Parts Unseen
This exhibition brings together recent works by three artists who received the Spotlight Award for their work in the 2018 Members’ Show: Bill Abright, Jennie Braman, and Ruth Tabancay. While working in disparate media, these artists share an interest in transfiguring and deconstructing the human form. An Artists’ Talk will be held on Saturday, June […]
Discontent with Brute Force Uploading
Richard-Jonathan Nelson’s solo exhibition examines how Black bodies and craft can be intermeshed to depict a speculative future. Through hybridizing traditional craft practices – like embroidery, weaving, and quilting – with digital art, Nelson’s work challenges the history of “uploading” Black Disapora as a monolithic culture; and reimagines the Black body as a place for […]
2019 Members’ Show
Exhibition Dates: June 11 – August 16, 2019 Annual Members’ Meeting: Saturday, June 8, 3-5pm More info… Opening Reception: Saturday, June 8, 5-7pm More info… Artists’ Talk: Saturday, June 15, 11am-1pm More info… Closing Party: Friday, August 16, 3-5pm More info… Each year, the Richmond Art Center invites our members to participate in our annual […]
Siempre Estaré A Tu Lado
Jennifer Lugris‘ paintings explore identity in terms of fault lines, fissures and pressure points. Lugris grew up in a house where asado was eaten with kimchi, and where dinner conversations seamlessly shifted from English to Spanish to Korean. As a first-generation American, born of immigrants with roots in North Korea, South Korea, Argentina, Spain and Uruguay, […]
Richmond Creates! The 7th Annual Art in the Community Show
Richmond Creates! brings work created in our ‘Art in the Community’ offsite satellite classes to the Richmond Art Center. The artists showing work range from ages 5 to 85 and were participants in 6-10 week art classes held at local schools and community centers. The talented teaching artists facilitating these classes are dedicated to sharing […]
54th Annual WCCUSD Student Art Show
Every spring the Richmond Art Center partners with the West Contra Costa Unified School District to present the annual WCCUSD Student Art Show. This teacher-curated show represents the wealth of student artistic talent in the district, as well as best practices in delivering an art-based curriculum. The Richmond Art Center and WCCUSD share an ongoing […]
Faces Without Noses
Faces Without Noses The Visual Laboratory of M. Louise Stanley For over fifty years, Emeryville artist M. Louise Stanley’s large scale paintings have roamed across themes of classical myths, feminism, art history, travel and current politics. An anchor for Stanley’s formidable creative output is her sketchbooks. As she says, “Sketchbooks are a major part of […]
Here is the Sea
PRESS COVERAGE Here is the Sea brings together artworks that use the ocean and its coasts as a site for investigating the fraught relationship between humans and nature. Richmond is a city with thirty-two miles of shoreline, and through this exhibition visitors to the Richmond Art Center are invited to reflect on what is at stake […]
Faces of Richmond
Paintings of people who live and work in our community This pop-up exhibition brings together the artists of the Richmond Senior Center with “every day” people who live or work in our city. Using a variety of media including watercolor, oil, graphite and pastel, the artists have created sensitive portraits of a diversity of people […]
The Art of Living Black 2019
Exhibition: January 15 – March 8, 2019 Open Studios: Saturday and Sunday, February 23 & 24 and March 2 & 3, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm The Art of Living Black Open Studios Guide PDF Satellite Exhibitions: Throughout January, February and March. Details are published on The Art of Living Black’s Facebook events page and in […]
