Current Exhibition
I AM YOU
Tatum Sabin
On Display: Thursday, February 5 – Sunday, March 15, 2026
I AM YOU presents a vibrant and deeply personal body of work by New Jersey–based multimedia artist Tatum Sabin, a current student at Howard University. Featuring paintings created over the past two years, the exhibition traces Sabin’s artistic growth through bold color, expressive mark-making, and layered materials that move fluidly between portraiture and abstraction.
Sabin’s work is populated by faces, figures, and symbols that feel both individual and collective. Stylized portraits share space with patterns, florals, stitched fabrics, vinyl records, and recycled materials, creating compositions that pulse with movement and emotion. In several works, swirling lines, repeated gestures, and dense layers of color take center stage, forming energetic abstract fields that evoke motion, sound, and lived experience rather than a single image or narrative.
Rooted in Sabin’s Caribbean American heritage, the exhibition celebrates Black and women’s voices through images that honor beauty, resilience, vulnerability, and joy. Whether through direct gaze in her portraits or through immersive, all-over compositions, her paintings invite viewers into a shared emotional space where identity feels layered, dynamic, and alive.
The Herb + Milly Iris Gallery Curator Jeremy Moss notes, “Tatum’s work comes from a really genuine place. She believes art should be accessible, joyful, and rooted in community, and you can feel that in every piece. I AM YOU captures her growth over the past two years, her willingness to experiment, to play, and to use her voice to celebrate Black and women’s experiences in a way that feels honest and welcoming.”
Through fearless experimentation and a commitment to sustainability and play, I AM YOU offers a snapshot of an emerging artist in motion. The exhibition invites audiences to slow down, take in the layers, and recognize themselves within the energy, emotion, and connection that run throughout the work.
Artist Bio
Tatum Sabin is a multimedia artist from Orange, New Jersey. She is currently a student at Howard University, where she studies Painting with a minor in Psychology. Sabin has exhibited work throughout the East Coast, including New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C., as well as internationally in Sint Maarten and the Netherlands.
A natural-born artist, Sabin’s earliest memories are rooted in time spent at an easel or in art classes, where her instinct for creativity and experimentation first took shape. Her practice often incorporates recycled materials, reflecting a commitment to sustainability and intentional making.
Drawing inspiration from her Caribbean American heritage, Sabin’s work centers on community, identity, and Black creative joy. Through bold color, layered materials, and expressive imagery, she seeks to create work that feels accessible, celebratory, and deeply connected to shared experience.
BETWEEN PLACES
Brian Wall
On Display: March 19 – May 3, 2026
There are artists who paint what they see. And then there are artists like Brian Wall, who paint how they move through the world.
Between Places spans more than X years of work created across Colorado, Costa Rica, North Carolina, and New Jersey. The exhibition traces Wall’s evolution as a self-taught artist balancing instinct with intention.
His earliest ink drawings pulse with intuitive energy—architectural, mechanical, intricate, and fearless. Over time, that spontaneity sharpened rather than softened. The work remains dynamic, but increasingly grounded in craft and deliberation. That tension between impulse and control drives the exhibition.
Each place leaves its imprint. In Colorado, bold color and abstraction surge with momentum. In Costa Rica, forms open and organic shapes emerge, reflecting immersion in nature and growing environmental awareness. In North Carolina, planning deepens and themes of connection and isolation surface. In New Jersey, compositions become denser and more industrial, with restrained color and compressed space suggesting velocity and pressure.
“In Brian’s work, you can actually see the shift,” notes curator Jeremy Moss. “The early pieces feel like pure momentum, this incredible intuitive engine. As the years unfold, that energy doesn’t fade; it becomes focused. The spontaneity is still there, but now it’s supported by craft and deliberation.”
Wall’s work has often been compared to M.C. Escher for its shifting geometry and layered perspective. Structures bend and loop; abstraction reveals narrative upon closer look.
“Brian challenges you to look twice,” Moss reflects. “The first glance is impact. The second glance is discovery. And somewhere between those two moments, you realize the painting has changed, or maybe you have.”
Spanning decades and landscapes, Between Places reads like a map of belonging—an exploration of how movement shapes both artist and art.