---

2011 ARCHIVE

  NYE2012

  NOVEMBER

  OCTOBER

  SEPTEMBER

  AUGUST

  JULY

  JUNE

  MAY >

  APRIL

  MARCH

  FEBRUARY

  JANUARY

thePeople - Saturday - May 28th
with live art by Black Diamonds Shining
alongside residents Cali, Cecil, and Be Brown
hosted by heyLove* & Ms. Nabong

The New Parish
579 18th St | Oakland
10pm - 2am
$5 before 11 / $10 after

LIVE PAINTING BY *
BLACK DIAMONDS SHINING

Black Diamonds Shining is a well respected collective of visual artists of color based in Oakland whose work is fast becoming part of the city's very fabric. The only place you won't find BDS is in a pigeon hole. Their third eye visions cover light posts, mailboxes, street murals, and gallery walls. Rather than painting about resistance, BDS paintings live on their own as an act of resistance rooted in internal discovery - each painting an oasis of indigenous ancestry, esoteric knowledge, and feminine strength. They invoke resistance through shape and color the way a priestess might channel an ancestral voice. 

BDS's styles and influences don't fall easily into simple categories, but some patterns do emerge: dynamic, contemporary lines give shape to ancient and universal images of mask like faces, the circular undulations of rose petals, and explosions of royal totem symbology.

In BDS muralistic collabs, rhythmic improvisations overlap seamlessly like versus in a classic hip-hop posse cut. And the effect of the work is the same creating a hypnotic groove like the boom-bap of a bass and snare - a kind of internal head nod.

Its fitting then that BDS will paint live on stage at thePeople. Once again, line, color, melody, drum beats, and heart beats, will coalesce into one living work of art.

---

THE PEOPLE : BLACK DIAMOND SHINING (PAINTING LIVE ON STAGE) :: MAY 2011 :: PHOTOS by RSVP EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY

---

---