Jupiter is delighted to announce its debut benefit auction, titled As Ever, In Orbit, taking place exclusively on Artsy.net. The sale will feature the work of esteemed artists including Torkwase Dyson, Caroline Kent, and Ato Ribeiro, as well as rising stars like Turiya Adkins, Lindsay Adams, and ibiyanε. Bidding will open Thursday, September 11th and close Thursday, September 25, 2025. Spanning painting, sculpture, and photography, the sale gathers 18 artists from across the globe whose work exemplifies the sensibilities we hold dear at Jupiter: those included in this sale champion the exigent role writers play in the broader project of transforming the contemporary art world into a site of nurturance for artists across disciplines by contextualizing and extending the healing potentiality of art itself. By operating from the nexus of sharp creativity, spiritual consciousness, and political awareness, these artists harmonize with our clarion call to create conditions that beget more viable writing lives for cultural critics across the globe.
Since launching in January 2024, Jupiter has published five issues featuring an international constellation of writers and produced extensive free public programming—ranging from panel conversations and film series to writing and writing workshops—in cities like Chicago, IL, Detroit, MI, New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA. Funds raised through the auction will bolster our capacity to do right by our mission statement. More specifically, revenue will be directly leveraged towards writer honorariums and funding our forthcoming slate of public programs through which we advocate for the importance of cultural criticism in real time.
Join us in supporting our goal to scaffold the contributions of cultural critics as they continue to cast light on the manifold ways that art functions as a medicinal force in our lives.
Note: Each work ships from a different location, which will be noted on the individual lot pages. Shipping costs will be covered by the buyer and Artsy will coordinate registrarial details and logistics.
Participating Artists
Lindsay Adams
Turiya Adkins
ebere agwuncha
Luke Francis Austin
Maya Beverly
Kevin Claiborne
Torkwase Dyson
Kwamé Gomez
Gabrielle Ione Hickmon
Braden Hollis
ibiyanε
Deborah Jack
Caroline Kent
KESSWA
Natasha Leonie Moustache
zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o'neal
Ato Ribeiro
Tariku Shiferaw
About Jupiter
Jupiter is an arts and culture publication, co-founded by Camille Gallogly Bacon and Daria Simone Harper, which marks a restorative departure into editorial space that resides at the nexus of political consciousness, spiritual awareness, and creative healing. Jupiter ventures beyond the constraining vocabulary of traditional art criticism by crafting a reality in which the form can evolve based on a mandate to shift art-world paradigms by paying writers equitably, editing mindfully, and encouraging experimentation. In Jupiter’s gravitational field, oppressive and exploitative systems have no place to land, and community needs and resources can flow organically.
the shape of our freedom dreams (after Robin D. G. Kelley)
Gabrielle Ione Hickmon
Burnished, smoke-fired earthenware with foraged Richmond clay slip
11 x 13 x 11.5 in
2024
This work was exhibited in The Shape of Water at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond from November 2024 - January 2025 and made while in residence at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond in July 2024.
From the label text:
In Gabrielle Ione Hickmon’s new series of coil-built, burnished, and smoke-fired earthenware vessels, the interiors of the works are lined with natural clay slip gathered from a stream in Richmond, Virginia, which the artist processed to imbue a tangible connection to place.
Hickmon explores how water weathers and erodes the earth, forming clay over time, and how the environment—whether social, political or literal—similarly weathers and erodes the Black body. Erosion, more than just an act of violence, also serves as a crucible for transformation. Hickmon’s work contemplates what we can learn about Black life and the nature of freedom from the pathways, or desire lines, that water carves into the earth with perfect memory. The artist poses the question of how might following the desire lines of Black freedom dreams help us actualize them for the past, present, and future?
I’m honored to have contributed a work to As Ever, In Orbit. I’m grateful to Camille, Daria, and Jupiter for all they do, for the ecosystems they are building and have built, for how they move and steward the work with care. Please share news of the auction as well as its details and information widely in your communities. ♥️
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