Tarik Jeremiah Brown: Hush Harbor

In the site-responsive exhibition Hush Harbor, Tarik Jeremiah Brown transforms the Sunroom into a contemporary, antebellum hush harbor—a secret gathering place of refuge and worship rooted in Black American histories of survival and faith. Through sculpture, moving image, and sound, the installation evokes these shelters—which were often secluded in wooded landscapes—as sites of collective care and embodied belief, grounded in relationships to both land and spirit. Situated at Wave Hill between the woodlands and the Hudson River, the work engages the harbor as both a literal and symbolic site of arrival, protection, and possibility.

The exhibition title also draws from the Proto-Indo-European roots of the word harbor: heri (“army” or “host”) and bhergh- (“to hide,” “to protect,” “to rise,” or “to ascend”), underscoring themes of shelter, collective presence, and spiritual elevation. In so doing, Hush Harbor centers quieter forms of knowledge, inviting movement between what has been obscured or archived and what must be imagined, remembered, or re-envisioned.

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.