Recollection/ Recolección

Organized by Kristina Singleton

The Frank Ratchye Project Space is pleased to present Recollection/ Recolección, a solo exhibition by Root Division Studio Artist Brian Anthony López Romero (yNoT). 

In this new body of work, Recollection/ Recolección brings together a collection of memories, familiar narratives, and personal histories, revealing what it means to reconnect with cultural heritage while navigating the weight of remembrance and displacement. Through multimedia installations–including ceramic, and glass fused decals, graphite drawings, and paintings– the work draws from archival photographs, traditional artesanías, and deep emotional gestures. Together, these pieces create a narrative grounded in heartbreak and grief, nostalgia and peace, offering a personal interpretation of displacement and separation from the artist’s home in Guadalajara.

Lopez Romero addresses broader social realities surrounding migration and identity, responding to the ways immigrant communities are misrepresented, targeted, and dehumanized within the political landscape of today. Addressing the brutal separations of families and the detaining of targeted immigrants within Latin communities, visual motifs throughout the exhibition become a point to recognize and confront what is happening.  At its core, the work insists on visibility and humanity of the lived experiences and collective histories sustained throughout it all.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mexican Immigrant artist from Jalisco based in the central coast and the Bay Area, Brian Anthony Lopez Romero, also known as yNoT, has been honing his skills at the University of California, Berkeley. As a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, yNoT blended his heritage and his love for family and their traditions into his art as a means to utilize familiar narratives and recollections of memories.