Sowing Agency is inspired by the fight for environmental justice, activating our Asian Pacific Islander communities to engage in the issues of today’s climate crisis. With a number of artistic disciplines represented, the pieces featured in the show work to realign our relationships with the Earth through introspection and collective leadership. The exhibition’s broad coalition of community partners amplifies calls for increased action to challenge extractive industries, monocultures, corporate greed and colonization. Weaving local and global climate resistance into our cultural consciousness, Sowing Agency is a visual and poetic address to the grief and resiliency rooted in “seeding the future.”
Presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as part of the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival: Forging Our Futures - SoMa & Chinatown.
Presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as part of the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival: Forging Our Futures - SoMa & Chinatown.
Dhai Akhar: Seeded in Love
A Multidisciplinary Show
Artist Talk and Art Showcase
Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 7 PM PDT – 8 PM PDT
Public · Hosted by InnerEye Art
Online with Facebook Live
Curated by Pallavi Sharma
Featured Artists: Ellen Bepp, Shailly Sharma Bhatnagar, Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, Reiko Fujii, Indrani Nayar Gall,
Nirmal Raja, and Irene Wibawa.
To honor the power of radical love "Dhai Akhar: Seeded in Love" features artists and writers whose art practice creates a dialogic space for healing and transformation. Inspired by the teaching, poetry, and the life of saint-poet 'Kabir', the showcase urges inclusion, acceptance, and equity for all, standing firmly against the instigation of hate and communal violence.
Dhai Akhar: Seeded in Love
A Multidisciplinary Show
Artist Talk and Art Showcase
Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 7 PM PDT – 8 PM PDT
Public · Hosted by InnerEye Art
Online with Facebook Live
Curated by Pallavi Sharma
Featured Artists: Ellen Bepp, Shailly Sharma Bhatnagar, Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, Reiko Fujii, Indrani Nayar Gall,
Nirmal Raja, and Irene Wibawa.
To honor the power of radical love "Dhai Akhar: Seeded in Love" features artists and writers whose art practice creates a dialogic space for healing and transformation. Inspired by the teaching, poetry, and the life of saint-poet 'Kabir', the showcase urges inclusion, acceptance, and equity for all, standing firmly against the instigation of hate and communal violence.
Wander Woman 2 Virtual Artist Talk & Presentation
Friday, June 5, 2020 at 8:00pm-9:30pm PDT
Wander Woman 2, the second iteration of Wander Woman, provides an empowering and engaging platform for Bay Area-local, APA immigrant women of color, who vary in professional backgrounds from emerging to established. Its mission is to highlight the artists and their work, and to amplify their voices by presenting significant conversations surrounding issues of equity, gender roles, and underrepresentation. Further, it aims to foster deep connections within the community and beyond.
The artists will produce a diverse range of artistic media stemming from photo-based conceptual work and material explorations such as performance, photography, print media, sculpture, video — intending to transcend geographic boundaries. Wander Woman 2 will present nuanced, intricate perspectives and narratives that have developed beyond the initial concept of identity in their art practice. Collectively, this exhibition explores complex identity politics such as diaspora, femininity, liminality, and power dynamics.
Lead Producing Artist: Rea Lynn de Guzman
Exhibiting Artists: Kimberley Acebo Arteche, Aynur Girgin Westen, Kiana Honarmand, Kacy Jung, Mido Lee, Joyce Nojima, Azin Seraj, Pallavi Sharma, Pamela Ybañez, and Minoosh Zomorodinia
Friday, June 5, 2020 at 8:00pm-9:30pm PDT
Wander Woman 2, the second iteration of Wander Woman, provides an empowering and engaging platform for Bay Area-local, APA immigrant women of color, who vary in professional backgrounds from emerging to established. Its mission is to highlight the artists and their work, and to amplify their voices by presenting significant conversations surrounding issues of equity, gender roles, and underrepresentation. Further, it aims to foster deep connections within the community and beyond.
The artists will produce a diverse range of artistic media stemming from photo-based conceptual work and material explorations such as performance, photography, print media, sculpture, video — intending to transcend geographic boundaries. Wander Woman 2 will present nuanced, intricate perspectives and narratives that have developed beyond the initial concept of identity in their art practice. Collectively, this exhibition explores complex identity politics such as diaspora, femininity, liminality, and power dynamics.
Lead Producing Artist: Rea Lynn de Guzman
Exhibiting Artists: Kimberley Acebo Arteche, Aynur Girgin Westen, Kiana Honarmand, Kacy Jung, Mido Lee, Joyce Nojima, Azin Seraj, Pallavi Sharma, Pamela Ybañez, and Minoosh Zomorodinia
Resisting Incarceration Culture: Art as Survival, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, January 21 – January 30
A group exhibition of CCA students, alumni, faculty, & staff, and their collaborators. Curated by Malic Amalya, Annah Anti-Palindrome, & Michael Washington.We have aimed for an exhibition that espouses an abolitionist politics, one that undoes our attachments to the cultural logics that makes the prison industrial complex appear normal and a necessary remedy to violence. The art included in this show helps us imagine a world where prison, immigration centers, jails, court rooms, internment camps, and other interlocking systems of incarceration are not seen as solutions to harm, but as reproducing harm on systemic levels. We have chosen works that encourage us to desire a different world, one where violence against the most vulnerable of society can be ended without prisons, and the roots of violence in general that plague the social order can be addressed and transformed in ways that do not rely on the police state or aggressive regimes of captivity.
Among the works included in the show are Shylah Pacheco Hamilton’s Irony of a Negro Policeman aka Roll Call, a short unsettling film that reminds us of the long history of the racist police state and its coopting and consumption of black bodies. In Tina Takemoto’s Warning Shot, Takemoto points us back to the history of Japanese American incarceration camps and their lethal impact on queer lives during World War II. The drawings that make up Consuelo Tupper’s Last Resource expose the calculated cruelty that accompanies the formalities of the criminalization of immigrant lives, as well as the complex constraints non-English speaking subjects have to navigate when directly affected by the prison industrial complex. Samaiya Zareef-Mustafa’s film If the Streetlights Could Talk offers first-hand accounts of the criminalization of everyday life in Oakland, California.
Participating artists include Claudia Bernardi and Central American Incarcerated Minors, Anthea Black and the Queers Crash the Beat Collective, Coaxoch, the Decolonial School at CCA, Valentina Miranda Di Castri, Beatriz Escobar, Arthur Gonzalez, Shylah Pacheco Hamilton, Angela Lutz, Claudia Lutz, Jason McDonald, Pallavi Sharma, Karen Seneferu, Katie Smart, Allison Smith, Tina Takemoto, Sonya Thorne, Consuelo Tupper, Amanda Walters, Christine Wang, and Samaiyah Zareef-Mustafa.
About the Curators:
Malic Amalya is an experimental filmmaker whose films have screened across the US and the world. His work attends to the emotional impact of attachment and estrangement, and the corresponding political repercussions of alliances and enmities. His latest film, RUN!, connects the mythologies and national narratives surrounding war, electrical power plants, insecticide, and transgender inclusion in (and exclusion from) the military. At CCA, Malic teaches 4D in the First Year Department and Civil Disobedience & Artistic Unrest in the UDIST Program, and is a Mentor for the First Year Honors Program.
Annah Anti-Palindrome is a sound-artist, writer, and multi-media performer. She has three full length albums of music— White Knuckle Sonnets, An(n)a(h)log, and Dangling Modifiers— which she has toured with throughout the US and Canada. A Lambda Literary Fellow, staff writer for Everyday Feminism Magazine, and co-founder of Oakland’s Deviant Type Press, her writing has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. Her first full-length book of poetry, DNA Hymn, was released in October 2016 by Sibling Rivalry Press. Annah teaches in the Critical Studies Department at CCA.
Michael Washington is an adjunct faculty member in the Critical Studies Department at CCA. He earned his Ph.D in Continental Philosophy from Kingston University (UK), and his research lies at the intersections of queer theory, critical race studies, and Black feminist thought.
Image: Jason McDonald, Mass Incarceration Black Figure, 2018, glass.
A group exhibition of CCA students, alumni, faculty, & staff, and their collaborators. Curated by Malic Amalya, Annah Anti-Palindrome, & Michael Washington.
We have aimed for an exhibition that espouses an abolitionist politics, one that undoes our attachments to the cultural logics that makes the prison industrial complex appear normal and a necessary remedy to violence. The art included in this show helps us imagine a world where prison, immigration centers, jails, court rooms, internment camps, and other interlocking systems of incarceration are not seen as solutions to harm, but as reproducing harm on systemic levels. We have chosen works that encourage us to desire a different world, one where violence against the most vulnerable of society can be ended without prisons, and the roots of violence in general that plague the social order can be addressed and transformed in ways that do not rely on the police state or aggressive regimes of captivity.
Among the works included in the show are Shylah Pacheco Hamilton’s Irony of a Negro Policeman aka Roll Call, a short unsettling film that reminds us of the long history of the racist police state and its coopting and consumption of black bodies. In Tina Takemoto’s Warning Shot, Takemoto points us back to the history of Japanese American incarceration camps and their lethal impact on queer lives during World War II. The drawings that make up Consuelo Tupper’s Last Resource expose the calculated cruelty that accompanies the formalities of the criminalization of immigrant lives, as well as the complex constraints non-English speaking subjects have to navigate when directly affected by the prison industrial complex. Samaiya Zareef-Mustafa’s film If the Streetlights Could Talk offers first-hand accounts of the criminalization of everyday life in Oakland, California.
Participating artists include Claudia Bernardi and Central American Incarcerated Minors, Anthea Black and the Queers Crash the Beat Collective, Coaxoch, the Decolonial School at CCA, Valentina Miranda Di Castri, Beatriz Escobar, Arthur Gonzalez, Shylah Pacheco Hamilton, Angela Lutz, Claudia Lutz, Jason McDonald, Pallavi Sharma, Karen Seneferu, Katie Smart, Allison Smith, Tina Takemoto, Sonya Thorne, Consuelo Tupper, Amanda Walters, Christine Wang, and Samaiyah Zareef-Mustafa.
About the Curators:
Malic Amalya is an experimental filmmaker whose films have screened across the US and the world. His work attends to the emotional impact of attachment and estrangement, and the corresponding political repercussions of alliances and enmities. His latest film, RUN!, connects the mythologies and national narratives surrounding war, electrical power plants, insecticide, and transgender inclusion in (and exclusion from) the military. At CCA, Malic teaches 4D in the First Year Department and Civil Disobedience & Artistic Unrest in the UDIST Program, and is a Mentor for the First Year Honors Program.
Annah Anti-Palindrome is a sound-artist, writer, and multi-media performer. She has three full length albums of music— White Knuckle Sonnets, An(n)a(h)log, and Dangling Modifiers— which she has toured with throughout the US and Canada. A Lambda Literary Fellow, staff writer for Everyday Feminism Magazine, and co-founder of Oakland’s Deviant Type Press, her writing has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. Her first full-length book of poetry, DNA Hymn, was released in October 2016 by Sibling Rivalry Press. Annah teaches in the Critical Studies Department at CCA.
Michael Washington is an adjunct faculty member in the Critical Studies Department at CCA. He earned his Ph.D in Continental Philosophy from Kingston University (UK), and his research lies at the intersections of queer theory, critical race studies, and Black feminist thought.
Image: Jason McDonald, Mass Incarceration Black Figure, 2018, glass.
Among the works included in the show are Shylah Pacheco Hamilton’s Irony of a Negro Policeman aka Roll Call, a short unsettling film that reminds us of the long history of the racist police state and its coopting and consumption of black bodies. In Tina Takemoto’s Warning Shot, Takemoto points us back to the history of Japanese American incarceration camps and their lethal impact on queer lives during World War II. The drawings that make up Consuelo Tupper’s Last Resource expose the calculated cruelty that accompanies the formalities of the criminalization of immigrant lives, as well as the complex constraints non-English speaking subjects have to navigate when directly affected by the prison industrial complex. Samaiya Zareef-Mustafa’s film If the Streetlights Could Talk offers first-hand accounts of the criminalization of everyday life in Oakland, California.
Participating artists include Claudia Bernardi and Central American Incarcerated Minors, Anthea Black and the Queers Crash the Beat Collective, Coaxoch, the Decolonial School at CCA, Valentina Miranda Di Castri, Beatriz Escobar, Arthur Gonzalez, Shylah Pacheco Hamilton, Angela Lutz, Claudia Lutz, Jason McDonald, Pallavi Sharma, Karen Seneferu, Katie Smart, Allison Smith, Tina Takemoto, Sonya Thorne, Consuelo Tupper, Amanda Walters, Christine Wang, and Samaiyah Zareef-Mustafa.
About the Curators:
Malic Amalya is an experimental filmmaker whose films have screened across the US and the world. His work attends to the emotional impact of attachment and estrangement, and the corresponding political repercussions of alliances and enmities. His latest film, RUN!, connects the mythologies and national narratives surrounding war, electrical power plants, insecticide, and transgender inclusion in (and exclusion from) the military. At CCA, Malic teaches 4D in the First Year Department and Civil Disobedience & Artistic Unrest in the UDIST Program, and is a Mentor for the First Year Honors Program.
Annah Anti-Palindrome is a sound-artist, writer, and multi-media performer. She has three full length albums of music— White Knuckle Sonnets, An(n)a(h)log, and Dangling Modifiers— which she has toured with throughout the US and Canada. A Lambda Literary Fellow, staff writer for Everyday Feminism Magazine, and co-founder of Oakland’s Deviant Type Press, her writing has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. Her first full-length book of poetry, DNA Hymn, was released in October 2016 by Sibling Rivalry Press. Annah teaches in the Critical Studies Department at CCA.
Michael Washington is an adjunct faculty member in the Critical Studies Department at CCA. He earned his Ph.D in Continental Philosophy from Kingston University (UK), and his research lies at the intersections of queer theory, critical race studies, and Black feminist thought.
Image: Jason McDonald, Mass Incarceration Black Figure, 2018, glass.
A group exhibition of CCA students, alumni, faculty, & staff, and their collaborators. Curated by Malic Amalya, Annah Anti-Palindrome, & Michael Washington.
We have aimed for an exhibition that espouses an abolitionist politics, one that undoes our attachments to the cultural logics that makes the prison industrial complex appear normal and a necessary remedy to violence. The art included in this show helps us imagine a world where prison, immigration centers, jails, court rooms, internment camps, and other interlocking systems of incarceration are not seen as solutions to harm, but as reproducing harm on systemic levels. We have chosen works that encourage us to desire a different world, one where violence against the most vulnerable of society can be ended without prisons, and the roots of violence in general that plague the social order can be addressed and transformed in ways that do not rely on the police state or aggressive regimes of captivity.
Among the works included in the show are Shylah Pacheco Hamilton’s Irony of a Negro Policeman aka Roll Call, a short unsettling film that reminds us of the long history of the racist police state and its coopting and consumption of black bodies. In Tina Takemoto’s Warning Shot, Takemoto points us back to the history of Japanese American incarceration camps and their lethal impact on queer lives during World War II. The drawings that make up Consuelo Tupper’s Last Resource expose the calculated cruelty that accompanies the formalities of the criminalization of immigrant lives, as well as the complex constraints non-English speaking subjects have to navigate when directly affected by the prison industrial complex. Samaiya Zareef-Mustafa’s film If the Streetlights Could Talk offers first-hand accounts of the criminalization of everyday life in Oakland, California.
Participating artists include Claudia Bernardi and Central American Incarcerated Minors, Anthea Black and the Queers Crash the Beat Collective, Coaxoch, the Decolonial School at CCA, Valentina Miranda Di Castri, Beatriz Escobar, Arthur Gonzalez, Shylah Pacheco Hamilton, Angela Lutz, Claudia Lutz, Jason McDonald, Pallavi Sharma, Karen Seneferu, Katie Smart, Allison Smith, Tina Takemoto, Sonya Thorne, Consuelo Tupper, Amanda Walters, Christine Wang, and Samaiyah Zareef-Mustafa.
About the Curators:
Malic Amalya is an experimental filmmaker whose films have screened across the US and the world. His work attends to the emotional impact of attachment and estrangement, and the corresponding political repercussions of alliances and enmities. His latest film, RUN!, connects the mythologies and national narratives surrounding war, electrical power plants, insecticide, and transgender inclusion in (and exclusion from) the military. At CCA, Malic teaches 4D in the First Year Department and Civil Disobedience & Artistic Unrest in the UDIST Program, and is a Mentor for the First Year Honors Program.
Annah Anti-Palindrome is a sound-artist, writer, and multi-media performer. She has three full length albums of music— White Knuckle Sonnets, An(n)a(h)log, and Dangling Modifiers— which she has toured with throughout the US and Canada. A Lambda Literary Fellow, staff writer for Everyday Feminism Magazine, and co-founder of Oakland’s Deviant Type Press, her writing has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. Her first full-length book of poetry, DNA Hymn, was released in October 2016 by Sibling Rivalry Press. Annah teaches in the Critical Studies Department at CCA.
Michael Washington is an adjunct faculty member in the Critical Studies Department at CCA. He earned his Ph.D in Continental Philosophy from Kingston University (UK), and his research lies at the intersections of queer theory, critical race studies, and Black feminist thought.
Image: Jason McDonald, Mass Incarceration Black Figure, 2018, glass.
Open-Ended: Works by Pallavi Sharma
(Solo show)
Artist Reception at CounterPULSE
80 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Thursday, September 13th, 6-8pm
EXHIBITION DATES: September 11–November 6
Open-Ended: Works by Pallavi Sharma
(Solo show)
Artist Reception at CounterPULSE
80 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Thursday, September 13th, 6-8pm
EXHIBITION DATES: September 11–November 6
Reclaimed BaggageMarch 27 - May 18, 2018
Migration and globalization play a pivotal role on the formation of identity. Despite overwhelming pressure on women to be the transmitters and upholders of culture, migration is an opportunity for reinventing the self as they navigate their new cultural landscape. Group exhibition of artwork by South Asian American women curated by Nirmal Raja.
Public Reception, March 29, 5 - 6:30 p.m. NIU Art Museum with panel discussion 6:40 - 8 p.m., TBD.
Migration and globalization play a pivotal role on the formation of identity. Despite overwhelming pressure on women to be the transmitters and upholders of culture, migration is an opportunity for reinventing the self as they navigate their new cultural landscape. Group exhibition of artwork by South Asian American women curated by Nirmal Raja.
Public Reception, March 29, 5 - 6:30 p.m. NIU Art Museum with panel discussion 6:40 - 8 p.m., TBD.
Curated by Pallavi Sharma
Venue: Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, San Ramon, CA 94582
Exhibition Dates: October 3- 29, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 7, 2pm to 5 pm
Collborative projects-
Quiling Resilience with Rewire Community and Beeward project with Elementary through High school stuents from San Ramon, CA
Venue: Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, San Ramon, CA 94582
Exhibition Dates: October 3- 29, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 7, 2pm to 5 pm
Collborative projects-
Quiling Resilience with Rewire Community and Beeward project with Elementary through High school stuents from San Ramon, CA
Curated by Michelle Lee
Venue: SOMArts Cultural Center, Main Gallery, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco.
Exhibition Dates: May 4-25, 2017. Tuesday through Friday from 12-7pm, and Saturdays from 12-5pm.
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 4, 2017. 6-9pm. Special performances: dNaga Dance, Erin O’Brien, Susan Almazol.
Closing Reception: Thursday, May 25, 2016. 6-9pm
Venue: SOMArts Cultural Center, Main Gallery, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco.
Exhibition Dates: May 4-25, 2017. Tuesday through Friday from 12-7pm, and Saturdays from 12-5pm.
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 4, 2017. 6-9pm. Special performances: dNaga Dance, Erin O’Brien, Susan Almazol.
Closing Reception: Thursday, May 25, 2016. 6-9pm
Liquid Stories: Asian American Narratives
Opening Reception: October 8/ 2pm- 5pm
Exhibition Dates: October 3- 28
Monday -Saturda/ 8am to 5pm
Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, 12501 San Ramon, CA 94582
Opening Reception: October 8/ 2pm- 5pm
Exhibition Dates: October 3- 28
Monday -Saturda/ 8am to 5pm
Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, 12501 San Ramon, CA 94582
Transformations
Asian American Women Artists Association's 25th Anniversary exhibition.
Opening Reception: July 30 / 1-3PM
Exhibition Dates: July 30 - Sept. 3
Wed-Fri / 12-5PM
Sat / 11:00AM-3:00PM
Harrington Gallery at the Firehouse Arts Center, 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton, CA 94566
Asian American Women Artists Association's 25th Anniversary exhibition.
Opening Reception: July 30 / 1-3PM
Exhibition Dates: July 30 - Sept. 3
Wed-Fri / 12-5PM
Sat / 11:00AM-3:00PM
Harrington Gallery at the Firehouse Arts Center, 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton, CA 94566
Vision: An Artist’s Perspective
Curated byGutfreund Cornett Art withUniteWomen.org.
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 16, 4:30-7pm
Kaleid Gallery, 88 S 4th Street
San Jose, California
Exhibitions Dates: July 5 –29, 2016
introduces thirty-eight female artists from around the US and Canada.
Curated byGutfreund Cornett Art withUniteWomen.org.
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 16, 4:30-7pm
Kaleid Gallery, 88 S 4th Street
San Jose, California
Exhibitions Dates: July 5 –29, 2016
introduces thirty-eight female artists from around the US and Canada.
Aesthetic Blitz
"Resistance"
Opening Reception: Friday, May 6, 2016, 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates: May 6-27, 2016
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 12-7pm & Saturday, 12-5pm
SOMArts: 934 Brannan Street, between 8th & 9th
The Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC) presents Resistance, a visual arts exhibition as part of the 19th annual United States of Asian America Festival. Curated by Pamela Ybañez, this group exhibition features multidisciplinary works of 10 Asian and Pacific Islander artists from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond exploring themes of gentrification, displacement, placemaking, and the artist’s role in the community through installation, performance, video, and more. Creating a space of expression, exploration, and reflection, the exhibition strives to engage community members to feel empowered and arts communities in San Francisco, Oakland, and elsewhere to intersect in order to present possible solutions around the complex issues of displacement that artists and a multitude of others currently face.
Resistance is presented at SOMArts in partnership with APICC. For more information, visit: http://www.somarts.org/apiccresistance/
Exhibiting Artists: Rea de Guzman, Taro Hattori,Bonnie WaiLee Kwong, Việt Lê, Carlo Ricafort, Janna Añonuevo Langholz, Eryn Kimura, Marcius Noceda, HuiMeng Wang
Pallavi Sharma
Opening Reception: Friday, May 6, 2016, 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates: May 6-27, 2016
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 12-7pm & Saturday, 12-5pm
SOMArts: 934 Brannan Street, between 8th & 9th
The Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC) presents Resistance, a visual arts exhibition as part of the 19th annual United States of Asian America Festival. Curated by Pamela Ybañez, this group exhibition features multidisciplinary works of 10 Asian and Pacific Islander artists from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond exploring themes of gentrification, displacement, placemaking, and the artist’s role in the community through installation, performance, video, and more. Creating a space of expression, exploration, and reflection, the exhibition strives to engage community members to feel empowered and arts communities in San Francisco, Oakland, and elsewhere to intersect in order to present possible solutions around the complex issues of displacement that artists and a multitude of others currently face.
Resistance is presented at SOMArts in partnership with APICC. For more information, visit: http://www.somarts.org/apiccresistance/
Exhibiting Artists: Rea de Guzman, Taro Hattori,Bonnie WaiLee Kwong, Việt Lê, Carlo Ricafort, Janna Añonuevo Langholz, Eryn Kimura, Marcius Noceda, HuiMeng Wang
Pallavi Sharma
"Rain Percussions" curated by Margaret Niven
March 23- May 8, 2016 Artist Reception: 26th March Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz 21 artists from Santa Cruz to Hong Kong with work in video, sound, installation, printmaking, painting, photography, sculpture and assemblage. |
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Declarations for the New Year" at Southern Exposure
Exhibition on view: January 9 – 30, 2016
Closing Reception: Saturday, January 30, 2016
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 6:00 PM
Southern Exposure and Related Tactics Collective (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nate Watson) invite 40 artists, writers, cultural producers, and civic-minded instigators to make short declarations or calls to action for 2016. The exhibition is the second iteration of our successful 4x40 group program.
Declarations will manifest in four separate forms – posters designed by Shawn Tamaribuchi, postcards, buttons, and radical mapping – so that audiences may take away these messages as provocations or reminders to post at home, send to a friend, and wear on their body. With this gathering of provocations, we aim to spark a dialogue to carry us forward in the coming year.
Exhibition on view: January 9 – 30, 2016
Closing Reception: Saturday, January 30, 2016
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 6:00 PM
Southern Exposure and Related Tactics Collective (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nate Watson) invite 40 artists, writers, cultural producers, and civic-minded instigators to make short declarations or calls to action for 2016. The exhibition is the second iteration of our successful 4x40 group program.
Declarations will manifest in four separate forms – posters designed by Shawn Tamaribuchi, postcards, buttons, and radical mapping – so that audiences may take away these messages as provocations or reminders to post at home, send to a friend, and wear on their body. With this gathering of provocations, we aim to spark a dialogue to carry us forward in the coming year.
Women In Art - Herstory
February 26- March 26
Stockton, CA
Hungry Ghosts Presented by
The Asian American Women Artist Association (AAWAA), Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC), and Manilatown Heritage Foundation are co-presenting the exhibiton.
Dates: April 2nd – April 29th, 2015
Location: I-Hotel Manilatown Center Gallery, 868 Kearny St. San Francisco, CA 94108
Hours: Wednesdays – Sundays, 1:00 – 6:00PM
Opening Reception: April 2nd, 2015, 6pm – 9:00pm
Closing Reception, Literary Reading & Community Potluck: April 29th, 2015, 6pm – 9:00pm
Admission to the exhibition is free and open to the public, with a suggested donation for the Opening and Closing Receptions.
The concept of “Hungry Ghosts” is common throughout many Asian cultures and religions. It typically refers to the lost spirit of a deceitful, jealous or greedy person or someone who died in a violent or unhappy way. These hungry ghosts roam the earth burdened by unmet needs, insatiable hungers, and intense desires often for a particular substance or object. Placating these ghosts often involves special ceremonies and offerings of fine food, “ghost money”, burning incense, and candles.
The Hungry Ghosts exhibition explores the unsatiated ghosts of our individual and collective historical struggles and the ways they continue to haunt us today. In the era “after identity politics” when many have been quick to proclaim America as being “Post-Racial” or “Post-Feminist”, we have seen the specters of unresolved struggles with racism, sexism, homophobia, and economic inequities re-emerge into public consciousness in both overtly violent and subtle ways. Illuminating these shape-shifting specters (and their illusive progeny) of historical struggles, the artists in this exhibition will serve as mediums for our Hungry Ghosts.
The Asian American Women Artist Association (AAWAA), Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC), and Manilatown Heritage Foundation are co-presenting the exhibiton.
Dates: April 2nd – April 29th, 2015
Location: I-Hotel Manilatown Center Gallery, 868 Kearny St. San Francisco, CA 94108
Hours: Wednesdays – Sundays, 1:00 – 6:00PM
Opening Reception: April 2nd, 2015, 6pm – 9:00pm
Closing Reception, Literary Reading & Community Potluck: April 29th, 2015, 6pm – 9:00pm
Admission to the exhibition is free and open to the public, with a suggested donation for the Opening and Closing Receptions.
The concept of “Hungry Ghosts” is common throughout many Asian cultures and religions. It typically refers to the lost spirit of a deceitful, jealous or greedy person or someone who died in a violent or unhappy way. These hungry ghosts roam the earth burdened by unmet needs, insatiable hungers, and intense desires often for a particular substance or object. Placating these ghosts often involves special ceremonies and offerings of fine food, “ghost money”, burning incense, and candles.
The Hungry Ghosts exhibition explores the unsatiated ghosts of our individual and collective historical struggles and the ways they continue to haunt us today. In the era “after identity politics” when many have been quick to proclaim America as being “Post-Racial” or “Post-Feminist”, we have seen the specters of unresolved struggles with racism, sexism, homophobia, and economic inequities re-emerge into public consciousness in both overtly violent and subtle ways. Illuminating these shape-shifting specters (and their illusive progeny) of historical struggles, the artists in this exhibition will serve as mediums for our Hungry Ghosts.
Intersections: Asian American Narratives
Group Show curated by Inner Eye
Lindsay Dirx Brown Gallery, San Ramon
February
Group Show curated by Inner Eye
Lindsay Dirx Brown Gallery, San Ramon
February
Art Takes Miami, Scope Art Show, (Digital Showing)
Miami, FL
Sunday, December 7th
Miami, FL
Sunday, December 7th
National League of American Women Show, John O' Lague Gallery, Hayward, CA
December 2014
December 2014
Crossing the Hyphen: Art by Pallavi Sharma
Curated by Demetri Broxton
Addison Street Windows Gallery
Berkeley, CA
May 31 to July 9
Curated by Demetri Broxton
Addison Street Windows Gallery
Berkeley, CA
May 31 to July 9
Our American Stories by Asian American Artists
Curated by Judy Shintani
Asian American Artists Illuminate History, Culture, and Identity.
March 15 – September 26
“Our American Stories, Asian American Artists Illuminate History, Culture, and Identity” features stories that are thought provoking and visually compelling.
The exhibition is at the Madeleine Haas Russell Gallery, 2nd Floor, Rosenberg Library, City College of San Francisco. It is on view March 15 – September 26, 2014, with the Opening 5:30-6:30pm and Artist Panel 6:30-7:30pm on April 23, 2014 in the gallery.
Participating artists are: Susan Almazol, Salma Arastu, Jung Ran Bae, MalPina Chan, Karen Chew, Reiko Fujii, Kathy Fujii-Oka, Nancy Hom, MariNaomi, Pallavi Sharma, Roger Shimomura, Scott Tsuchitani.
Viewing hours:http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/en/library/about-library/library-locations.html
In addition to the very generous support of the Madeleine Haas Russell Gallery, Rosenberg Library, City College of San Francisco, the exhibition is sponsored in part by Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center of San Francisco.
This exhibition is also included in the United States of Asian America Festival 2014 - "The Spaces Between" apiculturalcenter.org
Curated by Judy Shintani
Asian American Artists Illuminate History, Culture, and Identity.
March 15 – September 26
“Our American Stories, Asian American Artists Illuminate History, Culture, and Identity” features stories that are thought provoking and visually compelling.
The exhibition is at the Madeleine Haas Russell Gallery, 2nd Floor, Rosenberg Library, City College of San Francisco. It is on view March 15 – September 26, 2014, with the Opening 5:30-6:30pm and Artist Panel 6:30-7:30pm on April 23, 2014 in the gallery.
Participating artists are: Susan Almazol, Salma Arastu, Jung Ran Bae, MalPina Chan, Karen Chew, Reiko Fujii, Kathy Fujii-Oka, Nancy Hom, MariNaomi, Pallavi Sharma, Roger Shimomura, Scott Tsuchitani.
Viewing hours:http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/en/library/about-library/library-locations.html
In addition to the very generous support of the Madeleine Haas Russell Gallery, Rosenberg Library, City College of San Francisco, the exhibition is sponsored in part by Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center of San Francisco.
This exhibition is also included in the United States of Asian America Festival 2014 - "The Spaces Between" apiculturalcenter.org
Disconnect
2014 NCWCA Members Exhibition
Transmission Gallery
During Oakland Art Murmur
Opening Reception
Friday June 6, 6-9 pm
Exhibition June 6 - July 19, 2014 Disconnect Artists
Elizabeth Addison, MGP Andersen, Salma Arastu, Gretchen Blais, Yvette Brown, Amanda Chaudhary, Belinda Chlouber, Lisa Chu, Marsha Connell, Sherri Cornett, Jennifer Ewing, Miriam Fabbri, Katrin Geng, Karen Gutfreund, Kelly Hammargren, Stephanie V. Hogen, Bernadette Howard, Elaine Jason, Judy Johnson-Williams, Joanna Katz, Jeannette Kiel, Mido Lee, Juliet Mevi, Barbara Milman, Jane Neilson, Miwako Nishizawa, Priscilla Otani, Jacqueline Rubinstein, Irene Schlesinger, Sondra Schwetman, Ariella Seidenberg, Pallavi Sharma, Judy Shintani, Mary Shisler, Ruth Petersen Shorer, Sally Stewart, Zoe Thiele-Seidenberg, Michelle Waters, Vera Ximenes, Marian Yap and Veronica Yazmin.
About Disconnect
The forty-one artists in this exhibition responded to the word "disconnect" in ways that ranged from personal experiences to feminist, environmental and socio-political concerns.Their works were selected by NCWCA Exhibitions Chair Kelly Hammargren in partnership with the Transmission Gallery owners Ruth Santee and Cameron Brian.
2014 NCWCA Members Exhibition
Transmission Gallery
During Oakland Art Murmur
Opening Reception
Friday June 6, 6-9 pm
Exhibition June 6 - July 19, 2014 Disconnect Artists
Elizabeth Addison, MGP Andersen, Salma Arastu, Gretchen Blais, Yvette Brown, Amanda Chaudhary, Belinda Chlouber, Lisa Chu, Marsha Connell, Sherri Cornett, Jennifer Ewing, Miriam Fabbri, Katrin Geng, Karen Gutfreund, Kelly Hammargren, Stephanie V. Hogen, Bernadette Howard, Elaine Jason, Judy Johnson-Williams, Joanna Katz, Jeannette Kiel, Mido Lee, Juliet Mevi, Barbara Milman, Jane Neilson, Miwako Nishizawa, Priscilla Otani, Jacqueline Rubinstein, Irene Schlesinger, Sondra Schwetman, Ariella Seidenberg, Pallavi Sharma, Judy Shintani, Mary Shisler, Ruth Petersen Shorer, Sally Stewart, Zoe Thiele-Seidenberg, Michelle Waters, Vera Ximenes, Marian Yap and Veronica Yazmin.
About Disconnect
The forty-one artists in this exhibition responded to the word "disconnect" in ways that ranged from personal experiences to feminist, environmental and socio-political concerns.Their works were selected by NCWCA Exhibitions Chair Kelly Hammargren in partnership with the Transmission Gallery owners Ruth Santee and Cameron Brian.