Uman: After all the things … at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
October 19, 2025 to May 10, 2026
Uman’s practice, which spans painting, works on paper, murals, sculpture, and glass, is about color that is felt and content that is experienced. Under the influence of memories, dreams, and change, her visual language is intuitive, multilayered, adaptable, and free; neither exclusively abstract nor metaphorical, it proliferates in the indeterminate and transcendent. Informed by Uman’s remembrances of her homeland, her diasporic experience in Europe and the US, as well as a love for East African textiles and transcontinental fashion, nineteenth-century French painting and visionary abstraction, and the natural world, her subject matter elicits the flamboyant fabrics worn by women in the Somali bazaars, the slanted flourishes of Arabic calligraphy taught in the madrasas, and the vast countryside of Kenya and upstate New York.
