blueblack
4.28–6.13.2026
Bockley Gallery is pleased to open blueblack, a solo exhibition by Lela Pierce that continues her decades-long practice attuning with and expanding her body’s ways of carrying memory and relating to time, place, and kin. With blueblack, Pierce honors depths of the Middle Passage and discomforts of ancestral estrangement through acts of grieving and conjuring. The exhibition’s duochromatic space comprises a multimedia wall installation, indigo panels, sculptures, and paintings on paper. Charged with and offering space for liberatory imagination, Pierce’s new body of work invokes the profound dimensionality of uncountable counting, virtues of sacred geometry, and choreographies of indeterminacy.
Reception
May 5, 2026
6–7:30 pm
Photo by Cameron Wittig
synthetic hair, picks, metal, acrylic beads, wax thread, rubber bands, string, video, ceramic, wood, acrylic-based gouache, juniper and bergamot seed pods
approx. 95 x 60 x 7 inches installed
Photo by Cameron Wittig
wood, acrylic-based gouache, picks, metal, synthetic hair, wax thread, rubber bands, wooden beads, acrylic beads, and glass beads
approx. 90 x 60 x 43 inches
wood, acrylic-based gouache, synthetic hair
approx. 67 x 38 x 9 inches
Photo by Cameron Wittig
ceramic beads, glass trade beads, combs and picks, scrap metal, hair bobbles, yarn
approx. 74 x 28 x 16.25 inches
ceramic beads, glass trade beads, combs and picks, scrap metal, hair bobbles, yarn
approx. 74 x 28 x 16.25 inches
gesso, gouache and ink on paper
approx. 30 x 22 inches
gesso, gouache and ink on paper
approx. 30 x 22 inches
gesso, gouache and ink on paper
approx. 30 x 22 inches
gesso, gouache and ink on paper
approx. 30 x 22 inches
gouache and ink on paper
33 x 50.5 inches
gouache and ink on mulberry paper
approx. 37 x 25 inches
cotton, linen, and silk with indigo dye