Aleo Leppla is a queer Latinx artist and educator whose work seeks to build community through the exploration of intersectional identities. Leppla received a Masters of Arts in Art Education from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Their has shown work nationally and internationally through solo exhibitions, group shows, and artist residencies. Leppla is currently

Rebeca Abidail Flores is a Salvadoreña and Mexican American artist from Fresno, CA. As a storyteller, her work is centered around ideas of work and play and how land interacts with culture and community. She recently received her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of San Francisco.  Flores is currently one of Root

Without The Stars, There Would Be No Us imagines the cosmos in expansion, accreting astronomical objects to produce the celestial bodies that we see today. Mirror sculptures on mylar grids reference the farsighted view of Lee Bul’s Civitas Solis II, modeling proportions of time and space that the human mind can only dream of, while demarcating the

Shirat Ha’Yam is an online and dispersed exhibition that examines the healing properties of the sea. It is said that people tend to go to the sea when they feel sad and that explains why the sea is salty. It is also said that the sea is the place where one can purify and shed their

Root Division Studio Artist Bonny Nahmias discusses her recent exhibit Family Matters, caretaking and exhibiting in the Project Space.

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,

Aleo Leppla’s practice is rooted in community engagement, self-reflection, and remembrance. Through their roles as artist and educator they 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