FORTHCOMING
Gormley Gallery
Fourier Hall, 2nd Floor
Curated by Jasmine Gabrielle Washington, Rich in What They Can’t Measure examines value beyond systems that rely on visibility, productivity, and quantification. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices center care, labor, intimacy, interiority, and inherited knowledge—forms of wealth that resist easy measurement yet sustain life, culture, and community.
Historically, Black life has been assessed through extractive frameworks that flatten complexity and render care invisible. This exhibition pushes against those logics, asking what becomes possible when worth is understood through presence rather than proof, relationship rather than output, and endurance rather than efficiency.
Across photography, video, installation, and material gesture, the works gathered here attend to the body as archive and infrastructure. They honor acts of holding, carrying, tending, remembering, and refusing—gestures often dismissed as informal or immeasurable, yet foundational to survival and self-determination.
Rich in What They Can’t Measure invites viewers to slow down and reconsider how value is assigned, who is allowed fullness, and what forms of abundance exist beyond institutional recognition. The exhibition asserts that what sustains us most—care, memory, intimacy, and interior life—has never required permission to exist.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Jahniah Kum
Creates paintings rooted in interior mythologies, emotional landscapes, and ancestral resonance.
Lisa Brown
Uses photography and mixed media to reframe archival narratives and reclaim Black diasporic histories.
Mathilde Mujanayi
Explores identity, spiritual memory, and the layered narratives embedded in Black womanhood.
Melissa Sutherland Moss
Works in sculpture and mixed media to examine lineage, belonging, and the materiality of cultural memory.
Coming Soon: Click the link below to View the Exhibition Catalog (Includes works, exhibition details, and artist bios)
Rich in What They Can’t Measure began as a quiet refusal of systems that taught us to equate value with visibility, productivity, and optimization. I’m interested in how language—metrics, labels, professional codes, institutional speech—shapes what is recognized as meaningful and what is dismissed as excess, silence, or softness. Much of what sustains us, especially within Black, queer, and marginalized communities, exists beyond those frameworks. It lives in care, interiority, memory, patience, and relational labor.
The artists in this exhibition work in ways that resist easy reading. Their practices slow time, privilege process, and allow for opacity rather than explanation. In doing so, they push back against the demand to be legible, productive, or easily translated. This exhibition is not concerned with abundance as spectacle, but with abundance as knowing—as something inherited, practiced, and carried, often quietly, as a means of survival.
Across painting, sculpture, and photography, and video, these works honor what exceeds the frame, the archive, and the market. They ask us to reconsider how we measure worth, and to sit with the possibility that some forms of wealth are not meant to be named, extracted, or optimized. What remains is an affirmation: that the richest parts of us—our interior lives, our histories, our unspoken knowledge—are already whole, already abundant, and still ours.
– Jasmine Gabrielle Washington, Guest Gallery Curator for the 2025–2026 Academic Year
Additional Programming
Featured Artists and Curator
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Jahniah Kum
Featured Artist
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Lisa Brown
Featured Artist
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Mathilde Mujanayi
Featured Artist
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Melissa Sutherland Moss
Featured Artist
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Jasmine Gabrielle Washington
Curator
Guest Collaborators
Aliana Grace Bailey, Brianne Latrice, Diamond Bruns and Jenné Afiya Matthews are participating in the public programming for Rich in What They Can’t Measure.
Together, they contribute to conversations that extend the exhibition beyond the gallery walls—centering reflection, care, and lived experience as essential forms of knowledge. Their presence supports dialogue around ancestry, visibility, value, and interior life, helping create spaces for collective listening, exchange, and community engagement.