Jessica Silverman is presenting Mending Braids, a solo presentation of new work by Julie Buffalohead, at the ADAA Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, booth B7, from 12 to 16 November 2026. Announced on 3 November, it is Buffalohead's first solo show in New York since 2012, and it brings together six new paintings and two works on paper.

The paintings centre on the resilience of Native American women, a subject Buffalohead has returned to across her career. Rather than staging history as something finished, the works treat endurance as an everyday practice, carried in the body and in the company of others.

The title work, The Mended Braid, makes that idea literal. A bear and a raccoon are shown reattaching a braid that was cut at boarding school, an act of repair performed by animals rather than people. The painting honours Mae Hinman, a Ponca woman who was sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, where Native children had their hair cut as part of a policy of forced assimilation.

Other works in the presentation include The Infinite Mother, Land Back, The Bear Notice and Magpie. Land Back takes its title from the movement to return land to Indigenous peoples, while The Bear Notice and Magpie extend the show's cast of animal presences, each carrying part of the story. Together with The Infinite Mother, they form a portrait of continuity: mothers, land, animals and memory held in the same frame, with the braid — cut, and then mended — standing for a history that can be taken up again.