This Place Between Us was a group exhibition at Zeitgeist Gallery curated by Evan Roosevelt Brown. The exhibition brought together artists from Memphis and Nashville whose work explores the space between people, relationships, and creative practices.
Many of the artists in the exhibition are partners in life as well as collaborators in art. The show examined how intimacy, dialogue, and shared experience influence artistic expression. Through painting, textile, sculpture, and mixed media, the works reflected the quiet negotiations that occur within relationships and within communities.
Rather than focusing on individual authorship alone, the exhibition emphasized connection. Some artists presented collaborative works, blending perspectives and visual languages, while others exhibited pieces that responded to or existed in conversation with their partner’s work. Together the exhibition formed a constellation of voices exploring how creativity can grow through proximity, trust, and exchange.
This Place Between Us invited viewers to reflect on the subtle space that exists between individuals. It is in that space where influence, love, tension, and inspiration take shape. The exhibition became not just a presentation of artworks, but a meditation on the ways relationships shape artistic practice and the stories we tell through images.
For This Place Between Us I presented a group of works created in collaboration with members of my family. The first three pieces are quilts titled The Practices, made with Ashley Larkin. These works draw from family traditions of making and repair, using fabric and pattern as a way to reflect on the quiet rituals that hold families together across generations.
The fourth work is a painting created in collaboration with my son, Legend. The piece explores creativity as a shared language between generations, where play, gesture, and imagination become part of the process of making.
The final work is a carved wooden table that has been turned on its side to become a shrine. By transforming a familiar domestic object into a vertical structure of reflection, the piece honors the home as a place of memory, reverence, and spiritual practice.
