Scott Nichols Gallery is proud to announce our latest exhibition Frida & Diego, A Personal Memoir, Photographs by Lucienne Bloch. Celebrating the centennial of Kahlo's birth and coinciding with San Francisco MOMA's Frida Kahlo exhibit, this show reveals a collection of personal and intimate photographs taken by artist Lucienne Bloch over a three year period in the early 1930's. This is the first exhibition to show this work in the Bay Area.

Lucienne Bloch and Frida Kahlo met in New York City in 1931. Originally hired by Diego Rivera as an assistant to grind colors for his political frescoes, Bloch was befriended by Kahlo and quickly developed a kinship and strong bond with her. Their independent spirits and shared scorn for the social dichotomy of the Depression era in which they lived inspired Bloch to hide her Leica in her blouse, and steal past security guards at The Rockefeller Center and make the only photographic record of Rivera's controversial mural before it was destroyed. The photographs resulting from her three years spent traveling with Frida & Diego, reveal poignant moments between the two women and the fierce creative spirit that they shared.

"Bloch shows the multiplicity of "Frida", confidante, and god-mother to her first born son: the cool artist smoking beneath one of her ubiquitous self-portraits, the good times girl with doily whimsically plopped on her head, the devoted wife, [to] Rivera, the object of her lifelong passion."
— By Meg McConahey, Santa Rosa Press Democrat