Sheila Crider Exhibit to Open at DC Arts

DC Arts Center is pleased to present January '15 - October '16, an exhibition of new work by Washington, DC artist Sheila Crider. Crider's work articulates issues of contemporary culture through installations that embody social and aesthetic ideas.

Having begun her career as a poet, Crider shows a healthy disregard for the conventions of fine art materials. Much of her work involves the use of paper, often in non-traditional ways, and her tools include graphite, cloth, wire, sawdust, grass, and much, much more. Crider's work integrates image, object, and frame, using abstractions to make pictures, settings, or objects that read as something familiar. She paints, sews, assembles, disassembles, and manipulates, segueing seamlessly from two to three dimensions. In January '15 - October '16, Crider approaches the pollution that poisons our water and air. The environment Crider explores in her recent work is not pastoral, but urban: polluted air and water that have a direct impact on us all.

About the Artist
Shelia Crider is a native Washingtonian who currently lives and works in Congress Heights. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Leighton Studios of the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, the Vermont Studio Center, and Cite Internationale des Arts. From 1985 to 1991 she lived in Bordeaux, France. In 1999 she spent three months studying Sumi-e painting with Japanese painter Kohi Takagaki. Crider's work is included in public and corporate collections including Art-in-Public-Places, Washington, DC; James E. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD; Yale University Book Collection, New Haven CT; and Mino Washi Paper Museum, Mino, Japan.

January '15 ­- October '16 will be open from January 13 through February 12, 2017. Opening reception on Friday, January 13 from 7 to 9 pm. Gallery talk on Sunday, February 12 at 3 pm. Gallery hours are Wednesdays through Sundays from 2 to 7 pm. All events are free and open to the public and are at DC Arts Center (DCAC), 2438 18th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009. For more information call 202-462-7833, email info@dcartscenter.org, or visit dcartscenter.org.

Image: Sheila Crider, Industrial Smog, from Toxicity in the Air, 2016, Handmade and remade paper, acrylic. vinyl cord, tar paper, and vinyl covered pine rod, Photograph by Greg Staley.

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