REMOTE EXHIBITIONS
Curated by Worth Ryder Art Gallery Student Interns
Curators: Lily Callender, Tay Tay Chung, Kat Davenport, Snow Guilfoyle, Karla Hernandez, Eugene Meg Kim, Joann Kim, Sam Kurtz, Lora Mathis, Jane McKay, Kim Pack, Liya Zhang, Ally Zhu
Exhibitions now available to view online: see links below!
Student curators enrolled in the Worth Ryder Art Gallery Student Internship Program have created a series of remote exhibitions featuring artists from our campus community and beyond. This project is the culmination of a semester’s study of remote exhibitions techniques.
The curators selected the artists, interviewed them to understand their practice and personal history, selected images of their artwork, identified the most appropriate display technique, and were responsible for all aspects of putting together the exhibitions.
The exhibitions are presented in different media and explore wide-ranging concepts. Virtual tours bring together artists who document the personal effects of the pandemic, who form communities of resistance in response to prejudice and anti-Asian violence, who have created interactive collaborative projects, and who explore the dual nature of the psyche through their work. Zines and catalogs explore artists’ responses to social distancing and isolation, grief and loss, migration and transnational identity, and the adornment of the body with tattoos. Curators have teamed up with The Future Histories Lab to present under-recognized histories of the Bay Area, and have explored new technologies to present art in unusual ways, including via telepresence robotics.
Monument to Extraction - A Virtual Tour of California History at the Albany Bulb, Curated by Kim Pack and Liya Zhang. Project Curated by Susan Moffat and Melody Chang.
Monument to Extraction
A Virtual Tour of California History at the Albany Bulb
Curated by Kim Pack and Liya Zhang
Labor - The Unnamed Dead by Carolina Hernandez, Dynamite - The Giant Powder Company by Choyang Ponsar, Housing - Codornices Village by Kimberly Pack and Roalla Toy, Oil - Home Fires by Brody Paulo, Transportation - Rivers of Concrete and Asphalt by Madeleine Fraix, Bricks - Bricks and Walls by Louana Garraud and Julia Park, Food - Canned Sunshine by Haley Gray and Emily Gui, Shipping - The Magic Box by Amy Deng and Heidi Dong
The Monument to Extraction project was created and curated by Susan Moffat and Melody Chang: monumenttoextraction.org
Telepresence Robotics Exhibition
Featuring: Joann Kim & Eugene Meg Kim
Viewers can drive a robot around the gallery to see the work. Check here 12-4pm, Wednesday, May 12th for a link to the telepresence robot!
As new modes of art display and viewership emerge during the pandemic, what was once a direct, present contact between observer and work of art is transformed through the mediation of a technological third party. The telepresence robot, as an avatar engaging in public space and directed by a viewer in their own private space, is permitting new modes of viewership as the gallery visit becomes both a more intimate and accessible experience.
Curated by Snow Guilfoyle, Joann Kim, and Eugene Meg Kim
Eugene Meg Kim, Forget Me Not, 2020. Mechanical sculpture / projector, 12” x 8” x 12”
In the Midst of the Pandemic
A catalog featuring artists Seongeun Bak, Catherine Hsu, Victoria Lupian, Emily Mistica, and Arianna Williamson, whose work explores how COVID has impacted their lives and their experiences as art students.
Curated by Karla Hernandez
In the Midst of the Pandemic catalog curated by Karla Hernandez, featuring Who am I to You? by Arianna Williamson, 2021.
Loss / Grief / Mourning
A catalog featuring: Yesi Avila-Cortez, Samantha Greene, Giovanna Lomanto, Jane Ann McKay, and Arianna Williamson.
Art is often used as a form of therapy and coping. As tragedy and struggle is faced and experienced, artists of all creeds and media use creation to process.
Curated by Jane Ann McKay
Yesi Avila-Cortez, Self-Haunting Series 3, 2021. From Loss / Grief / Mourning catalog by Jane Ann McKay
View of Pandemic Sh**Show, curated by Tay Tay Chung. image features work by Yubin Sul, Ying Luo, Elizabeth Cho, Electronic Eye, and Tay Tay Chung.
Pandemic Sh** Show
Including artists from all over the globe, this exhibition addresses three themes: the pandemic, stopping Asian hate, and healing:
Featuring: Elizabeth Cho, Soyeun Cho, Tay Tay Chung, Michelle Dinh, Rachel Kim, Cansin Konca, Ying Luo (Lapsap_Art), Bryan Pak, Alice Suh, Dongah Suh, and Vanessa Wong.
Curated by Tai in (Tay Tay) Chung
View of Around Us, curated by Lily Callender. Featuring works by Dylan Chow and Amanda Lee.
Around Us
A virtual exhibition featuring artists Dylan Chow, Amanda Lee, Jane McKay, and Sarah Willes.
The world we live in and the spaces we occupy influence us immensely, and radical changes like a global pandemic force us to think closely about how we interact with our environments.
Curated by Lily Callender
Contrast | Armando Resendez
A book exploring Oakland-based painter Armando Resendez's series Contrast, in which twelve paintings and accompanying poems tell the story of a person moving from Mexico to the United States.
Curated by Lora Mathis
Armando Resendez, Death Metal Logo, Acrylic on Wood. Featured in catalog Contrast, curated by Lora Mathis.
Tattoos in Isolation
A catalog featuring: Manduhai Baatar, Alicia Hernandez-Miyares, Mila Moldenhawer, and Brandon Yung
Tattoos have proved to be an important expression of the isolation and boredom that have impacted people over the past year.
Curated by Ally Zhu
Tattoo by Manduhai, featured in catalog Out Tattoos in Isolation, Curated by Ally Zhu.
Installation view of Pass the Canvas, Curated by Kat Davenport and featuring work by Elizabeth Angelica Guerra, Armaan Mumtaz, Erika Hernandez, and Kat Davenport.
Pass the Canvas: A Collaborative Artwork
Featuring: Armaan Mumtaz, Elizabeth Angelica Guerra, Erika Hernandez, and Kat Davenport.
How do artists collaborate casually and experiment in a pandemic? Is there a good way to replace the kinds of in-person interactions that artists often rely on for connecting with other artists and generating ideas?
Curated by Kat Davenport
Selfish - An Exploration of the Duality of Aestheticism
A Virtual Exhibition Curated by Samantha Kurtz
Featuring: Chloe Akazawa, Angel Alioto, Eric Chen, Fiona Chertok, Camilla Jensen, Hannah Lee, Xavier Schmidt, and Dani Van Winkle
Image by curator Samantha Kurtz. Which pill will you choose?