Bloodstone + Home | Bohemian Ossuary
September 12—November 8, 2025
Both exhibitions curated by Brooke Erin Goldstein
Becci Davis and DS Kinsel
ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS Bloodstone + Home by artist Becci Davis and Bohemian Ossuary by artist DS Kinsel are two distinct solo shows to be presented simultaneously.
An empathetic time traveler, artist Becci Davis leads visitors through her familial history along side an often under acknowledged recollection of our national history in Bloodstone + Home. Her work documents the contradiction between the natural beauty that her ancestral land bares and the architectural beauty of historic monumental buildings built by the labor of slaves. These works exist in the context of a greater cultural and racial history presented with care and compassion. Davis uses a collage aesthetic creating a conversation of visual layering and the collapsing of time. Her pieces present historical and contemporary images from many contexts resulting in the work being bonded by past and future.
Artist DS Kinsel wakes you up in the middle of the night to go deeper into a familiar unknown. Bohemian Ossuary gives space to the quiet whispers of his ancestors guiding visitors between the spirit world and our earthly home. These works are charged objects giving voice and embodiment to martyrs and deities. Kinsel emphasizes the link between spirituality and anatomy within an archive of ancestral community that he’s resurrecting rather then inventing. Supported by the Exposure Artist Program from the Pittsburgh Foundation, this new work is a further exploration of his Brain Bone Blood series that uses color and anatomical symbols to build up and break down our humanity from the body to the soul.
Both shows have very different aesthetics but are linked together through themes of Black History, Ancestry, Inheritance and Perseverance.
Brooke Erin Goldstein is an artist, curator and teaching artist living and working in North Providence, RI. She has previously curated and presented at the Jamestown Arts Center.