The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition of prolific contemporary artist Faig Ahmed. From his studio in Baku, Azerbaijan, Ahmed creates textile works that transcend and transform the history of carpet making in the region. Ahmed is interested in how the contemporary and the traditional collide to create something new that defies genres, borders, and even history. Ahmed...

POEM OF THE BODY: DAVID LIMRITE & LENA RUSHING Apr 1–May 29, 2022 This Nybak Gallery exhibition will feature two SLO County painters: David Limrite and Lena Rushing. David Limrite works primarily in graphite, charcoal, acrylic, and collage to create mysterious, dramatic, energetic, dark, and edgy mixed media figurative work. Lena Rushing’s work typically features a strong, unconventional female presence and relies heavily on symbolism....

The act of printmaking itself is intimate, from the laborious processes such as woodcarving, acid etching, and meticulous ink application, to the revealing of an image from a plate. These processes too are experimental and infinitely varied, with no two printmakers working in quite the same way. Similarly, portraiture has an individualistic, intimate, and vulnerable nature to it — whether it be sitting for a...