Eirik Johnson (@orcawatch) is a photographic artist whose conceptually-grounded work examines the intersections of contemporary environmental, social, and cultural issues in America and beyond. Through presentation formats that range from photobooks to experiential photo and sound-based installation, Johnson’s photographic projects explore the marks and connections formed in the friction of this complicated relationship.
Janelle Abbott (@janellerabbott) is an artist and designer behind the sustainable fashion label JRAT, known for its transformation of reclaimed and found materials to create unique, zero-waste garments and objects. Densely pleated, boldly clashing, and unexpectedly rhythmic, Janelle’s work is scrappy, unapologetic, and a testament to just how much time and energy it takes for […]
Combining Conceptual Art, Land Art and Social Practice, Mark Brest van Kempen’s varied sculptures and performances often use the landscape itself as sculptural material. From the Free Speech Monument on the University of California, Berkeley campus to Land Exchange at the National Academy of Art in China, his work explores the range of emotions and […]
Tianzong (TZ) Jiang is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in the Bay Area. As an artist with a Chinese American background, he explores the intricate relationship between culture, identity, and history. Through video, installation, sculpture, and performance, he creates experimental interventions and idiosyncratic performances that undermine the seriousness of art-making and challenge conventional perceptions […]
Wacala! Studios is a creative duo composed of Camila Montero and Ale Raigoza. (fragmentation) (spectacle) (performance) Montero and Raigoza met in an animation class at California College of the Arts and began their stop motion journey together through various short form experimental animations. YUCK! WACALA! They have been collaborating since 2024 and have worked on […]
Nicole Shaffer is a Bay Area interdisciplinary artist with a focus on research-based installations. They incorporate historical research, family history, and passed-down craft techniques to make sculptures that center the nuance and beauty of divergent embodiments. Their work intercedes private and public spaces through the creation of “speculative furniture,” ceramic and upholstery sculptures that suggest […]
Vanessa Woods’ multidisciplinary practice incorporates photographs, photograms, photographic collages, installation, and sculpture to examine the malleability of motherhood. Exploring the gaps, tensions, and contradictions within maternal experience, she presents a body turned inside out—remade through her children’s bodies. Like motherhood itself, Woods’ artworks and installations are in constant flux, continually remixed and reconstructed. Through this […]
Yiming Clara is an artist raised in Beijing, living and working in Berkeley, CA. Working across sculpture, installation, performance, and social engagement, she is interested in how we move about in the world traversing between surfaces of material and of social construction. Her work takes impressions of the familiar as medium and constructs situations that […]