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Work by Samantha Modder in her show “Of All the Worlds We Could Have Dreamed,’’ at 3SArtspace, Portsmouth, N.H., April 3-May 31.

The gallery says:

“Samantha Modder's work feels like stepping into a fairytale drawn in ballpoint pen and then blown up to the scale of a building. The artist creates large-scale, digitally manipulated drawings printed on adhesive paper — murals that reshape the entire space.

“‘Of All the Worlds We Could Have Dreamed’ follows a single Black woman and her alter-egos moving through a world built entirely from her imagination. It’s part storybook, part dreamscape, and part test lab — a place where she explores power, resistance, rest, and the realities Black women navigate every day. Black hair becomes a protagonist here, driving the narrative in curls, coils, and shapes that feel both soft and defiant.’’