Tuesday, April 19, 5:00pm-6:30pm (Award Presentation at 5:45pm)
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Image: Artwork by Myleyby Mora Reyes, Richmond High School
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We are so happy to welcome Elaine Moreno to Richmond Art Center’s staff team. Elaine is our new Visitor Services Coordinator.
Please say hello and welcome to Elaine at the front desk next time you are at RAC!
About Elaine: Elaine Moreno is a Bay Area born and raised Visual Artist, primarily working with Film and Digital Photography. Elaine’s passion for the arts started at an early age, and brought her to California College of the Arts where she graduated in 2021 with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Photography and Visual Studies Minor. Elaine aims to give back to her community that helped propel her artistic journey in hopes to inspire and guide others along their artistic paths.
Image: Elaine with her pup Pickle
Saturday, April 9, 1pm-3pm
Location: Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Saturday, April 2, 2pm-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Join us on Saturday, April 2, 2pm-4pm for the opening reception for our spring exhibitions:
The first survey of Dewey Crumpler’s ‘shipping container’ work to be exhibited in the Bay Area. The exhibition will include over 120 works that ask us to consider the history, lived legacy and future impact of the global shipping industry.
Right Here, Right Now: A Biennial of Richmond Art
In its second edition, Right Here, Right Now will present the work of eight Richmond artists selected for their risk-taking and visionary creative practices.
Nadie es ilegal en tierra robada
A solo exhibition of photography by Diamela Cutiño.
Top image: Artwork by Dewey Crumpler. Courtesy of the Artist and Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Art of the African Diaspora Closing Event: Saturday, March 19, 12pm-2pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Richmond Art Center and the AOTAD Steering Committee will host a special event for artists and art fans to come together one last time to celebrate Art of the African Diaspora 2022! Meet artists, share your experiences of AOTAD, and enjoy over 150 artworks in the Art of the African Diaspora exhibition.
CLICK HERE for more information about Art of the African Diaspora in 2022.
Visiting Richmond Art Center during the Pandemic: Mask wearing is still required to visit the galleries and in all indoor spaces at Richmond Art Center. Refreshments will be served in our courtyard (where folks may remove their masks if they wish). No RSVP is necessary to attend this event.
INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Artwork Pick Up: Exhibiting artists may pick up their artworks at the end of the ‘Meet and Greet’ event from 2pm-3:30pm. Please note, no earlier artwork pick up can be accommodated.
Artwork Pick Up Times:
We are so excited to announce the artists selected for Right Here, Right Now: A Biennial of Richmond Art!
The artists participating in the second edition of the Biennial are:
These eight Richmond artists will contribute work to an exhibition to be presented in Richmond Art Center’s South Gallery that will run from April 7 through to June 3, 2022. Participating artists are selected for their risk-taking and visionary creative practices. More info about the exhibition coming soon!
Dewey Crumpler: Crossings
Invention and prophecy in Dewey Crumpler’s shipping containers
Exhibition: April 6 – June 4, 2022
Reception: Saturday, April 2, 2pm-4pm
Artist’s Talk: Saturday, April 30, 1pm
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 10am-2pm
Location: Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Richmond, CA: Richmond Art Center announces Dewey Crumpler: Crossings, the first survey of Dewey Crumpler’s shipping container series work to be exhibited in the Bay Area. The exhibition will include over 120 works that ask us to consider the history, lived legacy and future impact of the global shipping industry.
Dewey Crumpler: Crossings will present work from sketches to large scale paintings that show twenty-five years of investigation into the beauty and power of ribbed, metal cargo boxes. Growing up in the Bayview, Crumpler became interested in ports, especially the massive forms of shipping containers. As a young artist he often sketched plein air along the waterfront. Since the late 1990s, he has been developing his studies into paintings of containers that move between abstraction and representation. More recently Crumpler has added sequins, collage, gold leaf and pop cultural references to his work, suggesting the bling and flash of commodification, as well as spiritual awakening.
In Crumpler’s work shipping containers are dense metaphors; encompassing stories of mass migration, transformation and voyages destined to be repeated. They trace transatlantic trade routes that emerged in the 15th century and are still used today. They also show industry that has irrevocably shaped port cities like San Francisco, Oakland and Richmond. Through connecting historical and contemporary systems, time in Crumpler’s work becomes a loop of rebirth and decline pressed forward through the crossing of water. Crumpler explains, “At the heart of these works is memory.”
This exhibition was originally scheduled for spring 2020, but was postponed for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this short time the world has seen financial crisis, climate disruption, global pandemic, and wars with no historical parallel, and Crumpler’s shipping containers have become even more prophetic; predicting the collapse of globalism and events that continue to shape the first decades of the 21st century.
Dewey Crumpler: Crossings will be on view in Richmond Art Center’s Main Gallery from April 6 through to June 4, 2022. An exhibition reception will be held on Saturday, April 2, 2pm-4pm, and an Artist’s Talk will be held on Saturday, April 30 starting at 1pm. Exhibition and events are free and open to the public. A print publication featuring a new essay by Thea Quiray Tagle will accompany the exhibition. Dewey Crumpler: Crossings is organized with assistance from Marguerite Thompson Browne.
About the Artist: Dewey Crumpler is an Associate Professor of painting at San Francisco Art Institute. His current work examines issues of globalization and cultural co-modification through the integration of digital imagery, video and traditional painting techniques. Crumpler’s works are in the permanent collections of the California African American Museum, Triton Museum of Art Los Angeles and Oakland Museum Of California. Crumpler has received the Flintridge Foundation Award, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, as well as The Fleishhacker Foundation Fellowship Eureka Award. Collapse was Crumpler’s most recent exhibition at Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery. He is represented by Jenkins Johnson Gallery. deweycrumpler.com
About Richmond Art Center: Richmond Art Center has been sharing art and creating with the community since 1936. Our programs encompass classes, exhibitions and events at our facility in downtown Richmond, as well as off-site activities that bring free, high-quality art making experiences to WCCUSD schools and community partners. richmondartcenter.org
For more information contact:
Amy Spencer, amy@richmondartcenter.org
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Sharing these wonderful photos by R.D. Lopez/Shots From Richmond & Froggie Violet Vega documenting Rebeca García-González creating a new mural at the 25th Street entrance of Richmond Art Center. The mural is called We Found Joy In Art-Making / Encontramos La Felicidad Haciendo Arte and was completed in December 2021.
Rebeca was assisted by Richmond youth, Leslie Poblano and Denise Campos.
Come see the finished mural at RAC!
Top image: Photo by John Wehrle
Special Event for Black History Month
Online Presentation by Patricia Mapps
Monday, February 28, 7pm-8pm PST | FREE
CLICK HERE TO RSVP: https://richmondartcenter.org/events/from-africa-to-richmond/
For Black History Month, Richmond Art Center will present Patricia Mapps: From Africa to Richmond, on Monday, February 28 at 7pm. Through archival research, oral history, and DNA, Patricia has traced her ancestors to Africa and uncovered a story of enslavement, emancipation, the decision to purchase and live on the land they “tamed” when enslaved, their transition to farm laborers then to farmers, and Civil Rights activism in Richmond. In this special online event, Patricia will share the story her research has uncovered in a presentation which will be followed by a Q&A session. This event is free but registration is required to access the zoom link.
