An incomplete collection of all the Earth’s living creatures vol. 1

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, September 9th 5-8pm

Hacer Acma
Saul Alegria
Deatra Colbert
Julio Del Rio
Luis Estrada
Raven Harper
James Heartsill
Samantha Kershnar
Jean McElvane
Ann Meade
Maria Radilla
Dorian Reid
Shawn Sanders

The world is vibrating with the growth and motion and birth and death of living beings. Given a pen and paper or lump of clay, our hands seem drawn to depicting this menagerie, taking liberties with verisimilitude in a drive to capture quickly the gist of the creature whether human or turtle. This is quite separate from the instinct to catalogue which drives some to exhaustive illustration. These artists working at NIAD have, in their sculptures, provided their individual visions of a variety of subjects, ranging from Luis Estrada’s specific depictions of pop culture figures to Samantha Kershnar’s loose tableaus. Together, they describe our planet’s vibrant complex of living beings in a way that opens the possibility for an expanded connectivity between what we (mistakenly) define as unique, separate communities, often preempting discoveries blurring the difference between an human us and an animal them.

Sept 9 – Oct 14, 2023

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2831a Mission St.

All artists appear courtesy of NIAD