Toshia Christal
Toshia Christal is a true loving free spirit who is hard to describe as a particular "type" of artist. Producing art since a child, she is a self taught artist of many forms. Photography, installations, painting, drawing and jewelry are to name a few. Graduating from Berkeley high in 2001, Toshia left high school having obtained all the basics she needed to know about her own art. Her love for experimentation, Aesthetics and Devine connection to her guiding light continues to fuels her creativity. Toshia has had art of all kinds placed within various galleries, exhibitions, Eateries, and art shows around the bay area. She currently owns a brick and mortar in Oakland CA at 2911 Fruitvale Ave. This small business houses her salon/ gallery/ boutique and has been obtained for the past 8 years. Most recently, her photography was exhibited in Macy's SF "Celebrates Pride & Joy" and in April 2020 she co-curated "Unbound Roots" at SomArts. Toshia Christal's art is know to be unapologetic, bold, educational, reflective of African traditions or the love she has for the womban figure. The only culprit of chaos for this artist would be created by attempting to make her choose a medium, specialty or by "boxing" her in.
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"Come with me" is a special project Toshia Christal has been tediously and diligently working on for the past year. With this project she is creating a collection of approximately ten miniature 3-D landscapes cohesively paired within a installation. Each landscape is spiritually created as a portal to escape this cruel world, to tell a story and heighten the experiences of astral travel. From natural materials, recycled materials and found objects Toshia Christal plans to submerge you into worlds that only she has seen. With open arms she invites you by saying.... "Come with me."
