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The Frank Ratchye Project The Frank-Ratchye Project Space presents Teaching Fellows 2026–2027, an exhibition introducing the newest cohort of Root Division Teaching Fellows. This presentation offers an early glimpse into the ideas, materials, and lines of inquiry that will shape each artist’s practice over the coming year. Rooted in the belief that artistic research and community engagement are mutually enriching, the Teaching Fellowship creates a framework in which creative practice extends beyond the studio and into the relationships artists build through teaching and collaboration.
Each artist began their fellowship in July 2026 and will continue through July 2027, developing an independent studio practice while contributing to Root Division’s mission of expanding access to the visual arts. As Teaching Fellows, the artists provide free visual arts instruction at partner schools and community sites throughout the Bay Area, where their roles as art educators and practitioners continually inform one another. The exchange between making, learning, and community becomes an integral part of their artistic process.

The Frank Ratchye Project Space is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Root Division studio artist Shrey Purohit.

“A cable car turn caught in fog, a ferry crossing at the exact minute the sky goes orange, a transit platform where someone’s ancestral memory and someone else’s daily commute happen to occupy the same frame.”
Shrey Purohit

Piecing together moments from the artist’s own passage from Mumbai to San Francisco, Assembled Cities transforms urban landscapes into overlapping lived moments and shared experiences. Purohit’s paintings create a narrative where familiar San Francisco streets, neighborhoods, and people coexist with personal heritage and perspectives of Mumbai. Depicting these cities in the ways they are lived, the artist goes beyond the depiction of cityscapes and continuous skylines through layers of collage-like memories, histories, and everyday life. This exhibition invites viewers to see cities not only shaped by buildings and architecture, but as something constantly in the making by the people who inhabit and move through it.

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.

The Frank Ratchye Project Space is pleased to present They Stem and They Bloom, a solo exhibition by Root Division Studio Artist B Colleen.
Growing outwards from their hands, eyes, and mouth, lavender becomes a symbol of healing energy- a gesture that begins as a way to heal from within and extends as an offering to others. What grows with the artist is not kept but shared. In this exhibition, artist B Colleen moves between an equally vivid dream state and coexisting reality where lavender stems and blooms as a constant source of calm.

The Frank Ratchye Project Space is pleased to present Mother Desert, a solo exhibition by Root Division Studio Artist Taylor Stoneman.

Rooted in the maternal spirituality of Earth as creator, lover, and protector, artist Taylor Stoneman paints the body into desert landscapes, embracing the complexities of the transition into motherhood. Mother Desert holds space for vulnerability, resilience, and love, revealing motherhood as a deeply personal and multifaceted journey.

The Frank Ratchye Project Space is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Root Division Studio Artist Erik Barrios-Recendez.

Betwixt and Between confronts the social apparatus that determines one’s ability to survive. What happens when inherited understandings of labor and worth collide with the realities of surviving? Artist Erik 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.