Beyond Art and Architecture
July 10th – September 5th, 2025
Group Exhibition
July 10th – September 5th, 2025
Back Room Gallery, Arts Warehouse
Curated by Dominique Denis. Featuring Brenda B. | Dominique Denis | Christian Feneck | Danielle Lands | Dominique Petit-Frère, Limbo Accra
Beyond Art & Architecture Beyond Art & Architecture celebrates the compelling and innovative work of Brenda B., Dominique Denis, Christian Feneck, Danielle Lands, and Limbo Accra’s Dominique Petit-Frère. Each artist–practitioner expands their creative practice, blurring the boundaries between art, architecture, and design. They move beyond traditional expectations of form, function, and context, reimagining the design process as an open-ended exploration of materials, techniques, and spatial narratives.
By challenging the conventional client–practitioner dynamic, the exhibiting practitioners make room for alternative perspectives: transforming unfinished or overlooked urban spaces into cultural platforms; translating memory into constructed form; questioning the interplay between two-dimensional explorations and their physical manifestations; and using architectural perspective as a framework for visually experiencing space.
The exhibition invites viewers to engage in an active dialogue with the work, prompting reflection on how spaces are designed, experienced, and continually reshaped through imagination, memory, and perception.
Featured Artists
Brenda B.
Growing up, Brenda always found joy in creating but struggled if there was no instruction manual. She developed a keen interest in building blocks and on understanding how things were made. This eventually led to her pursuing a bachelor’s degree and career in Architecture. During her studies, she gained an appreciation for learning and thinking through sketching. She began to keep small sketchbooks to document observations of the built environment. Since graduating, she has worked in the architectural field for the past six-seven years. She was eager to join this exhibition to re-connect with the art of architecture that first drew her to the field.
Dominique Denis is trained as an architect, with over two decades of combined experience in architecture, urban planning, and public art curation. She has worked for several architecture firms in the New York metropolitan area and South Florida. Over the past decade, her work as a public art curator has deepened her understanding of cross-disciplinary collaboration and community engagement. Her creative practice centers on themes of nostalgia, identity, transformation, and belonging, explored through exhibitions, artmaking, and design experimentation. In 2021, her curatorial work was recognized by The Architect’s Newspaper in its “What to See” feature. Denis’ research investigates how “unconscious collective memory” is reflected in the built environment—an inquiry that has taken her to Charleston, South Carolina; London, England; and Accra, Ghana. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Arts Warehouse in Delray Beach since Fall 2022. Denis holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the City College of the City University of New York and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from Florida Atlantic University.
Christian Feneck lives and works in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Feneck received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Florida (2004). Feneck combines his architectural training with painting, print, and installation art to create visual experiences of contextual space. His work utilizes the extreme relativeness of color to create ephemeral places that explore the relationship of vision and the perception of space.
Selected Solo exhibitions include:
“Borrowed Light” Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach, Florida (2023); Mingo Art Collective, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2023); Box Gallery, FATVillage, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2017)
Selected group exhibitions include:
“34th Annual All-Florida Juried Arts Show” Stuart, Florida (2025); ”2022 Florida Biennial” Hollywood, Florida (2022); “31st Annual All-Florida Juried Arts Show” Stuart, Florida (2021); “Into the Fold” Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Florida, (2021)
Feneck was awarded the FATVillage Artist Incubator Residency (2018) and the IS Projects Existent Books Residency (2019).
Additionally, Feneck’s work is in the following public collections:
Littauer Center, Harvard Library, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University;
Helen C Purdy Collections, Special Collections, University of Miami Library;
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Special Collections;
Danielle Lands is the founder of studio No. 11, an architecture firm that lives at the intersection of contextual and efficient design, improving spaces through private and public architectural projects. Her work ranges from private residences to large-scale multi-family consulting, and focuses on the experiential qualities of space.
Her research interests lie in the effects of the stagnant zoning codes, and its impact on the housing crisis. This research supports the wide expansion of medium-density housing to aid the supply issues and create supportive and connected communities.
Dominique Petit-Frère is a Ghanaian-Haitian spatial designer and founder of Limbo Accra and Limbo Museum. Her work reimagines unfinished and overlooked urban spaces in West Africa, transforming them into cultural platforms that integrate art, architecture, and community. Dominique’s innovative approach has earned international recognition, with presentations at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Sharjah Architecture Triennale, and Triennale Milano. She is dedicated to cultural preservation, sustainable urban development, and fostering creative exchange across Africa and beyond. Splitting her time between Accra and New York, Dominique continues to expand her impact on architecture, contemporary art, and spatial practice.
