Through the works of Taylor Simmons, Gerald Lovell, and Jurrell Cayetano, outside takes on a multitude of meanings, with Simmons using his practice to transform intimate, personal experiences into broader cultural narratives. His work blends the remixing of "if you know, you know" moments with textured surroundings found while exploring the streets of New York. By using “weathering patinas as signs of the battle of humanity’s assertion in the world and nature’s attempt to reclaim,” Simmons is speaking to a critical act of refusal.

Gerald Lovell’s work adds a unique layer to the meaning of outside, shifting the focus to the importance of an intimate identity. Lovell is speaking on outsiderness as an exploration of otherness by rejecting the questions often asked of Black artists. Questions that persistently redact and dilute Black works to fit solely into trauma related narratives resulting in “ marginalizing Black expression in a way that says the only right to exist in said canon is with historic reference to the transatlantic slave trade.”