This exhibition is a trans-generational dialogue amongst four San Diego-based, African American visual artists: Mensah Bey, Domonique King, Andrea Rushing and Jean Cornwell.

“Lineage + Inheritance” features new work from all four artists; Rushing working primarily with oil on canvas; Cornwell with a new body of hand-embellished acrylic prints on paper; Bey with paintings that feature acrylic on board; and King exploring the possibilities of  wood, metal, yarn and textiles. Bey and King could each be described as "emerging" artists, while Rushing and Cornwell could be described as "established" artists with multiple decades of creative practice. 

Each piece frames a particular generational perspective on the context of our time and on the life and liberation of Black people. Together their work responds to the idea of a Black aesthetic grounded in community participation, artistic innovation, and liberation - an idea that artists, scholars, and activists have explored across various media during the long history of Black art practices in the wider Americas.​