Lamar BAILEY

Lamar Bailey is an Atlanta-based artist whose mixed media practice captures the intimacy, energy, and love within Black community. Working with loose brushstrokes and abstract textures on unconventional surfaces such as cardboard and card stock, Bailey emphasizes tactility and emotional movement. His work centers Black family life, exploring themes of love, resilience, and the quiet moments that shape identity, ultimately honoring the tenderness and humanity found in everyday experience.

Kaylyn Webster was born in 1999 in Memphis, TN. She received her BFA in Studio Art (Painting Concentration) from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as a minor in African and African American Studies. Webster has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including “I Got a Story to Tell” and “Bloom Where You Are" at Tanya Weddemire Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and her solo exhibition, “Commune [verb]”, was on display at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, TN. She has participated in residencies at the Children’s Museum of Memphis, and at Crosstown Arts. Webster’s work has been written about in Artsy, Canvas Rebel, and The Daily Memphian. She was featured in Friend of the Artist: Volume 16 and has most recently been featured in New American Paintings: South #178. Webster currently lives and works in Memphis, TN.

Delaware-based artist Brandan Henry explores themes of identity, solitude, and stillness through charcoal and graphite drawings. After high school, Henry enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, serving two tours overseas, including a seven-month deployment in Iraq, where he drew portraits of fellow troops to send to their families. Following his honorable discharge, he used the Montgomery G.I. Bill and Post-9/11 Bill to attend the University of Delaware, earning his BFA in 2013 and MFA in 2022. Henry is a recipient of the Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Fellowship and has exhibited internationally, including in Berlin, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. His solo exhibition Ebon Solus was recently on view at the Mezzanine Gallery in Wilmington, DE.