SaveArtSpace is proud to present BLACK IS EVERYWHERE, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in New York, NY, opening July 10, 2026, curated by abreihona.

The BLACK IS EVERYWHERE selected artist is Rob Fox Rich.

BLACK IS EVERYWHERE centers a Black artist whose work uses image-making as a space for representation and possibility. The open call focuses on how Black life appears through personal experience, rest, pleasure, and everyday moments, and highlights work that presents Black subjects as self-defined and expansive. This theme welcomes a range of practices, including portraiture, digital media, abstraction, and documentation. It values work that reflects presence, intimacy, and care while moving beyond narrow or fixed ideas of Black identity. Artists are encouraged to submit images that challenge dominant or limited representations of Black life and present its depth and range with clarity and intention. Presented on a billboard in New York City, the selected work will enter public space and shift what is seen and who is centered. BLACK IS EVERYWHERE expands the visual landscape to include an image of Black life grounded in lived experience and shaped by the artist’s vision.

Opening July 10, 2026, SaveArtSpace will launch a public art installation for the selected artwork on billboard ad space in New York, NY. The public art will be on view for at least four weeks. Billboard location announced on June 22, 2026.

Selected Artist

Location: Atlantic Ave & Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY

What would it mean for the Black body to fly? What would it mean for that flight to be immortalized as an archive? Drawing from the visual language of Black Americana, Rich's work reimagines the rural South as a site of possibility rather than limitation. In his ongoing horseback series, An Ode to Black Americana: I’m Still In Love With You, riders move through fields and open landscapes as both descendants and visionaries. The horse becomes a vessel for imagining Black mobility beyond survival, a gesture toward futures where Black presence is effervescent. Through these images, Rich constructs an archive of the idyllic: a record of Black life held in tenderness. Boundless and free.

Connect with Rob at @robfoxrich.

Curator

abreihona (Pittsburgh, b. 1998) is a Chicago-based arts administrator, art historian, curator, and museum educator whose work centers Black visual culture and builds practical infrastructures for Black artists. She is a dual MA candidate in Arts Administration and Policy and Modern and Contemporary Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (’26), where her research engages Black ontologies in popular and visual culture.

Her interdisciplinary practice moves across curatorial research, writing, interpretation, administration, and appraisal, linking critical scholarship to institutional decision-making and artist support. She has held roles at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA Chicago) and the Carnegie Museum of Art, contributing to public programming, interpretation, administrative operations, and curatorial work. She is the inaugural Donna LaPietra Arts Fellow at the Millennium Park Foundation and a former Scholar-in-Residence at the Carnegie Museum of Art, where her research focused on Raymond Saunders.

Across her work, abreihona translates critical inquiry into accessible forms, from exhibition texts and interpretive tours to public programs and collection writing. Her practice is rooted in care, with a sustained focus on how Black art is presented, interpreted, and supported, and on the conditions that shape its visibility, circulation, and longevity.

Connect with abreihona at @abreihona.

SaveArtSpace

Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a message of social change that benefits the working class. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.