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Artist Talk and Conversation
Moderated by Elena Gross
Join us for an intimate conversation with artist Trina Michelle Robinson and altar contributors Ashley Spencer, Chloe King, Jasmine Narkita Wiley and Lynse Cooper, moderated by writer and curator Elena Gross. At Root Division, Robinson presents an expanded version of Elegy for Nancy (2022) —a tender tribute to her oldest known ancestor. This installation includes special contributions from fellow Bay Area artists, highlighting how collective knowledge, imagination, and care can reframe historical erasure.
Talk starts at 6pm
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FRANK RATCHYE PROJECT SPACE
Betwixt and Between confronts the social apparatus that determines one’s ability to survive. Categories of identity such as class, race, and gender shape social hierarchies and influence the perception of individual merit. What happens when inherited understandings of labor and worth collide with the realities of surviving? Actively preserving significant imagery of protest, San Francisco counter-culture, and the queer community, artist Erik Barrios-Recendez uses collage to fuse together layers that replicate the many parts that exist within dictating social systems. In this new body of work, Barrios-Recendez reflects on the emotions that surface from resisting social structures, and from confronting the reality of his existence in a queer Latino body.
