Welancora Gallery

www.welancoragallery.com

33 Herkimer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11216
Appointment Recommended
646 818 0162

Several years ago, Ivy N. Jones founded Welancora Gallery, in a 19th century brownstone, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. In 2014, the gallery began operating full-time. Since its inception, Welancora has established itself as a unique entity by mounting exhibitions in a non-traditional space, while also serving as an access point for exhibitions and programming for the local community. Welancora maintains an intergenerational program with a focus on contemporary art, in all media, by artists of color.

Artists Represented:
Aisha T. Bell

Chris Cook

King David

Oasa DuVerney

Carl E. Hazlewood

Renluka Maharaj

Na'ye Perez

Helen Evans Ramsaran

Works Available By:
Tamia Alston-Ward

Antonio Carreño

Debra Cartwright

Grace Lynne Haynes

Madjeen Isaac

Julian Jamaal Jones

William Maxen

Tyrone Mitchell

Chris Watts

Deborah Willis

Renluka Maharaj

Na'ye Perez

Helen Evans Ramsaran

Aisha T. Bell

Chris Cook

King David

Oasa DuVerney

Carl E. Hazlewood

Photo of the Front of the Gallery, 2023 Photo Credit: Carey Whittier

Behold Exhibition Installation Shot, October 2021-January 2022

Photo of Ivy, 2023 Photo Credit: Elliott Jerome Brown, Junior

Current Exhibition

Antonio Carreño, Chris Cook, King David, Grace Lynne Haynes, Madjeen Isaac, Julian Jamaal Jones, Will Maxen, Otto Neals, Na’ye Perez, and Helen Evans Ramsaran

Reimagining Kinship

May 8, 2025 - July 31, 2025

Welancora Gallery is pleased to present Reimagining Kinship, a group exhibition of work by Antonio Carreño, Chris Cook, King David, Grace Lynne Haynes, Madjeen Isaac, Julian Jamaal Jones, Will Maxen, Otto Neals, Na’ye Perez, and Helen Evans Ramsaran. The opening reception will take place on May 8 from 6:00 pm -8:00 pm at our temporary project space at 410 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221. Encompassing a wide array of mediums, this exhibition presents a more nuanced and expansive view of the concept of motherhood. Existing outside the boundaries of gender and biological family, the works on view meditate upon nature as a vital and nurturing source, memory, tradition, the circle of life, community, intimacy, mythologies and alternate realities. In allowing the difficulties of these relationships to peek through, these artists shed the idea of motherhood as an inherently western idealized image in search of a multilayered and authentic depiction.