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As April gets closer and closer, I am excited to highlight five exhibitions and events I am most excited to attend for Trans Art Fest:

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Alchemists

Eleventh Hour Art, 61 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11201

April 11-24, 2026

Opening reception on April 11th from 4-7 pm

Come see Shocket's exhibition featuring new work from 18 trans artists. Presented by Eleventh Hour Art and Trans Art Fest, Alchemists explores how queer bodies, lives, and desires emerge out of and affect the natural world. As Shocket wrote, "while the works are evidence of trans hands shaping the earth and offer a window into a queer connection to nature, they also reveal how trans bodies, desires, and lives transform the natural world into spaces of queer reverence." Through cyanotypes, stone sculpture, clay, glass, fiber, animal bones, and wax, the artists in this exhibition mold organics and metallics to create something new reflective of themselves and their own bodily creation. 

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Trudging over to Eleventh Hour Art’s booth, with a negative balance in my symbolic wallet, Christina Justiz Roush’s plaster-cast busts drew my attention. Carter Shocket, the gallery’s director, explained that Roush performs a ceremony while casting the chests of people she knows.

“She has you lie down, and she’s dipping the plaster strips into the water, and she’ll have you infuse the water with something that’s meaningful to you,” Shocket explained. While the plaster dries, the artist asks the models about their lives. 

The figure with the most gemstones and the most color, “Sentinel 5: Imprimatur,” piqued my interest because of its vague religious subtext.

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And the Eleventh Hour, a fresh take on what an art gallery could be, was born in Brooklyn Heights. “That’s why it’s Eleventh Hour, it’s the last possible time before it’s too late,” Acree explained. Lindsey Acree first discovered her passion for art as a child, but as she grew up she turned instead to what was considered a more “lucrative” path. Now with her new space, Acree is hoping to change the narrative about following your passion.

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“In addition to thousands of artworks presented by its cohort of exhibitors, the Affordable Art Fair celebrates the growth of its Fellowship Program. Affordable Art Fair has selected Brooklyn-based gallery Eleventh Hour Artto join Established Gallery as fellows this fall. Further, the fair welcomes Artlogic as title partner, lending valuable support, financial resources, and business development opportunities to fellows and Affordable Art Fair exhibitors.

Eleventh Hour Art will exhibit a two-artist presentation featuring artworks by Ginger Snow, a Brooklyn-based painter whose work is rooted in childhood and nostalgia; and Yung-wu, a Korean-American abstract painter whose work reflects on her lifelong journey in reconciling her hyphenated cultural identity.”