For the month of March, Rafael Bustillos has installed a large-scale circular sculpture “Diamond” by transforming deconstructed and repurposed paper that is both resilient and vulnerable. An exploration of space and material perception, his work uncovers the potential to create an alternative, silent language as a communication strategy to offer new forms of understanding and […]

Camilo Villa is a community artist. Villa’s work is collaboration— facilitating public interventions, international collaborative projects, hosting dance events for queer communities of color at local venues, as well as teaching art, Spanish, and yoga throughout the Bay. When I visited his studio, he was prepping an activity with Root Division studio partner and co-Latinx Teaching Artist

When I met with artist Ruxue Zhang in her Root Division studio in December, I was amazed at how quickly she works. Within the month since my last visit to her studio, she had produced over 10 new paintings for different bodies of work and in differing scales. There are painted sequences of dispersed and

When I walked into Matt Floriani’s upper floor studio at Root Division on a Monday afternoon, he was busy cleaning out a screen from just laying down magenta ink on top of paper layered with 60+ layers of comic book strips, paint, crayon, “you name it”– he says. We began talking, and as he shuffled

Meg Moriarty is no stranger to balancing a variety of fields. Having a background in cinema production and screenwriting, her practice is wide-ranging — spanning sculpture, photography, video, installation, illustration, and education. When Moriarty’s not managing the Root Division wood shop and digital lab for studio artists, teaching classes, or working on her master’s degree at

Root Division’s 17th Annual Art Auction is just around the corner! Whether you’re looking to buy your first original artwork or you’re looking for the next piece to add to your collection, this event is a great way to directly support Bay Area emerging and established artists. Since 2002, Root Division has provided studios for

Over the past two years, Katie Revilla has collected strands of her lost hair, a process initially started as a way for her to archive a small part of her body that she loses on a daily basis. For Revilla, this mode of visual documentation has turned into a deeper understanding of the dissociation and

Anh Bui joined Root Division in February 2018. Since then, he has become an active member of the Studios Program; Bui serves as the current Studio Artist Representative on Root Division’s Curatorial Committee, helps coordinate monthly studio visits with fellow Studio Artists, as well as volunteers for each 2nd Saturday event. In his own artistic

For July, we are excited to feature work by Studio Artist, Alice Combs in the Frank-Ratchye Project Space. Her mixed-media series, Case Studies of Dies Laboris, underlines the habitualized qualities of daily life as a laborer balancing personal and creative endeavors. An art framer by day, Combs spent over a year collecting silica packets, copper staples, scrapped mat board

This month in the Frank Ratchye Project Space, we are excited to feature work by Studio Artist, Guta Galli. Her showcased photo series, Dear Guta, Please Forgive Me, exposes the struggles of confronting sexual assault and gender-based violence. The realities of facing such traumas brings forth an unapologetic style of vulnerability that has been a powerful force