On view in the Frank-Ratchye Project Space as part of Root Division’s 20-Year Anniversary Celebration, will be works by our current Studio Artist cohort, offering a window into the diversity of media and practices happening onsite.
The Frank Ratchye Project Space presents Otro modo de ser by Root Division Studio Artist Viviana Carlos. This multi-media installation serves as a reflection and reminder to rest. Carlos invites viewers to bask in the stillness of nature among the backdrop of the bustling city of San Francisco.
The Frank Ratchye Project Space presents Love Lives Here by Root Division Studio Artist Nathalie O’Brien. O’Brien’s current body of work features the relationship between every-day possession and forms of platonic and self-love.
The Frank Ratchye Project Space presents Purple Manguera by Root Division studio artist Rebeca Flores. In this mixed media installation, Flores has created a hand-made larger than life water hose that playfully ruminates on the possibilities wrought by easy access to water.
Join us for Creature Feast: Table for One by Root Division studio artist Laura Sanford. In this mixed media installation, Sanford depicts different animals and organs to create a metaphorical self-portrait.
Rachel Dean’s new exhibition features textile pieces, born out of working from home and show the artist’s interest in playing with ready-made materials and hand-made forms. Join us this November in the FRPS to see the show!
Join us this September for Alicia McDaniel’s solo exhibition MALA•FIDES.
Kiana Honarmand’s works offer a personal and intimate commentary on sociopolitical issues while contemplating her experiences living in Iran and as a Middle Eastern woman living in the United States.
The Frank-Ratchye Project Space presents a new body of work by Mengjiao Zhang. This multimedia installation features video, photography, interactive sculptures, and documentation of the artist’s performative marriage to the United States.
The Water Carries Us explores the perspectives of Black & Afro-Native women as they have been impacted by colonialism, forced removal from ancestral lands, and enslavement. Engaging with material like cotton, indigo, clay, & black walnuts, Brownfield honors her African & Afro-Native ancestors who survived the Maafa (Middle Passage) and Trail of Tears. Using traditional textiles, she explores how materials can transcend time, space, and reject colonial constructs. In this work she seeks to acknowledge the ways that reclamation of culture acts as a practical rhythm which provides somatic healing for those impacted by enslavement and colonialism.
