Make it a point to stop at Leslie-Lohman Museum Museum for Gay and Lesbian Art in SoHo, for Bushwick artist’s Ben Ross Davis’ solo exhibition, Endosymbiosis, through March 24. The exhibition is a survey of Davis’s internal growth as an artist in relation to the external world.

A culmination of sculpture, painting, performance, and illustration, Davis explores the relationship between natural and fabricated, mind and body, “This work explores how the traditional distinction between human, animal, plant, fungus, and machine is a fiction that denies the material and psychic affinities among all four categories in our lives.”

Davis’ draw to art came when he saw Felix-Gonzalez Torres’ Perfect Lovers at a local museum in his hometown of Austin, Texas. Though he’d always loved art, it was then he realized his connection to the medium. “[It was] never a reality for me to make art until I saw it,” Davis said, “It was the first time I saw a piece of work and realized I could communicate in this way too.”