P·P·O·W is pleased to present Pilot Light, a group exhibition curated by Gerald Lovell. Featuring new and recent works by Bre Andy, Praise Fuller, Gerald Lovell, Devin N. Morris, Nickola Pottinger, Curtis Talwst Santiago, and Taylor Simmons, the exhibition will span painting, sculpture, and multi-media installation. The resulting presentation is shaped, not by spectacle, but by endurance: the slow, persistent force of faith, practice, and resiliency. In an art world where diversity can become a passing trend and visibility is often confused with care, Pilot Light insists on another measure of value outside the demands of immediacy, legibility, and consumption. Named after a small but essential flame that continuously burns regardless of the conditions outside, the exhibition presents artists who embrace forms of creation that are deeply personal and life-sustaining. In Pilot Light, artistic practice is understood as a mode of caregiving, a commitment to one’s divination, one’s community, and the subtle but unwavering spark that makes creation possible in the first place.

Bre Andy (b. 1994) is a figurative oil painter exploring intimacy, sexuality, domesticity, and self-observation through portraiture and still life. Her introspective works offer a personal reflection of everyday, fleeting moments and quiet cogitations that capture the essence of womanhood. Andy has recently participated in group exhibitions at FÁBRICA, Mexico City, MX; Chilli Art Projects, London, UK; Hannah Traore Gallery, New York, NY; V1 Salon, Copenhagen, Denmark; 25 Allen St, New York, NY; Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, Italy; and Kates-Ferri Projects, New York, NY; among others. In 2021, she completed a residency with Kates-Ferri Projects, New York, NY. Her first international solo exhibition, Waiting Room, presented by Cierra Britton Gallery and hosted by Long Story Short, Paris, France, was on view  January 31 – February 28, 2026.

Praise Fuller (b. Houston, TX) is a New York-based, self-taught artist, poet, and educator. Her practice spans printmaking, installation, and mixed media with a central focus on the cyanotype process. Fuller’s work emerges from historical analysis and introspections, exploring what lies beyond the constraints of family, the church, trauma, and the cultural realities of the American South. Her work has been exhibited at the Harwood Museum in Taos, NM, and Ward Gallery, New York, NY in collaboration with Slow Factory. Fuller was an artist in residence at Pocoapoco, Oaxaca, Mexico in 2023 and the Macedonia Institute, Chatham, NY in 2025.  She regularly holds cyanotype workshops in collaboration with institutions and organizations, including the Center of Photography in Woodstock, NY.

For Gerald Lovell (b. 1992), painting is an act of biography. Combining flat and impressionistic painting with thick daubs of impasto, Lovell creates monumental, loving scenes often lost to the abyss of memory. His portraits refuse the notion that all Black figures put down on canvas are somehow political. Rather, his work records a deep commitment to fostering alternative community narratives by imbuing his subjects with social agency and self-determinative power, while also revealing individualistic details that lay their essential humanity bare. Born in Chicago, IL, and raised in Atlanta, GA, Lovell currently lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited at P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Jeffrey Deitch, Moore Building, Miami, FL; Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL; Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; MINT, Atlanta, GA; and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, CH; among others. In 2022, Lovell’s work was on view in What is Left Unspoken, Love at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, and featured in a concurrent publication with DelMonico Books. His work is in the public collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium; Munson Art Institute, Utica, NY; and Wedge Collection, Toronto, Canada; among others. Lovell completed the Fountainhead Artists Residency in October 2023. Featuring pieces honoring the terrains of his past and expressing gratitude for new horizons, his second exhibition with P·P·O·W, verde, was held in Spring 2024. His artistic process was discussed in The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing, published by Penguin Press.

Through collage, painting, photography, physical assemblage, and video, Devin N. Morris (b. 1986, Baltimore, MD) prioritizes displays of personal innocence and acts of kindness within a surreal landscape. Morris earned BAs from University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD, in 2009 and Towson University, Towson, MD, in 2010. He has presented solo exhibitions at CPM Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Deli Gallery, New York, NY; and Company Gallery, New York, NY; among others. Morris’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Bass Museum, Miami, FL; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; San Diego Arts Institute, San Diego, CA; and the New Museum, New York, NY; among numerous others. He has recently completed residencies at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, and Residencia São João, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was a Robert Blackburn Printmaking Fellow in 2019.

Nickola Pottinger (b. 1986, Kingston, Jamaica) combines elements of drawing, collage, and sculpture to create heavily textured and layered reliefs that reflect on her background as a dancer. Currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY, she earned her BFA from The Cooper Union, New York, NY, in 2008. She has been featured in group exhibitions at CANADA, New York, NY; White Columns, New York, NY; Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA; Nicola Vassell, New York, NY; Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada; DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL; Sargeant’s Daughters, New York, NY; Chapter, New York, NY; New Museum, New York, NY; and Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France; among others. Pottinger has presented solo exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Mrs., Maspeth, NY; Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY; and Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Pottinger is included in the group exhibition Greater New York at MoMA PS1, which will be on view April 16 – August 17, 2026. She has been represented by Mrs. since 2025.

Curtis Talwst Santiago (b. 1979) works across painting, sculpture, diorama, sound, and performance to interrogate systems of control and the spaces where those systems break. His practice is rooted in ancestral research, diasporic memory, speculative history, and metaphysical geometry. Santiago was born in Edmonton, Canada, and lives and works in Potsdam, Germany. He studied Drawing and Painting at Emily Carr Fine Arts, Vancouver, Canada. Santiago has presented solo exhibitions at Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA; Martina Simeti, Milan, Italy; Nir Altman Gallery, Munich, Germany, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; and Uffner & Liu, New York, NY; among others. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Aldrige Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and New Museum, New York, NY; among others. He has completed residencies with Fountainhead Arts, Miami, FL; Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy; Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada;  and Pioneers Works, Brooklyn, NY; among others, and has received numerous awards including the Discovery Prize at Art Brussels and the Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant. His work is featured in the public collections of Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, CA; National Gallery of Canada; Ottawa, Canada; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; among others.

The paintings and drawings of Taylor Simmons (b. 1990) incorporate hazy depictions of everyday life to form an archive of compulsively collated imagery. Sampling fragments of his surroundings, from his upbringing in Atlanta, Georgia to his years in New York, NY, Simmons questions the conventional performance of masculinity while recalling universal themes of youthful play, human nature, work and rest. Simmons has been included in group exhibitions at DADA Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria; 25 Allen St, New York, NY; Deli Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico; Martha’s Contemporary, Austin, TX; Marlborough Gallery, London, UK; and Carlye Packer, Palm Springs, CA; among others. He presented recent solo exhibitions at Public Gallery, London, UK, Helena Anrather, New York, NY, and SIXI Museum, Nanjing, China. He has completed residencies at Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, and the Macedonia Institute, Chatham, NY. His work is in the permanent collections of the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Berlin, Germany; Igal Ahouvi Collection, London, UK; SIXI Museum, Nanjing, China; and X Museum, Beijing, China. His most recent solo exhibition with Public Gallery, HangTime, was on view in 2025.