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A foreign gust blows through the skies of Lanise Howard’s portraits, winds of change that penetrate their surroundings, interrupting their natural space of possibility. In the parallel world of her paintings, this fast-approaching wind has joined Howard’s cast of characters, approaching from the skies, and flowing into the lands. The wind has its own presence, a foreboding breeze seemingly ready to strip the land, or to plague this population with a new form of subjugation. It will soon be a force of colonization, changing these native landscapes irrevocably.

Howard’s figures—her …