The Ground Beneath Us: A Collective Inquiry from the Problems in Contemporary Art Course

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Image courtesy of Anthony Alvarez (2026)

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Curated By: Anthony Alvarez

Featured Artists: Samuel Akintaju, Ellen S. Bayas, Leonardo Silva Serra De Paula, Rayshell Goff, Diana Jimenez, Michell Jimenez, Israel “Izzy” Rodriguez, Jammie Senario, Benjy Shaulov, Giovanna Simpson, Florence Sobanjo, Lauren Surrency, lmani White, Silvia Wiggins, Camilla Zarzuela

2025-2026 Rhythm Changes

Location: Windows Gallery, Express Newark, 54 Halsey Street 3rd Floor, Newark, NJ, 07102

On View: 01.17.26 – 07.23.26

The Ground Beneath Us brings together work developed in the Problems in Contemporary Art course led by Anthony Alvarez, shaped by close looking, sustained research, and an ethic of presence inspired by artist-in-residence Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, approaching photography as a gesture of listening rather than extraction. The exhibition considers identity as relational and shifting—formed through land, memory, migration, and lived experience—and invites viewers to slow down and feel the ground they stand on, move through, and carry with them.