ALL THAT REMAINS, RESIDUE

ALL THAT REMAINS, RESIDUE

The Bishop Gallery presents “All That Remains, Residue” (curated by: Luz Harmon), a group exhibition that gathers 18 emerging artists whose work examines the unstable mechanics of cultural inheritance. Through methods of return, dispersal, and rematerialization, these artists make use of personal histories as wayfinding material, arriving at what remains by means of myth, memory, and reimagination.

All That Remains (Residue) situates ‘the residual’ as a point of departure. Drawing on various traditional craft practices, spiritual customs, material remains, and embodied experience, these artists fashion living modes of cultural memory. In doing so, this exhibition asserts that inheritances contract and expand as they pass over generations. The artists here take a particular interest in the meaning that accumulates as a result of this mutability, broadening notions of identity, selfhood, and storytelling.

Featuring works by Adom-Binfo Asante, Ava Brock, Elana Casey, King David, Alexander Edwards, Luz Harmon, Xavier Leopold, Amanda Srge-Lindsay, Audrey Lyall, Paula Mans, Rebel-Spirit Morgan, Devin Osorio, Dunia Shawty, Dimithry Victor, VILLAGER, Chanya Vitayakul, and Mark Anthony Wilson Jr., this show brings together artists working in painting, sculpture, sound, and mixed-media, forming a visual chorus that echoes across diasporic narratives, namely African, Black-American, and Indigenous.

Sculptural installations by Mark Anthony Wilson Jr. and Rebel-Spirit Morgan evoke religious rites; VILLAGER and Chanya Vitayakul embellish skin with patterns and text; and Paula Mans and Elana Casey consider Black subjects' relationships to the natural world. Throughout this presentation, spirit, body, and land serve as lasting sites of transformation.

Brazilian modernist Carlos Drummond de Andrade writes in his poem Residue (1945):
Since from everything a little remains,
why won't a little
of me remain? In the train
travelling north, in the ship,
in newspaper ads,
why not a little of me in London,
a little of me somewhere?
In a consonant?
In a well?

Drummond’s reflections on the traces we leave behind disclose an atomized self. The artists in All That Remains (Residue) respond with clearsighted faith in processes of recontextualization, reclaiming scattered cultural and material debris to figure remainders in whole–nothing is lost, only redefined. As an alternative reading of the exhibition title might suggest, it is, in some way or another, in fact, all that remains.

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GROUP SHOW CURATED BY LUZ HARMON

Adom-Binfo Asante is a New York-based artist whose practice draws from spirituality, myth, pre-colonial African traditions, and folklore. Through layered painting, sculpture, found objects, and symbolic figures, Asante creates altar-like works that explore unseen worlds, ancestral memory, and the space between the human and supernatural.

Ava Brock is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings explore portals between the divine and the familiar. Her work uses color, iconography, and otherworldly figures to examine vulnerability, power, ancestral connection, and the search for safety and empowerment.

Elana Casey creates mythic portraits that honor the personal, cultural, spiritual, and botanical histories of her subjects. Drawing from Black American regional traditions, African diasporic symbols, literature, and folkways, Casey’s work transforms portraiture into an act of remembrance, love, and spiritual elevation.

King David is an abstract artist whose work reflects on Caribbean heritage, ritual, and remembrance. Rooted in his Trinidadian lineage, his paintings use gesture, light, and tactile surfaces to explore diasporic memory, Hindu spiritual practices, nature, and familial inheritance.

Alexander Edwards is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture and installation. Using perishable matter, discarded materials, spices, wood, dirt, wax, and obsolete technologies, Edwards creates contemporary reliquaries that consider labor, decay, preservation, and the histories embedded in everyday objects.

Luz Harmon is an artist and curator whose work engages cultural inheritance, residue, and the ways memory is carried through material, ritual, and personal history. Her practice considers how fragments of the past are preserved, altered, and reimagined across generations.

Xavier Leopold is a multidisciplinary artist, author, and lecturer whose work explores faith, memory, introspection, and legacy. With ancestral ties to Sierra Leone and Martinique, Leopold works across abstraction, figuration, and sculpture to examine how time and spiritual reflection are inscribed on the body and in material culture.

Amanda SRGE_Lindsay is an anti-disciplinary artist and writer whose work examines digital domination, cybernetics, eroticism, and the porous relationship between physical and digital selves. Using bio-discard and synthetic materials, SRGE_Lindsay explores the abject, self-manipulation, and the absurdity of technological systems.

Audrey Lyall is an interdisciplinary artist whose work draws from fashion illustration, critical theory, beauty culture, and Afro-futurist maximalism. Using found objects, hair and beauty products, fabric, decorative paper, and magazines, Lyall creates dreamlike figures that explore self-discovery, Black identity, beauty standards, and imagined realities.

Paula Mans is a mixed-media artist, researcher, and educator working across collage, painting, and fiber. Her practice uses Afrofuturist and ecowomanist frameworks to reimagine the relationship between Black women, land, plantation crops, ancestry, and cultural memory.

Rebel-Spirit Morgan is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer whose work explores ritual, adornment, identity, and material memory. Through sculpture, textiles, and crafted objects, Morgan transforms familiar materials into devotional forms that speak to vulnerability, transformation, and cultural symbolism.

Devin Osorio is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist whose work honors Dominican culture, folklore, and the first-generation Dominican American experience. Through painting, textile processes, ceramics, palm weaving, and shrine-like compositions, Osorio explores cultural hybridity, memory, belonging, and selfhood.

Dunia Shawty is a singer, composer, and sound artist whose practice uses sound as a tool for memory, protection, and healing. Her work transforms everyday objects into sonic ritual spaces, drawing from African diasporic traditions, ancestral intelligence, and the emotional power of vibration.

Dimithry Victor is a Haitian-born, New York-based visual artist whose work blends portraiture, cartoons, abstraction, and vibrant narrative imagery. Inspired by his upbringing in Haiti and South Florida, Victor creates emotionally resonant paintings that amplify marginalized voices and stories of resilience.

VILLAGER is a Nigerian-born transdisciplinary artist, cultural producer, and African spirituality practitioner. Working across painting, collage, sculpture, performance, film, installation, and curation, VILLAGER explores Yorùbá knowledge, material memory, migration, postcolonial African identity, and the spiritual relationships between objects, bodies, and space.

Chanya Vitayakul is a multidisciplinary artist from Bangkok, Thailand whose work examines the body as a porous site of memory, inscription, and survival. Through sculpture, installation, graphic design, and latex-based works, Vitayakul explores inheritance, tenderness, rupture, bodily knowledge, and the ways histories are carried through skin.

Mark Anthony Wilson Jr. is a multidisciplinary artist whose work engages Black metaphysics, material transformation, and the legacy of Black militancy. Using found objects, symbolic architecture, ancestral forms, shea butter, incense, and charms, Wilson creates sculptural works that function as spiritual vessels, rescue structures, and sites of metaphysical care.

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