{"id":866353,"date":"2026-09-30T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866353\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T22:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:14:12","slug":"a-vision-of-rebirth-raw-and-sumptuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866353\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vision of Rebirth, Raw and Sumptuous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pocket Review<\/a><\/p>\n

Derriann Pharr, an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum, draws from girlhood and womanhood in works that metamorphose before our eyes.<\/p>\n


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\n Derriann Pharr, “Squinching my eyes shut and wishing real hard (Honey\u2019s Dream)” (2026) at the Studio Museum in Harlem (all Valentina Di Liscia\/Hyperallergic unless noted)<\/p>\n

Scales and fur and flower petals, gossamer wings and morning dewdrops. Working on paper, whose raw, frayed edges belie the force of the composition within them, Derriann Pharr\u00a0draws out the shape of a woman, long and animalesque, in “Squinching my eyes shut and wishing real hard (Honey\u2019s Dream)” (2026). <\/p>\n

In “Bring My Bones Home!” (2026), a bulbous female figure coils around a tiny creature in a gesture of tender but watchful protection.\u00a0Spiky sculptural elements protrude above her, guardingly.<\/p>\n

Derriann Pharr, “Bring My Bones Home!” (2026)<\/p>\n

Pharr’s works are part of A sustained becoming: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2026, an exhibition of the institution’s inaugural resident cohort. They converse with Simonette Quamina’s indigo-hued dreamscapes and Taylor Simmons’s intimate oil tableaux, all filling a spacious fourth-floor gallery in the Studio Museum’s new 82,000-square-foot building in Harlem<\/a>, with evident curatorial care to avoid crowding, to let each practice breathe.<\/p>\n

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