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SUMMARY:Brantley Ellzey: Reflection + Ritual + Refuge
DESCRIPTION:On view through January 25\, 2026Crosstown Arts GalleriesFree and open to the public\nTues-Friday from 11-8pm and Saturday and Sunday from noon-6pm \nIn Reflection + Ritual + Refuge\, artist Brantley Ellzey weaves a world where repetition becomes remembrance\, where reflection fractures into beauty\, and where the quiet\, persistent act of making becomes a form of resistance. \nAcross media and gesture\, Ellzey explores how we survive: by circling back\, by touching what has been lost\, by naming what others ignore. Rolling\, collecting\, documenting\, layering—these are his rituals. Some are personal. Some are political. All are acts of reckoning. \nThe spiral is his recurring form. It turns through the exhibition like a silent logic\, natural\, ancestral\, unstoppable. It is found in architecture\, in emotion\, in protest\, in paper. Each gesture becomes a structure. Each structure becomes a kind of refuge. \nThis is work that blurs the line between the sacred and the ordinary\, between the deeply interior and the publicly defiant. There are no beginnings or endings here\, only movement\, only return. \nReflection + Ritual + Refuge is not a single story\, but a field of them. It invites the viewer to look closer\, to enter slowly\, to see how something small\, repeated\, can become something vast. \nBrantley Ellzey is a Memphis-based artist known for transforming everyday printed materials into sculptural works that explore memory\, place\, and cultural identity. Raised in Osceola\, Arkansas\, and trained at Tulane University in Theater and Architecture\, Ellzey brings a multidisciplinary approach that blends architecture\, design\, and storytelling. His work appears in collections across the country\, including St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital\, Steelcase\, Conde Nast\, and Nicole Kidman’s production headquarters.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/brantley-ellzey-reflection-ritual-refuge/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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