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Alisa Sikelianos-Carter's first solo exhibition with the gallery presents several bodies of work exploring connections among ancestry, power, intuition, and the divine. The artist's mixed-media works on paper are akin to spells commanding the viewer to engage closely with the various textures – hard ground, velvety gouache, glittery mica, and other luminescent materials – mapping the diversity of the color black and of the Black experience.

Sikelianos-Carter creates devotional objects which embed within them the physical knowledge of ancestral DNA, and the spiritual knowledge passed …