Libby Black at the Berkeley Marina

Artist and educator, Libby Black, takes us on her favorite routine stroll at the Berkleley Marina to reflect on her life as an artist in the Bay Area for the past 18 years.

Episode 4: Not Your Average Playtest, Part I

Dorothy discusses analog immersive technologies including the View-Master, Paper Peep boxes, and the Mareorama.

Some Thoughts on Art and Work

In the art world, the word "work" serves so many purposes that it is difficult to know what it really means or how to use it. Do we live to work or work to live?

Danny Giles Draws a Black Frame Around Whiteness

By replicating and transforming images derived from processes that generate multiples, such as viral videos, mold making, and etching, artist Danny Giles reveals an abiding interest in the roles that reproducibility and mass media have historically played in the dissemination and perpetuation of the structures of white supremacy.

Violence, Voyeurism, and the Place of Art

Within on Joaquín Segura’s Pyre are geographically specific questions about how we respond to the failure of government and often-hidden, interwoven politics. The work also asks: what are the geneses and consequences of violence, vigilantism, and voyeurism? 

Shapeshifting: the Spirit of Masako Miki

Masako Miki has created more than a dozen sculptures representing shape-shifting spirits (yōkai), on display in exhibitions in Berkeley and San Francisco.

Exotify Elsewhere Pt. II at SWIM Gallery

Justin Carder at Wolfman Books

Justin Carder, bookstore owner and cultural producer, shares his journey to ownership and defining home and community in a rapidly changing Oakland.

Moving Through Monuments: Sun Ra at Portland Art Museum

Monuments. presents the labyrinthine practice of Afrofuturist artist Sun Ra.

Dreaming of Home: Won Ju Lim and Ma Li

As diasporic artists, Won Ju Lim and Ma Li construct new homes—real and imagined.

Episode 37: Carolina Caycedo

Weston speaks with L.A. artist, Carolina Caycedo, about ways she investigates the impact of extractive economies and hyper development on communities, local systems of knowledge, and the environment. 

Human Touch in the Age of Tech

Nicole Eisenman, Monica Majoli, and Ann Toebbe employ the imagery and implications of technology with subtlety, never losing the imprint of the human body that makes their work so personal. 

B. Wurtz: This Has No Name at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Mildred Howard at Sweet Adeline Bakeshop

Artist Mildred Howard takes us to Sweet Adeline Bakeshop in Berkeley, CA to discuss the city's rich political history, how it affects her art practice, and why she continues to build community in the surrounding area.

Abigail DeVille’s American Future

Abigail DeVille’s immersive, monumental installation at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The American Future, invites visitors to consider the image of the United States through the lens of Black Americans.

Sofía Córdova vs. The Machine

With recent works at SOMArts and YBCA, Sofía Córdova interrogates the power and consequences of existing as a person of color in the increasingly commodified space of digital media.

Slow Burn: Young Suh’s Wildfires

Cloaked in smoky haze, the surreal Californian landscapes of Young Suh's Wildfires are unsettling reminders of the urgency and proximity of climate change.

Brian D. Tripp: Living the Karuk Present Through the Mythic Past

Iconography depicts the interpenetration of past and present in The People Are Coming, a mixed-media drawing on foil by the Karuk artist Brian D. Tripp.  

An Atlas of the Invisible, in re:home at Minnesota Street Project

Episode 3: @_emotionalbaggage liked your post

Dorothy explores the artistic practice of artist Ani Liu and how she re-imagines portraiture and explores the translation between virtual to physical. In Liu’s most recent work, Real Virtual Feelings (2018), she examines how the digital realm affects our cognition and body chemistry.