ALL STARS: A Constellation of 10 Resident Artists

We are celebrating three wonderful years at our gallery on Lynn Way with ALL STARS, an exciting group exhibition featuring the extraordinary talents of ALMA | LEWIS. This show highlights ten remarkable resident artists, both past and present: Marvin Touré, Murjoni Merriweather, Tunde Wey, Yaw Owusu, Tajh Rust, Addoley Dzegede, Kleaver Cruz, María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez, Stephen Towns, and L. Kasimu Harris.

Like a constellation in the night sky, each artist shines with their unique vision, creating a rich tapestry that connects themes of identity, resilience, and community. Their work spans a range of mediums, inviting us to reflect on the intricate narratives that have all brought us here and how they are intrinsically connected.

Reading Selections

Murjoni Merriweather – Fall 2022

• Feeling Seen: The Photographs of Campbell Addy by Campbell Addy
• Lord Knows This Sh*t Ain’t Easy by Adelfa Marr

Tunde Wey 

• Tao Te Ching by Laozi

Yaw Owusu

• The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society by Lucy R. Lippard 
• The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them by Ekow Eshun

Tajh Rust

• Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media by Hanna Rose Shell 
• Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism by Eric Lott  

Addoley Dzegede 

• The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
• African Textiles: Colour and Creativity Across a Continent by John Gillow

Kleaver Cruz

• Orders of Service by Willie Lee Kinard III
• Black Collagists by Terri Henderson and Justin Smith 

Maria de los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez

• Electric Santería by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
• Kingdom of this World by Alejandro Carpentier 

Stephen Towns

• Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi 
• Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum edited by Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris
• Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History by Cheryl Finley, Laurence Glasco, Joseph William Trotter, Jr
• The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah Jones

Kasimu Harris

• Kindred by Octavia Butler 
• Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist edited by Susan Earle

Kilolo Luckett

• The Black Joy Project by Kleaver Cruz
• Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert 
• Toyin Ojih Odutola: The UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi by Toyin Ojih Odutola 
• All These Liberations: Women Artists in the Eileen Harris Norton Collection edited by Taylor Renee Aldrige 
• Cut from a Bigger Cloth by Addoley Dzegede
• Elegy by Dawoud Bey
• A Pictorial History of the Negro in America by Milton Meltzer and Langston Hughes  
• Stephen Towns:  Declaration & Resistance by Kilolo Luckett