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The DC Arts Center’s
Curatorial Initiative Presents
Fallin’ from the Uppercut, fucked, so wassup, 🥷🏿
August 28 – September 25, 2026
Wednesday - Sunday 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Opening Celebration
Friday, August 28, 2026
7:00 - 9:00 PM
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Artist Talk
Saturday, September 12, 2026
3:00 - 4:00 PM
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Closing Reception & Curatorial Tour
Friday, September 25, 2026
6:00 - 7:00 PM
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Lionel Frazier White III
Musk, 2026
found objects
17.5” x 25” x 9”
Curated by
Danyela Brown
Work by
Tony Bush
Jamison Curcio
Miss Grace David
Sean Deisel
Devon Dooley
Maps Glover
Stewart Gray III
Andrea Illés
Lilly World
Shanice Mason
Jax Newton
Michael P. Jr.
Stevfni.XYZ
SIFU SUN
Lionel Frazier White III marcus scott williams
Richard Williams
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About the Exhibition
Fallin’ from the uppercut, fucked, so wassup, 🥷🏿 gathers artists of the global majority whose works are steadfastly complicated—works that are implicating, infectious, even arresting, these works trouble logics of disclosure across sculpture, performance, photography, writing and moving image.
A notebook you can read till the end of time without knowing. Evidence sealed in plastic, pristinely irretrievable. An altar on demon time. Portraits that invite ritual and reflection. Documentary below the ankle wished well in voice. A wire social sculpture that literally needs your touch. An antibody in rusty, sharpened steel. Costumes that remain in our dimension after performances in other worlds, courtesy of the artists’ archives.
Across the exhibition access is hotly contested, foregrounding the artists’ (and your) attention as medium.. The proposition being that expressions outside fundamentally reorganize our aesthetic perception. These works intervene upon our sensorium tacitly and spiritually, offering us new politically sophisticated pathways to know sight.
Miss Grace David
August 28 – September 25, 2026
Wednesday - Sunday 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
MAIN GALLERY / The DC Arts Center’s Curatorial Initiative Presents
Fallin’ from the Uppercut, fucked, so wassup, 🥷🏿
Curated by
Danyela Brown
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Miss Grace David
Work by
Tony Bush
Jamison Curcio
Miss Grace David
Sean Deisel
Devon Dooley
Maps Glover
Stewart Gray III
Andrea Illés
Lilly World
Shanice Mason
Jax Newton
Michael P. Jr.
Stevfni.XYZ
SIFU SUN
Lionel Frazier White III marcus scott williams
Richard Williams
Lionel Frazier White III
Musk, 2026
found objects
17.5” x 25” x 9”
Opening Celebration
Friday, August 28, 2026
7:00 - 9:00 PM
RSVP Here
Artist Talk
Saturday, September 12, 2026
3:00 - 4:00 PM
RSVP Here
Closing Reception & Curatorial Tour
Friday, September 25, 2026
6:00 - 7:00 PM
RSVP Here
MAIN GALLERY
The DC Arts Center’s
Curatorial Initiative Presents
About the Exhibition
Fallin’ from the uppercut, fucked, so wassup, 🥷🏿 gathers artists of the global majority whose works are steadfastly complicated—works that are implicating, infectious, even arresting, these works trouble logics of disclosure across sculpture, performance, photography, writing and moving image.
A notebook you can read till the end of time without knowing. Evidence sealed in plastic, pristinely irretrievable. An altar on demon time. Portraits that invite ritual and reflection. Documentary below the ankle wished well in voice. A wire social sculpture that literally needs your touch. An antibody in rusty, sharpened steel. Costumes that remain in our dimension after performances in other worlds, courtesy of the artists’ archives.
Across the exhibition access is hotly contested, foregrounding the artists’ (and your) attention as medium.. The proposition being that expressions outside fundamentally reorganize our aesthetic perception. These works intervene upon our sensorium tacitly and spiritually, offering us new politically sophisticated pathways to know sight.
August 28 – September 25, 2026
Wednesday - Sunday 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
MAIN GALLERY / The DC Arts Center’s Curatorial Initiative Presents
Fallin’ from the Uppercut, fucked, so wassup, 🥷🏿
Curated by
Danyela Brown
Quick Links
Work by
Tony Bush
Jamison Curcio
Miss Grace David
Sean Deisel
Devon Dooley
Maps Glover
Stewart Gray III
Andrea Illés
Lilly World
Shanice Mason
Jax Newton
Michael P. Jr.
Stevfni.XYZ
SIFU SUN
Lionel Frazier White III
marcus scott williams
Richard Williams
Lionel Frazier White III
Musk, 2026
found objects
17.5” x 25” x 9”
About the Exhibition
Fallin’ from the uppercut, fucked, so wassup, 🥷🏿 gathers artists of the global majority whose works are steadfastly complicated—works that are implicating, infectious, even arresting, these works trouble logics of disclosure across sculpture, performance, photography, writing and moving image.
A notebook you can read till the end of time without knowing. Evidence sealed in plastic, pristinely irretrievable. An altar on demon time. Portraits that invite ritual and reflection. Documentary below the ankle wished well in voice. A wire social sculpture that literally needs your touch. An antibody in rusty, sharpened steel. Costumes that remain in our dimension after performances in other worlds, courtesy of the artists’ archives.
Across the exhibition access is hotly contested, foregrounding the artists’ (and your) attention as medium.. The proposition being that expressions outside fundamentally reorganize our aesthetic perception. These works intervene upon our sensorium tacitly and spiritually, offering us new politically sophisticated pathways to know sight.
Opening Celebration
Friday, August 28, 2026
7:00 - 9:00 PM
RSVP Here
Artist Talk
Saturday, September 12, 2026
3:00 - 4:00 PM
RSVP Here
Closing Reception & Curatorial Tour
Friday, September 25, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
RSVP Here
Miss Grace David
Where It Lands brings together artists working across abstraction and assemblage, whose practices converge through a shared engagement with color, materiality, and emotional resonance. Moving between abstract painting and subtly constructed surfaces, these works expand the language of the canvas, layering paint with diverse materials to create compositions that hold both visual and tactile depth.
Emerging within a moment defined by widespread uncertainty—social, political, and personal—these works reflect varied responses to instability. The artists move between resisting and pursuing definition, some embracing ambiguity, while others seek to give form to what feels unresolved. In this way, abstraction becomes both a space of openness and a means of articulation, allowing complexity and emotional nuance to coexist.
Materiality plays a central role in this exploration. Layered surfaces, textures, and embedded elements carry traces of accumulation and transformation, grounding each work in a tactile reality. Paint is not simply applied, but built, often interacting with materials that interrupt, extend, or deepen the surface. Color operates as both structure and sensation, shifting across the exhibition in varied tones, guiding the emotional cadence of the viewer’s experience.
Across the exhibition, these works invite close looking and sustained engagement. Subtle shifts in tone, density, and surface reveal themselves over time, encouraging viewers to move beyond first impressions and into a more contemplative encounter. The interplay between control and spontaneity, structure and disruption, reflects not only artistic process but also the broader conditions of the present moment.
Rather than offering fixed meanings or definitive conclusions, Where It Lands creates a space for contemplation and wonder. It invites viewers to slow down and engage abstraction as a site where meaning and emotion remain in dynamic relation. Here, interpretation is not prescribed but discovered, shaped by the work itself and the lived experiences we bring to it.
Dr. Lauren Davidson
Curator, Where It Lands: The Space Between
Dina AZ. Salem
Mirroring Collision, 2026
Acrylic on attached canvases
36" x 48"
$3000
From
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From the
Curator
Where It Lands brings together artists working across abstraction and assemblage, whose practices converge through a shared engagement with color, materiality, and emotional resonance. Moving between abstract painting and subtly constructed surfaces, these works expand the language of the canvas, layering paint with diverse materials to create compositions that hold both visual and tactile depth.
Emerging within a moment defined by widespread uncertainty—social, political, and personal—these works reflect varied responses to instability. The artists move between resisting and pursuing definition, some embracing ambiguity, while others seek to give form to what feels unresolved. In this way, abstraction becomes both a space of openness and a means of articulation, allowing complexity and emotional nuance to coexist.
Materiality plays a central role in this exploration. Layered surfaces, textures, and embedded elements carry traces of accumulation and transformation, grounding each work in a tactile reality. Paint is not simply applied, but built, often interacting with materials that interrupt, extend, or deepen the surface. Color operates as both structure and sensation, shifting across the exhibition in varied tones, guiding the emotional cadence of the viewer’s experience.
Across the exhibition, these works invite close looking and sustained engagement. Subtle shifts in tone, density, and surface reveal themselves over time, encouraging viewers to move beyond first impressions and into a more contemplative encounter. The interplay between control and spontaneity, structure and disruption, reflects not only artistic process but also the broader conditions of the present moment.
Rather than offering fixed meanings or definitive conclusions, Where It Lands creates a space for contemplation and wonder. It invites viewers to slow down and engage abstraction as a site where meaning and emotion remain in dynamic relation. Here, interpretation is not prescribed but discovered, shaped by the work itself and the lived experiences we bring to it.
Dr. Lauren Davidson
Curator, Where It Lands: The Space Between
Dina AZ. Salem
Mirroring Collision, 2026
Acrylic on attached canvases
36" x 48"
$3000
Artist
Biographies
Artist
Tony Bush
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No bio provided.
Artist
Miss Grace David
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Miss Grace David is a Black, queer, and non-binary femme performance and textile artist based in the DC area. By using character performance, textile production, world-making, and storytelling, their work connects human emotion and personal experience with visual abstraction. Investing in euphoria of anonymity, they remove themselves so they can finally be seen.
Artist
Sean Deisel
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Sean is from Sursum Cordas - NW Washington D.C., and loves art, especially the creating process from music to painting.
Artist
Devon Dooley
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Devon Dooley was born in Baltimore, MD. Self-Taught throughout the years Dooley decided to abandon college and his full-time job in 2014 to pursue his career and passion. Since then he has versed his portfolio with a wide variety of photographs which range from (but not limited to) travel, fashion, and lifestyle.
Artist
Maps Glover
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No bio provided.
Curator
Biography
Curator
Danyela Brown
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Danyela June Brown is a set-maker and witness from South Arlington, VA interested in transutilitarian hacking, open-sourcing surplus, and value theory. She has presented sets at Dance Place, Sound Scene, the People’s Space, Touchstone Gallery, and the Dance Institute of Washington. She has danced for Aleta Hayes, Olaiya Olayemi, Rashad Pridgen, and the Houses of Mizrahi (2017-2019) and Khan (2025), and Kiki Houses of Old Navy (2018-2020) and Supreme (2023-2025).
She has completed EMERGENYC (2020), the Learning and Public Engagement Fellowship at Dia Art Foundation (2019-2021), and the Peer Case Management Institute at Howard School of Social Work (2024).
She holds a B.A. in African American Studies from Stanford University and is a sculpture at the Bard MFA (2028). Danyela works on a PSH Intake Specialist contract at DC DHS, and is on Faculty at the Dance Institute of Washington (2025-2026). She consulted DMV Kiki Nights (2022-2025) and was the Curator of Performance for Queer Art Salon in 2024 and 2025.
Artist
Stewart Gray III
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Stewart Gray III is a visual storyteller from Washington, DC at the intersection of film, photography and interactive media. His camera is the catalyst for weaving reality with imagined pasts and futures. A graduate of Stanford University, his work has taken him across the country and abroad to studios such as Pixar Animation Studios, teamLab and Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Artist
Andrea Illés
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Andrea Illés is a performance artist working with movement, sound, installation, and image with a focus on repetition and transformation. Favouring atmospheres of awe and overwhelm, her hyper-personal and collaborative works explore sisterhood, love, surveillance, fetishisation, and cruelty and have been presented in varying contexts such as West Space, Dark Mofo, Soft Centre, Miscellania, Blindside, Te Uru, and Mona. Her prints have been published in e-flux and Texte zur Kunst.
Artist
Michael P. Jr.
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Michael P. Jr. is a Visual Artist primarily focused on metal and wire. Graduating with a sculpture degree from VCU, he combines the fields of biology, art, and engineering into his work to develop curious and playful sculptures. In his formidable years, his artwork served as fidgets to stay focused in class and connect with others.This continues to fuel his practice today as he aims to encourage play and curiosity with every piece he creates exploring perspective, form, and themes of permission from others and one’s self.
Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions including /mend/ (2023) and Here, but not here (2021) at Homme Gallery in Washington, DC, and in group exhibitions including Traces (2025) at IA&A at Hillyer, Umbrella Art Fair (2025), Exchange 2024 at the Academy Art Museum, and Artists’ Choice: Regional Juried Group Show at Foundry Gallery. She was a member of Sparkplug Collective 2024 at DC Arts Center and served as a panelist for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ Projects, Events, and Festivals (PEF) Grant Program in 2025.
Artist
Stevfni.XYZ
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Stevfni .XYZ is an interdisciplinary artist working across video, sound, projection, installation, and performance. Interested in embodiment, labor, and the politics of visibility.
Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions including /mend/ (2023) and Here, but not here (2021) at Homme Gallery in Washington, DC, and in group exhibitions including Traces (2025) at IA&A at Hillyer, Umbrella Art Fair (2025), Exchange 2024 at the Academy Art Museum, and Artists’ Choice: Regional Juried Group Show at Foundry Gallery. She was a member of Sparkplug Collective 2024 at DC Arts Center and served as a panelist for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ Projects, Events, and Festivals (PEF) Grant Program in 2025.
Artist
SIFU SUN
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SIFU is.
Artist
Lionel Frazier White III
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Lionel Frazier White III is a DC native and a graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts and the GWU Corcoran School of Art and Design. He is an arts educator. This belief pushes him to make work that is accessible to the people his work speaks to.
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Richard is a multidisciplinary artist born in Washington, DC, and raised in Ft. Washington, Maryland. His practice primarily ranges between photo, painting, film and mixed-media. The bulk of his work encompasses expression and identity, with an emphasis on portraiture. Today, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Artist
marcus scott williams
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marcus scott williams is a writer and artist using sampling, improvisation, and walking to play with language. he is author of the Sparse Black Whimsy series and damn near might still be is what it is. he love and appreciate yaw.
Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions including /mend/ (2023) and Here, but not here (2021) at Homme Gallery in Washington, DC, and in group exhibitions including Traces (2025) at IA&A at Hillyer, Umbrella Art Fair (2025), Exchange 2024 at the Academy Art Museum, and Artists’ Choice: Regional Juried Group Show at Foundry Gallery. She was a member of Sparkplug Collective 2024 at DC Arts Center and served as a panelist for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ Projects, Events, and Festivals (PEF) Grant Program in 2025.
Artist
Lilly World
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Lilly World is an international artist phenomenon.
Artist
Richard Williams
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