All Might
Exploring quiet strength, persistence, and unseen creative power
Opening Reception: Saturday May 16th
12-5pm
Closing Reception: Saturday June 27th
12-5pm
Dates: May 16th– June 27th, 2026
About the Exhibition
Creativity commands the spotlight, celebrated for bold displays. But behind every masterpiece lies a quieter force—the unseen strength fueling artistic vision. Soul Search Art's "All Might" exhibition pulls back the curtain on this hidden power. Challenging strength as loud and visible, "All Might" reveals the quiet resilience artists live every day. The works give voice to what rarely makes the light: moments of doubt, discipline, and introspection that sustain creative work.
Creativity is exposed not just as visible talent, but as the invisible force that makes art possible.
In a world obsessed with instant results, "All Might" offers a powerful reframe: true strength can be quiet. Creativity thrives on patience, reflection, and unseen effort. By recognizing these hidden forces, we deepen our understanding of the artistic journey.
All Might is a call to look beyond the surface and honor the invisible strengths that transform vision into reality.
Artists often face setbacks and self-doubt. “All Might” honors the determination required to continue creating despite these challenges.
Persistence
Many creative decisions happen instinctively, without words or explanations. The exhibition captures this intuitive process through abstract and minimalist pieces.
Intuition
Quiet moments of reflection allow artists to connect deeply with their work. Several installations use muted colors and soft textures to evoke this contemplative space.
Reflection
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Watts, a New York-based artist, delves into the language of the
spiritual; exploring the power of and the relationship we have with the unseen. Having lived in San Francisco for nearly a decade, Watts has carved his own lane, initiating and organizing multi-dimensional experiences outside the confines of traditional galleries. Driven by a desire to enhance our connection to the mystical, he has created an
alphabet and number system inspired by hieroglyphs, to cultivate our intuitive awareness. Watts’ work invites viewers on a mystical journey, beyond the spoken word and into the realm of the unseen, using creation and intuition as a vehicle to experience total consciousness.
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Born in Atlanta, GA in the 1980s, Brooklyn based historian, curator, and multi-disciplinary artist Darlene Deloris studied History and African American Studies at the University of Georgia and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A in Historical Studies from SUNY Empire State University. Deloris is a self-taught artist using ethnographic research and a variety of mediums, texture, colors, and symbols to create portraits that give voice to the communities who are constantly transposing between a state of angst and of regality. She began pursuing an art career in 2014 and moved to NY in 2018. Deloris instructs art classes and has orchestrated hundreds of art projects for children between the ages of 2-14, in public and private facilities. Most recently having worked as a teaching artist with Supermoon Community Artspace, the Greater Ridgewood Youth Council, and adult classes with Tiny Art Space, all located in Ridgewood, Queens. In 2019, she joined Brooklyn based gallery sk.ArtSpace as Gallery Assistant, and became a founding member of the SK Collective. Deloris has had artwork featured in numerous exhibitions, including artwork selected by SaveArtSpace and displayed on a billboard in Brooklyn, NY (2021); solo exhibition at Flecker Gallery in Long Island, NY (2023); Harlem Grown Sankofa public installation at Historic Marcus Garvey Park (2024); has received an Honorable Mention award in the annual Best of SUNY juried exhibition (2024); and winner of the international portrait competition created by SUNY and Governor Hochul to honor Dr. Hazel N. Dukes(2024) . She has participated in the residency program at Ma’s House of Southampton (2023), artist in residency program with the SHIFT Residency (2024) powered by EFA Project Space, a guest Artist In Residence with the Woodward Residency (2024) in Ridgewood Queens, Artist In Residence on Governor’s Island with Ankhlave Arts Alliance(2025), and has been accepted into the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist In Residency Program in France. She is currently an Curator In Residence with Ankhlave Arts Alliance and concurrently Artist In Residence with ArtCrawl Harlem also on Governor’s Island.
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Watson Mere is an award-winning visual and performance artist whose work has been exhibited internationally over the past nine years. His art has been featured in galleries, museums, and prominent venues including the Barclays Center (Brooklyn, NY), Venice Art Gallery (Venice, Italy), The Oculus at the World Trade Center (New York, NY), Gracie Mansion Conservatory (New York, NY), Norman Rea Gallery (York, United Kingdom), and The Africa Center (Harlem, NY).
Mere is the recipient of numerous honors, including the 2024 Artist-in-Residence at Haiti Cultural Exchange, the 2025 El Greco – Premio de las Bellas Artes Fine Arts Award from ICM Gestora Cultural, and the 2022 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program. In 2018, he was awarded a Citation of Honor in the Arts by the District Attorney of Kings County.
His work and practice have been featured in publications and media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Hyperallergic, Esquire, Artsy, NPR, News 12 New York, Philly Magazine, Broadway World, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nylon, C-Suite Quarterly, and others.
Mere holds a B.A. in Business Administration (2011) and a Master of Business Administration M.B.A. (2015) from Florida A&M University. Born and raised in Belle Glade, Florida, to Haitian immigrant parents, he currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, and maintains a studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City.
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Nyzere Dillon (b. 1999, New Brunswick, NJ) is a Jamaican-American figurative sculptor based in Brooklyn, New York. Working primarily in clay, Dillon creates sculptures that explore identity, history, and the African diasporic experience. Through careful attention to form and texture, his work highlights the resilience, beauty, and complexity of African heritage.
Dillon’s practice draws from African imagery and cultural symbolism, using figurative sculpture to tell stories of identity, belonging, and cultural continuity. Beyond the studio, he is committed to community engagement, teaching sculpting courses that explore familiarity and symbolism within cultural traditions.
His work has been featured through collaborations with Nike NYC and Monad Agency, celebrating Black identity, essence, and resilience. Through his work and community initiatives, Dillon continues to honor and uplift the richness of African culture across generations.
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To Come
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Fidelis Ayuwa Amed Izekor JR (b.2001 in Ologbo, Nigeria; lives and works in New York, NY) is a multimedia artist best recognized for his oil paintings and drawings, which explore the profoundness of identity through portraiture to further examine different ways of visual storytelling. Interested in civics and afro-futuristic fashion aesthetics, Fidelis Izekor merges the techniques of old western oil painting/drawing with ancient and contemporary African artmaking to cultivate a new form of image creation. This way of developing imagery derives from looking closely at how oil paint is built up to mimic realistic imagery while paying attention to the abstract nature of marks and shapes through the understanding of West African forms of abstraction, especially in textiles. By blending the homogeneity of patterning with high-level details of realism, Fidelis Izekor creates compositions that question and re-interpret what a portrait could look like. His work references pop culture and art history, as well as his own life - being born in Nigeria and moving as a child to the South Bronx, where he was raised. His experience in both places is a recurrent theme in his work and, for Fidelis, the construction of his figures is a means of representing a person's individuality and personal nature in an honest and raw way, even when those ways are rooted in fantasy and imagination. Though the representation of the self has been a prime focus for his practice, he has also explored depictions of landscape, poetry, nature and architecture.