RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Joshua Moreno and RTS member Gericault De La Rose Wednesday, August 28 from 6-8pm PST at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.
Joshua Moreno’s work examines the overlapping relationship between the natural and human-made environment and highlight patterns and systems of efficiency that exist within them. Through installation, drawing, and film, he re-evaluates the everyday spaces and objects that surround us, with added attention to elemental phenomena.
He was born and raised in Watsonville, California. In 2011, he graduated from the University of California San Diego with a BFA in art practice, and in 2022 he graduated from Stanford University with an MFA in studio art. Since 2012, he has been working in art education, teaching courses in art history, filmmaking, and art. Presently, he is teaching drawing courses at Stanford University.
Gericault De La Rose is a queer trans Filipinx, multidisciplinary artist, and educator. While developing her art practice, she worked as a Co-curator of Philippine Objects at the Field Museum of Natural History where she organized a series of monthly events called Pamanang Pinoy using the objects within the collection as conduits for community discussion. After graduating with a BFA with an emphasis in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she formed an artist collective, Export Quality, together with other Queer Filipinx alumni.
De La Rose has also showcased her work in group shows in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Johnson City, New York, and Toronto. De La Rose attended the ACRE residency in Steuben, Wisconsin and the HATCH artist residency for the Chicago Artist Coalition in 2020. In 2022, she received the San Francisco Foundation’s Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award and received her MFA from UC Berkeley in 2023. Most recently, she had her first solo exhibition at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago and was an Artist in Residence for the Arrozidency at Minnesota Street Project.