Cynthia Egle-Grant, Transcendent Portals, 2024

Come see “Sacred Space” at 440 Gallery.

Exhibit from July 3 - August 1, 2025

440 Gallery is proud to present the 2025 Summer Theme Exhibition, Sacred Space, juried by Ramona Candy. Candy expands the notion of space—not just as location, but as presence—inviting us to consider how we inhabit the places that make us whole. Through a range of approaches—abstraction, implied realism, sculptural gestures, and time-based media—artists have been selected from a national open call exploring how to define "sacred space” and how it defines us.

Juried by Ramona Candy

Ramona Candy is an artist, curator, occasional blogger, and (once a dancer always) a dancer. She is a culture bearer who draws inspiration from her Caribbean heritage; growing up in Brooklyn; a dance career and Sankofa (“to go back and retrieve”). Currently she is the Director of the Council for the Arts at St. Joseph’s University–Brooklyn campus, where she curates arts programming, connecting the University community and surrounding neighborhood with professional visual and performing artists. Her own work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the tristate area and in Timor-Leste as part of the US Department of State’s Art in Embassies. She has presented art-making workshops for Safe Horizons, Brooklyn Arts Council (SU-CASA), and several other organizations. Candy is a founding member of Clark Center NYC, a dance legacy project.