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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.

Brooklyn Museum Walkthrough: Thank you to the curatorial staff and committee members from the Brooklyn Museum for visiti...
10/12/2026

Brooklyn Museum Walkthrough: Thank you to the curatorial staff and committee members from the Brooklyn Museum for visiting the gallery to learn more about Deborah Willis’s work. It was great having you. This was a full circle moment as Deb worked at the museum early in her career during the mid 1970s.

Brooklyn Museum Walkthrough: Thank you to the curatorial staff and committee members from the Brooklyn Museum for visiti...
10/12/2026

Brooklyn Museum Walkthrough: Thank you to the curatorial staff and committee members from the Brooklyn Museum for visiting the gallery last week to learn more about Deborah Willis’s work and the gallery program. It was great having you in our space. This was truly a full circle moment as Deb worked at the Brooklyn Museum early on in her career during the mid 1970s.

We are pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Carl E. Hazlewood opening tomorrow, October 10 at...
10/09/2026

We are pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Carl E. Hazlewood opening tomorrow, October 10 at . This is Hazlewood’s second solo show with the gallery. Join us for the opening reception tomorrow evening, Saturday, October 10, from 6pm -8pm at 33 Herkimer Street in Brooklyn.

This exhibition is anchored by two large-scale works, on view in New York for the first time; a new suite of smaller works on paper; and, medium scale mixed media works created in 2022. The show experiments with scale, materiality, and the progression of Hazlewood’s work over the years.

For Hazlewood, abstraction remains central within his process. It serves not as retreat, but as charged territory. Form operates as a carrier of memory. Edges fold, puncture, suspend. Surfaces press forward and recede, evoking bodily presence, landscape, and psychic interior simultaneously. The abstract draws back to materiality– that of our world, and of Hazlewood’s manipulation of medium.

Artwork details:
Untitled 27, 2026
Mixed Media Collage
6 x 4 inches
15.2 x 10.2 cms
Framed: 15.75 x 13.25 inches
40 x 33.7 cms

Artist Spotlight: Renluka Maharaj Renluka Maharaj utilizes sourced photographs, textiles, sculpture, research, and trave...
10/01/2026

Artist Spotlight: Renluka Maharaj

Renluka Maharaj utilizes sourced photographs, textiles, sculpture, research, and travel to create mixed media compositions that investigate how history, migration, memory, religion, and gender inform.

Maharaj upon her own family lineage, which can be traced back to India during the 19th century, when forced indentured servitude replaced African slave labor on sugarcane plantations in the Caribbean. Interested in the act of reclamation, she reconstructs fragments of a history that was rarely documented with care. Maharaj grapples with the silence that surrounds indenture: the erased names, disrupted lineages, and lost narratives of those living within these colonial structures.

Driven by the tension between rupture and continuity, each piece serves as a bridge between past and present, inviting viewers to consider the emotional, cultural, and political legacies of indentureship.

Renluka Maharaj
Pitch Lake, 2026
48 3/4 x 56 inches
Acrylic paint, acrylic markers, rhinestones, cotton fabric and thread on canvas

Welancora is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent work by Carl E. Hazlewood. This is Hazlewood’s second solo s...
09/25/2026

Welancora is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent work by Carl E. Hazlewood. This is Hazlewood’s second solo show with the gallery. This exhibition will open on October 10 from 6-8. The exhibition will run concurrently with Hazlewood’s exhibition at the Newark Museum of Art: Dreamtime In Newark: Aljira and the Making of Global Contemporary Art.

The exhibition is anchored by two large-scale works that will be on view in New York for the first time, a new suite of small works on paper, and medium scale works created in 2022. The show experiments with scale, materiality, and the progression of Hazlewood’s abstractions over recent years. This presentation presents a unique and intimate opportunity to view Hazlewood’s work, which was rarely seen while he focused much of his career on the founding and running of Aljira, a center for contemporary art in Newark, NJ.

Artwork
BlackHead Anansi: Guardians 2, 2026
Acrylic paint, mesh, push pins, brad, tape and polyester on plywood
85 x 48 x 2 inches
215.9 x 121.9 x 5.08 cms

We’re excited to share that Ivy Jones, the founder and Director of Welancora Gallery, will participate in a panel discus...
09/02/2026

We’re excited to share that Ivy Jones, the founder and Director of Welancora Gallery, will participate in a panel discussion at the Soho Warehouse in Downtown LA on September 10 at 6:30pm. The New Vanguard: Collecting Our Culture will also feature Everette Taylor, CEO of Kickstarter and art collector, and Tiffany Bright, technology professional and art collector. If you’re in the LA area and would like to attend this talk, please click the link in our bio for more information.

Soho Warehouse
Everette Taylor
Tiffany (Tea) Bright

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

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