Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist whose immersive works, performances, and audience participatory scores implicate the viewer-participant into future mythological excavations, bridging large swathes of time and history through water, water clocks, crude oil, movement, light, imaging, voice, and sound.
Featured in Art in America’s 2022 “New Talent Issue, Asgary has been supported by numerous residencies, most recently including Headlands Center for the Arts, MASS MoCA, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, UCLA Art Sci, ARoS Kunstmuseum, and Berkeley Art...
Jesus Barraza is a socially engaged artist, print maker, a leader in his community and teaches Xicanx Art History & Practice. As a socially engaged artist Barraza is best known for his prints & posters and has worked closely with numerous community organizations to create prints that visualize struggles for immigration rights, housing, education, and international solidarity. Printmaking allows Barraza to produce relevant images that can be put back into the hands of his community and spread throughout the world. He believes that through this work he plays a role in keeping the...
Irene Carvajal is a Costa Rican-American artist, working in printmaking, collage, video, performance and installation. Her work examines labor, gender and globalization through the lens of mass produced objects.
Irene has exhibited and participated in residencies in the United States, Japan, Mexico and Costa Rica. She has received multiple awards for the arts and arts education. She is a 2022 California Arts Council Fellow. Since 2020 she has been a part of We da People artist collective. She has taught at The San Francisco Art Institute, Stanford University and San Jose State...
Fred DeWitt was born in Oakland, CA. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, CA. He has a BA in Cinema Production from San Francisco State University and a MFA from University of California Berkeley. Dewitt is a research-based artist who sees materials as a cornerstone of cultural liberation and renewal. His art practice incorporates filmmaking, painting, sculpture, performance, and social practice. His most recent paintings fuse Asian woodblock printing techniques with Western oil painting. He uses ink, oil and natural pigments on paper, wood, silk, and canvas to...
Amy Elkins is a visual artist based in the Bay Area. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University. She works in photography, installation and sculpture and has spent the past fifteen years researching, creating and exhibiting work that explores the multifaceted nature of masculine identity as well as the psychological and sociological impacts of incarceration. Elkins has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, including at The High Museum of Art, South Bend Museum of Art, MSU Broad Museum,...
Emily Gui is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Moving between printmaking, sculpture, photography and installation, her work often pushes the boundaries of process and technique through layering and material experimentation. Her current work re-materializes objects and examines the nuances of human relationships with ubiquitous materials, from collections to garbage and everything in between. At the edge of familiar, her recent projects encourage slow-looking while challenging habits of devouring images and objects.
She has exhibited in galleries throughout the US including...
Bec Imrich is an artist, writer, and educator born in Cambridge, MA and living/working in San Francisco. Imrich’s interdisciplinary practice spans photography, sculpture, and drawing. She holds an MFA in Studio Art and MA in Visual and Critical Studies, both from California College of the Arts. She has taught at California College of the Arts, and worked in the education departments of the Phillips Collection and Aperture Foundation where she helped to develop Aperture’s visual literacy curriculum, Aperture On Sight.
Imrich’s practice mines the liminal space where elements of...
Sculptor Sahar Khoury emphasizes the virtues of the improvisational and the makeshift in purposefully off-kilter works that are amalgams of a range of media and techniques.“My natural inclination is to make unity out of unlikely materials. So maybe that is what I am interested in, points of unity rather than purity, purity just doesn’t exist in my worldview.”
Sahar Khoury (b. 1973) was born in Chicago, IL and lives and works in Oakland, CA. Trained as an anthropologist and working for many years on community-based research projects concerning structural vulnerability within Latinx...
Emma Logan (she/her) is an artist and educator based in Sonoma County, CA, USA. She combines a research and process driven practice with organic mediums like clay, wool, and paper to make sculpture and installation work. The tactile nature of these chosen mediums is an important link to her areas of focus: geographic identity, land use and access, agriculture, and sensory memory. Equally as important for her work is engagement with the viewer through touch, sound, smell, and taste.
Recent works have highlighted disparities in land and water access for agricultural...
Felicita Norris works primarily in painting and photography. Her works begin as reactions to personal experiences, although the images and themes represented are not strictly autobiographical. Acting as a stage for figures and objects, her paintings, drawings and photos depict unsettling images that respond to social constructions, institutions and politics. In creating relatable narratives that simultaneously hide and reveal, her “self-indulgent” themes shift between the domestic to specific aspects of desire and longing. Norris is also inspired by dreams and pop culture, typically using...
