Praise Shadows Art Gallery

About the Gallery
Praise Shadows Art Gallery is a contemporary art program based in Boston with a focus on exceptional artists working in all artistic disciplines. Our worldview is informed by the notion that the art world’s untapped and under-recognized potential is worth cultivating, supporting, and championing. Since our founding in December 2020, the gallery has placed artworks by our artists in esteemed public collections, and our exhibitions have been covered widely in major international media outlets. Our work is grounded by partnering closely with artists to develop opportunities in traditional and emerging models of creativity and entrepreneurship — exhibitions, commissions, brand partnerships, new technologies, and original concepts that no one has ever tried before.

About the Presentation
Praise Shadows Art Gallery presents a duo-booth featuring Helina Metaferia and Joiri Minaya. Metaferia, an Ethiopian American interdisciplinary social practice artist based in New York City, will exhibit sculptures and collages that reference and pull from archives. Included will be a throne, staff, crown, paintings, and collages that create a setting for the interior lives of activists. These works provide a preview of her upcoming solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch in 2027. Minaya, a Brooklyn-based artist raised in the Dominican Republic, uses motifs of opacity and camouflage to interrogate the dichotomy between history, perception, and lived experiences in tropical countries. Represented in the booth will be gouache paintings, original works that were later incorporated into Minaya’s monumental public art commissions at Prospect New Orleans and a cloaking of a Christopher Columbus statute in the city center of Santo Domingo. These paintings also provide invaluable context to her upcoming exhibitions at MoMA, the MFA Boston, and more.