Black Mans Shadow Work: A duo exhibition featuring Torrance Hall & Karryl Eugene

Exploring interiority over surface, Black Mans Shadow Work reflects on ideas such as W.E.B. Du Bois’ notion of “double-consciousness,” reframing what contemporary art by Black men can reveal beyond stereotype or defense. Karryl Eugene examines malehood, introspection, and sociology through layered compositions drawn from images of video games, all-white parties, film stills, and celebrity culture, interrogating intimacy, status, and spectacle. Hall’s new series Untitled (Body/Count), introduces what he refers to as a “subject-system” whose cycles of integration and ejection unfold within the friction of emergence, with futurity as the sole site of equilibrium. Together, their works articulate a language of Black art that moves past familiar ties to trauma or representation, instead privileging interior voices that resonate with nuance, persistence, and a re-imagined horizon...........Read the full press release below.

Torrance Hall (b. 1999) is a New York-based photographer and visual artist whose practice explores the relational, systemic, and technological entanglements that produce a subject. Through self-portraiture, Hall constructs narratives involving hybridized figures that articulate a desire for a mastery in their continual becoming. Techniques such as digital manipulation and more recently, silicone prostheses allow the body to be reconfigured, creating visual proxies through which the self can be mapped. 

Karryl Eugene (b. 1998) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York, working in mixed media and sound. His practice examines masculinity, introspection, and online aesthetics, reflecting on the collective cisgender Black male psyche through personal and cultural references. Using collage, painting, drawing, and assemblage, Eugene unpacks psychological and existential themes, exploring identity through both online and personal imagery. His work has been exhibited at David Zwirner in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, ONART Gallery in Florence, the Reginald Lewis Museum, and Current Space in Baltimore. He has received numerous awards, including the 2021 Mayor’s Individual Artist Award from the Creative Baltimore Fund and a 2022 grant from Creatives Rebuild New York.