Taking its title from the 1974 cult film written by and starring the experimental jazz composer and Afrofuturism pioneer Sun Ra, “Space Is the Place” highlights the art of the American painter Barkley L. Hendricks, who died in 2017. Hendricks is best known for his stylish and defiant portraits of Black subjects. On view in this show are his abstract cosmic paintings and sketches, all primarily from the 1970s. Employing motifs of the sun, eclipses, and pyramids to conjure an imagined dystopian future, these works could be the mindscape in Sun Ra’s film, which takes his Black followers to a free new world. —Paulina Prosnitz