Date: Jan 18 2025 – Feb 23 2025
Gallery: Main Gallery
Fabric of Our Lives: Works by Zsudayka Nzinga
January 18-February 23
After Hours Reception: February 21, 5-7pm
MLK DAYS Community Art Event: Jan 18-20, 11am -4pm daily
Fabric of our Lives is a collection of works made from 2022-2024 exploring the richness of American Black culture through interior settings, motherhood, spirituality, and history. View over 20 large and vibrant mixed media works and meet the artist during our 3-day MLK DAYS community art event. LEARN MORE HERE.
Artist’s Statement:
I am a multi-disciplinary mixed media artist, educator and curator. I am a collage artist with an interest in materiality of paper, fabric and associated textiles. My practice includes graphic design, sewing, dying techniques and print making alongside acrylic painting. I enjoy the act of taking things apart and finding the new ways they come together to tell a story.
My design aesthetic leans into maximalism and finding vibration between the colors and patterns of fabric and paper used in my collages. I have an interest in depicting interior design and the ways that homes are reflected throughout history to communicate many things. Many of my pieces are rooted in a research practice. I am an avid fan of American history and lean into depicting mostly women in the Black American experience. My research functions as the back narrative for the images I choose to depict and the small details that may be hidden within. I consider my work cultural social anthropology, as I am documenting from within the community that I am studying to communicate the lived experience of American Descendants of the system of slavery.