Sheet Cake Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery’s participation in upcoming two art fairs presenting: Amelia Briggs at the Barely Fair (Chicago, IL), April 3 - 19, 2026; and David Onri Anderson and Joel Parsons at the Dallas Art Fair (Dallas, TX), April 16 - 19, 2026. 

For the sixth edition of the Barely Fair, an international miniature fair with gallery presentations at 1:12 scale, Sheet Cake will showcase new work by Brooklyn-based artist Amelia Briggs. Briggs’ soft sculptures explore embodiment and interiority through forms that act as metaphors for the body. Using reclaimed clothing, fabrics, fibers, and pigment, she transforms fleeting emotions and memories into strange, botanical structures that shift and merge, giving shape to unseen, imagined terrains. Describing her practice as an effort to “turn the body inside out,” Briggs constructs imagined interior landscapes built on formative experience. Rooted in quilting, she sutures and layers textures and colors that exude playful energy, reimagining the medium’s history as insulation and armor into objects of comfort and refuge.

Sheet Cake will also participate in the 17th edition of the Dallas Art Fair with a dual presentation of work by David Onri Anderson (Nashville, TN) and Joel Parsons (Memphis, TN). Both Anderson and Parsons create work that is tender and responsive to the fraught conditions of the present.

Mystical yet grounded in the natural world, David Onri Anderson’s paintings emerge from an intuitive and deeply personal practice of communing with angels, spirits and his immediate environment. Recent work for the Dallas Art Fair centers on candle imagery and ethereal figures he lovingly refers to as “Interdimensional Beings.” Often rooted in grief, these paintings hold fleeting moments — particularly the vulnerability of candlelight — in a suspended, permanent state. Evoking warmth and illumination, they function as quiet memorials to collective and personal loss amid ongoing violence at home and abroad. The figurative paintings also feature dualities of darkness and light, and inner and outer worlds. Built through meticulous layers of dry-brushing and organic pigments sourced from his garden, the surfaces carry a sense of care, devotion, and magic.

Joel Parsons’ multidisciplinary practice centers queer intimacy, anxiety, and pleasure. Recurring motifs — dance, roses, and tears — evoke celebration, longing, protest, and humor in equal measure. His recent work unfolds within a space he calls a “speculative dance club for We Who Feel Otherwise in a world on fire,” where frustration stemming from oppressive systems and politics and desire are both expressed and transformed. The dance floor becomes a site of release, protection, and collective joy. His new mirror-based works capture the hazy, liminal hours after a night out, when memory blurs and images dissolve into one another. Each piece pays homage to a different defunct gay bar, in which the ambiance of each space informs the lustrous color palettes and embellishments. Likewise, his stained glass works shift with changing light, reflecting the ways we are continually shaped by the people and environments around us.

About the artists //

Amelia Briggs (b. 1985, Muncie, IN) is an NYC-based multidisciplinary fiber, painting, and installation artist. She received her BFA from Indiana University in 2009 and her MFA from the University of Memphis in 2015. Briggs has shown with platforms and galleries internationally, including Art Basel with LVMH in Miami, FL; Boston University in Boston, MA; Bowes-Parris Gallery in London, UK; Cohle Gallery in Paris, France; Exhibition A in New York, NY; Glass Rice Rice in San Francisco, CA; The Hole in Los Angeles, CA; Platform in New York, NY; and, most recently, Future Fair in New York, NY. In 2019, Briggs began constructing mirrors from reclaimed materials, using bedsheets, fiber, and thin coats of latex. Incorporating them into her lush installations, Briggs posted images online, which caught the eye of renowned Los Angeles-based designer Kelly Wearstler. This instigated a collaboration that continues today. This partnership has been featured in publications including Vogue, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, The New York Times, Surface, and Domino.

David Onri Anderson (b. 1993, Nashville, Tennessee) is a French-American Tennessee-born artist, musician and curator of French-Algerian Jewish ancestry. He is inspired by good storytelling and world building processes. He believes in angels and will sometimes communicate with them in order to make paintings. He graduated from Watkins College of Art in Nashville with the Anny Gowa Purchase Award in 2016. He has had solo exhibitions at Patrick Painter Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Blaa Galleri in Copenhagen, DK, Harpy Gallery in Rutherford, NJ, David Lusk Gallery in Nashville, TN, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, and Institute 193 in Lexington, KY amongst others. He has shown at the LA Art Fair 2019 and the Hamptons Art Fair 2020. He has shown at the Atlanta Contemporary Museum and the Alabama Contemporary Museum. His work has been reviewed, exhibited and collected internationally with works in permanent collections including the Soho House in Los Angeles, CA and Nashville, TN, The Joseph Hotel, and the Metro Arts Library in Nashville, TN, amongst others. In 2020 he published a book of drawings with Zürich-based artist book company, Nieves. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artnet, BURNAWAY, DailyLazy, Art & Antiques and more. Anderson is founder and curator of an artist-run space called Electric Shed Gallery in Nashville, TN (2018-present) and was guest curator for a section of the permanent collection of Soho House Nashville. He enjoys skateboarding, baking cookies, and playing his nylon stringed guitar.

Joel Parsons (b. 1985, Springdale, Arkansas) is an artist, curator, and teacher based in Memphis, TN where he is an Assistant Professor of Art, Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Director of Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College. He has been shown at Flyweight Projects in New York, NY; the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles, CA; Yale University’s Greene Gallery; Western Exhibitions in Chicago, IL; and the Yerba Buena Art Center Triennial in San Francisco, CA. He is the cofounder of Beige, an alternative gallery and performance space devoted to the work of LGBTQ+ artists. His queer country music band and performance art project, The Sissy Dicks, has released three albums and regularly plays venues in the Southeastern United States, including Goner Fest in Memphis, TN and the Spellcasters Maritime Ball in New Orleans, LA. He received a BA from Rhodes College, Phi Beta Kappa, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was awarded the John Quincy Adams Fellowship. His writing has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Art Papers, and Art in America. Parsons is represented by Sheet Cake Gallery.