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...
Arielle Rebek (she/her) is an Oakland-based artist and educator whose work employs photography and installation. Working across analog and digital technology, Rebek explores translations of space, markers of time, and the visual language of archives. Rebek’s process is one of intuitive action—walking, collecting, folding, wrapping—that is informed by a specific attention to the physicality of her materials. She is interested in how a photograph can simultaneously reveal and withhold information. Arielle’s recent work examines the human-altered landscape surrounding the Bay Area.
Samuel Wildman works in sculpture, video, and installation. As a handyman and a dad he spends his time negotiating small domestic crises in his home and other people’s homes. His practice is rooted in the strange and sometimes mystical bodies of knowledge embedded in the soft labor of caretakers, baby whisperers, and fixers. Rendered in broad strokes, the subject of his work is intimacy, care, and repair in the anthropocene and late-capitalism. He uses humor, metaphor, and absurdity to contextualize his day-to-day participation in systems that destroy and exploit things that he cares about...
Gaby Wolodarski is a Swedish/American artist based in Oakland, CA. Her painting and installation work uses a mix of humor, abstraction, figuration, and trompe l’oeil to probe fictions and contingencies of the contemporary human psyche, foregrounding ways in which the visible world is subject to pressures from our language-oriented brains. She holds a BA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Cornell University. She has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally in spaces including Hatch, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure,...
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...
