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Big news! I’m teaching this summer at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and registration opens today. Set in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, @andersonranchartscenter is a place where artists gather to create, share ideas, and grow their craft. Join my workshop, Beyond the Canvas: Digital Fabrication and Sculptural Painting, taking place September 7–11, 2026. Space is limited, so I encourage you to register soon. I can’t wait to share the Ranch experience with you. Visit andersonranch.org/workshops for all the details. #AndersonRanchArtsCenter #ArtistEducation #SummerWorkshop #SculpturalPainting #DigitalFabrication

KATES-FERRI PROJECTS 1-54NY Booth #7⁠ Mirrored Histories and Woven Futures⁠ ⁠ Starrett-Lehigh Building⁠ 600 W. 27th Street, NYC⁠ May 13 – 17, 2026⁠ ⁠ Image:⁠ Damien Davis: Ritual for Retention (2026) ⁠ Laser-cut acrylic and stainless steel hardware ⁠ 23.8 x 16 x 2 in. / 60.45 x 40.64 x 5.08 cm. ⁠ ⁠ DM for catalogue⁠ ⁠ @katesferriprojects ⁠ @damiendavis ⁠ @154artfair

KATES-FERRI PROJECTS FEATURED IN WHITEWALL “5 Booths to See at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair New York 2026 New York-based KATES-FERRI PROJECTS brings together “Mirrored Histories and Woven Futures,” a trio presentation featuring works byDamien Davis, Samuel Nnorom, and Dana Robinson. The booth explores Black identity, memory, and representation through material-driven practices that shift between sculpture, installation, and image-making. Samuel Nnorom presents two large-scale installations at 1-54 New York 2026, made from African print textiles stitched, bundled, and layered into sculptural forms. What was once tied to commerce and domesticity becomes monumental, with surfaces evoking maps, landscapes, bodies, and cultural memory all at once. Brooklyn-based Dana Robinson reworks vintage Ebony magazine advertisements into linoleum print compositions, stripping away their original commercial context to reconsider consumer culture, representation, and resilience within Black identity. Meanwhile, Damien Davis uses precision-cut plexiglass to reinterpret traditional barbershop imagery through industrial materials and futuristic forms. Hovering between painting and sculpture depending on the viewer’s position, the works question masculinity and the evolving narratives surrounding Black male identity. What we love: Davis’s openness to interpretation feels especially compelling. Rather than offering fixed conclusions, the artworks leave space for identity and meaning to continuously evolve alongside the viewer. Swipe and/or Copy & Paste for full article: https://whitewall.art/art/1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair-new-york-2026/ Thank you Victoria Pokovba and @whitewall.art @katesferriprojects @154artfair @damiendavis @nnoromsamuel @alphabet_party

KATES-FERRI PROJECTS 1-54NY Booth #7⁠ Mirrored Histories and Woven Futures⁠ ⁠ Starrett-Lehigh Building⁠ 600 W. 27th Street, NYC⁠ May 13 – 17, 2026⁠ ⁠ Image: Damien Davis: Cut Session - Hold Still (2026) ⁠ Laser-cut acrylic and stainless steel hardware⁠ 17.3 x 22 x 2 in. / 43.94 x 55.88 x 5.08 cm.⁠ ⁠ DM for catalogue⁠ ⁠ @katesferriprojects ⁠ @damiendavis ⁠ @154artfair

KATES-FERRI PROJECTS presents Mirrored Histories and Woven Futures, a trio presentation of artworks from Damien Davis, Samuel Nnorom and Dana Robinson at 1-54NY Contemporary African Art Fair, Booth #7. The 2026 edition will take place at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, positioning the fair in the heart of one of New York’s most vibrant cultural districts. Returning during Art Week New York, 1-54 offers a dynamic platform to discover contemporary art from Africa and its diasporas. Within the energy of the city’s wider art world, we will be bringing together artists, galleries and audiences. We look forward to welcoming you to this exciting chapter of 1-54 New York in the heart of Chelsea. Stay tuned for more details! ⁠ VIP & Press preview⁠: Wednesday 13 May 2026, 11 am – 7 pm Thursday 14 May 2026, 11 am – 4 pm⁠ ⁠ Public opening: Thursday 14 May 2026, 4 pm – 8 pm⁠ Friday 15 May 2026, 11 am – 7 pm⁠ Saturday 16 May 2026, 11 am – 7 pm⁠ Sunday 17 May 2026, 11 am – 5 pm⁠ Location: Starrett-Lehigh Building, 600 W. 27th St, NYC

KATES-FERRI PROJECTS presents Mirrored Histories and Woven Futures, a trio presentation of artworks from Damien Davis, Samuel Nnorom and Dana Robinson at 1-54NY Contemporary African Art Fair, Booth #7, located at Starrett-Lehigh Building, 600 W. 27th St, Manhattan from May 13 – 17, 2026. Damien Davis is a visual artist, educator, curator, and writer born in Crowley, Louisiana, raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and currently based in Newark, New Jersey. His work examines systems of representation, material culture, and the ways identity is constructed through repetition, display, and everyday rituals. Working across sculpture, installation, and image-based practices, he often draws from familiar spaces and objects to explore how form operates as both a social and aesthetic language. This body of work draws from the barbershop as both a social space and a system of visual logic. Across a series of laser-cut acrylic compositions held together with stainless steel hardware, silhouettes of heads, tools, and gestures are broken apart, repeated, and reorganized. The cut, the part, and the lineup are treated not only as aesthetic outcomes but as procedures, ways of measuring, ordering, and maintaining the body. In this framework, grooming becomes a form of structure, where identity is continuously shaped through small, deliberate adjustments. Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museum of Arts and Design. Curates exhibitions through the IDM Gallery at NYU Tandon. Contributing writer for Hyperallergic.

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Opening tonight at @katesferriprojects . Cut Session (Hold Still), 2026 Laser cut acrylic and stainless steel hardware 17.3 x 22 x 2 inches 📷: @carloshernandezstudios

Some details. (I love making) @katesferriprojects @154artfair 📷: @carloshernandezstudios

Some new work. 💈💈💈💈 Barbershop Index (Variation Set), 2026 CNC milled Baltic Birch, laser-cut acrylic, and stainless steel hardware 33.5 × 21.7 × 3 in. @katesferriprojects @154artfair 📷: @carloshernandezstudios

Crossing Cultures - Damien Davis Title: Ritual For Retention Medium: Laser-cut acrylic and stainless steel hardware Size: 23.8 x 16 x 2 in Year: 2026 Using digital tools to shape layers of materials both natural and synthetic, Davis composes stories, told through a lexicon of graphic figures and shapes, that oscillate between the personal memories of the artist and chapters of human history. Through usage of materials Davis exploits the seductive and subjective beauty of color and the power of color as a metaphor, Davis creates a deceptively appealing space for confronting bias and dehumanization in contemporary society. ——— Opening Reception: Friday 8th May 2026 | 6pm - 9pm On View: 8th May - 7th June, 2026 Address: 561 Grand Street NYC 10002 #odaart #katesferriprojects #contemporaryart #exhibition #newyork

Excited to share that I’m included in Crossing Cultures, a group exhibition presented by @o.da_art Gallery in collaboration with @katesferriprojects . Bringing together works by Soji Adesina, Jonah Bulus, Turiya Magadlela, Samuel Nnorom, Afeez Onakoya, Dana Robinson, Debora Segun, and myself, the exhibition considers the layered visual, material, and conceptual languages that emerge through diasporic exchange. Join us for the opening reception this Friday, May 8 from 6–8 PM at Kates-Ferri Projects, 561 Grand Street in NYC. On view through June 8. 📷: @carloshernandezstudios