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06/19/2026

Happy Juneteenth!

06/18/2026

OPENING RECEPTION: Jun. 25 @ 6-8pm
ARTIST WALKTHROUGH: Jun. 27 @ 3pm

Migrating the Fire Next Time, 95x70x6, acrylic, grandmother’s pillow case, fabric, jewels, cotton, embroidery floss, burlap, spray paint, acrylic skin, wood, jean, curtain, feather, leather, oil pastel on tarp, 2026

“Migrating the Fire Next Time” examines Black migration not as a journey toward freedom, but as an ongoing practice of carrying freedom through hostile terrain. Drawing together Isabel de Olvera, the Great Migration, Hurricane Katrina, Haitian pilgrimage traditions, and personal relocation, the work asks what Black people carry when movement becomes a condition of survival. Against the backdrop of a burning house, figures gather resources, seek healing, witness destruction, and move forward, revealing that the promises attached to new frontiers have always existed alongside the anticipation of struggle.

Boesky Gallery and NXTHVN are proud to present “Material Conditions of Becoming”, a group exhibition that features the work of NXTHVN’s Cohort 07 Studio Fellows S. Yemisi Adeyemo, Alexandra Bell, Benita Nnachortam, Masud Olufani, Haejin Park, Chayse Sampy, and Kristopher Wright, curated by Curatorial Fellows Tara Fay Coleman and Juanita Sunday. This culminating exhibition brings together artists working across screen printing, painting, sculpture, sound, found materials, and collage. Through distinct material approaches that resist singular meaning, the artists examine how memory, interiority, and cultural resilience take shape across lived experiences. The artists in “Material Conditions of Becoming” move between personal archives, history, and speculative storytelling to explore themes of myth-making, grief, labor, connectivity, culture, and systems of power.

05/14/2026

Happy birthday to my momma! My original muse. You inspire me in so many ways. You taught me the power of love, purpose and intention. Im so happy we’ve graduated to bestie status and now I get all the lore. I get to not only look up to you but look alongside you. I’m so blessed to know and love you more everyday.

If you look long enough or ask me about my work you will find remnants of you in every piece. Whether that be physically, the clothes I’ve “repurposed” from you, something you said, or just the curiosity you awoke in me. Im obsessed with you!

It’s because of your support and forethought that I am an artist and I’m going to have a crazy retrospective!

04/30/2026

It’s my great aunt’s bday today, so i wanted to share a glimpse of her beauty. It’s clear she’s always lit up rooms ✨

They say it’s something about them Ward women!

04/29/2026

Just a lil studio content ✨

This piece is my “Great Migration” piece, but I’m also thinking of force migration due to disaster— natural & man-made. As a woman from the Gulf Coast, when i think about natural disasters, i think of hurricanes and flood (the Storm of 1900 , Hurricane Katrina, & Hurricane Harvey). I’m interested in what people do after disaster, how they gather pieces of a life and move forward into an uncertain tomorrow. This includes the disaster of Reconstruction or the “non-event of emancipation” and racial violence.

Fires come up in my research as signs of knowledge purging; court house fires that disrupt my search for records. Im oddly seeing a connection to the Juke Joint burning up in Sinners & Nottoway Plantation. I’m also reading the James Baldwin “The Fire Next Time”, re-reading my notes from my graduate class with Grace Ali ( ) on Migration.

I got a month to finish this baby, wish me luck 🤞🏾💕

04/07/2026

My new “this the artist” photos! 📲😉

Open studios this weekend in New Haven Saturday & Sunday 1-5pm

Studio shots by beautiful amazing fellow, Benita Nnachortam .studio

03/26/2026

Open Studios: April 11th (12-5pm) & 12th (1-5pm)

Come see what we’ve been cooking up! ✨

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169 Henry St.
New Haven, CT
06511-3329

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https://chaysetheartist.com/

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