RSVP to "Where Spring Begins to Speak: Works From Our Collection (Part 2)"

OPENING RECEPTION | APRIL 17, 6 - 8 PM

Where Spring Begins to Speak: Works From Our Collection (Part 2)

La Vaughn Belle - Brandon J. Donahue-Shipp - Kiki Gaffney - Judy Gelles - Raymond Saá

APRIL 17 - JUNE 13, 2026

Pentimenti is proud to announce its forthcoming exhibition, Where Spring Begins to Speak: Works From Our Collection (Part 2), on view from April 17 through June 13, 2026. This second installment of Works From Our Collection highlights five additional artists who have been central to our programming.

In Where Spring Begins to Speak, each artist reflects on the shifting, present rhythms of nature and current time. In her collage series Storm, La Vaughn Belle explores the aesthetic possibilities of land, sea, and weather, imagining new geographies and ways of understanding space, self, and the turbulent histories that have shaped the Caribbean. Through cuts and burns in the paper, gestures central to her practice, she evokes the intertwined forces of violence and repair that continue to shape the Caribbean today.

On view are two works by Brandon J. Donahue-Shipp. He reimagines the familiar basketball as a mandala form, emerging from the wall like a flower and imbuing an everyday object with organic vitality and poetic resonance. Alongside it, a sculpture created from AstroTurf introduces a lush, springlike presence that reflects on the substitution of nature, emphasizing community engagement, sports, and spirituality.

Kiki Gaffney’s work reflects the cyclical rhythms of nature, balancing slow, meditative processes with the unpredictable forces of changing seasons, sun, and wind. Her practice explores how natural “architectures”, patterns that emerge without imposed order, can inform and shape the structures of human life.

Spring, for many of us, embodies the vitality of youth within the cycle of life. As we grow up, we carry the voices of our parents, their advice, guidance, warnings, and critiques echoing in our minds. The work on view draws from the words of Judy Gelles’s mother. Gelles explores the weight and resonance of language, revealing how it shapes her understanding of care and responsibility as she grows older.

Raymond Saá is a Cuban-American artist whose abstract, process-driven work deconstructs and reconstructs natural elements, creating motifs that reflect his Cuban heritage and link organic forms with architectural structures. The two works on view evoke the sensation of a first breath of spring, crisp, invigorating, and full of promise.

Together, these works create a dynamic conversation about transition and awakening, inviting viewers to reflect on the subtle and profound moments of change that so often accompany the arrival of spring.

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