Exhibitions

SHABAZZ LARKIN: THIS IS WHAT IT IS RIGHT NOW

Julia Martin Gallery / 444 Humphreys St. November 1 - 29th (Reception: November 1 6:00pm - 9:00pm)

Shabazz Larkin

Shabazz Larkin’s new body of work is a visual and poetic feast of photographs, paintings, sculpture, collage and poetry - most of which were made in collaboration with his sons, Royal & Legend, infusing a living, breathing sense of family, and time already vanishing.

The exhibition itself is a collage - both in concept and material. Larkin layers scraps of image, text, and memory to grapple with what cannot be held: the inevitability of change. Revolution, power, impermanence - none of it is stable. Everything is up for rearrangement.

This is how it is right now refuses sentimentality. It stares down the fleeting, breaks it apart, and puts it back together. The result is part archive, part prayer, part wake-up call.