The Fourth Wall Gallery

It was so much fun having artists from NIAD (Nurturing Independence Through Artistic Development) visit The Fourth Wall today. Many did sketches inspired by their friend Dorian Reid's sculptures which are currently on display. www.fourthwallart.com

Thank you Agustin Maes for the insightful review!

"Pablo Picasso once remarked, 'It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.' The Fourth Wall Gallery director Susan Aulik said as much while talking about her fellow artists in the gallery’s current show, Friends of Mine, which feature work by Dorian Reid, Latefa Noorzai, and Aulik herself." Agustin Maes

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I've paired my collages with ceramic pieces by Dorian Reid, an amazing NIAD artist. Stop by The Fourth Wall gallery Saturday! www.fourthwallart.com

Portraits of Friends--collages by Susan Aulik. ceramic sculptures by Dorian Reid and paintings by Latesha Noorzai at The Fourth Wall gallery. www.fourthwallart.com

"Portraits of Friends" from the imaginations of Susan Aulik, Dorian Reid and Latefa Noorzai.

The Fourth Wall is pleased to present work by Dorian Reid and Latefa Noorzai, artists from NIAD and Creative Growth respectively.
These non-profits, both in the East Bay, are two of the country's leading organizations setting an example and road map for communities that offer creative and self-supporting opportunities for people with disabilities.

Featured: Buster, W***y the Whale and Crazy Uncle Al.

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The Fourth Wall gallery is pleased to be showing work by Dorian Reid and Latefa Noorzai, artists working with NIAD and Creative Growth respectively. These non-profits, both in the East Bay, are two of the country's leading organizations empowering artists with disabilities; setting examples for similar communities internationally. Also on display are new collages by gallery owner and artist, Susan Aulik. www.fourthwallart.com

Dorian Reid, "Lucky the Dragon", 2024, glazed ceramic, 16 x 13 x 14.5"
(head removes to hold incense, nostrils smoke)!

"Portraits of Friends"--stop by, there's a new show at The Fourth Wall gallery featuring work by Susan Aulik, Dorian Reid and Latefa Noorzai. Thank you and
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Check out a new feature on The Fourth Wall's website--Featured Artists! This month's artist is Heather Wilcoxon showing her early "Little, Mean and Nasty" series. https://www.thefourthwallart.com/featured-artist
Contact gallery for more info. [email protected]

"Monsters Are Us", 2010, mixed media on canvas, 48”x 60"

The Fourth Wall gallery will feature a very special artist on its website every month. The first is Heather Wilcoxon and her early "Little, Mean and Nasty" series. There are only 6 paintings left. Get in touch for pricing and/or studio visit. www.fourthwallart.com

"Consumption", 2009, mixed media on canvas, 60” x 42”

Tomorrow is the last chance to see Nelly King Solomon's "Oblivion Seekers"!
Thank you, Natalie Williamson, owner of Uptown Fine Art, for letting us expand the show by using your beautiful gallery. www.fourthwallart.com

This Saturday is the last chance to see Nellie King Solomon's "Oblivion Seekers" at The Fourth Wall! www.fourthwallart.com

U46 and U47, diptych, 2021, acrylic on Mylar, 12 " x 12", mounted on 1 1/2" deep aluminum

Only two Saturdays left; don't miss Nellie King Solomon's show, at The Fourth Wall, spanning 20 years of provocative work. These small pieces on mylar were created specifically for this show. With her mother, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, in hospice at that time, Nellie made them "to connect my mother’s death with the heavens--depicting cars and airplanes as angels" www.fourthwallart.com

David Roth in his Squarecylinder review describes Nellie King Solomon's unique use of handmade tools--"The throughline connecting these activities is Solomon’s devotion to the old architectural adage, 'truth to materials.' In grad school at CCA during the late 1990s, she began mixing liquids and stamping them onto mylar with custom-made dowels that left finger- and thumbprint-shaped marks on the surface. She later added custom-made glass slabs with k***s attached, enabling her to spread pigment across large expanses."

Don't miss Nellie King Solomon at The Fourth Wall. Closes on May 25!
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Nellie King Solomon works with self-invented tools which she uses to drag paint and various “non-art” substances (rust, silicon, soda ash, brass filings) across sheets of mylar. The results she describes as “toxic color fields, beautiful pictures of terrible things.” Don't miss her show at The Fourth Wall gallery. Ends May 25! www.fourthwallart.com

Sending condolences and love to our friend and current artist at The Fourth Wall, Nellie King Solomon, for the loss of her mother, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon. We are grateful that Nellie is carrying on the tradition of being a powerful and dynamic trail blazer in the arts. www.fourthwallart.com

Thank you, David Roth, for the extensive and beautifully written review of Nellie King Solomon's show at The Fourth Wall gallery.
This exhibition, which uses the gallery space next door as well, features large works on mylar from as early as graduate school at CCA to present day. A SF native, she moved to LA in 2019.

Although her work has been shown in LA, Berlin, and at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, King Solomon's last significant SF solo exhibition was at Brian Gross in 2010 and as Roth reports, "we've seen too little of it". The Fourth Wall is pleased to re-introduce her work to the Bay Area with this important exhibition. www.fourthwallart.com

https://www.squarecylinder.com/2024/05/slouching-toward-la-with-nellie-king-solomon/

The Joan Didion of painting! Thank you David Roth and Squarecylinder for the powerful review!

Nellie King Solomon's "Oblivion Seekers" at The Fourth Wall features highlights from 1999 to present day. www.fourthwallart.com

Geyser, 1999, Ink and acrylic on Mylar 8' x 9'

Open until May 25--Nellie King Solomon's "Oblivion Seekers" at The Fourth Wall. www.fourthwallart.com

“Solomon takes a critical yet playful eye to painting. Her art practice establishes rules, grids, and frameworks, only to challenge their very existence. King Solomon approaches painting with equal parts irreverence and admiration. King Solomon paints on the sharp industrial material of Mylar with custom wood, glass, and rubber tools pulling paint in sweeping gestural marks. The Mylar mounted to aluminum makes for a clean architectonic finish.” Jennifer McCabe SMoCA- Director & Chief Curator, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

Nellie King Solomon’s “Oblivion Seekers” will open Saturday at The Fourth Wall with a reception on April 27. We are using the gallery next door as well to show this impressive survey of recent and archived works. Stay tuned! www.fourthwallart.com

Nellie King Solomon’s “Oblivion Seekers” will open Saturday with a reception on April 27. We are using the gallery next door as well to show this impressive survey of recent and archived works. Stay tuned!

What a wonderful artists talk/conversation at The Fourth Wall with Kristen Wong and Sean McFarland! Thank you all! www.fourthwallart.com

At The Fourth Wall gallery, Saturday, April 13, Sean McFarland in conversation with Kristen Wong at 2pm!! www.fourthwallart.com

McFarland earned his MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2004. He has exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, White Columns, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Aperture Foundation. He has been a recipient of the Phelan Art Award in Photography (2005), the Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer (2009), the John Guttmann Photography Fellowship (2009), a Eureka Fellowship (2011), and SFMOMA SECA Award (2017). His work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Oakland Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art Library.

At The Fourth Wall, Sean McFarland will be in conversation with Kristen Wong on Sat., April 13 at 2pm. Kristen has made one of a kind zines to give to attendees! Join us; it's the last day of "would you trust a flower that bloomed in a darkened room?" www.fourthwallart.com

Kristen Wong's debut solo show at The Fourth Wall, “would you trust a flower that bloomed in a darkened room?”, is a photographic collage series of mixed media images of botanicals, interior and exterior mental landscapes that she began during her time as a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County. www.fourthwallart.com

Kristen Wong
"mental landscape no. 37 (lost window interior)"
mixed media on archival pigment print
62x44”

When you visit Kristen Wong's show, don't forget to check out the small works in the portfolio! www.fourthwallart.com

Kristen Wong at The Fourth Wall!! www.fourthwallart.com

"would you trust a flower that bloomed in a darkened room?" Kristen Wong's solo show at The Fourth Wall incorporates collage, mark making and found elements to transform her personal archive of memories and emotions into pieces that are larger than life both in scale and resolution. www.fourthwallart.com

The Fourth Wall is so pleased to be able to present Kristen Wong's first solo show. Thanks to all who joined us for her reception and sent well wishes. What a great crowd! www.fourthwallart.com

Join us tomorrow at The Fourth Wall for a reception for artist Kristen Wong. 5-8pm.
Her solo show, “would you trust a flower that bloomed in a darkened room?”, is a photographic collage series of botanicals, interior and exterior mental landscapes that Wong developed during her time as a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She incorporates collage and found elements to transform her personal archive of memories and emotions, captured in low resolution 35mm film and iPhone photographs, into large works of art--pieces that are larger than life both in scale and resolution. www.fourthwallart.com