The Armory Show 2026

EVERARD READ AT THE ARMORY SHOW

BOOTH No: 203 | 25 – 27 SEPTEMBER 2026 | THE JAVITS CENTRE, NEW YORK

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Everard Read’s presentation at The Armory Show in 2026 includes a range of southern African practitioners who share a commitment to meaningful mark-making and the mastery of their craft. The selected artists use their work to come to terms with the ordering principles of the world. Discerning the patterns that shape our existence, our artists closely examine the guiding morphogenesis of our individual lives, our societies, the planet we live on.

Mary Sibande and 83-year-old Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi (whose work is featured in Koyo Kouoh’s ‘In Minor Keys’ at the Venice Biennale this year) examine the branching of family pathways into the past, while reimagining the future of Black women through ritual and costume.

While Deborah Bell draws connections between global mythologies and consciousness, Angus Taylor studies the formation of stone many millennia old. In the work of Nigel Mullins, urban systems and crowd psychology collide. Barbara Wildenboer dissects systems of language and printed text. Caryn Scrimgeour and Brett Charles Seiler depict our personal everyday interactions, Scrimgeour through the lenses of memory and value, Seiler by questioning our understanding of identity, sexuality and the body. Gerhard Marx focuses on the thriving diversity of plants found in interstitial spaces, translating the structuring, schematic lines of rigid geometries using the tentacular forms of dried plant material.

The selected artworks serve to showcase the broad insights with which our artists contextualise themselves and explore our place in the universe.

ARTISTS FEATURED
Angus Taylor, Atang Tshikare, Barbara Wildenboer, Beezy Bailey, Brett Charles Seiler, Brett Murray, Caryn Scrimgeour, Deborah Bell, George Pemba, Gerhard Marx, Mary Sibande, Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi, Nigel Mullins, Zander Blom

Image by Slater Studio