As Land Remembers
Photo credit: Carlos Perez and Anisa Jackson
Group Exhibition
Denniston Hill at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
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July 11, 2025 – August 22, 2025
Curated by Ariana Faye Allensworth
Installed at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, As Land Remembers brings together the work of alumni and collaborators of Denniston Hill, the artist residency established by Julie Mehretu, Paul Pfeiffer, and Lawrence Chua in upstate New York. The exhibition explores land not as a passive backdrop, but as collaborator, kin, and witness to cycles of history, extraction, and regeneration.
The exhibition foregrounds the ethos of Denniston Hill’s campus, a site where artists are invited into active relationships with land, where tending gardens, walking forests, and sharing meals are part of a collective rhythm of care. Curated by Ariana Faye Allensworth, As Land Remembers extends this sensibility into the gallery, inviting artists to consider land as a living participant in the work of making and remembering.
Annalee Davis presents An Unbound Book of Prayer (2022–2024), a series of ten textile works created over two years from her home and studio at Walkers Dairy, Barbados, a former sugar plantation. Crafted using eco-dyeing, appliqué, crochet, and embroidery, the works incorporate organic materials gathered from the surrounding landscape: botanicals like cerasee and motherwort, known for their healing properties, as well as plant-based pigments that stain the textiles. Through slow, meditative stitching, Davis traces both personal and ancestral relationships with the land, where ritual, memory, and resistance converge.
Each textile in the series acts as both offering and record, holding traces of place, history, and practice. The work reflects on the land as a living archive—one that carries collective memory, holds trauma, and offers possibilities for renewal. At the heart of the process is a quiet ritual of attention: stitches echo daily walks, while plant materials mark the fabric shaping these secular devotional aids.
With Deborah Anzinger, Ei Arakawa-Nash, American Artist, Nancy Brooks Brody, Carolina Caycedo, william córdova, Annalee Davis, Nikita Gale, Las Nietas de Nonó, julie ezelle patton.
Text adapted from Marian Goodman Gallery
Photo Credit: Alex Yudzon
Studio sessions and the works in progress
Early eco-dyeing experiments at Denniston Hill laid the groundwork for this practice, informing both process and approach.
