REAL TIME & SPACE

2022-23 Artists in Residence

April 05, 2022

We are very excited to announce our residents for 2022-23!  Thank you so much to everyone who applied!  Congrats to Albie Anjos, Leena Joshi, Chris Hamamoto, Ahn Lee

We’re Back

February 20, 2022

Our application is OPEN!!!

https://realtimespace.submittable.com/submit/212878/bay-area-open-call-2022-2023

New Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 8th

Thank you

February 02, 2022

Thank you to everyone who attended our virtual/in-person Auction last December.Thank you to all the artists who contributed their time and work. Thank you so much for supporting the  RTS fundraiser and RTS as a whole. We raised over $3,000. These funds support our 2022-2023 residency program. Your contribution helped keep our program alive and well.

Residency OPEN CALL 2022-2023

January 27, 2022

Hi All. We are excited to announce our residency open call. On February 1 our application drops. The link below:

https://realtimespace.submittable.com/submit/212878/bay-area-open-call-2022-2023

The application deadline is February 28th. We will notify all applicants by end of March. The program starts May 1, 2022.

Our program: * 3-month long period * Studio with access to common space and woodshop * Stipend * Create an edition of 10 works for our RTS residency archive. * Give an artist talk

This is for local bay area artists only. If you live in these 5 counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin San Francisco and San Mateo, you are eligible and may apply. 

Exciting news!!!!

Real Talks: Alex Arzt & Connie Zheng

January 18, 2022

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Alex Arzt and Connie Zheng Thursday, February 17th from 6-8pm PST via zoom.

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Alex Arzt
Rooted in a connection to place and material explorations, Alex Arzt facilitates connections between human and nonhuman spaces by creating projects in the form of publications, interactive objects, workshops, group performances, lectures, videos, and experimental gardens. From 2018-2021, she was an Affiliate Artist at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. She runs a Risograph press called A Magic Mountain, and her publishing projects are in the collections of libraries such as Stanford, Getty Research Institute, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, she was awarded grants from The Puffin Foundation and The East Bay Community Foundation towards the completion of The Positions and Situations Project book series. She earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and has since attended residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, PLAYA Summer Lake, Hambidge Center, A-Z West, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mildred’s Lane, and This Will Take Time. She is currently a lecturer at UC Davis’ Department of Art and Art History and has taught at UC Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, and VCU.

Connie Zheng
Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer, filmmaker, and occasional field recordist based out of xučyun / Oakland, California. Her work primarily focuses on nonlinear representations of time and history as well as polyvocal, speculative fiction-based approaches to navigating environmental crisis. She has exhibited work in the Netherlands and around the United States, through venues such as the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco, CA), Framer Framed (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and the IMPAKT Festival (Utrecht, Netherlands), with coverage of her work appearing in Hyperallergic, KQED Arts, MUBI Notebook, and other outlets. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and the Minnesota Street Project Foundation, among others. Her written work has appeared in publications such as Errant Journal and SFMOMA’s Open Space, and she recently published a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change. She graduated with BAs in Economics and English from Brown University, an MFA in Art Practice from the University of California — Berkeley, and is currently a PhD student in Visual Studies at the University of California — Santa Cruz.

Studio Vacancy

December 08, 2021

Studio space is available on January 1, 2022. The studio space is private. This is a long-term, not a sublet situation. The monthly rent is $200 with a deposit of $261.05.

70 sq ft of working space plus 20 sq ft of storage space. Total sq ft 95

Application deadline Wednesday, Dec 15.

The Auction

November 20, 2021

The Auction is Saturday, December 4th from 12-5. The event will be in person and virtual(instagram-@realtimeandspace).

RTS is hosting an art auction to raise funding for our next year 2022-2023 residency program. All the proceeds will help maintain our program. Our current program serves 4 local Bay Area artists. Each artist is awarded a studio space for 3 months, a stipend, access to a wood shop, and more.

There will be a raffle of amazing prizes as well. The raffle will only be available at the in-person event. Tickets are $5. Prizes: Tender Gardener gift certificate, Saint Flora flower arrangement, plus more.

There will be safety measures in place. All guests will need to wear a mask before entering the building. A limit of guest will be allowed in the building at a time. Hand sanitizer will be available.

Refreshments will be outside in our parking lot area.

Please help us keep this amazing program alive.

Thank you for your continued support.

Real Talks: Richard-Jonathan Nelson & Alex Arzt

November 05, 2021

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Richard-Jonathan Nelson and Alex Arzt. Event via zoom from 6-8pm PDT.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81924008136?pwd=cEg0QTJWaFg0WW43Ni92Q0RiWjVWdz09

Richards residency program was from August-October and Alex’s program is November-January 2022. In this way we(RTS) are trying an “exit” and “intro” approach to our Real Talks series.

Richard-Jonathan Nelson is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses textiles, video, and digital manipulation to create alternative worlds of speculative identity. His work is multi-layered, chromatically intense and mixes images of the natural world with reference to hoodoo, queer culture, and Afro-Futurism. He uses his constructed worlds to examine the overlapping spheres of culturally perceived identity and the emotional memory of what it means to be a queer black man. Thereby creating a limbic space free from the weighted excepted western cultural reality, and able to examine the unspoken ways systems of power persist.

Born in Savannah, Georgia (1987) and working in Oakland, CA Nelson received his MFA from California College of the Arts in 2017. His work has been exhibited at Southern Exposure, Embark Gallery, Root Division in San Francisco, and Aggregate Space in Oakland.Rooted in a connection to place and material explorations, Alex Arzt facilitates connections between human and nonhuman spaces by creating projects in the form of publications, interactive objects, workshops, group performances, lectures, videos, and experimental gardens. From 2018-2021, she was an Affiliate Artist at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. She runs a Risograph press called A Magic Mountain, and her publishing projects are in the collections of libraries such as Stanford, Getty Research Institute, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, she was awarded grants from The Puffin Foundation and The East Bay Community Foundation towards the completion of The Positions and Situations Project book series. She earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and has since attended residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, PLAYA Summer Lake, Hambidge Center, A-Z West, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mildred’s Lane, and This Will Take Time. She is currently a lecturer at UC Davis’ Department of Art and Art History and has taught at UC Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, and VCU.

Artist Talk: Sholeh Asgary & Maureen Catbagan

June 22, 2021

RTS is excited to host an Artist Talk with Sholeh Asgary & Maureen Catbagan Wednesday July 28, 2021 from 5:00-7:00 pm PDT via Zoom.Wednesday July 28, 2021 from 5:00-7:00 pm PDT via Zoom.

Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist who creates immersive works, performances and audience participatory scores with interest in liminal spaces experienced by the viewer-participant. Asgary’s current and recent residencies as of 2020 include Real Time & Space, Headlands Center for the Arts, Mass MoCA, ARoS Art Museum, Wassaic Project, and Arab.AMP. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Minnesota Street Project, Gray Area Center for the Arts, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Charlotte Street Foundation, Soundwave Biennial, Wassaic Project, and Krowswork, amongst others. She has also performed as a solo artist, collaborated, or created compositions for many of these institutions, including CounterPulse, Center for Cultural Studies at University of Santa Cruz, Kulturmødet Mors, Mødet Mors, Aggregate Space Gallery, and SOMArts. Asgary is a 2020/21 California Arts Council grantee for her workshop series “Majles” created in partnership with with Arab.AMP, a 2019 Kenneth Rainin Foundation New Project Grant recipient through Dance Elixir, and recipient of a 2014 Alternative Exposure Grant for curatorial initiatives as Curator and Director of Education and Public Programs at Incline Gallery, where she founded The Project Room. Asgary received her MFA from Mills College and BA from San Francisco State University, and is a Lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice. 

Maureen Catbagan is a Filipinx American, multi-media artist based in New York whose work engages social collectivity, examines relations between identity and experience, and explores new forms of empowerments. Collaborative projects include Flux Factory and HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? Collectives. They have also written critical essays with Dr. Amber Jamilla Musser. Catbagan has exhibited in venues such as ARoS Museum in Denmark, Witte de Withe Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu. Their current collaborative work with artist Jevijoe Vitug as Abang-guard focuses on immigrant experience within the context of labor and visibility.

Topic: Artist Talk
Time: Jul 28, 2021 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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UnTerminal – Mourning Songs Beyond the End

May 17, 2021

RTS is excited to host Artist in Residence Sholeh Asgary in a collaborative performance.

Sunday May 23, 2021 4-5:30 pm PDT / 6-7:30 pm CT / 7-8:30 pm EDT

A performance, informed in part by Iranian Shia mourning rituals and in part by contemporary politics of protest, includes chants and poetry, theoretical recitations, intonations, laments, Live VJing, electro-acoustic improvisations, needle play, interdimensional contact, finger dancing, black light graffiti art, and textural invocations. This iteration of the mourning is dedicated to Palestine.

Performance by the Ad Hoc Collective for Improvising Mourning Technologies for Future Griefs. Members: Sholeh Asgary, Abou Farman, Leonor Caraballo, Shelby Coley, Danielle Gauthier, and Saphe Shamoun.

Bios:

Sholeh Asgary, an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist who works with sound. Abou Farman, an Iranian-born artist and anthropologist. Leonor Caraballo, an Argentine-born artist who left her earthly body in 2015 but who continues to collaborate with many living artists. Hossein Sharang, an Iranian-born Montreal-based poet and the founder and president of the Wild Republic of Sharangestan, a republic of words. Shelby Coley, a queer black filmmaker of everyday revolutions. Danielle Gauthier a poet and multidimensional spirit working on healing and trauma.

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2021-2022 Artist In Residence

April 19, 2021

Congratulations to the 2021-2022 RTS artist in residence. We are so excited and cannot wait for your real time in our space.

Residency OPEN CALL 2021-2022

March 03, 2021

Real Time and Space is happy to announce our 2021-2022 Residency Open Call. This call is for LOCAL artists ONLY. If you live in these 5 counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo, you may apply. All residencies are 3 months long.

For detailed information and to apply click the link below:

https://realtimespace.submittable.com/submit/189114/bay-area-open-call-2021-2022R

Deadline for applications is March 26th, 2021.

All applicants will be notified by April  12th, 2021.

On My Manner of Working

January 05, 2021

RTS Members Show

Artists:

• Minoosh Zomorodinia
• Sam Vernon
• Kico Le Strange
• Emma Spertus
• Aay Preston-Myint
• K.R.M. Mooney
• Beth Krebs
• Tanja Geis
• Jo Easton
• Johnna Arnold

Curated By: Aaron Harbour & Jackie Im

Virtual Artist Talk: Anthea Black & Jessica Whitbread

November 24, 2020

RTS is excited to host Virtual Artist Talk with Anthea Black & Jessica Whitbread Friday, December 4, 2020, from 11:00-12:30 pm via Zoom.

Anthea Black is an artist and writer based in Toronto and Oakland where they are Professor of Print Media at California College of the Arts.

Jessica Whitbread is a queer activist, artist and Visual AIDS Vanguard based in Toronto and Bulgaria. Together they are partners, publishers and co-editors of The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism.

The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism is a limited edition art newspaper published by Anthea Black and Jessica Whitbread that focuses on global grassroots HIV art and cultural production. Artists have and continue to play a fundamental role in shaping broader societal understandings of HIV and working within communities that are most impacted by the virus: queer and trans people, people who use drugs, sex workers, people of colour, and indigenous peoples. Together we reflect the immediacy and urgency of global HIV/AIDS dialogues as well as their historical continuities. The HIV Howler is a forum for dialogue, a demand for aesthetic self-determination, a response to tokenism, and a guide to navigating the vibrational ambiguities between policy, pathology, and community.

Register here:
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Virtual Artist Talk: Simone Bailey & Sekai Machache

September 04, 2020

RTS is excited to host a Virtual Artist Talks with Simone Bailey & Sekai Machache Sunday, September 27, 2020, from 12:00-2:00 pm via Zoom.

Simone Bailey is an artist who utilizes video, performance, sculpture, and site-specific installations in her artistic practice. Her practice is an interrogation of disembodied poetics and the impulse to grasp the intangible. Her work focuses on perception, process, ephemerality, desire, surrogate bodies, violence, and the impossible, all while maintaining an intimate proximity to blackness. Simone’s work has been exhibited at The Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA), The Lab (San Francisco, CA), Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA), Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA), and the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY), among other venues.  She received both an MFA in Fine Arts and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. She also earned a BFA in Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute. Simone lives and works in San Francisco.

Sekai Machache is a visual artist and curator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self. Having been born in Zimbabwe and raised in Scotland, she has a particular interest in W.E.B Dubois’ notion of Double Consciousness, which expresses the psychological challenge of having African heritage whilst living in the West. She is interested in the relationship between spirituality, imagination, and the role of the artist in disseminating symbolic imagery to provide a space for healing. Sekai works with a wide range of media including photography and performance. Her photographic practice is formulated through digital studio based compositions utilizing body paint and muted lighting conditions to create images that appear to emerge from darkness. Sekai often works collaboratively, for and with her community, and is a founding and organizing member of the Yon Afro Collective. She believes that intentionality is key to establishing a creative practice that aims for sustainability and longevity. As an artist and curator of color, it is her intention to create new and innovative projects that engage a wide audience while speaking directly to the experiences of her community.  Her goal is to always consider with intention, the implications of working as an international artist and curator to facilitate the practice of others while maintaining her own artistic vision.

Please email realtimeandevents@gmail.com to obtain the zoom information for this event. Thank you.

Virtual Artist Talk: Tanja Geis

June 04, 2020

RTS is excited to host a Virtual Artist Talks with Tanja Geis on Wednesday June 10, 2020 7:00-8:00pm.

Zoom Artist Talk Schedule:
2-3 mins introduction of Artist
20-25 mins Artist Talk
10-15 mins Q&A

Please email realtimeandevents@gmail.com to obtain zoom information for this event. Thank you.

Tanja Geis makes paintings, installations, videos that explore human disturbed spaces as zones for the transformation of ecological perception. Geis holds an M.F.A. in Art Practice from University of California Berkeley, an M.R.M. in Marine Management from the University of Akureyri, Iceland, and a B.A. in Fine Art from Yale University. Her work has been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and various venues in Europe and Asia. She co-founded Wildfjords Artist Residency in Iceland and has taught at University of California Berkeley. Geis’ awards include a Graduate Fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award from The San Francisco Foundation, and a Graduate Arts Grant from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. She has been an artist-in-residence at Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Blue Mountain Center and Kala Art Institute. Geis was born in Hong Kong and lives in Berkeley, CA.

Virtual Artist Talk: Kevin Demery

May 26, 2020

RTS is excited to host a Virtual Artist Talks with Kevin Demery on Tuesday June 2, 2020 8:00-9:00pm.

Zoom Artist Talk Schedule:
2-3 mins introduction of Artist
20-25 mins Artist Talk
10-15 mins Q&A

Please email realtimeandevents@gmail.com to obtain zoom information for this event. Thank you.

Kevin Demery is an interdisciplinary artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a BFA from California College of the Arts and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018 Demery received the Municipal Art League Grant from SAIC and participated in the Artist in Residence programs at both the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, and the Acre Residency in Steuben, WI. He has exhibited work both nationally and internationally at the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and the Art Berlin fair in Berlin, Germany.

Artist Talks: Chanell Stone

January 29, 2020

RTS is excited to host Artist Talks with resident Chanell Stone on Thursday February 13, 7-9pm.

Chanell Stone (b. 1992) is a photographer living and working in Oakland, CA.

Her practice focuses on challenging insular views of Blackness by expanding on narratives subject to Black erasure.

This avidity has led her to explore the Black body’s connection to nature: manmade and rural.

Artists Talks: Shirin Khalatbari & Calum Craik

December 16, 2019

RTS is excited to host Artist Talks with resident Shirin Khalatabari and guest artist Calum Craik on Wednesday January 8, 7-9pm.

Shirin Khalatbari is an interdisciplinary artist who recently received an MFA from San Francisco State University. She holds an MA in Archaeology from the University of Rome. Khalatbari has exhibited in Rome and throughout the Bay Area including venues such as SOMarts, Embark Gallery, and Doug Adams Gallery. Khalatbari received the Jack and Gertude Murphy Award in 2018. Her work confronts the entropy of memory and history.

Calum Craik is an interdisciplinary artist and curator currently living in San Francisco. He is an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University. He received a BA from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, which includes venues such as The Royal Standard in Liverpool, Nurture Art in Brooklyn, and Artists Television Access in San Francisco. He has been interviewed by Art Crush magazine and recently received The Christine Tamblyn award and the Leo D. Stillwell Jr. scholarship.

RTS Talks: Jess Baer & Sea Howe

November 24, 2019

RTS is excited to host Artist Talks with artists Jess Baer and Sean Howe on Tuesday December 3, 7-9pm.

Jessica Baer is an artist, educator, and activist who has lived in Oakland for more than 10 years. Originally from Minnesota, her first creative outlets were horseback riding and poetry. Jessica graduated from Beloit College in 2005 with a BFA in Creative Writing. She received her Master’s in Special Education from San Francisco State University in 2017.

Her art is bright and bold. Her work offers messages which sway between legibility and ambiguity, encapsulated in her energetic forms and blocks of color. Elements jostle for space within her collages, paintings, and assemblages, however, her confidence compositionally, ensures that all perspectives, the irreverent, the urgent, the skeletal all seem to find their right place within the frame.

Her work as a public school educator and the years spent in the Oakland Unified School District has informed the way she creates art. Text works such as There’s No Such Thing As A Bad Kid have hints of sign-painting, scrapping, collaging–calling to the educational space to be a generative, passionate, and brave space for creative hearts and minds. Teachers must inspire. No better than a teacher such as Jessica, who can use her art to motivate the viewer, the student, the fellow teacher, and members of the community to think critically and to act out of passion, love, and style.

Sean Howe is a painter and sculptor focused on the interaction of objects and animals within fantastical worlds. His work is a dialogue between painting, objects, autobiography, and fantasy and is influenced by the ecological sciences, world-building, and the practice of permaculture. He graduated from the University of Washington in 2007 with a BFA in ceramics and later worked for many art museums in Seattle and the Bay Area as a preparator. A Permaculture designer since 2010, Sean has designed and implemented food forests in Washington state and edible gardens in California. 

Observation within the landscape, in forest environments, in particular, reveals distinct stores about interconnection, shared resources, and animal movement. Sean feels forest composition can teach him how to structure some of his paintings and drawings. Scientific knowledge about our environment is essential; however, so are personal experiences, imagination, and intuition. These ingredients, when used within the picture-plane, can generate a unique ecology of their own. Sean is a recent graduate of Stanford’s MFA in Art Practice. 

Sean and Jessica met at Ocean Beach in 2012 after a day of surfing. This fateful day would lead to many more surf days, up and down the coast of California and eventually afar, surfing places such as Alaska, El Salvador, and Peru. Their love of surfing is surpassed only by their love for each other, for humor, and for art.

They have been collaborators since 2012 when they created a two-person show called Great North American Bird Dog at VAMP record store in Oakland. This summer, 2019, however, was the first time since 2013 that the couple was able to make a substantial body of work together. They are excited to continue to work together and explore a dialogue with one another’s art. Sean and Jessica live and work in Oakland, California.