Two Powerful Exhibitions Explore, Ancestry, Inheritance, and Perseverance
Bloodstone + Home | Bohemian Ossuary 9.12.25 – 11.8.25
Jamestown Arts Center | Jamestown, Rhode Island
Jamestown, RI — As part of its 2025 exhibition season, the Jamestown Arts Center proudly presents two solo exhibitions by acclaimed visual artists DS Kinsel and Becci Davis. Though independent, Bohemian Ossuary and Bloodstone + Home are in dialogue with one another, engaging with shared themes of ancestry, legacy, cultural memory, and the enduring human spirit. An opening reception for both exhibitions will take place on Friday, September 12, 2025, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the Jamestown Arts Center. Both artists will be in attendance. Each exhibition is curated by Brooke Erin Goldstein, Jamestown Arts Center’s 2025 Distinguished Artist of the Year.
Bohemian Ossuary | DS Kinsel | Main Gallery
Pittsburgh-based cultural agitator and multidisciplinary artist DS Kinsel debuts Bohemian Ossuary, a powerful exhibition of paintings and sculptural totems created over the past five years. The work draws on funerary artifacts, ancestral iconography, and the artist’s meditation on the Latin phrase memento mori (“remember you must die”). Kinsel’s collection reflects on the spiritual and anatomical with a deep reverence for archiving, ritual, and remembrance. The exhibition explores abstracted anatomy, jujuism, and the amalgamation of identities, transforming the gallery into a symbolic ossuary, a sacred site of skeletal remains. The artist uses simple symbols and totemic forms to encode narratives, employing repeated strokes as incantations to conjure a resurrected community. The exhibition features over 50 new paintings by Kinsel that creates a visual space of hallowed ground, inviting viewers into a state of communal reflection. Kinsel will be collaborating with streetwear brand Dont Play Corp to release limited edition commemorative merchandise to further celebrate the exhibition and this body of work.
This exhibition is supported by the Exposure Artist Program of The Pittsburgh Foundation and BOOM Concepts.
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Bloodstone + Home | Becci Davis | Small Gallery
In Bloodstone + Home, Providence-based artist Becci Davis takes audiences on a deeply personal and historical journey through her Southern lineage and the complex legacy of slavery theon American home life. Through a collage aesthetic and layered visual storytelling, Davis collapses time and memory, placing contemporary and archival images in poignant dialogue. With compassion and conviction, Davis reveals the contradiction between the natural beauty of her ancestral land and the banal callousness of bureaucratic documentation.
Her work invites viewers to reconsider both personal and national narratives. In this body of work, the past and future are bonded through poetic visual language, challenging us to examine history with clarity and care.
