01/16/2026
I’m excited to be showing two reliefs from my Prayer Maps series in this show curated by Sarah Walko.
In the End, Everything Gives: Women Sculptors Group Exhibition at Silver Art Projects
Dates: January 23-April 23, 2026
Opening: , Friday, January 23, 6-8 pm
Locaton: 4 WTC, 28th floor, 150 Greenwich St.
**Note: If you’d like to attend the opening, register with me beforehand. You will need to bring ID to enter.
From the Press Release: In the End, Everything Gives presents a selection of works by thirty-one WSG members responding to turbulent political, ecological, and social conditions. The exhibition takes its title from a line by Ada Limón, which names both material and emotional states of yielding: “Everything gives way—the shorelines, the house decaying and becoming shrub and moss and haunt, the body that gives and gives until it cannot give anymore.” Here, giving way is not framed as collapse alone, but as a condition that calls making into being. Creation becomes a form of muscular hope—first for oneself, then extending outward—through which artists hold, shape, and reckon with the complexities of the present moment.
In this context, making emerges not as a search for answers, but as an urgent act in itself. “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.” First appearing in Joan Walsh Anglund’s 1967 book A Cup of Sun and later taken up by Maya Angelou, this idea finds resonance in Brooks’s declaration above. Together, these voices point to art as something born not only of inspiration, but also of grief, rage, and injustice. I shall create! becomes the shared cry of this exhibition. Across the works on view, materials range from watercolor, clay, plaster, steel, paper, and canvas to vintage prayer books, horsehair, eelgrass, antelope hide, and horns. Through varied materials, gestures, and forms, these artists insist on the necessity of creation itself. The works do not offer resolution, but they do offer care—affirming making as a collective act of attention, endurance, and survival.
image 2: Prayer Map #5, 2022, mixed media: metal pieces, polymer clay, board, paint, vintage prayer book, reproductions, velvet on wood, 13'' x 13'' x ~3''
Image 3: Prayer Map #4, 2020, mixed media: metal pieces, wood, board, paint, vintage prayer book, reproductions, velvet on wood, 13'' x 13'' x ~3''
