Sacred Acts of Nothingness
Mindy Solomon is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Basil Kincaid: Sacred Acts of Nothingness. This exhibition follows his blockbuster, sold out 2022 show All in One Feeling. In this current show Kincaid reflects on the inherent line within his work and his focus on the practice of drawing.
“Drawing has been with me since before memory — a silent, essential language I began speaking at the age of three. Yet only now, decades later, am I offering this practice to the public as its own form, on its own terms.
Sacred Acts of Nothingness is the first solo gallery exhibition of my drawings, but they’ve long been the unseen heartbeat of my studio. These works are not preparatory sketches nor ancillary gestures. They are full expressions — meditations rendered in oil pastel, colored pencil, and crayon — born from a desire to be radically present with myself and the materials.
When I draw, I surrender. I arrive at the page without a vision, only the intention to listen. In that space of listening, I enter a kind of dreaming — where spirit, memory, and subconscious intelligence emerge unbidden. It is not about control. It is about revelation.
Each mark is a trace of attention. Each color, a vibration of feeling. This process does not aim to depict the world but rather to touch it — from the inside. The work flows from breath, rhythm, and an internal pulse that connects to something older, quieter, and vast. It is ritual without performance. It is play without pretense.
To me, drawing is an act of devotion — not to an external muse, but to the intimate unfolding of self. It is a practice of being, of becoming, and of holding space for what cannot always be named. The so-called ‘nothingness’ of these drawings is sacred precisely because it holds everything: stillness, intuition, memory, and transformation.
In this exhibition, I invite the viewer into this meditative field. To linger. To listen. To see not only with the eyes, but with the body, the heart, the ancestral ear. The drawings do not demand comprehension. They offer presence.”
Kincaid will also present two stunning large-scale and medium-scale embroidery works that exemplify his mastery of multimedia art. These pieces beautifully illustrate the connection between his drawings and other bodies of work, showcasing a seamless integration of techniques and themes. We are excited to welcome him back to an appreciative Miami audience.
About Basil Kincaid
Basil Kincaid (b. 1986, St. Louis) is an artist whose intricate textile works—spanning quilting, embroidery, installation, and performance—serve as portals into spiritual and cultural memory. Known for a deep engagement with repurposed materials, Kincaid’s practice honors the legacy of Black quilt-making while expanding its language into new, multidimensional forms.
Rejecting rigid categorization, Kincaid navigates both abstract and narrative modalities, exploring the expansiveness of perception and the body across spiritual, emotional, and digital realms. Kincaid’s works are crafted across continents—from studios in St. Louis and Ghana—charting a transatlantic geography of self-exploration, resilience, and cultural continuity. Influenced by artists such as Anni Albers and Alma Thomas, and inspired by natural phenomena, meteorology, and cosmic systems, Kincaid’s practice bridges ancestral traditions with contemporary aesthetics. The result is a visual cosmology that reflects both the terrestrial and the transcendent.
Kincaid will present his second solo exhibition with Mindy Solomon, Miami in September 2025. Past solo exhibitions include the Nerman Museum (2025); Library Street Collective (2025); The Rubell Museum, Miami (2023), for which he was an Artist-in-Residence; Venus Over Manhattan, New York (2022), and elsewhere. Select group exhibitions include The Threads We Follow, curated by Maya Brooks, North Carolina Museum of Art (2023); The New Bend, curated by Legacy Russell, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2022); This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, D.C. (2022); and Reclaiming Magic, curated by Yinka Shonibare, Royal Academy, London (2021), among many others.
Kincaid’s work has been collected by The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach; JP Morgan Art Collection, New York; The North Carolina Museum of Art; The Rubell Museum, Miami; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC, and others.
