“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you’re well.” - from the Salteaters, Toni Cade BambaraCarmen Neely’s solo exhibition, Sometimes a painting is a prayer, materializes the interwoven experiences of intimacy, generosity, and risk that shape her interior emotional and psychic life.

gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm

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