A Different State
Featuring works by
Benjamin Kendall
@b.benjaminkendall
Brandon English
@naptimehacker
James Hopper
On view: April 3 – May 3, 2026
Location: 43 Porter Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Gallery hours: Saturday and Sunday, 4–8 PM
Closing Reception:
Friday, May 1 at 8 PM
Sound performance by Brandon English
Benjamin Kendall is a poet and noise maker from Atlanta, Georgia living in Brooklyn, New York. Concerned with the reconnecting, rediscovery, and the reclaiming of stolen space, time, and histories; his work is there to resist with a radical responsibility and reevaluation of how history is remembered as an artist making sound, disruptions, situations of seeing, and language.
Brandon English is an interdisciplinary visual artist interested in counter-surveillance archival practices and how they intersect with vestiges of vernacular image making, tool making and democratized imaging technologies (cellphones, dslrs, surveillance cams etc.). Additionally his work broaches the various lineages of African American object performance by way of instrument building and sound performances.
James Hopper is a painter working with portraiture and landscape to address questions of other/kinship, the radical extension of empathy, and how representation can interrogate the fundamental assumptions that shape our world.