- Upcoming exhibitions at the California African American Museum (CAAM) are Detroit-based artist Jamea Richmond-Edwards’s first solo exhibition, “Another World and Yet the Same” and “Fred Wilson:…){kind=link}
LOS ANGELES, CA (PNAN)- Upcoming exhibitions at the California African American Museum (CAAM) are Detroit-based artist Jamea Richmond-Edwards’s first solo exhibition, “Another World and Yet the Same” and “Fred Wilson: Reflections” with both opening on Tuesday, November 17, 2026.
Richmond-Edwards features new works alongside a selection of vibrant multimedia paintings from the last seven years that illustrate her rich, interdisciplinary practice. Using materials such as acrylic, construction paper, fabric, glitter, and rhinestones, the artist outfits the subjects of her large-scale portraits, typically herself as well as family and friends, in elaborate, colorful attire, setting them against equally decorative backgrounds.
Themes close to the artist’s heart—notably her hometown and the fashion and music associated with it, including jazz, soul, Motown, techno, and hip hop—infuse the work with an evocative rhythm and energy. The artist’s recent suite of collaged paintings, which gives the exhibition its title, reimagines the seventeenth-century novel Mundus Alter et Idem as a journey to freedom undertaken by a group of modern-day people traveling from Detroit to Antarctica.
Organized by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, and is curated by Alexander Jarman, Associate Curator for Exhibitions and Academic Outreach, Wellin Museum of Art, together, these works shine a light on forms of cultural expression unique to Detroit, while more broadly centering narratives of transformation, migration, and liberation that have defined the African diaspora.
“Fred Wilson: Reflections” is the artist’s first museum survey in over a decade, continues to deconstruct and reimagine cultural forms and social structures through works that are as visually arresting as they are intellectually provocative.
The exhibition features Wilson’s black-and-white Murano glass chandeliers, mirrors, and drips—works of shimmering beauty that allude to repressed and traumatic histories of the African diaspora. A large-scale presentation of black and white paintings that reference the flags of African and African diasporic nations, installed like a mural, examines the fractured identities and the lingering wounds inflicted by colonization, enslavement, and their aftermath.
Complementing the ethereal poetics and political resonance of his glassworks and flag paintings, the exhibition also includes Black Now!, a new conceptual installation consisting of thousands of found objects Wilson has collected since 2005, all tied to the color black or themes of Blackness. The immersive installation invites reflection on “black,” not just as a color, but as a lens through which to examine shifting cultural and historical attitudes toward Blackness, as well as the subliminal messages embedded in everyday objects.
Working across a range of media, spanning sculpture, photography, installation, and painting, Fred Wilson (b. 1954, Bronx, New York) is best known for his conceptual interventions that expose the ways museums, archives, and institutions shape our understanding of the past. By reframing cultural narratives and re-contextualizing objects, Wilson shifts perspectives to reveal structural inequalities and overlooked contributions of marginalized people, particularly Black communities worldwide. The exhibit is organized by the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University and curated by Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator, Rose Art Museum.
For more information on these exhibitions and related events, see: https://caamuseum.org.
