Borrowing its title from Iron Maiden’s 1986 sci-fi-infused album, the upcoming Somewhere in Time exhibition at the NIAD Art Center invites visitors to experience how art can literally bend and reshape time.
“I had…just recently revisited Iron Maiden’s album ‘Somewhere in Time’ and knew instantly it would be the perfect title for the show,” said San Francisco-based artist and curator Nick Makanna.
Makanna appreciates the tongue-in-cheek inclusion of a non-fine art reference, which he feels aligns with the NIAD show’s energy and spirit. The exhibition is slated for NIAD’s Main Gallery Sept. 6 through Oct. 31. An “Opening Reception” will be held the same day from 1-4 p.m.
Makanna is organizing the works of 12 Bay Area artists for the program, who contribute drawings, paintings, sculptures and textiles.
Among the featured artists is Sylvia Fragoso, whose ceramic works are typically either architectural structures or portraits of loved ones.
“So her work collapses space and time in that way,” NIAD’s Exhibitions and Collections Specialist Liliana Herrera said.
Fragoso rolls clay to the length and width of her palm, thus using her own body as metrics of measurements for the structures themselves, according to Herrera. There’s a corporeal connection that she has to the size of the pieces, the components.
“Art has the uncanny ability to stretch, augment and collapse time,” states NIAD, noting that whether it’s by referencing ancient objects and histories, or forecasting worlds to come, the artist within their domain is the shaper of both space and time.
Somewhere in Time includes the following Bay Area-based artists: Morgan Corbit; Katie Dorame; Sylvia Fragoso; Brandon Harris; James Heartsill; Daniel Arthur Mendoza; Héctor Muñoz-Guzman; Ben Peterson; Maria Radilla; Shawn Sanders; Jonathan Valdivias; and Maryam Yousif.
NIAD Art Center’s gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and second Saturdays from 1-4 p.m. Find NIAD at 551 23rd St. in Richmond. Questions? Contact (510) 620-0290.
