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It’s been 20 years but the gates stayed open for my return home.
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My show at Derosia closes this weekend on October 10. Catch it while it’s still on view.
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IM
September 9-October 10, 2026
@derosia__ taken in Arouca, Trinidad and Tobago by @k01123s

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12 days ago

“I want to use words like ventral and dorsal, recto and verso, but I am overwhelmed by the feeling that I am seeing all sides at once, and in that abundance each edge is a fold. I am reminded that a map is not just an image but a piece of the very world that it represents. It is not so much that this painting resists being named by naming so many other things in its formation, but that its mutations continuously swallow what they begin to resemble.“

—Painter @louisblock wrote this about a different work by Kern Samuel for @brooklynrail’s Dec/Jan 2023-24 issue. How gorgeously it describes the artist’s work here too, making window light dance.

#KernSamuel
MrMr, 2025
Artist’s socks with welded steel support
30 x 30 inches

Visiting info:
Suite 210, 139 Fulton St (The Bennett Building)
Wed–Sat, noon-6pm and by appt taken in New York, New York by @k01123s

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18 days ago

BUILDING: KERN SAMUEL & JAMIE NARES is now on view at 139 Fulton St, Suite 210!

Visit us: Wed–Sat, noon–6pm
& by appointment
Through Oct 31

Full install views are also on our website 🔗

“Building” names both object and action. Bringing together Jamie Nares and Samuel Kern, BUILDING emerges from this doubling, channeling the material constitution of the city itself as something continually made and remade.

The paintings, objects, and films on view—most made over the past decade—echo rusted surfaces and glinting fixtures, mottled sidewalks and elaborate scaffolding. Though primarily non-representational, these works retain the visible seams and indelible traces of human contact, physical labor, and material transformation.

The exhibition is titled after Nares’s 64-minute film, Building (2020), which quietly observes the construction of a highrise condo from the artist’s 25th-floor window until it exceeds the frame, recasting abstraction as a negotiation of perspective relative to scale.

@jamienares @k01123s with thanks to @derosia__ @olneygleason ♥️

📸 @new_document_ taken in New York, New York by @k01123s

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24 days ago

Here are some digital images of my show IM at Derosia. The show was made over several months in different places. You can read more about it through the link in my bio. And if you’re in New York, please go and see IM, as it wants to see you too.

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September 9 - October 10, 2026
@Derosia taken in New York, N.Y. by @k01123s

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a month ago

BUILDING: KERN SAMUEL & JAMIE NARES
Opens 6-8pm tonight 🩶
Suite 210, 139 Fulton St (The Bennett Building)

@jamienares @k01123s taken in New York, New York by @k01123s

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a month ago

Faculty Spotlight! Meet Kern Samuel, a Trinidadian-born artist who received his BFA from The Cooper Union and MFA from the Yale School of Art. Samuel is newly a Full-Time Lecturer in Painting here at Boston University.

Biography, provided by Derosia:

“Kern Samuel’s practice centers on painting as a modality to explore material, labor, and the implications thereof. Such tactile engagements as sewing, quilting, dying, folding, and embroidery generate Samuel’s compositions, which often evoke infographic, diagrammatic modes of dissemination. Language, when included in Samuel’s works, is mediated through the grid of the quilt, subverting a didactic reading and lending the verbal a visual dimension. Text and representation are employed sparingly and in conceptual rhyming with material support, alluding to the everyday applications and intimate associations of a given substrate. Such tactics facilitate open readings, circumventing traditional critical models by privileging visuality and tactility over vocabulary. The generosity and expansiveness of this gesture is underscored by Samuel’s evocative titles referring to memory, the unconscious, and spirituality—the territories in which language is inefficient.”

📸 Images courtesy of the artist and Derosia.

𝘐𝘔, an exhibition of new work by Kern Samuel, is on view at Derosia in New York until October 10th, 2026.

📸 Images courtesy of the artist and Derosia.

𝘐𝘔, an exhibition of new work by Kern Samuel, is on view at Derosia in New York until October 10th, 2026.

📸 Images courtesy of the artist and Derosia.

𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳, 2026
Continuous feed paper collage mounted on board and canvas with t-tags and cardboard residue, place ribbon, artist frame
22.5 x 18.5 in

📸 Images courtesy of the artist and Derosia. taken in Boston University College of Fine Arts by @k01123s

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a month ago

Kern Samuel at Derosia, New York
“IM”
September 9 – October 10, 2026
Photos: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Derosia, New York
@derosia__ @k01123s taken in New York City, N.Y. by @k01123s

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SOON… @jamienares and @k01123s in Suite 210, 139 Fulton St ⛏️ Opening Friday, Sept 18, 6-8pm

BUILDING plays on object and action as commingling forces; taking “building” as both a structure and a process of making structure.

Film, sculpture, paintings, and other accretions spanning 1975-present will be on view.

Visiting hours will be:
Wed–Sat, 12-6pm
or via appointment (DM us!)

Thank you to @derosia__ and @olneygleason as well 🖤 taken in New York, New York by @k01123s

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a month ago

palm readers to the front

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The Aldrich Decennial: I am what is around me (installation view), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, June 7, 2026 to January 10, 2027. Photo: Olympia Shannon.

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@amy_smithstewart
@soft_opening
@derosia taken in The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum by @k01123s

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3 months ago

be right back by @k01123s

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4 months ago

This Wednesday, March 25th at 7PM @k01123s will be giving a lecture in the Flex Space, preceded by 4 studio visits with students. Please join us to hear from Kern!
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Kern Samuel (b. 1990, Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago) is an artist living and working on the East Coast. He received his BFA from Cooper Union and his MFA from the Yale School of Art. His practice explores the expanded language of painting through sewing, dyeing, collage, and drawing. Leaning toward abstraction and text, his work engages the symbolic and subjective dimensions of aesthetic experience, often grounded in personal and everyday materials. Recent solo and institutional exhibitions include Paining (Derosia, New York, 2023), Hard Ground (MoMA PS1, New York, 2024), Rough Draft (Soft Opening, London, 2025), and Bonner Kunstverein (Bonn, Germany, 2022). by @k01123s

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7 months ago

#KernSamuel - Another Threshold, 2023 Brown paper bag on muslin, artist’s frame 66 x 48 in by @k01123s

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a year ago