Decoding What We Carry is an exhibition of sculpture and two-dimensional works exploring the labor, knowledge, and cultural practices that shape the world around us. Informed by Afro-diasporic histories and cultural connections, the exhibition considers how knowledge is carried through materials, gestures, and everyday practices. Drawing from construction and beauty supply materials, Anamarie reimagines familiar products beyond their intended functions, transforming them through processes of manipulation, assembly, and abstraction. Through these material explorations, the work considers how labor and cultural knowledge can be represented, transformed, and shared across generations.

Anamarie Edwards is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores identity, Black history, and representation through sculpture, installation, and mixed media. Grounded in personal and collective histories, her work examines cultural narratives and transformation, creating space for reflection on the complexities of Black experiences and the histories we carry. She received her BFA at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design,  Post Baccalaureate at the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, and is now pursuing her MFA at the University of South Florida. 

Decoding What We Carry (11/19-12/4)

OPENING RECEPTION:
11/19 - 6PM-9PM

Reverb Gallery (2nd floor in Kress Contemporary #241)
1624 E 7th Ave, Ybor City