“No artists’ group embodies and enacts the spirit of their community like a collective, and no other collective does so more than Soul Salon 10, a group of fourteen artists based mostly in and around Oakland whose work manages to be both synonymous with their immediate communities while also global and expansive in its reach. Their ability to come together, almost organically, around a thematic project speaks to the degree to which they’ve each successfully integrated their art with living—these are not artists for art’s sake, but rather artists whose work depends upon the universality of their daily interactions in and observations of the world. The issues that shape these 21^st century blues are all here as the present dialogues with the past—from dollar dinners to sustainable agriculture, from mammy to motherhood, from Robert Johnson to Robert “R.” Kelly. These are the issues that we talk about, that affect us; Soul Salon are our interpreters who take those ruminations and deep discussions among family, friends, neighbors and co-workers and transform them from head-shaking futility to mind-expanding brilliance.”---Carla Williams (excerpt from the forthcoming BLACK and BLUE Catalog that will accompany the exhibit)

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