We the Structures

We the Structures brings together February James (b. 1977 in Washington, DC), Andrew Kass (b. 1991 in New York, NY), and Baseera Khan (b. 1980 in Denton, TX) — three distinct American artists who recast emotional, civic, and ceremonial architectures in image, form, and space. For each artist, structure is both medium and subject: James renders the psychic blueprints of family, body, and interior life; Kass cuts into the city with site-specific interventions that reveal the hidden frameworks of labor, time, and the built environment; and Khan revisits ceremonial forms steeped in belief, ritual, and inherited patterns. Together, the works examine how the structures that shape American life are continually being remade. What emerges is a society that is fractured yet interdependent, vulnerable yet insistently alive, its surfaces layered with feeling and repair. In the nation's 250th year, and alongside the 2026 Whitney Biennial, We the Structures stands as a reminder that art can still build what our structures struggle to hold. It reads as an artist's preamble to a more perfect union — still under construction.