Tarik Jeremiah Brown: Hush Harbor

In the site-responsive exhibition Hush Harbor, Tarik Jeremiah Brown reimagines the Sunroom as a Hush Harbor, a space of refuge and spiritual resistance. In the Antebellum American South, hush harbors were clandestine gathering places where enslaved Black communities worshiped and fostered resilience beyond their captors’ surveillance. Drawing from Black church traditions, literature, archival research, his family’s musical legacy, and the landscapes of Wave Hill, Brown explores the histories of Black survival, memory, and imagination. Moving between documented history and ancestral memory, Brown employs sculpture, Super 8 film, and sound to create a multisensory environment that invites viewers to engage with the work through the body and the senses. And, on the walls, four carved mahogany panels reference African American and Caribbean syncretic spiritual traditions, including the ring shout, Shango’s sacred axe, mount possession rituals, and tools used to conceal prayer and song. Highlighting these rituals, Brown privileges quieter forms of knowledge otherwise erased from historical archives.

Public Program: Meet the Artist on Sunday, October 4 at 1PM.

Organized by Curator of Visual Arts Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger, the Sunroom Project Space is an open call opportunity for emerging, New York-area artists to develop and exhibit a site-specific project as a solo exhibition. The 2026 applications were reviewed by a panel of arts professionals including Klaudia Ofwona Draber, a curator, Strategy Consultant, Director of Programs at Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, and founder of KODA—a social practice residency for mid-career artists; artist Magdalena Dukiewicz (2025 Sunroom Project Space), whose practice is rooted in processes and materials that explore the intersections of the organic and industrial materials; and Gugelberger.