𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐
Asia North Pop-Up Exhibition
05.01.26 – 05.27.26
📍@theclubcarbaltimore
Opening: 05.01.26 | 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
💋 Feel free to read the long long paragraph below but really it’s just a bunch of visual diaries written and drawn by Asian Queers 🏳️🌈
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AREA 405 presents 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐, a pop-up exhibition featuring poems and visual collages of twenty-one (21) East and Southeast Asian queers as part of #AsiaNorth2026, an annual one-month public program celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in @stationnorth
The exhibition is presented in collaboration with @the.wishing.fountain.project , a virtual diasporic queer ESEA art book library. Founded by @y0u.1iang and @zao.zzz (MICA c/o 2024), the project began with a writing workshop that encouraged participants to transform poetry, prose, and diary entries into visual forms and was later published as a zine.
𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐 loyally exhibits select pages of zines, with renewed visualization of words arraying themes from family relationships to immigration processes.
Poster Design by @zao.zzz
Curated by @nine.one.four
Baltimore folks! Please join us this Friday evening for the opening of CONFLUENCE: REIMAGINING BALTIMORE'S WATERWAYS at the Area 405 gallery in Baltimore (405 E. Oliver St). The exhibition opens May 8th and runs through Jun 12th. More details at the link below and in my bio.
CONFLUENCE brings together contemporary artists, local university students, and community voices to explore the past, present, and future of Baltimore’s waterways. The exhibition is part of the broader Jones Falls 2076 project, a year-long initiative imagining the future of the Jones Falls river through art, design, and public engagement, led by MICA designer Lee Davis, public artist Bruce Willen (creator of Ghost Rivers), and Johns Hopkins anthropologist Anand Pandian.
Jones Falls 2076 is a public imagination campaign to envision alternative futures for this river at the heart of Baltimore and ways of reframing our connection to the watershed. CONFLUENCE will showcase the work of leading environmental artists in the region, the creative work of students at Johns Hopkins University and Morgan State University, and the imaginative outcomes of the series of River Reimagining Workshops that we've held this spring with environmental advocates, civic leaders, designers, and engaged Baltimore residents.
Visitors to the gallery will have the chance to add their own river visions to the exhibit. Private tours can also be arranged, do reach out if interested. Please join us and help shape this ongoing conversation on the future of our waterways. Hope to see you there!
/confluence-reimagining-baltimores-waterways
@the.wishing.fountain.project x @_area405_
Queer Manifesto Exhibition
🐣Exhibition Site Mini-Activities🐣
Write your own ✨Queer Manifesto ✨ in our guestbook ⊹⁺˖໋̟⸝⸝ 𑣧⃙̴ཻ̑꙯⃩⃔⃕͡᷍ ⸝⸝𑌻̢⸝̠⸝⃬⸝ 𑣧⃙̴ཻ̑꙯⃩⃔⃕͡᷍ ⸝⸝ ᘁᩚ ˖ᕀ⸜̑⸝͂˖⁺໋̟⊹
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展览现场将留有一本留言薄，邀请每一位观众写下自己的酷儿宣言。它不必准确，也不必正确；它可以是临时的、暂时的，迷茫的。你可以署名、使用假名，也可以选择匿名。留言内容未来有机会被纳入本项目的延伸展示、出版或档案中；写下即视为同意我们在后续项目中使用该内容。若你留下署名，我们将在使用时持续保留你的署名。
A guestbook will be available in the exhibition space, inviting every visitor to write your own queer manifesto. It does not need to be accurate, nor does it need to be correct; it can be provisional, temporary, or uncertain. You may sign your name, use a pseudonym, or remain anonymous. These contributions may be included in future extensions of the project, including exhibitions, publications, or archives. By writing in the guestbook, you are giving us permission to use your contribution in future related projects. If you leave a name, we will continue to credit you accordingly whenever your contribution is used.
Electronic music performance 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝘼𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙡 24 at AREA 405.
🟩 Doors at 7:30 PM
🟩 Tickets $10
AREA 405 expands its program beyond exhibitions this year, with a focus on presenting electronic music in Baltimore.
Lineup:
@mang_rope@11iva00@z0e.minus x @ritterzhang
Working across noise, improvisation, and experimental structures.
Poster design: @loart00@nine.one.four
Dre Bryton: Alternating Currents
P1-2
IBN Rear (2026)
Acrylic on Canvas
P3-4
IBN Study (2026)
Acrylic on Canvas
P5-6
DIGI 720 (2026)
Acrylic on Canvas
DIGI Study (2026)
Acrylic on canvas
P7-8
IBN 32/0 (2026)
Acrylic on canvas
Documentation by @kristoferheng
Curated by @nine.one.four
Dre Bryson: Alternating Currents
Guillotine (9-5) #1 & #2
2026
White particle board, black plexiglass, found vintage computer and accessories
Bryton created this site-specific installation along with his Bauhaus-inspired painting. The large-scale desk with found vintage computer creates a fictional working environment for an imaginative employee.
Documentation by @kristoferheng
The designs of modern computers are influenced by the International Style, an art movement from 1920 to 1940 that emphasized functionality and construction methods in architecture and art. Its radically simplified and geometric aesthetic highlights rationality and continues to inform the mass production of furniture and technology today.
Dre Bryton’s fascination with these forms is not purely aesthetic; it represents an imaginative future. From futurism to debates about the existence of human consciousness in cyborgs, and the increasingly human-like nature of AI, our obsession with these topics reflects bold speculations about the survival or extinction of humankind. More importantly, these comparisons between technology and humanity serve as an examination of the identities of us humans.
𝘿𝙧𝙚 𝘽𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙤𝙣: 𝘼𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨
On View until April 10
Closing Reception: Fri, April 10 | 5-9 PM
#StationNorthSecondFridayArtWalk
Curated by @nine.one.four
Documentation by @kristoferheng
Announcing: ABOUT CAGE SONG BOOK, an experimental music performance bringing together eight performers and responding to Song Books by the iconic John Cage.
👽Friday, April 3
👽Door at 8:00 PM
👽Ticket sliding scale: $10-20
👽 Ticket available at the door
This performance is part of Dre Bryson’s solo exhibiting ALTERNATING CURRENTS.
Featuring:
@z0e.minus@aleksuuu_isoffline@jym110673@klixisntmyname@warren_wang97@baobaobao78@tom_pan07@binzzz_yb
Announcing: 𝘼𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨, Dre Bryton’s solo exhibition, will be on view from March 20 – April 10 at @_area405_
We welcome you to join us for the…
Opening Reception
▪️Friday, March 20
▪️5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Dre Bryton worked at System Source Computer Museum (@computermuseumatsystemsource ), handling modern-day computer hardware. The exhibition draws from the monumental scale and presence of computers from the 1970s and 1980s. Following their geometric shapes and color schemes, this body of work departs from the deconstructive approach Bryton has typically taken with found objects over the past few years of his practice.
This exhibition is made possible with generous support from a grant from the T. Rowe Price Foundation (@t._rowe_price ).
Image Credit:
Dre Bryton, Exhibition 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 at Subbasement Gallery (2014)
