Nov 12, 2026 - Jan 2, 2027
Audience of One
Audience of One brings together new paintings by Bahamian artists Amaani Hepburn (b. 2000) and Tessa Whitehead (b. 1985), exploring the ambiguous terrain of our relationships with ourselves, others, and the spaces we inhabit. Across both practices, familiar relationships and environments become sites of subtle psychological tension, drawing intimacy and autonomy into uneasy relation.
Hepburn turns to the Bahamian yard and its surrounding natural and domestic spaces, tracing the memories and lived experiences embedded within them. In turn, Whitehead draws on the Bahamian landscape, familial relationships, and her experiences of femininity, engaging questions of visibility, spectatorship, and the gaze.
For both artists, landscape moves between the physical and the psychological, its familiar contours giving way to something less easily defined. Together, their works evoke the quiet dissonance of negotiating a private self in a world that continually asks us to be visible.
Audience of One will remain on view through January 2, 2027.
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Amaani Hepburn
Amaani Hepburn is a Bahamian artist and arts educator whose practice explores intimacy, identity, and the relationship between self and environment. Drawing on personal experience and communal memory, her paintings examine the ways in which familiar spaces shape our understanding of ourselves and others. Through carefully constructed perspectives, direct gazes, and domestic imagery, Hepburn invites viewers to consider their own position as observers.
Tessa Whitehead
Tessa Whitehead is a multi-media artist, whose work explores her internal experience in conversation with the tropical landscape. Her paintings, drawings, and sculptures combine and contrast elements of the Bahamian landscape with surreal figures and familial portraits. The result is an autobiographical perspective of femininity and womanhood.