Portions by Alexa Joan Givens Wajed Opening Reception

Please join us for the opening reception of Portions on March 20, 2026, from 6 to 9 pm at Hunt Art Gallery, Brisbane Building, 403 Main Street, Buffalo, NY. In this new solo exhibition, Alexa Joan Givens Wajed reflects on the quiet accumulation of a life spent nurturing others while continuing to create in the spaces that remain.

Alexa Wajed has lovingly poured herself outward into family, children, partnership, and the quiet labor of supporting others’ lives and careers. Through it all, she has remained an artist, her creative moments revealing little parts of herself. Intimate in scale and generous in spirit, each piece becomes a serving, a moment of presence, memory, or release, offerings that when experienced side by side, are revealed to be enough.

Small meditative abstract line works emerge through intuitive mark-making. Created without expectation, they quiet the mind and allow a lyrical flow to take over. The process itself is healing, an act of listening rather than directing. The lines move, pause, and breathe, mirroring the internal rhythms of care, exhaustion, and renewal.

Little Parts of Me unfolds through three interwoven sections. Works on paper are created using natural dyes made from pomegranate skins, beets, hibiscus, and butterfly pea flowers. Each material carries memory and intention: pomegranate skins as an echo of her father, butterfly pea flowers for healing. Gum arabic and cloves are added to preserve the pigments, though fading is inevitable. Like memory, the body, like care itself, these materials shift, wash away slightly, and change over time. Nothing here is meant to remain untouched.