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Closing September 6, 2026

Introduction: Black Spiritual Ecologies, a first presentation in an evolving inquiry! A three-artist exhibition on place, memory, and the practice of getting well.

This is an exhibit features artists Ingrid Raphael, Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, Anthony Peyton Young, Installation by Déja Jones, and is curated by SIP, Spiritual is Political @sipcurationco_

#anthonypeytonyoung #facejugs #rockdove #blackartist #ceramics taken in The Front by @anthonypeytonyoung

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A few installation shots from my solo exhibition From the Ground Up @clampartnyc closing on August 28th. taken in CLAMP by @anthonypeytonyoung

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Anthony Peyton Young

Toni Morrison: Flight
Freedom Quilt: Bow Tie
Ceramic vessels
2026

Young’s ceramic vessels draws inspiration from Grotesque
jars and face jugs, focusing on their historical
legacy as functional vessels, grave markers for
enslaved ancestors, and sacred objects used to ward
off evil. While these jugs were traditionally thought
to be self-portraits, Young’s vessels represent both
himself and other individuals in his life, such as
his mother and close friends who provide him refuge
and the space to be his full self.

A recurring icon in Young’s work is the rock dove, a
creature that defies displacement and refuses to let
others dictate its presence. Central to Young’s
visual language is the color blue, which he uses as a
literal and conceptual extension of Blackness—evoking
skin so deep it takes on a luminous blue hue, while
also connecting to water and the cosmos.

Young’s vessel “Toni Morrison: Flight” converses with
Toni Morrison’s insistence on the conjuring of flight
in Song of Solomon and Imani Perry’s brilliant usage
of the bluejay. In reflection with the usage of salt
as a material that can weigh you down, Young’s work
insists otherwise.

Come witness Anthony’s work in our current exhibit, Introduction: Black Spiritual Ecologies!
Dates: August 8th - September 6th (viewing on the weekends and by appointment)
Location: @thefrontnola

Exhibition Curated by @cheyennewj by @anthonypeytonyoung

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We are open today from 12-5. A closer look at some of the miniature sculptures in Introduction: Black Spiritual Ecologies, by @anthonypeytonyoung. This is an exhibit held in Room 2 of our gallery, with artist Ingrid Raphaël, Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, Anthony Peyton Young, Installation by Déja Jones, & curated by SIP, Spiritual is Political @sipcurationco__

It is a multimedia installation, ceramic, wheat-pasted imagery, textile, photography, audio, wood, glass. On view until September 6th.

From Sip Curation:

Introduction: Black Spiritual Ecologies, a first presentation in an evolving inquiry! A three-artist exhibition on place, memory, and the practice of getting well.

In conversation with Toni Cade Bambara’s 1980 novel, The Salt Eaters, spiritual in form and political in tone, the exhibition asks a question the novel poses in its opening line: “Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?” Like the material and rememory of salt, Black Spiritual Ecologies as a framework layers Black spiritual meaning-making across past, present, and future ecologies. It invites artists and audiences alike into collaboration with materiality, placemaking, storytelling, and the global political conditions of Black life.

Focusing on the pillar of place, each artist converses with the history and spiritual making of a place/places; whether on the ground or in the air. All places that refuse to be forgotten. As a collective story, the artists represent the layering of mediums as a methodology for meaning making. Individually, each artist’s work represents methods for getting well; through flying, portals, or community remembrance, Black life is honored.

About SIP:
Spiritual is Political (SIP) is an independent curatorial studio whose practice centers art, education, organizing for resistance, and world-building. SIP produces, examines, and builds alongside contemporary artists and their communities. taken in The Front by @anthonypeytonyoung

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💜🩷❤️💙💜 The Seventh Annual Swann Auction Galleries LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History auction is Thursday, August 13, 2026.

Donated by the artist to benefit the 2027 Detroit Queer Biennial:

Anthony Peyton Young
Fruits of Our Labor
Bleach and oil on canvas, 2024.
Signed and dated, verso.
12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm.)

For more info, visit: www.swanngalleries.com by @anthonypeytonyoung

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@sipcurationco__ heads to New Orleans to present…

Introduction: Black Spiritual Ecologies, a first presentation in an evolving inquiry! A three-artist exhibition on place, memory, and the practice of getting well.

In conversation with Toni Cade Bambara’s 1980 novel, The Salt Eaters, spiritual in form and political in tone, the exhibition asks a question the novel poses in its opening line: “Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?”. Like the material and rememory of salt, Black Spiritual Ecologies as a framework layers Black spiritual meaning-making across past, present, and future ecologies. It invites artists and audiences alike into collaboration with materiality, placemaking, storytelling, and the global political conditions of Black life.

Focusing on the pillar of place, each artist converses with the history and spiritual making of a place/places; whether on the ground or in the air. All places that refuse to be forgotten. As a collective story, the artists represent the layering of mediums as a methodology for meaning making. Individually, each artist’s work represents methods for getting well; through flying, portals, or community remembrance, Black life is honored.

- Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones @cheyennewj

Presented at The Front, 4100 St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans’s Bywater
August 8 – September 6, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 8, 6–10 PM

More information can be found via our website. by @anthonypeytonyoung

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Looking to the Past for a Better Future
Glazed ceramic vessel
16 x 8.5 x 6 inches
2026

From the Ground Up @clampartnyc open through Aug. 28, 2026 taken in CLAMP by @anthonypeytonyoung

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Night Bathers
Graphite on paper
11.75 × 8.25 in
2026

#drawing #anthonypeytonyoung #therealanthonyyoung #basketball #afro taken in CLAMP by @anthonypeytonyoung

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OPENING THURSDAY, JULY 9TH—“Anthony Peyton Young | From the Ground Up.” Artist reception: Thursday, July 9th, 6-8 PM.
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CLAMP is proud to announce “From the Ground Up,” an exhibition of recent ceramic sculptures and drawings by Anthony Peyton Young—his second with the gallery. Merging historic Southern craft traditions and contemporary explorations of identity, Young employs humor and caricature both to dismantle received stereotypes and to explore how those same stereotypes may contribute to the formation of subjectivity.
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Young’s ceramic vessels, like his paintings and drawings, mine American culture, particularly representations of Blackness, to forge new considerations of how we see ourselves and each other. His figures, more fully realized than just faces, draw upon tropes we know from popular entertainment and daily life.
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Image: © Anthony Peyton Young; “Catch Me in Good Spirits,” 2025; Glazed ceramic vessel; 7 x 5 x 5.5 inches.
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@anthonypeytonyoung #fromthegroundup #openingreception #lgbtqart #contemporaryceramics #facejug by @anthonypeytonyoung

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If you’re in NY come say hi this Thursday July 9th 6-8pm at @clampartnyc

Daily Offerings
Graphite on paper
11.75 × 8.25 in
2026 taken in CLAMP by @anthonypeytonyoung

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These @anthonypeytonyoung vessels have been blessing our window all month. Come by in the next few days to catch a glimpse.

“Blue Diva 1”, 2026
Glazed ceramic vessel with Luster and rhinestones
18 x 8 x 5 inches

“Engulf Your Passion”, 2025
Glazed ceramic vessel with gold luster
12.5in x 4.5in x 5.5in

“Resilience and Relaxation”, 2026
Glazed ceramic vessel with gold luster & rhinestones
7in x 5 x 4.5in

Anthony Peyton Young is a West Virginia-based interdisciplinary artist. Peyton Young earned his B.A. from West Virginia State University and his M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at West Virginia State University and a 2024 Fire Island Artist Residency participant. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Juliette Art Museum. taken in 253 Church by @anthonypeytonyoung

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Happy Pride! A few drawings I’ve done during my travels this year #BlackPride #drawing taken in Any Where, Every Where by @anthonypeytonyoung

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