Richmond Standard: Winter brings trio of exhibitions to the Richmond Art Center
Richmond Standard
Winter brings trio of exhibitions to the Richmond Art Center
November 26, 2024
By Kathy Chouteau
Winter is coming, and it’s bringing three new exhibitions to the Richmond Art Center (RAC) from Jan. 22 through March 22: “Art of the African Diaspora,” “Attaboy’s Upcycled Garden,” and “ Across Land and Sea.”
An opening reception for the trio of free-to-view exhibitions is set for Jan. 25 from 1-3 p.m. and gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The winter season will mark Art of the African Diaspora’s 28th year honoring the creative expressions of artists of African descent, according to the RAC. The center’s Main Gallery will feature the works of more than 150 local Black artists in what is touted as the Bay Area’s largest non-juried exhibition of its kind.
Nearby in the RAC’s West Gallery, artists Deborah Butler, Kim Champion and Carrie Lee McClish will be showcased, while the overall program also includes receptions, guest speaker events, open studios and satellite exhibitions Bay Area-wide. The RAC’s print catalog, coming out in January 2025, will offer a guide to the exhibition’s surrounding facets.
Richmond’s own Daniel “Attaboy” Seifert’s latest iteration of his Upcycled Garden, a project rooted in the pandemic, is coming to the RAC’s South Gallery. Repurposed materials—pizza boxes, COVID tests and shipping boxes among them—are applied to make “whimsical organic forms,” said the center. The forms have combined over time and to become a garden installation that’s a reflection on consumption and an otherworldly space that outshines its everyday origins.
Jennifer Linderman’s fall art classes at the RAC have set flight to a collection of work by her students in Across Land and Sea. The exhibition will feature mixed media and pastel works on paper by her students, as well as Linderman’s own works.
Find the Richmond Art Center at 2540 Barrett Ave. in Richmond. Learn more here.
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