PATRON announces Garden of Prayer, our second solo exhibition with New York-based artist Nour Malas. Borrowing its title from a 1971 song by Max Roach and The J.C. White Singers, the exhibition invokes jazz’s improvisational exploration of form and gospel’s devotional intensity, through a series of expansive paintings and pastel works on linen, paper, and silk fabric. Embracing and expounding upon the transformative possibilities of artistic production, Malas’s work developed over the last five months, results from a perspective of turning inward, holding, honoring, and communing with personal history and familial lineages, as a space in which possible realities may be lived.