, Berkeley News A BAMPFA staff member admires the exhibition,
Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective , which includes 75 of the late Bay Area artist’s quilts, which will be on display at the museum through July 17. (BAMPFA photo) After being closed for more than a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will be reopening its doors to the public on Sunday, May 2. Members of BAMPFA and the UC Berkeley community are invited to a free preview on Friday, April 30, and California essential workers with a work ID will receive free admission on Saturday, May 1.
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‘Here, as in Heaven’ is the title of Ndidi Emefiele’s current exhibition, a body of work representing the artist’s philosophical attempt to understand the tragic death of her sister.
These paintings represent a significant shift from the playful conjuring with the complexity of contemporary experience and female identity that characterised her earlier work. They are works that carry the vestiges of pain from loss of relationship with her sister as they seek to question life, the afterlife, the passage of time, and being. Like so many artists before her, Emefiele is engaging with the intangible mysteries of existence in ways that explore the possibility of the beyond.