Rigid materials resist change under force. Malleable materials welcome this change and can be pressed or hammered into an entirely different shape without breaking or cracking. The materials I select for my work: copper, steel, brass, and silver all share this rigid/malleable dichotomy. They grow more rigid when stressed and yet have the ability to […]

I love a good tape measure.  I obsess over organizational flow charts, phone directories, diagrams, and maps.  It must be from my background in political science.  I’ll pore over these charts looking for others and myself — ourselves among others — everything in its place — justification in the world.  I have a desire for […]

I often feel that I am very similar to a nine-year-old boy. I have trouble sitting still, love stripes, dinosaurs, candy, overalls, trains, trucks, ask too many questions, bug people, run when I should be walking, and play when I should be listening, but probably not for the same reasons as most young boys. I am […]

Brittany Watkins is currently an MFA candidate at California College of the Arts in studio arts.  She received her BFA from Montana State University with an emphasis in sculpture. Her work uses found, obsolete, and every day materials to create environments that explore and catalog the personal histories of the detritus.  Through the use of […]

My aim is to rearrange reality through a process of equal parts creation and discovery. With a strong use of appropriation — whether it’s from canonical art history or the free section on Craigslist — I am attempting to recreate the world from the world, resulting in new and unexpected contexts.  The objects I make […]

I am an East Bay based Eritrean American interdisciplinary artist and urbanist working to honor and better the lives of people and places that have built and nurtured me. I work with my many communities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and abroad. I am dedicated to advancing and supporting larger sustainable and community […]

My artwork explores the impact of negative emotions, such as tension, anger, and discomfort, through sculptural forms.  I find that these negative emotions, though universally experienced on a personal level, are condemned as socially inacceptable to exhibit, particularly in the public sphere.  My goal is to provide a stage for these repressed emotions and appreciate […]

My work explores the strange way that we interact with technological simulations of natural things.  Humanity’s desire for more ubiquitous technology is at odds with its desire for a more primal experience.  We strive for more naturalistic interactions with technology while our interactions with nature itself are less and less common.  I do not believe […]

I am an interdisciplinary visual artist, but my process is entrenched in drawing.  It is the springboard to my creative ends as well as an honest and primal mechanism for my inner world to become tangible.  With drawing rooted as a fundamental part of my life, the scale of the work I create manifests from […]

As a kid my mother and I would find and refurbish things like wooden chairs and tables.  Much of our time together was spent creatively.  She taught me how to paint walls, how to sand and stain wood.  She showed me how to sew and cut up our jeans to make pillows for the couch.  […]