“We Are All Fading” at Morton Contemporary

Morton Contemporary Art Gallery will host a solo exhibition from former NBA player, Neil Anthony Edwards, titled “We Are All Fading,” running from November 8 through December 7, 2025. A VIP opening reception will take place on Saturday, November 8, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, with the artist in attendance.

This exhibition, We Are All Fading, is Edwards’ meditation on memory, identity, and impermanence. Where once he drove the lane, he now layers the canvas—merging bold gestures, translucent washes, and unexpected mark-making to render luminous, large-scale portraits that exude glamour but whisper mortality. Edwards brings to his work a rare alchemy of technical control and emotional vulnerability, drawing from his Caribbean heritage, his formal training at NYC’s High School of Art and Design, and his lived experience as an elite athlete and global citizen.

We Are All Fading: Fashion as Narrative, Presence as Legacy

We Are All Fading presents a profound artistic thesis: fashion is a form of autobiography. Edwards’ painted figures wear their stories—their choices in clothing, posture, and expression—like armor and an open diary at once. The effect is cinematic yet intimate, the type of portraiture that hums with internal dialogue.

Each canvas seems suspended in time, balancing the immediacy of lived experience with the hazy dissolve of memory. Layered textures evoke the way recollections fade but never vanish, the way legacies persist even as names blur. As Edwards himself explains: “Though we are all fading, what remains is the mark we leave behind: our stories, our presence, and the way we touched the world.” In We Are All Fading, that touch becomes paint—archival, arresting, and deeply human.

Morton Contemporary presents this exhibition as a convergence of sport, spirit, and art. It is a chance for collectors, curators, and art lovers to experience a breakout voice on the cusp of defining a new era of figurative painting—one rooted in personal truth and global resonance.