Opening Reception Sol Diaz-Peña, Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Sol Diaz-Peña
Here All Along
John M O’Quinn Gallery

Here All Along is a collection of new work by Diaz-Peña, created during their time as a 2023/2024 Artist Studio Program participant brought forth by a journey of rematriation to their Zapotec roots in Oaxaca, Mexico. This exhibition features the artist’s multidisciplinary work based in painting, photography, light, and textile, to “explore internal boundlessness, collective cultural experiences, and the poetic relationship between nature and humanity”.

For more information, click here.

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
New Suns
Cecily E. Horton Gallery

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns” – Octavia Butler

Framing explorations of space, geography, mapping, and land/waterscapes, especially of the African diaspora, New Suns in Lawndale’s Cecily E. Horton Gallery features new installation, painting and drawing by Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud. 

Pictured above: Here All Along, 2024, Oil on canvas, 24 x 30″by Sol Diaz-Peña, image courtesy of the artist; New Suns by Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud, image courtesy of the artist.