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Sandra Brewster is featured in The New York Times’ selection of “12 Artists on the Rise at The Armory Show,” with critic Aruna D’Souza highlighting ‘Make Trouble’ (2024), presented in the fair’s Platform section.

D’Souza draws attention to Brewster’s signature gel-transfer process, in which gaps, folds, abrasions and blurred passages evoke the instability of memory and her experience of the Black diaspora. Originally commissioned for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art, the three-part Make Trouble draws on a family photograph of Brewster and her sisters playing in their suburban neighbourhood.

Brewster is also represented in Southern Guild’s group presentation at Booth 210, which D’Souza describes as “easily the best showing at the Armory this year.”

Read the full feature via the link in our bio (under NEWS).

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Image caption, Slide 3: Sandra Brewster, ‘Make Trouble,’ 2024. Southern Guild. Courtesy of Aleksey Kondratyev for The New York Times

#SandeaBrewster #SouthernGuild #TheArmoryShow #TheNewYorkTimes taken in Javits Center by @sabrewst

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A Place To Put Your Things is part of Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time, in St. Louis, Missouri. Counterpublic is a triennial exhibition reimagining the possibilities of art in public life.

Thank you Wanda Nanibush and the entire team of Counterpublic for including me in this wonderful experience.

APTPYT is located in The Ville Neighbourhood - northwest of downtown St. Louis and most widely recognized for the strength of the African-American community.

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A Place to Put Your Things is a functional swing, open as a space for play and to calm the spirit. The outline of the swing forms two figures leaning into a kiss. Brewster’s design invites the viewer to sit inside its embrace.

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Sandra Brewster’s monumental photo-based installation ‘Make Trouble’ (2024) will be presented by Southern Guild as part of The Armory Show’s Platform section from 24–27 September.

Originally commissioned for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art, the four-panel work transforms Brewster’s personal childhood photographs through her distinctive gel transfer technique. Inspired by Fred Moten’s lecture ‘Black Optimism / Black Operation’ and the Child Development Group of Mississippi’s freedom song “Da da da da,” ‘Make Trouble’ considers childhood as a site of political imagination and possibility, connecting personal memory with broader histories of Black migration and ideas of futurity.

Alongside ‘Make Trouble’, visit Southern Guild at Booth 210 in the Javits Center for a group presentation featuring 21 artists from across our programme.

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Image captions: Sandra Brewster, ‘Make Trouble’, 2024. Installation views, Toronto Biennial of Art, 2024. Photography by Toni Hafkenscheid.

#SandraBrewster #MakeTrouble #SouthernGuild #TheArmoryShow #Platform taken in Javits Center by @sabrewst

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Hammock, as part of curator Rui Pimenta’s exhibition Where Walls Meet Sky, in the ruins of St. Anne’s Anglican Church.

Hammock takes its name from the shape of a healthy sleeping heart rate, when the pulse drops to its lowest point and remains steady. The pattern signals deep rest and the body’s capacity to recover. Here, that form becomes a metaphor for St. Anne’s, a place paused in a period of rest and healing, gathering strength before its next chapter. 🖤

Exhibition runs Thursdays to Sundays, 12-8pm.
Until September 13th.

Hammock, 2026, photo-based gel transfer on Tyvek

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Doily from Token | Contemporary Ongoing. Just thinking about this work and how warm I felt when friends offered their personal objects for this series/project. 🤍 This is Mumzie’s doily tho. by @sabrewst

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Sandra Brewster, Josephine Baker, 2021

Sandra Brewster's "Take a Little Trip" is a series of photo-based gel transfers honoring iconic people who expressed themselves as complex human beings — through talent, community activism, and intellectualism. Each piece is developed from multiple frames of a video of the subject in conversation, alluding to the unfixable nature of their being and their tendency toward movement, geographically and imaginatively, while questioning perceived notions of monolithic Black communities. taken in Hannah Traore Gallery by @sabrewst

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Take a Little Trip, 2021, is currently on view at the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026 | Alliance, Infinity, Love
Until September 26 2026

Mark Sealy, Curator 🖤
A wonderfully caring team coordinated this fulsome exhibition that includes works by over 30 artists at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg | Hall for Contemporary Art and totalling almost 300 artists throughout the city. 🖤
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Infinity reflects the boundless possibilities of being human and the infinite capacity for acts of kindness. It gestures towards the infinite realities we inhabit and evokes the longing for a new visual paradigm – one that enables silenced voices to become an integral part of our common, interconnected reality, where restrictive borders dissolve and liberating futures can be imagined.
-excerpt from Curatorial Concept

Take a Little Trip, 2021, is a series of photo-based gel trans-fers of iconic people who have inspired through their commitment to expressing themselves as individual complex human beings - through their talent, activism and scholarship. They include musicians Minnie Riperton, Nina Simone and Salome Bey, writers Toni Morrison, Wilson Harris and Frantz Fanon, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, performer Josephine Baker, and journalist and community activist Claudia Jones, founder of Notting Hill Caribbean Carnival and Britain’s West Indian Gazette.

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I am deeply gratified by the inclusion of Blur in Mark Sealy’s A Lens on Liveration: Photography as Resistance, 2025.
Honoured to be among many wonderfully critical artists.

Cover: Hélène Amouzou
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PUBLIC Fall 2025/Volume 36 Issue 72
Edited by Shaunasea Brown and Nadine Valcin.🖤🖤
Thanks to Emile Contant for her essay on my practice.
Feels good to be included in this issue (Searching for) Home.

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¿Qué significa un beso? Ese gesto cotidiano que apenas dura segundos y, pese a ello, nos transforma.

En ‘Kiss 2’, Sandra Brewster repite ese instante y lo convierte en pensamiento. Dos figuras que se acercan y se alejan para reconocerse en el contacto con el otro representan la naturaleza propia de las relaciones humanas: cambiantes, siempre en movimiento.

Este 14 de febrero te invitamos a mirar el beso como lugar de encuentro con el otro y con la identidad y el deseo propio.

Encuentra ‘Kiss 2’ en la exposición ‘Bubuia. Aguas como fuente de imaginaciones y deseos’, disponible hasta el 22 de febrero en nuestras salas.

Esta exposición se realiza a través de la Lei de Incentivo Federal à Cultura Rouanet | Gran aliado: @nubank

Aliados en Colombia
Aliados institucionales: @mincultura, @cocreaorg | Apoyan: @audi.colombia, Transmetano

Organizan: @bienalamazonias, Ministério da Cultura do Brasil (@minc) y @elmamm by @sabrewst

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Essequibo, 2019, acrylic and photo-based gel transfer on Mylar, and works from Token | Contemporary Ongoing., 2018. In Token I worked with personal objects from people of the Caribbean community living here in Toronto. These objects stay with them now and will always while simultaneously carry stories and feelings of back home. 🖤

The last slide is an installation image of Token | Contemporary Ongoing at Art Gallery of Guelph, 2020. Curated by Sally Frater. Photo credit Dean Palmer

This work is part of the group exhibition Reminds Me of Home currently up at Olga Korper Gallery until February 14th.

@olgakorpergallery by @sabrewst

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