Opening at the Brandywine Museum of Art this fall, Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade will survey the first decade of the career of Baltimore artist Jerrell Gibbs (b. 1988). His dynamic, large-scale figurative paintings of family, friends and community focus on everyday scenes of Black life, transforming them into monumental moments that highlight the universal themes of identity, reflection and belonging. Organized by the Brandywine, this project will mark the artist’s first solo museum exhibition and first monographic publication—and is also the Museum’s first solo presentation of an emerging contemporary artist. The exhibition will feature more than 30 paintings drawn from both museum and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, and it will be on view at the Brandywine from September 28, 2025, through March 1, 2026. Across Gibbs’s career, he has challenged the near