{
  "id": 11023371,
  "title": "A Vision of Rebirth, Raw and Sumptuous",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/a-vision-of-rebirth-raw-and-sumptuous",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-30T20:04:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hyperallergic",
    "slug": "hyperallergic",
    "url": "https://hyperallergic.com/a-vision-of-rebirth-raw-and-sumptuous/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A Vision of Rebirth, Raw and Sumptuous\n\nScales, fur, flower petals, gossamer wings, and morning dewdrops - Derriann Pharr's artwork embodies a raw and powerful composition. In her piece, Squinching my eyes shut and wishing real hard, a long and animalesque woman takes center stage. In Bring My Bones Home! a bulbous female figure coiled around a tiny creature, displaying tender but watchful protection. Pharr's sculptures are adorned with spiky elements, emerging above the female figure in a protective embrace. Her work is part of an exhibition titled, A sustained becoming: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2026, featuring the inaugural resident cohort of the Studio Museum. This exhibition includes Simonette Quamina's indigo-hued dreamscapes and Taylor Simmons' intimate oil tableaux, all filling a spacious fourth-floor gallery in the new 82,000-square-foot building in Harlem. Curators have taken great care to ensure that each practice breathes, avoiding overcrowding and allowing the individual styles to shine.",
  "summary": "Derriann Pharr, an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum, draws from girlhood and womanhood in works that metamorphose before our eyes.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}