Collection: NIAD Gallery Exhibition // With You in Mind / Contigo en Mente, organized by Saif Azzuz

On view August 5 through 26

Friday August 12, 1pm // Virtual Artist Talk and Curator Walkthrough

Saturday August 13, 1 to 4pm // Gallery Reception

a mixed media work - a large yellow and green fern-like shape dominates the left side of the canvas, with lines radiating out from two circular objects to the left.

About the exhibition

Art is as much community as it is individual. We are shaped by those we love and those who love and have loved us. Love and community are intergenerationally woven into us all. Deatra Colbert and Maria Radilla’s work both speak to the ways in which we look to community as inspiration for voicing our own personal experience in this world.

Sobre la exposición

El arte es tanto comunitario como individual. Somos formados por aquellos a quienes amamos y aquellos que nos aman y nos han amado. El amor y la comunidad están entretejidos intergeneracionalmente en todos nosotros. El trabajo de Deatra Colbert y Maria Radilla habla de las formas en que miramos a la comunidad como inspiración para expresar nuestra propia experiencia personal en este mundo.

A paper mache sculpture of a small bird with a yellow beak and almond shaped eyes.

About Saif Azzuz

Saif Azzuz is a Libyan-Yurok artist who resides on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Land also known as Pacifica, CA. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts in 2013. Azzuz has exhibited widely in the Bay Area, including a solo exhibition at Anthony Meier Fine Arts in March of 2022. Azzuz is a 2022 SFMOMA SECA Award finalist and has participated in the Clarion Alley Mural Project and the Facebook Artist in Residence program. Selected public collections include DeYoung Museum, Renni Museum, Facebook, North Carolina Museum of Art, Stanford Health Care Art Collection and UBS Art Collection.

Sobre el organizador

Saif Azzuz es un artista Libio-Yurok que reside en la tierra no cedida de Ramaytush Ohlone, también conocida como Pacifica, CA. Recibió una licenciatura en Pintura y Dibujo de la Facultad de Artes de California en 2013. Azzuz ha realizado numerosas exposiciones en el Área de la Bahía, incluyendo una exposición individual en Anthony Meier Fine Arts en marzo de 2022. Azzuz es finalista del Premio SFMOMA SECA 2022 y ha participado en el Proyecto Mural de Clarion Alley y en el programa Artista en Residencia de Facebook. Selecciones en colecciones públicas incluyen el Museo DeYoung, el Museo Renni, Facebook, el Museo de Arte de Carolina del Norte, la Colección de Arte Stanford Health Care y la Colección de Arte UBS.