MALCOLM ROLLING & HANS LUNDY OF YENDOR
LAND, LABOR, LEGACY
+ 764 Mayor KENNETH A. GIBSON BLVD.
LAND, LABOR, LEGACY features artists Malcolm Rolling and Hans Lundy of YENDOR as part of a series centered on Newark’s food culture, community traditions, and shared social spaces. Exploring cultural foodways, family ritual, urban agriculture, and downtown gathering, the installation highlights how food functions as memory, identity, care, and celebration across Newark’s communities.
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Malcolm Rolling and Hans Lundy of YENDOR form a dynamic collaborative partnership producing expansive mural works. Rolling, an Afro-Impressionist painter and craftsman, grounds his practice in industrial tools and materials sourced from inner-city environments. Lundyís complementary approach is rooted in figurative painting, often charting imaginative narratives of the human experience.
Together, their synergy produces vibrant large-scale murals that merge distinct visual languages into unified compositions. Their practice is driven by a shared commitment to expanding artistic boundaries, weaving cultural narratives, and honoring oral traditions through public art.
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This installation highlights Newark’s culture of urban farming, community gardens, and farm-to-table practices as expressions of neighborhood care, food access, and collective resilience. Across the city, gardens, small farms, and fresh-food initiatives transform vacant lots and shared spaces into sites of nourishment, education, and connection.
The work also acknowledges the legacy and ongoing leadership of Black growers, gardeners, and farmers whose relationships to land, cultivation, and food justice have long shaped community-based food systems. In Newark, urban growing is not only about fresh produce—it is also about stewardship, self-determination, and reclaiming space for health, dignity, and local abundance. -
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