Unearthing Beauty From Brokenness — 4 Meditations is a four-week condensed residency and meditation practice by artist Marlon F. Hall, bringing together found-object sculpture, ritual, and collective presence into a lived, durational exhibition at LaRucheHTX.
The project centers a body of sculptural works assembled from reclaimed doors, architectural fragments, inherited materials, and personal artifacts gathered through Hall’s international fieldwork. These works function as portals, altars, and thresholds—sites for reflection rather than objects for passive viewing. Activated through weekly meditation sessions, shared time in the gallery, and a culminating communal gathering, the project invites participants to consider repair, dignity, lineage, and belonging as lived practices rather than abstract concepts.
Rather than positioning the gallery as a space for observation alone, Unearthing Beauty From Brokenness — 4 Meditations treats it as a site of gathering, listening, and inward movement. The residency unfolds across four guided meditation sessions, each structured around a distinct conceptual orientation drawn from Hall’s sculptural language:
TURN(ING) — Threshold & Intention (January 10)
LAYER(ED) — Memory, Lineage & Complexity (January 17)
KNOW(ING) — Surrender & Seeing (January 24)
SIT(T)ING — Stillness, Dignity & Integration (January 31)
Meditations take place at 11:11am on Saturdays and are one hour in duration, held in direct relationship with the works on view.
The gallery is open throughout the residency from January 9 through January 31, Wednesday through Sunday, 11am–3pm, with the artist present.
The series concludes with a private communal dinner on January 29. (Inquire for information.)
About the Artist
Marlon F. Hall is a sculptor, filmmaker, and public artist whose interdisciplinary practice is rooted in social practice and anthropological listening. Working in the lineage of Zora Neale Hurston, Hall grounds his work in lived relationships—actively doing life with and listening deeply to the communities he creates with and for.
Hall has been named a University of Wisconsin Interdisciplinary Artist, a Fulbright Specialist Roster Member, a Tulsa Artist Fellowship recipient, and a Kamene Artist Residency recipient in Nairobi, Kenya. He has served as Visual Anthropologist and Social Media Archivist for the Greenwood Art Project led by artist Rick Lowe. His work has appeared nationally and internationally, including collaborations with the British Council and the Kenya Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. His films and photographs are featured on Google Arts & Culture, and his storytelling work includes projects for CBS and the Emmy Award–winning The Migrant Kitchen.
His practice spans socially engaged installations, large-scale public art, ethnographic films shaped as visual poems, and ritual-based gatherings such as his Amnesia Therapy Salon Dinners. Major projects include Doorways to Hope in Tulsa—a $278,000 underpass transformation honoring descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—and The Hueman Project in Houston, a 3,600-square-foot mural and sculptural installation commissioned by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the City of Houston, Midtown Management District, and the Texas Department of Transportation.
Across contexts, Hall’s work seeks to cultivate dignity, belonging, and human possibility through accessible, community-centered art.
EVENT DETAILS
Exhibition Dates: January 9–31, 2026
Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–3pm (artist present)
Meditations: Saturdays at 11:11am — January 10, 17, 24, 31
Private Dinner: January 29 (inquire for information)
Location: LaRucheHTX, Houston, TX
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