Johnson Lowe Gallery Summer Exhibits (wednesdays)

From the venue:

Structure and Stricture - Paula Henderson

18 July - 13 September 2025

Johnson Lowe Gallery is pleased to present Structure and Stricture, our first solo exhibition of works by Paula Henderson, a Massachusetts-born, Atlanta-based artist. Opening Friday, July 18, the exhibition focuses on a breadth of works by Henderson spanning the past two decades, including recent works never seen before.

Paula Henderson doesn’t paint answers. She probes and renders conditions—structures in collapse, memory held in delay, identity rendered as a process constantly unfolding. Her debut at Johnson Lowe Gallery, opening July 18th, revisits a period shaped by proximity and lived experience. From 1998 to 2002, she taught in Chicago’s public schools, working with students living in the shadows of the Robert Taylor Homes. These buildings—monuments to mid-century social planning and its slow unraveling—echoed through her students’ lives, informing Henderson’s early realist paintings. These were acts of witness: precise, emotionally charged studies of architecture at its limits, rendered with forensic tenderness, each structure carrying the imprint of a social wound.

exhibition page here