Baptized in Sugar is a visual memoir of growing up in a house with a unique kind of privilege: we were saturated in unconditional love and allowed boundless exercise of our own free will. That kind of love makes the rest of the world, forever, pale in comparison.

New-York-based multi-media artist Saya Woolfalk explores our understanding of the human condition — a state of affairs governed by seemingly unavoidable conflicts such as birth, growth, and death.

Yvette Mayorga’s multi-media installation High Maintenance at Tube Factory was a flamboyantly chilling revelation, offering unsettling insights into how the forces of violence, make-believe, and consumerism infiltrate the contemporary immigrant experience, and subvert our understanding of identity.

For her debut solo exhibition, Laura Ortiz Vega presented a new series of thread paintings inspired by the rhetoric surrounding President Trump’s proposed US-Mexico border wall and by her documentation of graffiti in Mexico City, Canada, and other cities she had travelled.

These connected projects — related to bees, beekeeping, culture, and community — include an outdoor installation and a resulting exhibit developed by Juan William Chávez, an artist and cultural activist based in St. Louis, during his six-week residency at Tube Factory.