Summar Art Garden: A Flash of Sun

Through Nov 17, 2025

Overton Park

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Axis, 2021, Spray Paint on Wood Panel, 30x40 in

Memphis-based artist and designer Khara Woods presents A Flash of Sun, an installation of sun-drenched shades, dazzling patterns, and geometric sculptures. Woods incorporates her signature tile-like shapes and hypnotic motifs, reminiscent of houndstooth and other textile patterns, with swirling rays. Inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem, Summer in the South (1903), with its vivid, lyrical descriptions – “Then a flash of sun on a waiting hill / The sky smiles down...”– the installation captures summer’s vibrancy and joy.

Two modular wooden sculptures crowned with translucent cast acrylic honor Wheeler Williams’s Spring and Summer (1961), which once stood on the plaza’s pedestals. As the sun moves, light filters through the acrylic, casting colors across the museum’s facade. Woods’s interest in poetry and the sound of jazz, which is often played in her studio, instills the designs with a spirited rhythm. This Summer Art Garden warmly invites visitors to relax and soak in the sun.

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All exhibitions at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art are underwritten by the MBMA Exhibition Fund.

Major annual support is provided by Kay Clark and Maggie and Milton Lovell, with generous annual funding from Anonymous, Gloria and Kenneth Boyland, Holly and Paul T. Combs, Deborah and Bob Craddock, Michael and Maria Douglass, Eleanor and William Halliday, Debi and Galen Havner, Buzzy Hussey and Hal Brunt, Jay and Kristen Keegan, the Doris S. and Hubert Kiersky Charitable Remainder Trust, Carl and Valerie Person, and Bill Townsend.

Artist & Curator

Artist

Khara Woods

Khara Woods is a multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer based in Memphis, TN. Finding joy in grids and geometric abstraction, her colorful practice includes painting, sculpture, and public art projects that can be seen throughout Memphis. Woods’s work has been exhibited at the Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana; Red 225 Art Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee; and throughout Memphis including the Beverly + Sam Ross Gallery at Christian Brothers University, Crosstown Arts, and Sheet Cake Gallery. She was awarded the New Public Artists Fellowship in 2021 by the UrbanArt Commission.

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Curator

Kristin Pedrozo

Kristin Pedrozo is a double fellow, holding the position of Art Bridges Curatorial Fellow while being an ASU-LACMA fellow at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Born in the Philippines, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Kristin received her BFA in studio art at Rhodes College and is now a graduate student studying art history through the ASU-LACMA fellowship, which is a work-while-you study program collaboratively held by Arizona State University and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to culturally diversify the staff and leadership of art museums across the states.