“Black Futures: How to See in Total Darkness 2.0” at Salem State University’s Winfisky Gallery in Salem, Massachusetts, from Jan. 20 to Feb. 20, 2026, grew out of a 2023 exhibition at Boston’s HallSpace gallery. This “continued discussion of voices of provocation in a climate that questions free speech and expression as a unifying principle of our collective and inclusive democracy,” according to the gallery, features Boston artists Dell M. Hamilton, Karmimadeebora McMillan, Jameel Radcliffe and Jamal Thorne, who also co-curated.
“All poignantly represent a multitude of approaches that read informed by their lived experiences, their formal training as well as a broad range of discourses on how race, gender, social relations, history and culture substantively shape both figurative and abstract art,” co-curator Ari Montford wrote about the 2023 exhibition. “…In many instances, these artists are wrestling with themselves, heir passion for collective work, and the material conditions of a world that wasn’t built for them.”
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