Up next after Ryan Cosbert at UTA Artist Space Atlanta is an exhibition of new work by LA-based artist Braden Hollis, whose work centers around vacation destinations that have historically appealed to Black families. On view December 14–January 21.

This new body of work meditates on themes found in Alison Rose Jefferson’s “Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era,” which, as you may know, examines the development of leisure sites and practices in Southern California architected by Black communities in the early 20th century. Her new paintings are a result of this research–depicting divers, swimmers, and beach scenes, rendered in oil with a pastel-like touch. The work continues Hollis’ interest in the interior lives of Black people and events often lost in public memory. Through lone figures, families, and couples participating in leisure, sporting events, or moments of solitude, the work seeks to reimagine what small but significant instances took place along the stretches of beach synonymous with Southern California.

See their exhibition