Current Space is pleased to present "Interior Architectures," a two-person exhibition featuring
Baltimore-based artists Emma Childs and Vinnie Hager. Curated by Teri Henderson, the exhibition will run from September 26th through November 2nd.

Please join us for the Opening Reception on Friday, October 3rd from 7-11pm, which will include music by SDOT in the outdoor courtyard.

Exhibit Runs: September 26 - November 2, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, October 3rd from 7-11pm
Closing Reception & Artist Talk: Sunday, November 2nd
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1-5pm, by appointment, & anytime Current Space is open for an event

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"Interior Architectures" explores how two of Baltimore’s most dynamic contemporary artists construct deeply personal visual worlds. Through distinct but complementary approaches, Hager and Childs engage with emotional, psychological, and symbolic content to examine how we build and give form to our inner lives.

The show proposes that translating our inner lives—our thoughts, emotions, memories, and psychological states—is fundamentally an act of construction, a building of a world from the inside out.

Vinnie Hager’s intricate compositions use dense, symbolic language to map the contours of his internal experience. In contrast, Emma Childs creates minimalist, architectural sculptural paintings that act as containers for emotion, memory, and perception.

There will also be a selection of works that Childs and Hager collaborated on to create, a brilliant convergence and literal translation of how artists can communicate across space and time through their works. By pairing Hager’s visual language with Childs’s sculptural clarity, Internal Architectures invites viewers to reflect on the ways we construct and inhabit our own internal worlds.

Emma Childs (b. 1996) is an American painter exploring color abstraction as a way of transforming intangible experiences and emotions into a language of layered acrylic paintings, often on shaped canvas. Childs paintings distill the complexities of human connection and emotional states using a minimalist presenting language of simplified form, color, and shape. Color is built up in layers on the canvas; choices in color and application dance between the intuitive and calculated. These shaped canvases are simultaneously images and sculptural objects, serving as containers built to give physical presence and structure to the intangible. Childs’ paintings serve as layered depictions of the worlds we build around ourselves.

Childs is based in Baltimore, MD and holds a BFA in General Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public and private collections across the United States as well as the UK, France, the Netherlands, and Canada. Her work has been featured in publications including New American Paintings, British Vogue, UK House and Garden, Artmaze Mag London, DC Modern Luxury, Create! Mag, and Dwell Magazine.

Vinnie Hager (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist from Baltimore, Maryland. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in General Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2021. Hager builds systems of bold patterns and repeating symbols that span physical and digital mediums. His works encompass drawings, paintings, new technologies, and mixed-media surfaces in a fluid, instinctive burst. His creations mimic the sprawl of online life, touching upon identity, memory, connection.

Teri Henderson (b.1990) is a Baltimore-based independent curator, author, and editor with a distinguished talent for crafting compelling narratives and shaping critical discourse in contemporary art and culture. As the visionary behind the @blackcollagists platform, which she launched in 2020, she established a vital global hub for artists of the Diaspora, fostering community and re-charting art historical narratives. Her authority in the field is cemented by her acclaimed book, Black Collagists: The Book (Kanyer Publishing, 2021).

As the Arts and Culture Editor of the Baltimore Beat, a Black-led Black-run, nonprofit newspaper, Henderson consistently provides insightful and critical perspectives through diverse storytelling. Her writing regularly is featured in leading publications such as Artforum, the Washington Post, and numerous other outlets. Her extensive curatorial practice includes co-curating "LAYERS: The Art of Contemporary Collage" at Maryland Institute College of Art in January 2025, serving as a consulting curator for "New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024;" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and notably, curating the inaugural Scout Affordable Art Fair with Derrick Adams in May 2025. She also served as a jury member for the 2023 exhibition "Histories Collide: Jackie Milad x Fred Wilson x Nekisha Durrett."

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Current Space is an artist-run gallery, studio, outdoor performance space, and garden bar; nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers. Operating since November 2004, we are committed to showcasing, developing, and broadening the reach of artists locally and internationally.

Thank you!
Programs at Current Space are made possible in part by supporting members like you, the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, and William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, creator of the Baker Artist Portfolios at BakerArtist.org.