OUTSIDE
INSIDE
2025
Outside Inside unfolds as a poetic meditation on space, identity, and transformation. The show navigates what it means to come from the outside—streets, struggle, community—and bring that essence inside the gallery. Beyond its literal gesture of bringing the outside in, the work reflects on how external environments shape our internal worlds.
Location:
Old Rabbit Gallery309A Peters Street SW, Atlanta, Ga. 30313
Don’t Freeze examines the tension between visibility, control, and survival through a layered combination of realism, graffiti, and text. The bold red “ICE” anchors the composition, while cold tonal shifts, fragmented surfaces, and graffiti create an environment shaped by pressure, surveillance, familiarity, and resistance. The work captures a suspended moment where stillness becomes a strategy rather than a passive state. Its title serves as both a warning and a call to remain aware, responsive, and present within systems that seek to restrict movement and identity.
Becoming is a mixed-media work combining photography and wheat-pasted paper, using the visual language of street advertising to explore identity and place. A fragmented figure emerges from a city landscape, with the lower body more defined while the upper form dissolves into the environment that shaped it. Torn edges, layered surfaces, and visible wear reflect the ways memory and experience accumulate and erode over time. Rather than presenting identity as fixed, the work considers becoming as an ongoing process shaped by where we come from and what we carry forward.
A quiet monument to uniform and identity, Ode to White T’s honors the everyday symbolism of the white T-shirt—a garment that has become both a form of memorial and anthem within culture. The piece reflects on how something so ordinary carries so much significance in memory, status, and story
This piece asks "Who Got Next" to play, not only as a challenge, but as a call to continuity. The layered surfaces recall basketball courts, street corners, cul-de-sacs, and neighborhood voices, each competing and collaborating for the love of the game.
Paleta captures a moment of ease and identity. The title meaning “popsicle” in Spanish, nods to the joys of being outside that carry comfort and cultural memory. Through bold colors and quiet confidence, the work celebrates visibility, youth, and the peace found in simple moments of belonging.
This intimate work recalls a personal memory shared with the artist’s grandmother—where a simple cookie was offered in exchange for conversation. The tin container resting on a chair becomes a vessel for memory, family, and sitting with emotions. In revisiting that exchange, the piece transforms nostalgia into dialogue: Inner and outer expression, sweetness as language and storytelling as inheritance.
A contemporary still life, this piece juxtaposes the residue of creation with quiet domestic symbols. The orange peel, a remnant of nourishment, sits against a painter’s cloth—turning what’s disposable into a testament of labor and intimacy.
These process cloths—once functional studio tools—are preserved as artifacts of labor, process and conception. Their stains become accidental paintings, mapping the unseen strokes that shaped the larger works. They remind us that process is as sacred as product.
These process cloths—once functional studio tools—are preserved as artifacts of labor, process and conception. Their stains become accidental paintings, mapping the unseen strokes that shaped the larger works. They remind us that process is as sacred as product.
These process cloths—once functional studio tools—are preserved as artifacts of labor, process and conception. Their stains become accidental paintings, mapping the unseen strokes that shaped the larger works. They remind us that process is as sacred as product.
These process cloths—once functional studio tools—are preserved as artifacts of labor, process and conception. Their stains become accidental paintings, mapping the unseen strokes that shaped the larger works. They remind us that process is as sacred as product.
These process cloths—once functional studio tools—are preserved as artifacts of labor, process and conception. Their stains become accidental paintings, mapping the unseen strokes that shaped the larger works. They remind us that process is as sacred as product.
Case Study examines identity through fragments of facial features and gaze. These portraits capture people of Atlanta.
Case Study examines identity through fragments of facial features and gaze. These portraits capture people of Atlanta.
Case Study examines identity through fragments of facial features and gaze. These portraits capture people of Atlanta.
Case Study examines identity through fragments of facial features and gaze. These portraits capture people of Atlanta.
Case Study examines identity through fragments of facial features and gaze. These portraits capture people of Atlanta.
Case Study examines identity through fragments of facial features and gaze. These portraits capture people of Atlanta.