Fall NIAD Exhibition // Today is the Greatest
These exhibitions will feature artists creating at progressive art studios across the country alongside Bay Area artists. Both will include the release of the new issue of Quickest Flip! Read More …
group exhibition
Karen May in “Salad Days” // Grand Opening for “Personal Space”
Personal Space presents Salad Days, an inaugural group exhibition featuring work by artists from Vallejo, the broader Bay Area, Los Angeles, Iowa, New York, and London. As the title denotes the vigor and recklessness of youth, the works assembled here suggest the vulnerability of new beginnings through an abundance of color, humor, material experimentation, and bittersweet pathos. Taken together, these artists dredge the joyful precarity of fleeting moments and summertime bliss to reveal something far more dreamlike and mysterious.
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“The Rainbow Dancing in the Room” organized by Liz Hernández (online exhibition)
The Rainbow Dancing in the Room highlights the transformation of light from its quieter state to a vibrant kaleidoscopic form. The pieces range from peaceful to energetic, offering an intimate and introspective experience. The exhibition features artists Julio del Rio, Willie Harris, Karen May, Shantae Robinson, and Tre’von Silva. Read More …
Opening Reception for “Printmaking at NIAD” and “Nahui Ollin: The Work of Andrés Cisneros-Galindo” // Richmond Art Center
Join Richmond Art Center for the opening reception of their summer exhibitions. Read More …
Esmeralda Silva in “Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear” // Arts of Life
Arts of Life and Circle Contemporary are excited to announce Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear. An exhibition that features representations of automobiles and car culture as symbols of freedom, self-expression, safety, and individuality; while simultaneously demarcating these phenomena as functions of time and desire that epitomize the economic, cultural, and social conditions from which they appear. Read More …
NIAD Online Exhibition // “I Belong To Myself” organized by Maria Seda-Reeder
Being an artist who helps bring new, radical ideas into the world is neither an easy nor simple task. So it takes a certain, special kind of magic—charisma, self-belief, instinct—to move through the world going against the grain, as innovative artists so often do. I’m honored to have the chance to put forth this small sampling of artists from NIAD, an organization that likewise is working at the forefront of contemporary art. Read More …
NIAD Online Exhibition // “I Wanna See All My Friends At Once” organized by Cone Shaped Top
Looking through works from the roster of NIAD artists, ideas around bodies coming together under the unifying force of music for release, freedom, self-expression and camaraderie began to emerge. Balloons, dancing, fearless fashion, music, friendship, colorful people and spaces filled with lights, projections and disco balls; all themes that form the ethos of our space. These works highlight motifs and sentiments that conjure the feeling of bliss from celebrating life with chosen families through music. Read More …