CCA's PLAySPACE Gallery invites you to close out the 2024-2025 academic year with Hallowed, a show of altars. Hallowed presents the work of Carolina Cuevas, Corinne Smith, Hannah Fhaye Oliver, Jes Young, and Lucile Henderson. The exhibition ventures to honor, recognize, and reflect the abundance of altars that have surfaced recently in art spaces in the Bay Area. Inspiration hails from Lucile Henderson's 2024 curatorial debut, In Reverence of the Feminine at Abrams Claghorn Gallery, where Henderson engaged audience participation with an altar. The importance of altars in art spaces was further concretized through Corinne Smith's 2024 installation at Museum of the African Diaspora, Silene Capensis, which also featured an altarpiece. Many more altars have been and will be made in galleries and museums, as artists muddle the boundaries between artistic and spiritual practice. Hallowed exists as a dot in this continuum.

Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, April 4, from 6:30 to 8:30pm. To protect the health and safety of guests, we ask that you wear N95 or KN95 mask at the reception.

Hallowed is on view at PLAySPACE Gallery March 31–May 3, 9am–9pm daily.