February 1-28, 2021
ACCI is celebrating Black History Month with artists we were honored to show in our Art of Resilience exhibition last October. Click on individual gallery photos to see titles and descriptions of the work. Each week we will focus on one artist and their work on our social media pages; we hope you'll enjoy this unique online event featuring:
LE Bohemian Muse | Ron Moultrie-Saunders | Nyya Lark | TheArthur Wright | Suzane Beaubrun
LE Bohemian Muse | Ron Moultrie-Saunders | Nyya Lark | TheArthur Wright | Suzane Beaubrun
LE BohemianMuse
LE BohemianMuse photo by Celeste Lindahl Photography
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LE BohemianMuse is a first-generation Ghanaian-American artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a storyteller, she uses abstract painting, writing, performing, and filmmaking to weave narratives. Through this persona, she revitalizes the influence that art has on life and society, using the creative force as a mirror to the joys and faults of humanity. LE began exploring the ideas of creating new worlds through storytelling and did, with ease, finding ways to incorporate her stories into alternative mediums of art (Writing, Theatre, and Abstract Painting).
Through her education at LMU (Loyola Marymount University), she learned about the different facets of art and majored in Theater and Studio Art. A year later she auditioned and was accepted to the British American Drama Academy (BADA) in Oxford, England, where she continued to study various theatrical art forms. Fast forward years later, LE has presented her paintings in various art shows (Superfine Art Fair, Artspan Open Studios, Art Attack Gallery, and more) in different U.S. cities. In addition to being featured artist in the SF Gate article “'I'm still creating, I won't stop creating': Life as an SF artist in shutdown.” Recently she was one of the featured artists in Voyage LA Magazine "Local Stories" May 2020 issue. In August 2020, LE had her first solo exhibition, “Renegade Renaissance,” at Art Attack gallery. This show features her series work called “Rebel,” an experimental series where LE goes against her creative instinct. "Within this challenge, I have pushed myself to move past my old habits of creation and have evolved a new approach towards my abstract paintings." "Art means everything to me," LE continues, "it is everywhere. It's a venue of creation; we are beautiful examples of art just walking around. It showcases our beauties and our faults, it provides us with an option to go to when we are in pain, and it can glorify our greatest moment. I draw inspiration from other elements of artistry (music, poetry, paintings, etc.), and through my observation of watching humanity and based on what I feel, I create something from that." |
The "Chaos Series"
A series that is a visual representation of the philosophical concepts of Chaos and Order. Exploring heavily on the dichotomy of beauty and danger within Chaos, I painted from a stream of consciousness influence on my personal emotional reflections on current events. At the time when I was creating this series of work, the awareness of black people being killed by police violence, was reaching a new level of awareness. Furthermore, similar to 2020, a lot of emotional uproar arose, at the same time we were about to enter a different political climate. A pattern that has continued to be repeated. Being an emotional painter I poured all my frustration and my personal insight on the situations into my work.
A series that is a visual representation of the philosophical concepts of Chaos and Order. Exploring heavily on the dichotomy of beauty and danger within Chaos, I painted from a stream of consciousness influence on my personal emotional reflections on current events. At the time when I was creating this series of work, the awareness of black people being killed by police violence, was reaching a new level of awareness. Furthermore, similar to 2020, a lot of emotional uproar arose, at the same time we were about to enter a different political climate. A pattern that has continued to be repeated. Being an emotional painter I poured all my frustration and my personal insight on the situations into my work.
To see more of LE Bohemian Muse's work or inquire on pricing or availability, check out her website.
And check out LE BohemianMuse's rockin' Youtube channel!
And check out LE BohemianMuse's rockin' Youtube channel!
Ron Moultrie Saunders
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Ron Moultrie Saunders is a San Francisco-based photographic artist, landscape architect and teacher. His artwork is in the San Francisco Arts Commission Civic Art Collection for works he completed for the San Francisco Linda Brooks-Burton Bayview Library Branch, Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco General Hospital and SF Public Utilities Commission Headquarters. He is creating public artwork for BART and the Southeast Health Clinic Expansion. He was commissioned to create works for VM Ware, Inc. in California and Texas and for The San Francisco Travel Association.
Ron's work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including solo shows at San Francisco International Airport and Corden Potts Gallery in San Francisco, California, and group shows at University of San Francisco, Middlesex County College, New Jersey, and San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. He is a co-founding member of Three Point Nine Art Collective and is the recipient of two Individual Artists Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. |
Nyya Lark
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Nyya Lark is a self taught jewelry artist, creating one of a kind jewelry designs/wearable art since 1983. Using the precious metals of sterling, fine silver, gold and natural elements in the art of metalsmithing. Being passionate about education has led and continues to lead her in discovering new techniques, and tried and true approaches in developing new designs. Her work has been carried over the years in various retail stores and galleries in the Bay Area.
The Primitive Necklace Series
Drawing on combined contemporary and natural design elements, these neck adornments recall our origins and ancestral connections to the natural world, then and now through time. They are a reminder of who we are and how far we have come as a ‘tribe’, as a people. |
To see more of Nyya Lark's work or inquire on pricing or availability, check out her website.
Here's a great video of Nyya talking about her studio process.
Here's a great video of Nyya talking about her studio process.
TheArthur Wright
Learn more about TheArthur's life and career as an artist:
Artship Interview with TheArthur Wright, 2003 "Oakland Originals" Profile of TheArthur Wright For prints of TheArthur's work, visit Black Cat Studio Gallery. "We live vibrant lives, live and play for 365/12...which indicates 30 days are not enough. Particularly to honor so many who have done so much. I don't intend to hibernate at midnight the 28th of February." -TheArthur Wright |
TheArthur Wright was born in Little Rock Arkansas in 1940. Three years later during the Second World War the family moved to Seattle where his father found defense work at Boeing Aircraft (as it was named then) Company. Joining the Air Force after graduation he spent three years in Japan, a country that impressed him then and still does after all these years. He attended Central Washington State College in Ellensburg for a year then moved to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area in October 1964. He is the father of four children: three robust young males and a lady.
TheArthur's first writings were published in the early seventies and his art sold well initially, but after a nearly 20 year hiatus he started painting again in 1994. "My career has given me a lot of interesting things to do, including a call to Hollywood, short-lived, however, and then becoming a board member of the Artship, a renovated ship of war that became a seaborne arts venue in Oakland that was discontinued in 2004," says TheArthur. TheArthur Wright's first internet sale in 1997 was to a person from South Africa and one of the most recent to a Swedish representative of the Carnaval, a huge and sprawling global celebration that deals intensively with the peoples of the African Diaspora. TheArthur's bleach rendering of ‘Califia, Queen of California’ was chosen as the poster image for the 2003 Carnaval in San Francisco. He has since been shown and honored in various schools and colleges such as Stanford, UCLA, Sonoma State, and Santa Rosa JC and a much longer and growing list. The introduction of bleach into his art has been a huge catalyst and in it he finds enough nuances to explore to take him "the rest of the way." He is on the board of directors for Prescott-Joseph, a non-profit community organization located in Oakland, California. |
Suzane Beaubrun
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Suzane Beaubrun is an Oakland based artist specializing in jewelry and sculpture. Her interest in art is deeply influenced by her West Indian background. Haitian painting and sculpture along with crafts from Dominica were celebrated in her home and captured her imagination. Suzane creates work in silver, copper and semi-precious gems and/or discarded materials such as bicycle tires and safety glass. Her techniques include metal-smithing, weaving and crochet.
"My art is an adventure in texture and color. I often create with unusual materials, sometimes using them in unorthodox ways while still respecting the traditions of fine craftsmanship. I tend do things “the hard way”, losing myself in time consuming, meditative techniques such as metal crochet and hand sawing my many tiny details. Living and creating as a multi-media artist in Oakland California, my jewelry and sculpture are reflections of the unique urban beauty of the bay area. Either working with precious metals or incorporating materials I’ve harvested from the city streets, my work celebrates the natural and manufactured beauty surrounding and weaving through the Bay Area." |
To see more of Suzane's work or inquire on pricing or availability, check out her website.