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ILY2 is thrilled to announce DIVINE HEAVY, a group exhibition co-organized with artist Deondre Davis. The featured group of artists manipulate the material of everyday life into forms that speak to endurance, transformation, and care.

On the occasion of the exhibition, ILY2 worked with writer bart fitzgerald on an essay reflecting on the exhibition. What emerged is less a review than a meditation on how the ordinary becomes charged with meaning.

Read the full essay here.

with
Judy Cooke
Mo Costello
Deondre Davis
Caleb Jamel Brown
Lyric Shen





DIVINE HEAVY | Installation view, Image by Mario Gallucci
Caleb Jamel Brown
Deep in the Trenches, Drinking from the Well, 2025
foam, paint swatch, oil, fiberglass
cloth, plastic roof cement
13 ½ x 9 ¼ x 17 inches
Lyric Shen
Daxue, 2025
ink on paper clay
12 ½ x 10 x 1 ⅜ inches
Lyric Shen
Shuiyuan, 2025 
ink on porcelain
12 x 9 ⅜ x 1 inches
Deondre Davis
Untitled, 2025
tire weights, synthetic fiber, epoxy
dimensions variable
Deondre Davis
Untitled, 2025
pencil, copper dust, tobacco, brick dust on paper
18 ½ x 13 ¾ inches
Judy Cooke
Bone of Contention, 1973
charcoal on canvas tarp
92 x 64 inches
Mo Costello
Untitled (QuikTrip III), 2018
soot on napkin
13 ½ x 11 inches
Deondre Davis
Untitled (Corner Work), 2025
metal, synthetic fiber, epoxy
6 x 1 ½ inches
Judy Cooke
Sienna Curve, 1973
charcoal on canvas tarp
78 x 68 inches
Caleb Jamel Brown
Marks of Worship: Flesh-Cover at Dawn, 2025
copper, silver solder, flux
dimensions variable
(L): Mo Costello
Untitled (QuikTrip I), 2018
soot on napkin
13 ½ x 11 inches

(R): Mo Costello
Untitled (QuikTrip II), 2018
soot on napkin
13 ½ x 11 inches
Judy Cooke
Bolt, 2007
rubber, aluminum, oil on wood
36 x 22 x 2 inches
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