OPENING RECEPTION
MAY 30 FROM 6 TO 8 PM
The Wind Comes Later brings together a group of artists who pay attention to moments that slip by – soft shifts in light, materials that break down, spaces that are changing, or images that feel like memory. Each artist approaches this in their own way, but there’s a shared sense of curiosity about what’s in between: between holding on and letting go, between what’s seen and what’s felt.
Through sculpture, photography, and print, the works in the exhibition trace the quiet processes that shape us – erosion, repetition, repair. Meaning unfolds slowly, through gestures that are often ephemeral or incomplete. Rather than offering resolution, these pieces invite reflection: on what lingers, what fades, and how we make sense of the spaces in between.
The exhibition features work from: Reuben Bloom, Brent Dedas, Jamil Fatti, Susan Jedrzejewski, Annabel Manning, Matthew Steele, and Erik Waterkotte
The exhibition will run through July 12. The gallery will be open by appointment and on Friday, June 6 from 6 to 8 PM for the First Friday Gallery Crawl. To learn more about the exhibition or to schedule a viewing, email: s.jedski@gmail.com
The Wind Comes Later is part of the 2025 Organizer Series at Hodges Taylor which is programmed from a selection of proposals received through an open call for projects.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Reuben Bloom graduated from Winthrop University in 2011. They are a multidisciplinary artist based in Atlanta, GA whose work intersects with photography, sculpture, and film. Bloom’s work has been exhibited and published across the Southeast, including exhibitions at the Gibbes Museum of Art and The Atlanta Center for Photography.
Brent Dedas received his Master of Fine Arts degree along with a Museum Studies Curatorial Certificate from the College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning, University of Cincinnati. His Bachelor of Fine Arts is from the University of Louisville, Hite Institute of Art and Design. The artwork Dedas creates employs processes that express a duality of both construction and destruction. His work over the last 20 years has been centered on labor, ecology, and the use of materials which have a voice of their own. Dedas maintains an extensive exhibition record both in the U.S. and internationally. His work was included in the Coined in the South: 2022 exhibition at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, as well as Art/NaturSci Pavilion: Equilibrium exhibition at the 2019 Venice Biennale within Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello in partnership with the German-Italian Cultural Association (ACIT). In 2018 his work was exhibited at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, Germany. Other international exhibitions include: Art Prague International ArtFair, SoloProject Room, Kafka’s House, Prague, Czech Republic (2014). Brent Dedas is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of South Carolina.
Jamil Fatti is a Gambian-American artist whose work explores themes of transience, memory, and the search for meaning in impermanence. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Landscape Architecture and City & Regional Planning from Cornell University. Blending photography with narrative nuance, his practice reimagines fragments of the external world into evocative, subjective scenes that reflect on vulnerability, loss, and the passage of time. His work has been exhibited internationally and across the United States, in venues such as the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Microscope Gallery in New York, Filter Space in Chicago, Trastienda Machete Galeria in Mexico City, and Millepiani Gallery in Rome. Rooted in the ephemeral, Fatti’s recent projects explore the quiet emotional resonance of fleeting moments. His work is held in public and private collections, including the RISD Museum, and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Atlanta Center for Photography’s New South, and Float Magazine.
Susan Jedrzejewski is a Charlotte-based artist who captures makeshift and coincidental encounters within the natural world. The resulting work, layered with competing dualities, recounts a physical act with nature, but also one’s distance from it. Her work has been exhibited regionally at McColl Center, UNC Charlotte, Goodyear Arts, ArtFields, Central Piedmont Community College, Greensboro Project Space, and nationally at Florida State University Museum of Fine Art, Treat Gallery, among others. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Mecklenburg Grant from the Arts & Science Council. Susan holds a BA in Studio Art from UNC Charlotte (2006) and an MBA from Queens University of Charlotte (2017).
Annabel Manning is a visual artist and educator based in Middletown, Rhode Island. Born in Mexico and also raised in Peru, Argentina, and the U.S. Annabel’s multicultural background informs her work and artistic approach. Previous to relocating to Rhode Island in 2020, Annabel worked as a social practice artist in New York City and Charlotte, NC, where she developed art and literacy programs for various communities, including undocumented immigrants, bilingual families, and incarcerated individuals. Her work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and internationally, including in Block Island, New York City, Charlotte, Durham, San Francisco, LA, Boston, Liverpool, and Germany. She holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, a B.F.A. in Painting and Video from the Massachusetts College of Art, and an M.F.A. in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. She currently teaches at the Newport Art Museum.
Matthew Steele is a public artist and sculptor who lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina. His practice explores how technologies of the self are often reflected in the physical technologies that we produce. Steele’s sculptures are included in private and public collections nationally and internationally, including Ritz-Carlton, AXA, Marriott, Wells Fargo, Honeywell, TIAA, Truist, Art in Embassies, among others. His work has been exhibited at Lotus Projects, Mint Museum of Art , The Sculpture Center, Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Central Piedmont Community College, Winthrop University, among others. He has been awarded artist residencies at McColl Center for Art + Innovation (2012) and Goodyear Arts (2015), he is the recipient of an Emerging Creators Fellowship from the Arts & Science Council (2022), and he is included in the publication, Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina, by Liza Roberts. Steele received a BFA in sculpture from Indiana University.
Erik Waterkotte is an Associate Professor of Print Media in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte where he also serves as the Associate Chair. Waterkotte received his M.F.A. from the University of Alberta and his B.F.A. from Illinois State University. He is co-founder of Theurgical Studies Press, a modest publisher of weird and occult zines and novelties. Born in central Illinois (where his family dates back over a century), Waterkotte is inspired by his family’s history as exiled Catholics from Germany’s Kulturkampf. He is fascinated by spiritualism and mysticism and believes in the power of meditation, yoga, and resonance. He has exhibited his artwork both nationally and internationally including at Sztuka na Miejscu in Wrocław Poland, the University of Alberta in Canada, the University of Dallas in Texas, and Saltgrass Printmakers in Salt Lake City Utah. His artwork is part of several collections including the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, the Zuckerman Art Museum at Kennesaw State University, and the Purdue University Galleries. Waterkotte has received awards from juried exhibitions at institutions such as at the Morgan Conservatory of Papermaking, Texas Tech University, and the Appleton Museum of Art. He has participated in several major residencies including the Kala Art Center, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the McColl Center for Art & Innovation. Waterkotte resides in Charlotte, NC.