Union Hall Denver

Kimber Greenwood is a Florida-based photographer and certified freediver who specializes in underwater portraiture. The three photographs present in Union Hall’s current exhibition, Drexciya: Into the Deep, bring the depth of the Drexciya mythology to life by embodying its ethos of survival transformed into resilience, liberation, and beauty.

Greenwood centers Black women suspended between air and water, past and future. Her work evokes beauty and rebirth, and reflects the power of the feminine form as a divine vessel of life and death. In Greenwood’s photographs, the ocean and the divine feminine becomes the sacred portal that brings new life into being.

Visit Drexciya: Into the Deep, curated by Sierra Jeter at Union Hall Art Space, now extended through May 2. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 12-6pm.

Victorious, 2024
Underwater Photography on Acrylic
24 x 36 inches
$490

Fins & Wings, 2023
Underwater Photography on Acrylic
24 x 36 inches
$590

Held in Water, 2025
Underwater Photography on Acrylic
24 x 36 inches
$590

In Drexciya: Into the Deep, Yazz Atmore presents “Women We Call Home,” a series of floral collage installations and digital works that center Black women and ancestral presence through altar-like compositions that function as sites of remembrance.

Rooted in a collage and interview-based process, the series gathers stories and reflections that honor the Black women who shape our understanding of home—mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and chosen family. Inspired in part by Atmore’s late grandmother, these works translate lived memory into visual form, using photographs, magazine fragments, color, and pattern to evoke the layered, expansive presence of those remembered and revered.

In dialogue with the Drexciyan mythos, which reimagines life and survival beyond the violence of the Middle Passage, “Women We Call Home” positions these women as both origin and future: ancestors, living memory, and the foundation for generations to come. The series reflects the exhibition’s framing of the Atlantic ocean as both portal and memorial.

Visit the gallery or unionhalldenver.org/rough-gems-drexciya to read the interviews.

📸 Raymundo Muñoz