Baxter Street presents -The Chance Whale, the first solo show of 2022 Baxter St Resident and interdisciplinary artist, Gwen Smith.

The Chance Whale surveys the coincidence of a pre-emancipatory history of Blackness and the sea as relating to ideas concealed in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Smith’s own surfer’s quest, her spiritual navigation from the womb to the ocean.

The Chance Whale, like Moby Dick and surfing, is an allusion to being on the verge of attaining freedom.