Welancora Gallery

Welancora Gallery The focus of the gallery is to exhibit and represent artists from around the world by mounting major exhibitions and publishing scholarly catalogs.

Artist Spotlight: Na’ye PerezNa’ye Perez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work is defined ...
08/30/2026

Artist Spotlight: Na’ye Perez

Na’ye Perez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work is defined by a unique experimintation in medium: incorporating paint, printmaking, and found materials in his multi-media works. Embedded within Perez’s urban landscapes are wrappers, ticket-stubs, metrocards, magazine scraps, and most notably: sand. Perez collects and utilizes sand from across the United States and the globe- Haiti, Coney Island, Connecticut, Guyana, and Los Angeles, to name a few- ingraining a personal map within the textural surfaces of his figures. These eclectic mixed media compositions encapsulate the vibrancy, shared joys, histories, and traumas of inner city youth culture. Creating scenes that are a blend of reality and imagination, Perez roots the physical world, and his personal engagement with found materiality to capture fleeting moments of everyday life in various places.

Artwork
Count Me Out, 2022
Acrylic, spray paint, gel transfer, sand (Los Angeles, Dockweiler), lino block prints on rice paper, gold leaf, newsprint (Vibe Magazine)

Artist Spotlight: Grace Lynne HaynesIn her practice, Grace Lynne Haynes (b.1992, California) investigates the relationsh...
08/28/2026

Artist Spotlight: Grace Lynne Haynes

In her practice, Grace Lynne Haynes (b.1992, California) investigates the relationship between collage and storytelling through materials such as gouache, glitter, hand-made paper, and photography to create a visual language of her own making. Haynes’ work continues the African American world making tradition that utilizes the imagination to create alternative realities that we can dream and exist in. She references Afrofuturism, ecological issues, Octavia Butler’s science fiction, and figuration to create surrealist alternative worlds that challenge Western theology and methods of image making. Haynes’ process of world building becomes a zone of creative and cultural liberation by inventing new ways of being. In these invented worlds, her femmes are cast as the lead to the creation of an exciting and unruly elsewhere. Their ethereal bodies exist in-between the physical and spiritual realm gifting them unique abilities that defy physical boundaries and art-historical precedents. This work is part of the first chapter of Grace’s world titled “The Sea is The Only Highway” and unfolds in the aquatic realm and the porous borders of seascapes that create new gateways for these beings to enter and simulate rapture and revision.

Grace Lynne Haynes

Artwork
Three’s no crowd, A fearsome foursome, / Keeping Their Language Alive, Changing the Face, Soldiers of Fortune, 2025
Multimedia collage painting on wood panel

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Welancora Gallery is pleased to announce Aisha Tandiwe Bell’s inclusion in Thresholds, one of three exhibitions presente...
08/26/2026

Welancora Gallery is pleased to announce Aisha Tandiwe Bell’s inclusion in Thresholds, one of three exhibitions presented as part of The Otherworld is Home, at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. Inspired by the Yorùbá proverb, “Life is a journey, the otherworld is home” (àiyé l’àjò, ọ̀run n’ílé), The Otherworld is Home spans centuries of artistic practice, from fifteenth-century Mali to newly commissioned contemporary works, tracing enduring connections across Africa and its diasporas. Thresholds brings together the work of Aisha Tandiwe Bell, Portia Cobb, Stephen Hamilton, and Daniel Minter in dialogue with African works from the Haggerty’s collection. The artists work at a threshold between the seen and unseen, the present and the ancestral, and the place left behind and the place arrived at.

The exhibition is free to the public, open Monday - Saturday, from August 28 to December 19, 2026.

Aisha Tandiwe Bell-Caldwell Haggerty Museum of Art

Artwork:
Gold and Shadow, 2020
Acrylic, metal leaf, painted and fired terra cotta clay on wood
30 x 40 x 7 inches

Welancora Gallery Summer Show Artist Spotlight: Carl E. Hazlewood Carl E. Hazlewood Guyana-born artist Carl E. Hazlewood...
08/20/2026

Welancora Gallery Summer Show Artist Spotlight: Carl E. Hazlewood Carl E. Hazlewood

Guyana-born artist Carl E. Hazlewood uses the structural language of abstraction as a clarifying act of progress in what he considers an unstable world. Through a suite of shapes and symbols, his work speaks to the power of resiliency through references to Anansi the Spider, a prominent character in West African and Caribbean folklore. More broadly, Hazlewood’s approach to his work and life seeks to counter the insinuation that there may be limitations on what he should do or what he can achieve. He strives for an art and life of open possibilities, for a poetic presentness beyond time, place, race, and other distracting polemics.

The Summer Show is an intergenerational presentation including artists within the Welancora Gallery and Ivy’s Projects programs who find themselves reflecting upon historical narratives and escapist mythologies. The Summer Show has been extended and will now be on view through August 31, 2026. For a look at some of Carl Hazlewood’s work on view, visit the link in bio.

Artworks:
Carl E. Hazlewood
Untitled 4, 2026
Mixed media collage
5.03 x 3.5 inches
12.78 x 8.9 cms

Carl E. Hazlewood
BlackHead Anansi - Illusion Forbidden Fruit, 2022
Polyester, cut Hahnemuhle paper, vinyl tape, push pins, grommet, plastic mesh, map pins, oil pastel, acrylic, pigment ink
51 x 34 inches
129.5 x 86.4 cms

Carl E. Hazlewood
Untitled 13, 2026
Mixed media collage
5.13 x 3.44 inches
13.03 x 8.74 cms

Welancora Gallery Summer Show Artist Spotlight: Anders Jones Anders Jones Contemporary artist Anders Jones uses a combin...
08/19/2026

Welancora Gallery Summer Show Artist Spotlight: Anders Jones Anders Jones

Contemporary artist Anders Jones uses a combination of printing techniques paired with new technologies, painting, sculpture, and photography to uncover and expand the potential of materials and mediums as a means to explore social commentary. For over a decade, Anders has maintained a parallel practice as a textile designer, working on projects for MoMA, Gagosian, and PACE among others.

The Summer Show is an intergenerational presentation including artists within the Welancora Gallery and Ivy’s Projects programs who find themselves reflecting upon historical narratives and escapist mythologies. The Summer Show is on view through August 21, 2026. Please click the link in our bio to see the rest of the work in the show.

A newly available catalogue of Jones’ work is available for purchase on our website. The catalogue was published in support of “New York Now: Home,” an exhibition that was on view at the Museum of the City of New York in 2023.

Artworks

Anders Jones
Psychological Warfare #2, 2017
Mixed media collage
20 x 16 inches

Welancora Gallery Summer Show Artist Spotlight: Oasa DuVerney oasa duVerney Best known for her figurative graphite drawi...
08/18/2026

Welancora Gallery Summer Show Artist Spotlight: Oasa DuVerney oasa duVerney

Best known for her figurative graphite drawings on paper, New York based artist Oasa DuVerney’s work centers social and political commentary informed by her experiences as a woman of color and a working-class person. She reimagines elements from the natural and urban, political and social landscapes as active sites for building solidarity and advancing Black liberation. In a world where some people and places have been deemed unworthy of protection, the figures in her work are rendered with the care, compassion, and understanding they deserve but are not always afforded. Drawing on motifs from nature—including waves, snakes, and mountains—DuVerney explores the ways people of color navigate and exist within contemporary society.

The Summer Show is an intergenerational presentation including artists within the Welancora Gallery and Ivy’s Projects programs who find themselves reflecting upon historical narratives and escapist mythologies. The Summer Show will run from July 30th until August 21, 2026. Please click the link in our bio to see the rest of the work in the show.

Artwork
Oasa DuVerney
BLACK POWER WAVE as Single Mother Fu Dog, 2025
Graphite on hand cut paper
50 x 38 1/8 inches
127 x 96.8 cms

Welancora Gallery is pleased to announce Aisha Tandiwe Bell’s inclusion in Thresholds, one of three exhibitions presente...
08/18/2026

Welancora Gallery is pleased to announce Aisha Tandiwe Bell’s inclusion in Thresholds, one of three exhibitions presented as part of The Otherworld is Home, at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. Inspired by the Yorùbá proverb, “Life is a journey, the otherworld is home” (àiyé l’àjò, ọ̀run n’ílé), The Otherworld is Home spans centuries of artistic practice, from fifteenth-century Mali to newly commissioned contemporary works, tracing enduring connections across Africa and its diasporas. Thresholds brings together the work of Aisha Tandiwe Bell, Portia Cobb, Stephen Hamilton, and Daniel Minter in dialogue with African works from the Haggerty’s collection. The artists work at a threshold between the seen and unseen, the present and the ancestral, and the place left behind and the place arrived at.

The exhibition is free to the public, open Monday - Saturday, from August 28 to December 19, 2026.

Aisha Tandiwe Bell-Caldwell

Artwork:
Gold and Shadow, 2020
Acrylic, metal leaf, painted and fired terra cotta clay on wood
30 x 40 x 7 inches

Our virtual summer viewing room is available online, starting today, on our website through August 21. This intergenerat...
07/29/2026

Our virtual summer viewing room is available online, starting today, on our website through August 21. This intergenerational presentation includes artists within the Welancora Gallery and Ivy’s Projects programs who find themselves reflecting upon historical narratives and escapist mythologies. To view, visit the link in our bio.

Artwork
Carl E. Hazlewood
Untitled 16, 2026

On the occasion of the publication of the 25th anniversary edition of Deborah Willis’ book, Reflections in Black: A Refr...
07/15/2026

On the occasion of the publication of the 25th anniversary edition of Deborah Willis’ book, Reflections in Black: A Reframing, NYU has published an article reflecting on Willis’ process in assembling the first edition of the book, her impact within the field of photography, and how she has adapted the anniversary edition to encompass 21st century photography.

When it was first published, Reflections in Black provided a sweeping history of Black photography. “While scholars, including Willis, had begun publishing art histories and bibliographies on Black photography decades before, Reflections’ encyclopedic scope instantly established it as a foundational text. ‘Willis has performed an important act of cultural and historical excavation,’ noted a review in the New York Times. Says Allison Janae Hamilton (GSAS ’15), an artist whom Willis advised as a PhD student at NYU, ‘The way she historicized it and linked it together as a lineage, it was groundbreaking, it is groundbreaking.’” —Nicole Pezold

Read the full article linked in our bio

Oasa DuVerney, Mildred Beltre and the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Civic Practice Partnership c...
07/08/2026

Oasa DuVerney, Mildred Beltre and the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Civic Practice Partnership culminated in June with the release of BEFORE IT’S GONE: Archive To Survive, a limited edition (250) book that is 168 pages filled with colorful images and stories that stand as communal testimony of the lives lived on their block over the last 40 years. To bring this book to life they collaborated with Kelly Walters of Bright Polka Dot on Design and Radhika Singh as editor. Copies are available to purchase in our link in bio, with three different price point options to make it accessible to as many people as possible.

The Met’s Civic Practice Partnership (CPP), launched in 2017, is a two-year artist-in-residence program for socially engaged artists and art collectives. CPP catalyzes and implements creative projects that advance healthy communities by bringing the skills and interests of neighborhood stakeholders together with those of The Met and artists who are socially minded in their practice. Artists selected for the CPP program work in their own neighborhoods across New York City and at The Met to develop and implement ambitious projects and forge meaningful collaborations.

Visit the link in bio to purchase Archive To Survive.

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