Miami – Diaspora Vibe Gallery presents a new body of work by Brooklyn-based artist, Teri Richardson. Earth-toned hues organically take form and direction in Richardson’s new paintings. Mixing color and light as medium, Teri Richardson layers translucent veils of paint on top of muslin covered acrylic panels. The traditional properties of light, texture, and sensation are animated, and the plastic qualities of paint become fresh and new in this current body of work.
Teri will be at Diaspora Vibe on Thursday, April 6 at 6pm. Diaspora Vibe is located at 3938 N. Miami Avenue in Miami.
“Teri’s work is a play of light and shadows, shapes that emerge and egress with long tunnels of color to get lost in. It is abstraction at its best. She fuels and captures the imagination like very few artists can,” states Danny Simmons, artist and Co-Founder, Rush Art Gallery, NY.
Born in Austin, Minnesota, Richardson received a BFA in Cooper Union in 1990 and has participated in exhibitions and residencies throughout the U.S. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. “Conceptually, my paintings involve the layering of experience and memory,” states Richardson, “And, although I am quite interested in color and abstract form, it is my interest in time and transition into slices of history that has supported my evolution in the archeological tone of my work.”
Diaspora Vibe Gallery is a multi-disciplinary art space serving as a laboratory for emerging artists of the Caribbean Diaspora and other artists of color, providing them with a contemporary sensibility to explore and experiment with new forms and cultural themes. DVG programs include: the Caribbean Crossroads Series, the International Cultural Arts Exchange, and Off the Wall Experimental Lab Series.
Diaspora Vibe is supported in part by Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Dade Community Foundation, the Knight Foundation, City of Miami/ FACE Office, and Artography: Arts in a Changing America, a grant and documentation program of Leveraging Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation. Founded by its current Director/Curator, Rosie Gordon-Wallace in 1996, Diaspora Vibe is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Visit Diaspora Vibe Gallery on the web at, www.diasporavibe.net.
