Dominica Greene: A Cathedral Inside — Dominica Greene

Gallery presents A Cathedral Inside, a solo exhibition by 2025-2026 A.I.R. Fellow Dominica Greene. Greene is the 2025-2026 Louise H. McCagg Fellow, named annually in honor of artist, philanthropist, feminist, and mother Louise H. McCagg (1936-2020). A Cathedral Inside is an immersive multimedia installation utilizing soil, water, gold paint, and projection to craft an homage to Guyana. It ponders the endlessness of the spirit, using fans and suspended fabric to address the interplay between what is alive and what is being kept alive by the living. Featuring hours of documentation of Dominica’s grandparent’s home in Georgetown, Guyana, A Cathedral Inside attempts to monumentalize a time and place before it no longer exists.

sometimes, to know that something is still there is enough still standing breathing - breathable sounding - resounding smelling, as it does light footsteps the colors, still exactly untouched in their vibrant fading to know that the trees still stand the clouds still hover the breeze still wafts exactly as it does above that something that is still there is enough untouched please remain untouched smelling exactly as you do dawn to dusk pink skies cows passing that time will never again what has to change in order for home to remain home? will home be home after those who make it what it is are gone? I miss Guyana – Dominica Greene The title of this exhibition is inspired by the book of the same title written by Dominica’s great-uncle Michael Walcott. Published in 2005, A Cathedral Inside – An Odyssey of a Guyanese Family tells the story of Greene’s great grandmother, the 14 children she birthed, and the everlasting dignity and love she instilled within them. This love, which continues to flow through the veins of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren like Guyanese gold, has created a spiritual wealth so strong that Dominica has devoted much of her career to excavating it.

Cycles of life and death have been a frequent theme in much of Greene’s work. With this installation, she further interrogates what ways spirit can continue to live. She asks how long a moment can be suspended. There is a lightness to documenting that which you want to remember forever, and a darkness in wishing that some things would never die. With A Cathedral Inside, Greene demonstrates that the desire to preserve can come from a place of both innocence and denial.

This exhibition, Greene’s inaugural solo exhibition in New York City, marks Greene’s first official foray into the fine art sphere. In moving out of primarily physical embodiment, she hopes to create a sensorial ecosystem which invites audiences to ponder what legacy their body is the continuance of. A Cathedral Inside is an invitation for people to touch that place inside of themselves that misses a feeling from a place that only they know. Dominica Greene is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist whose creative outputs traverse the realms of dance, movement, theater, facilitation, and producing. A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA 2016), Greene has developed a practice grounded in physical rigor, risk, duration, and the body as a conduit for energetic and ancestral knowledge. A mixed-race, Guyanese- American woman, Dominica is committed to dreaming up and worldbuilding alternative realities and more expansive futures with her BIPOC, immigrant, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Greene’s work has been presented by the Carnegie Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Center for Performance Research, ISSUE Project Room, Judson Memorial Church, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Triskelion Arts. She has received commissions from Danspace Project and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and recently participated in an exchange residency at Bergen Dansesenter in Norway. View Dominica Greene’s artist page here. View the Press Release here. 0 items $0 A.I.R. Galleryʼs Downtown Manhattan Homecoming A.I.R. Gallery is at a transformational moment in its 54-year history.

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