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...
Genevieve Quick is an interdisciplinary artist and arts writer whose work explores global identity and politics in speculative narratives, technology, and media-based practices. Through humorous science fiction narratives, Quick exaggerates disaporic identity into the intergalactic to address Otherness and displacement. She has exhibited at NTU CCA, Singapore; Wattis Institute, San Francisco; Asian Cultural Center, Gwangju, South Korea; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland; [2nd floor projects]; Royal Nonsuch Gallery; and Southern Exposure. Quick has been...
Gaia WXYZ @gaiaw.xyz (pronounced “wize”) is a multimedia creator who specializes in visual art, specifically comics, illustration, painting and design. Gaia was born and raised in West Palm Beach, FL and now lives in West Oakland, CA. They received a BA in American Studies from Tufts University (‘15) and an MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts (‘20). For as long as they can remember, art has been the major motivating force in their life, concocting characters and storylines in sketchbooks from an early...
