Looking for Terry: Group Show
Brooklyn
Exhibition Statement

We are proud to present LOOKING FOR TERRY, a group exhibition examining the paradox of “reasonable suspicion.” Drawing from the legal doctrine of the “Terry stop,” these artists explore the psychic and emotional spaces shaped by perpetual surveillance.

 

Historically, the Terry stop has operated as a technology of racialized looking—rendering Black bodies hyper-visible while denying the fullness of their interior lives. This exhibition reclaims that gaze, moving beyond policing to consider the vulnerability and quiet resistance found within Black interiority. Through memory, abstraction, and opacity, these works honor the right to complexity without the demand for disclosure.

 

ARTISTS:

Patrick Henry, Fresh | Clarence Heyward | Desmond Beach | Leroy Campbell | Xavier Daniels | Wemaye | dàPPó réo | Brittsense | Lex Marie 

 

Richard Beavers Gallery

OPENING RECEPTION: Sat., February 7, 2026 | 6pm – 9pm

ON VIEW: February 7, 2026 – March 21, 2026

 

Curatorial text by Dr. Charles Moore, who notes: “The exhibition proposes relation without capture. It invites us into a slower mode of looking, one that relinquishes the impulse to categorize and instead attends to presence, nuance, and the subtle textures of being.”

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