14″x11”; digital collage print on semi-gloss photographic paper; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Duncan Richards: Chimerical Skies: The Heavens Becoming New
at Bushwick Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, USA
18 September-25 September 2025
Trans interdisciplinary artist Duncan Richards (she/they) fuses sculptural assemblage, digital collage, and folk ritual to reimagine the night sky as a site of folkloric storytelling and Trans belonging. Drawing inspiration from the seasonal motion of the four Persian Royal Stars—Aldebaran (spring), Regulus (summer), Antares (fall), and Fomalhaut (winter)—the exhibition transforms the gallery into a walkable star map, inviting viewers to journey through the night sky of selfhood and becoming.
8″x8”; digital collage print on semi-gloss photographic paper, ritually consecrated devotional piece to the fixed star Fomalhaut; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
The artist’s work blurs the boundaries between the spiritual and the material, utilizing sculptures crafted from ethically sourced animal remains, ritually charged objects, and abstract forms. Each piece functions not only as artwork, but as a portal into the heart of an ever-changing universe of motion and change.
(text adapted from material provided by the artist)
INFORMATION
Bushwick Gallery
22 Fayette Street
Brooklyn, New York 11206 USA