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Ebony + Ivory, Organized by Katie Johnson/Hanging By A Thread: The Work Of Lisa Solomon/City In Motion/The Wild Bunch

NIAD Art Center is pleased to present Ebony + Ivory, a
group exhibition of recent work in black and white organized by Katie
Johnson, in the main gallery. On view in the annex space is Hanging By A
Thread: The Work Of Lisa Solomon, work from the Oakland artist that
straddles the line between craft and art. In the Art Center
storefront will be City Life, a massive installation of urban life. And
in the backroom is The Wild Bunch, small selection of very, very
colorful abstractions.

All exhibitions are on view May 2
through June 27, 2014 at NIAD’s gallery, 551 23rd Street in Richmond.
Opening reception is Saturday, May 3 from 12:30-3:00 pm. Yes, we will
again have a food truck and some awesome recorded music. So plan on
hanging out with us. For more information, please telephone (510)
620-0326 or visit www.niadart.org.

Hand To Hand

Black and white is the new black. Well, maybe not, but they certainly
look great together. With “Ebony + Ivory” we’ve rounded up a group of
work that is just that. Okay, maybe a few pieces have another color
tossed in, but you know what we’re talking about.

The
exhibition is organized by Gallery Assistant Katie Johnson and features
work from Marlon Mullen, Deatra Colbert, Eddie Braught, Felecia Griffin,
Tony Pedemonte, Peter Harris, Jonathan Velazquez, Lacee King, Kevin
Randolph, Beverly Trieber and Jonathan Valdivias.

Katie Johnson is a recent graduate of Vassar College with a degree in art history.

Hanging By A Thread: The Work Of Lisa Solomon

In the annex, we’re pleased to present “Hanging By a Thread: The Work
Of Lisa Solomon.” Profoundly interested in the idea of hybridization,
most likely sparked from the Oakland artist’s happa heritage, Solomon’s
mixed media works question the line between art and craft, revolving
thematically around domesticity, craft, and masculine and feminine
triggers.

Solomon’s work has been recently featured in a
monograph published by MIEL press. She also authored a book on
embroidery published by Quarry press entitled “Knot Thread Stitch.” Her
drawings and installations have been featured at various national and
international venues including: The San Jose Museum of Art, the Academy
of Art in Honolulu, HI and Koumi Machi Museum in the Nagano prefecture
of Japan. Her work was recently featured in exhibitions at the ICA in
San Jose, CA the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketchum, ID, the
Sonoma County Museum of Art in CA, the Lawton Gallery at the University
of Wisconsin, as well as the Ulrich Museum of Art in Kansas.

City In Motion

Have you ever thought closely about where you live? Well, we have. And
we’ve built a massive installation, “City In Motion,” that rounds up all
of the elements of urban life and puts them on display in the
storefront. The installation, in no particular scale, harkening back to
the early work of Red Grooms is a lively and slightly off-kilter
recreation – with everything from bike shops to factories to billboards
and fireplugs, it even features NIAD Art Center. In conjunction with
“City In Motion,” NIAD will publish a free chapbook, “I Love Living In
The City.”

The Wild Bunch
Black and white certainly makes
an elegant palette, but in the gallery’s backroom we’re offering “The
Wild Bunch,” a selection of over-heated (at least on the color front)
work from Linda Stewart, Angela Rogers, Deatra Colbert and Phyllis Carr.

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