O’Arwisters’ latest body of work, “Cheesecake” is flashier, with brightly colored fabrics, hot pink lace, gold tassels. In collaboration with the ceramic department at Cal State Long Beach, he now recycles broken pieces from their “shard yard.”
Ramekon O’Arwisters receives a significant commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission for the new Southeast Health Center, located at 2401 Keith Street in San Francisco.
Like a pearl diver, ceramic sculptor Linda Sormin retrieves scattered fragments, petrified gestures, and deposits of culture from life’s unstable and accumulating existential reef to construct unruly odes to contemporary experience.
Hello, friends! For this edition of #cuagrevisit we’re dropping in on Linda Sormin, who is based in New York City.
Jefferson Pinder’s work provokes commentary about race and struggle. Focusing primarily with neon, found objects, and video, Pinder investigates identity through the most dynamic circumstances and materials.
Amalia Galdona Broche transforms fiber into shape-shifting woven figurative sculpture that is, by turns, Gothic, primordial, and shamanistic. Her arsenal of fabrication methods is protean. She twists, knots, weaves, binds, wraps, and pins textiles, both found and constructed, into narratives of metamorphosis, erotic possibility, and spiritual quests. Born in Cuba, Galdona Broche’s childhood was […]
On a hot day in 1919, an attack on African American teenagers near a Chicago beach stoked long-standing tensions between white and black residents.
On this episode, we hear from artist Jefferson Pinder about his performance art piece “THIS IS NOT A DRILL” performed at The Source on 14th Street in mid June 2019.
As a highlight of CulturalDC’s 20th Anniversary Season, alumni artist Jefferson Pinder will bring a limited-run engagement of a performance art piece exploring racial injustices in America to the historic U St and 14th St Corridors.
Sculptor and social practice artist Ramekon O’Arwisters has lived in the Bay Area since the early 1990’s, but he was born and raised in North Carolina.