Join us for an opening reception in the Stone Tower Studio during Art Walk! The Tower of Babel has always been a story about human ambition, fragmentation, and the impossible reach toward something greater than ourselves. Apparently it's having a moment — but J. Jordan Bruns has been there for a while. 

Babel brings together drawings and paintings spanning from 2006 to the present, all built around this iconic image drawn in part from Pieter Bruegel the Elder's timeless renditions. Where most depictions look at the tower from the outside, Bruns turns the gaze inward — exploring its passages, its weight, and what it might feel like to inhabit a structure simultaneously magnificent and doomed. The tower has long served as a central symbol in Bruns's work, a stand-in for the body, for resilience, and for the very human instinct to build something that outlasts us. The exhibition features work from across those two decades, including pieces never before shown publicly.

Babel
On view June 5 – June 28, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Stone Tower Studio, Glen Echo Park, Maryland

Galley Open Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00pm – 5:00pm and by appointment

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