to exist without environmental explanation or spectacle. Children, families, and solitary subjects appear suspended in moments of quiet resolve, their gestures and gazes carrying histories of migration, aspiration, and self-determination. Philoche’s restraint is deliberate: by refusing contextual excess, he asserts Black life as complete unto itself, unburdened by setting, yet unmistakably grounded in lived experience. His recurring motifs; hand-painted flowers, text fragments, and everyday objects, operate as subtle signifiers of care, memory, and protection rather than nostalgia.