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Nic[o] Brierre Aziz

“Fruition (Run For Your Life),” 2025

Print on cold press natural paper

13 x 19″

Image courtesy of artist

Wendy DesChene in collaboration with Jeff Schmuki

“Enn Graan Laang (Tale Bearer)”  

Twenty cast iron bear heads, with sound on steel and wood bases

Includes interview with the artist’s mother about her Indigenous experience

Dimensions Variable

Image courtesy of artist

Concurrent Solo Exhibitions:

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz and Wendy DesChene

Space One Eleven Presents

“Time to Make the Donuts“
Nic[o] Brierre Aziz

“Itawayhoow“
Wendy DesChene

The opening reception will be held Friday, October 10, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm,
with a public artist panel moderated by Jennifer McCohnell at 6:00pm.

A community mural painting led by DesChene will take place from 4:00 to 5:00 pm
in recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and all community members are invited to participate.

October 10–December 4, 2025,
at 2407 2nd Avenue North, Downtown Birmingham.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and by appointment.
Admission is free and open to the public.

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz
“Time to Make the Donuts“

In “Time to Make the Donuts,” Nic[o] Brierre Aziz examines ideas of time, productivity, and distraction through layered references to popular culture, advertising, and capitalism. Centered on Dunkin’ Donuts’ 1980s “Fred the Baker” campaign, the exhibition explores the daily grind, cycles of efficiency, and broader social forces that shape human behavior. Several works also confront difficult histories of racism and inequality that continue to shape American life.

The works span multiple mediums and reflect Aziz’s ongoing exploration of land, labor, and ritual. Drawing on satire, absurdity, and wordplay, he critiques remnants of colonial psychoses that continue to shape notions of productivity, while offering alternative frameworks for imagining balance, creativity, and meaning.

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz is a Haitian–New Orleanian interdisciplinary artist and curator whose work engages community and reimagines underdiscussed histories. His practice explores the Caribbean Diaspora and the complexities of Blackness as experience, construct, and capitalist tool.

Wendy DesChene
“Itawayhoow“

“Itawayhoow” (meaning “Land”) reflects Wendy DesChene’s engagement with the Métis Nation’s cultural resurgence after generations of suppression. Drawing from her family’s experience of erasure and reclamation, the exhibition explores art as both resistance and healing. Through paintings and sound sculptures, DesChene reimagines land, memory, and identity, creating dialogue between Indigenous worldviews and Eurocentric traditions.

Her paintings merge 19th-century landscape traditions with Indigenous storytelling, transforming familiar scenes into layered narratives of belonging and return. The sound sculptures reclaim practices once appropriated or silenced, amplifying the presence of generations whose endurance is an act of resistance.

Wendy DesChene is an Indigenous artist based in Auburn, Alabama, whose socially engaged practice combines painting, installation, and public interventions. She also collaborates with Jeff Schmuki under the name PlantBot Genetics, creating internationally exhibited works.