Big Feelings
Emotion Made Material
Exhibition: September 24 – November 20, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 27, 1pm-3pm | Learn More…
Artist Talk and Circle Making: Saturday, October 18, 2025, 11am–1pm | Learn More…
Location: Main Gallery
Please note: The Main Gallery will be closed on Friday, October 3, 2025, for a private event.
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
In a world newly buzzing with AI, Big Feelings offers art powered by lived experience, intuition, and consciousness. The exhibition showcases a collaborative map of Richmond told through BIPOC cultural narratives and materiality; a large-scale print installation that is a personal exploration of friendship, sharing real advice from real people; and a participatory work of over four hundred circles radiating feminine energy. These projects employ mechanized and technical processes – letterpress printmaking, cartography, and the disciplined repetition of the circle – yet at their core, each transforms emotion into a material for making art.
Featured Artists:
- Erin Fong
- Ayesha Ateekh, Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna, and Shivani Vinayak Atre
- The Calling: Chantelle Goldthwaite, Yasmin Lambie Simpson, Sheila Metcalf Tobin
Top Image: Artwork by Barbara Brunch from The 6000 Circle Project
