The Watchers
February 20 - February 22, 2026
Harlem Fine Art Show
Portraits as guardians.
Sculptures as archives.
Faces that hold the line.
This exhibition explores ancestral presence, spiritual protection, and the power of Black memory through the works of Imo Nse Imeh, Patrick Dougher and Salome Jaffe.
This is about more than art.
This is about what refuses to disappear.
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February 20 - February 22, 2026
The Glasshouse
660 12th Avenue,
New York, NY 10019
The Watchers video
Imo Nse Imeh’s work is rooted in presence, atmosphere, and ancestral consciousness. His portraits do not arrive fully formed, they emerge. Faces surface through washes of blue, indigo, and earthen tones, suspended between abstraction and clarity, as if rising from water, memory, or breath itself. The figures feel timeless, untethered from a specific era, carrying the weight of both lived experience and inherited history.
Patrick Dougher’s work lives at the intersection of portraiture, history, and power. Through collage, sculpture, and mixed media, he constructs figures that feel less like individuals and more like archives, faces built from currency, architecture, chains, symbols, and fragments of American life. His practice interrogates systems of value, labor, surveillance, and sovereignty, asking who is seen, who is protected, and who bears the cost of history.
Salome Jaffe’s work centers interiority, emotional memory, and spiritual presence. Through layered portraiture by the use of acid on metals, she creates figures that feel suspended between states between breath and silence, visibility and concealment, vulnerability and strength. Her subjects are not posed for the viewer; they appear caught in moments of reflection, emergence, or quiet resolve.
