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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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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

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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

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Tony Bush

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Miss Grace David

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Sean Deisel

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Devon Dooley

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Maps Glover

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Biography

Curator

Danyela Brown

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Stewart Gray III

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Andrea Illés

Artist

Michael P. Jr.

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Stevfni.XYZ

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SIFU SUN

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Lionel Frazier White III

Artist

marcus scott williams

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Lilly World

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Richard Williams

 

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