Curatorial Fellow Tavarus Blackmon interviews Root Division Studio Artist and Board Member Makiko Harris. They discuss the recent RD Makes exhibit, Art and the Pandemic and applying for art opportunities in this difficult moment in time.
Malina Abella Salud, is a new body of work by Studio Artist Angela Hien Buencamino Phung. Wading through a deep well of re-adaptation, self-evaluation and healing, Phung has created a beautiful compilation of visual and written work, bound together into a book, and brought to life through movement and performance. Inspired by poet Ocean Vuong, …
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Megan Leppla’s practice is rooted in community engagement, self-reflection, and remembrance. Through her roles as artist and educator she melds the two together manifesting it into a rich and varied practice embodied through installation, illustration and works on paper. Many of which operate as open invitationals for outside interventions and participations. Leppla’s artistic inclinations and …
Four works of art to view and potentially collect at Root Division’s 19th Annual Auction are stand-out examples of the breadth of work made available during this event, and created by Root Division alumni studio artists . They are culled from a collection of mediums and techniques available in the auction, each in their own …
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Join us for Root Division’s 19th Annual Art Auction! As we traverse the last leg of 2020, this is the perfect opportunity to directly support artists and Root Division during these unprecedented times. A plethora of new original artwork created by prominent emerging and established Bay Area artists are now physically on view in person at …
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Palija Shrestha’s practice is a world in an of itself. A world that presents as a portal between the past and present while negotiating the nuances of being and becoming. This September, I was fortunate enough to see Shrestha’s studio in person wherein which I was able to experience the scale of these large form …
By Alicia McDaniel, Exhibitions Fellow Root Division Studio Artist Sophie Feuer’s Sending to the Land is an intimate memoir of her late grandmother Ilse. Images of her day-to-day life are tenderly juxtaposed with retellings of her childhood in a war-ridden Germany. Feuer’s haunting paintings also depict a vulnerability, power, and seek to reveal what is hidden beneath …
By Alicia McDaniel, Exhibitions Fellow The Frank-Ratchye Project Space Gallery presents a new body of work by Studio Artist Sandra Liu. Saturated in color and rendered with careful attention to shape and pattern these abstractions represent the artist’s emotions of love, pain, and frustration. Visions functions as a personal documentation and reflection of Liu’s abrupt new life …
By Alicia McDaniel, Exhibitions Fellow Studio Artist Kacy Jung’s interdisciplinary practice is concerned with social constructions of identity. Her recent body of work The Weight of Souls is a collection of testimonials from other artists who have sacrificed past professions to pursue their current artistic passions. Concerned with consumption, privilege, and class inequality Jung’s exploration of the …
By Alicia McDaniel, Exhibitions Fellow Camilo Villa is a queer Colombian artist who is concerned with dismantling heteronormative, binary constructions of gender and identity. He strives to create spaces for queer Latinx dancers within his mixed media depictions. Villa skillfully combines his background in social action and public forms with his art making practice to …
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