Opening: Duende Gallery + Tamarind Institute Present: Marking the Margin

This exhibition brings together eighteen artists who have collaborated with Tamarind Institute to examine the social, racial, and political conditions defining their time. Working across generations and mediums, these artists approach printmaking not merely as a tool to create images as multiples, but as a means to question and rework established systems of power.

Through lithography’s processes of layering, reversal, and transfer, the works explore visibility, identity, and control. Harmony Hammond and Jeffrey Gibson investigate feminism and queer experience respectively, using the body and abstraction to challenge dominant representation. Works by Nick Cave, Ruth Asawa, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Fritz Scholder, Rose B. Simpson, Marie Watt, Raven Chacon, Miguel Gandert, and Kerry James Marshall expand conversations around cultural history and contemporary identity. Shifting focus beyond human-centered perspectives, works by Sue Coe, Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Kiki Smith, Michelle Stuart, Emmi Whitehorse, Duane Slick, and Rosana Paulino highlight the interconnected relationships between humanity and the natural world.

Together, these works reveal printmaking as a living tool for reflective engagement, one that uncovers the hidden structures of our society while opening space for alternative ways of being. This exhibition demonstrates how print serves as both a mirror and a platform for transformation, challenging viewers to reconsider the systems that govern our world and the possibilities for change within them.