In a world defined by relentless movement and extraction, Touching Grass invites us to pause—and feel. This exhibition gathers artists from both urban and rural landscapes who are reimagining our relationship to the natural world, and to ourselves, through fieldwork, stillness, and sensory return. Summer, with its slow days and long light, becomes a portal for rest and reflection—an act that, within a capitalist structure, is nothing short of radical.

Left to Right: Kambrya Bailey: Orkestra, Kevin Hopkins: Character Select Screen Pose, jET Carter: Magic Wand, Ahmad George: The Heart (Portrait of school girl), Kwamé Azure Gomez: April Love

The phrase “touching grass” has emerged in digital culture as shorthand for grounding oneself—stepping away from screens, discourse, and abstraction to reconnect with the real. Here, that call to ground becomes both literal and cosmic. The featured works draw connections between fields and frequencies, from chlorophyll to constellations, tracing how nature links soil to sky, water to memory, and body to cosmos. Touching Grass invites us to deepen the bond between individuals, art, and the environment—to expand how we see ourselves and our place in the world.

Left to Right: Ellex Swavoni:Darkness Upon the Face, Julian Adon Alexander: Japanese Nylon, Kwamé Azure Gomez: Free Smoke II, Ellex Swavoni: Aurora Black

Artists in this exhibition interpret the gesture of touching grass through diverse practices spanning painting, photography, sculpture, illustration, textile and mixed media. Their works navigate between inner and outer landscapes—conjuring gardens in concrete, rural quietude, freshwater rituals, and speculative terrains where Earth and elsewhere collide. Whether informed by ancestral agricultural traditions, urban green spaces, or cosmic mapping, each artist affirms that rest, ritual, and return are necessary for collective survival and creative flourishing.

Left to Right: Yannick Lowery: Willing to Amble, Akilah Watts: Uncovered, Joshua AM Ross: Twenty-four blues, II, Twenty-four blues, I, jET Carter: TIMELINES I, Emily Manwaring: A sunset on your shoulder

Touching Grass proposes that to touch the Earth is not to escape, but to remember. To decelerate is to resist. To rest is to reclaim time, space, and possibility.

Touching Grass is on view from May 23 - July 8

Left to Right: Oyekale Segun: Blossom Friend, Desiree Thomas: Seat at the table, Sammich Circuit, Egg on Top, Sugar Shack