Zackary Drucker
Derriann Pharr
My Esther (You Bring Me Light), 2024
Mixed media on paper
79 x 46 in (200.7 x 116.8 cm)
Elsa María Meléndez
Cauce, 2026
Embroidery on canvas
50 x 37 in (127 x 94 cm)
Joshua AM Ross
Fidelity, 2026
Colored pencil and graphite on hand-cut paper
22 x 16 in (55.9 x 40.6 cm)
Jessica Vollrath
Atlas, 2026
Oil on linen
46 x 34 in (116.8 x 86.4 cm)
Manuel Hernandez Sanchez
Rodeando la Migra; The Dance, 2026
Oil on canvas, cotton thread
22 x 28 in (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
Manuel Hernandez Sanchez
Visitors, 2025
Oil on canvas
37 x 18 in (94 x 45.7 cm)
Manuel Hernandez Sanchez
Tierras Distantes, 2025
Acrylic, oil pastel on canvas
27 x 20 in (68.6 x 50.8 cm)
James Williams II
Cui Bono?, 2023
Oil on panel, velcro, led lights, resin, polyactic acid, chalkboard, adhesive stickers, plexiglass
17 x 14 x 14 in (43.2 x 35.6 x 35.6 cm)
James Williams II
Zig Zag Ricky, 2022
Oil on panel, velcro, led lights, DC motor, watercolor paper, polylactic acid, and plexiglass
17 x 14 x 14 in (43.2 x 35.6 x 35.6 cm)
Levon Riggins
The nude sittings, 2026
Flashe and acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 in (76.2 x 61 cm)
Levon Riggins
Evening sitting, 2026
Acrylic on canvas
20 x 24 in (50.8 x 61 cm)
Levon Riggins
Asha's Vase, 2026
Acrylic on canvas
20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Zackary Drucker & Rhys Ernst
Relationship, #44 (Flawless Through The Mirror), 2008-2014
Digital C-print
20 x 30 in.
Zachary Drucker & Rhyse Ernst
Relationship, #64, 2013
C-print face mounted on UV acrylic
26.5 x 40 in / Edition of 10
Zackary Drucker & Rhys Ernst
Relationship, #35 (Pygmalion), 2008-2014
Digital c-print
24 x 36 in.
Hely Omar Gonzalez
Lluvia Feliz (the girls in the rain), 2026
Oil, charcoal, and dye on canvas
24 x 18 x 2 in (61 x 45.7 x 5.1 cm)
Hely Omar Gonzalez
Enamorados en el Parqué-CDMX (Alex and Colleen), 2026
Oil, charcoal, dye on canvas
24 x 20 x 2.5 in (61 x 50.8 x 6.4 cm)
José Delgado Zúñiga
Prickly, 2026
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 in (61 x 45.7 cm)
José Delgado Zúñiga
Can I?, 2022
Oil on linen
24 x 18 in (61 x 45.7 cm)
Rebecca Campbell
Young Americans (Alex), 2024
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in. each (76.2 x 61 cm)
Rebecca Campbell
Young Americans (Kyler), 2024
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in. each (76.2 x 61 cm)
Rebecca Campbell
Young Americans (Tess), 2024
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in. each (76.2 x 61 cm)
Rebecca Campbell
Young Americans (Cooper), 2024
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in (76.2 x 61 cm)
Rebecca Campbell
Young Americans (installation), 2024
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in. each (76.2 x 61 cm)
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to present Body Memory, a group exhibition featuring figurative works that explore themes of visibility, empathy, resilience, and collective memory. The exhibition brings together drawings, paintings, photography, and mixed-media works by Rebecca Campbell, Zackary Drucker, Hely Omar González, Elsa María Meléndez, Derriann Pharr, Levon Riggins, Joshua AM Ross, Manuel Hernández Sánchez, Jessica Vollrath, James Williams II, and José Delgado Zúñiga. Body Memory is on view from June 16, 2026 through August 15, 2026. An opening reception will be held Sunday, June 14, 2026, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm.
Body Memory asks how collective memory is formed, how we see each other through images, and what it means to carry those imbued encounters within us. It proposes that seeing is never passive: it is an embodied act shaped by history, power, and imagination—one that determines how we show up for each other and participate in the ongoing acts of learning, unlearning, formation, and transformation.
At the center of Body Memory is the intervention of figurative art itself. Against histories of commodification and subjugation in both art historical and popular visual culture, the artists in this exhibition raise the figure to prominence as a means of reclamation. Black and Brown bodies, queer bodies, women's bodies, and forms of bodily vulnerability—including gestures of reflection, resistance, and body language and body horror—refuse reduction into stereotype, fetish, or passivity.
Instead, these figures insist upon complexity, interiority, and presence. Through strategies of figuration, the artists confront inherited systems of looking that have historically objectified marginalized bodies, redirecting the politics of the gaze toward recognition rather than consumption. The works celebrate acts of transcendence to resist suppression—synthesizing storytelling, aesthetics, and materials with body and mind, to bring visibility to overlooked histories and lived experiences, while inviting viewers to reimagine futures.
