Pilot Light – Curated by Gerald Lovell

P·P·O·W is pleased to present “Pilot Light”, a group exhibition curated by Gerald Lovell. Featuring new and recent works by Bre Andy, Praise Fuller, Gerald Lovell, Devin N. Morris, Nickola Pottinger, Curtis Talwst Santiago, and Taylor Simmons, the exhibition will span painting, sculpture, and multi-media installation. The resulting presentation is shaped, not by spectacle, but by endurance: the slow, persistent force of faith, practice, and resiliency. In an art world where diversity can become a passing trend and visibility is often confused with care, “Pilot Light” insists on another measure of value outside the demands of immediacy, legibility, and consumption. Named after a small but essential flame that continuously burns regardless of the conditions outside, the exhibition presents artists who embrace forms of creation that are deeply personal and life-sustaining. In “Pilot Light”, artistic practice is understood as a mode of caregiving, a commitment to one’s divination, one’s community, and the subtle but unwavering spark that makes creation possible in the first place.

Bre Andy (b. 1994) is a figurative oil painter exploring intimacy, sexuality, domesticity, and self-observation through portraiture and still life. Her introspective works offer a personal reflection of everyday, fleeting moments and quiet cogitations that capture the essence of womanhood.

Praise Fuller is a New York-based, self-taught artist, poet, and educator. Her practice spans printmaking, installation, and mixed media with a central focus on the cyanotype process. Fuller’s work emerges from historical analysis and introspections, exploring what lies beyond the constraints of family, the church, trauma, and the cultural realities of the American South.

For Gerald Lovell (b. 1992), painting is an act of biography. Combining flat and impressionistic painting with thick daubs of impasto, Lovell creates monumental, loving scenes often lost to the abyss of memory. His portraits refuse the notion that all Black figures put down on canvas are somehow political. Rather, his work records a deep commitment to fostering alternative community narratives by imbuing his subjects with social agency and self-determinative power, while also revealing individualistic details that lay their essential humanity bare

Through collage, painting, photography, physical assemblage, and video, Devin N. Morris (b. 1986) prioritizes displays of personal innocence and acts of kindness within a surreal landscape.

Nickola Pottinger (b. 1986) combines elements of drawing, collage, and sculpture to create heavily textured and layered reliefs that reflect on her background as a dancer.

Curtis Talwst Santiago (b. 1979) works across painting, sculpture, diorama, sound, and performance to interrogate systems of control and the spaces where those systems break. His practice is rooted in ancestral research, diasporic memory, speculative history, and metaphysical geometry.

The paintings and drawings of Taylor Simmons (b. 1990) incorporate hazy depictions of everyday life to form an archive of compulsively collated imagery. Sampling fragments of his surroundings, from his upbringing in Atlanta, Georgia, to his years in New York, NY, Simmons questions the conventional performance of masculinity while recalling universal themes of youthful play, human nature, work, and rest.

Gallery hours Tue-Sat 11 am – 6 pm, and by appointment

Exhibition Duration 02 May – 06 June 2026

www.ppowgallery.com

Location:
P·P·O·W
390 Broadway
10013 New York, NY
United States