REAL TIME & SPACE

RTS Talks: Tanna Tucker & Yetunde Olagbaju

November 08, 2019

RTS is excited to host Artist Talk with artist in residence Tanna Tucker and guest artist Yetunde Olagbaju on Thursday November 21, 7-9pm.

Tanna is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Oakland CA. She uses comics and drawing as a way to map her relationship to the Black Diaspora, and to interrogate the utility of Black presence (or absence) in historical and mythical narratives. Her work has been featured in the Eisner nominated LAAB Magazine, The Nib and in various anthologies including Black Comix Returns and Cosmic Underground: A Grimoire of Black Speculative Content. She recently concluded her Political Power Fellowship at theYerba Buena Center for the Arts 2018-2019.

Yetunde Olagbaju is a multidisciplinary artist and curator, currently residing in Oakland, CA. Through their work, they utilize performance, emotional excavation, and sculpture as through-line for inquiries regarding Black trauma, labor, legacy and processes of healing. 

By creating work that exists within and expands upon nonlinear time, they seek to: create meaningful exchange of narratives, explore methods of emotion-based storytelling and archiving.

They have shown work and projects with Oakland Museum of California, New Image Gallery, Pt. 2 Gallery, Southern Exposure, Guerrero Gallery, SOMArts Cultural Center, The New School, and Art Basel. They have collaborated with institutions such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Facebook HQ, Museum of the African Diaspora, CounterPulse and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 

They are currently co-curator of recurring Black and Brown film night, Opalescent and are pursuing an MFA at Mills College. They are a recipient of a Murphy Cadogan Award as well as the inaugural Nancy Cook Photography Award.

RTS Talks: Chloe Serre & Amy Nathan

November 05, 2019

RTS is excited to host Artist Talk with artist in residence Chloe Serre and guest artist Amy Nathan on November 6th, 7-9pm.

Chloe Serre:

Alongside being a graduate in visual arts, Chloe Serre also studied psychology and cognitives sciences at Lyon University where she developed an interest in social sciences. Moving between artisanal craftsmanship and theoretical references, Chloe’s work uses sculpture to produce interactive shapes questioning social forms. She enjoys collaborating with dancers and actors and her sculptural installations are enriched of the transversality of arts. Her work has been exposed in several galleries , including Palais de Tokyo (Paris),BF15 (Lyon) and recently the Salon de Montrouge.

Amy Nathan:

Amy Nathan is an artist based in Berkeley, California. Nathan’s work begins with the act of applying pressure to images and language to crack them open, make them tactile, and distend them into an expanded space. This inquiry is the starting point for paintings and sculptures that lean into the push-and-pull between interior voice and external appearance, and the tension between representation and abstraction. Her work has recently been exhibited at CULT | Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, Art Toronto, Art Market San Francisco, the Seattle Art Fair, the Headlands Center for the Arts, Traywick Contemporary, and with the International Sculpture Center at the Pyramid Hill Museum. Nathan was a 2018-2019 Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and she received her MFA from Mills College in 2018. She is a co-director of Royal NoneSuch Gallery in Oakland, California. Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, New American Paintings and Sculpture Magazine. 

FIFTEEN FLAGS-Terrain Biennial

September 24, 2019

Fifteen Flags
Opening: Saturday October 5th 2019 2pm-4pm

In the spirit of the United Nations RTS will present a series of artist-made flags to adorn our building and parking lot. RTS is a collective of 15 art studios. Fifteen flags for fifteen studios. Besides making ourselves more visible in our neighborhood, the flags can serve as reminder of our commitment; building something in an era when so much is being dismantled.

History:
Terrain Exhibitions was founded in 2011 by the late artist, curator, and educator Sabina Ott at her home in Oak Park. The original format of the exhibition space existed as monthly installations in her front yard, from which grew the Terrain Biennial. In the summer of 2018 Sabina Ott passed away leaving behind a legacy of radical energy, caring magic, and deep community. Terrain Exhibitions is a 501c3 Not for Profit organization established in the State of Illinois. Terrain Exhibitions produces the Terrain Biennial, a public art event staged at locations worldwide. Terrain Exhibitions hosts the Terrain Residency in Springfield, Illinois working with our partners the Springfield Art Association and the Enos Park Residency Program.

2019 Terrain Biennials Theme:
The theme of this years Terrain Biennial is to take stock of the landscape that people are living in today. What is the terrain that we occupy? What is the topology of our moment? Artists and hosts have been asked to reflect upon the ways in which our environment changes us and how we are changing it.

AUG/SEPT Artist in Residence

September 02, 2019

RTS is excited to host artist talks with artist in residence on Sept 26th, 7-8pm.Wilder Alison!

Wilder Alison is an interdisciplinary artist and a graduate of the Bard MFA Painting program.  In recent years, Alison has exhibited work in New York with CUE Foundation, 247365, Rachel Uffner, Primetime, and Garden Party Arts, among others.  Recent solo shows include $PLIT $UBJECT at Marlboro College, and new wools at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA.  Alison was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 2016-17 and 2018-19, and has also participated in residencies at the Lighthouse Works, Fire Island Artist Residency, and Lower East Side Printshop.  Alison performs in collaboration with psychoanalyst and musician Monroe Street as NO STONES, with recent engagements at SUBLIMATION Projects, H0L0 NYC, CUE Foundation, and LaKAJE in New York.  In November of 2019, Alison will present a solo show at White Columns in New York.  Alison will be in residence at Triangle France in Marseille in early 2020. 

2019-2020 Artists in Residence!

August 14, 2019

Congratulations to the RTS artists in residence for 2019-2020!! We are so excited and cannot wait for your real time in our space.

RTS Talks: Dorothy R. Santos and Heather Dewey-Hagborg

July 09, 2019

RTS is excited to host artist talks with artist in residence Dorothy R. Santos and artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg on July 24th, 7-9pm.

Dorothy R. Santos is a Filipina American writer and artist whose academic interests include digital art, computational media, games, and biotechnology. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, she holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of San Francisco and received her Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Eugene V. Cota-Robles fellow. Her work appears in art21, Art Practical, Rhizome, Hyperallergic, Ars Technica, Vice Motherboard, and SF MOMA’s Open Space. Her essay “Materiality to Machines: Manufacturing the Organic and Hypotheses for Future Imaginings,” was published in The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture. She is a co-founder of REFRESH, a politically-engaged art and curatorial collective, the program manager for the Processing Foundation, and host for the podcast PRNT SCRN produced by Art Practical.

Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art as research and critical practice. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed up gum) collected in public places. Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, the Daejeon Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial, and the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, the Van Abbemuseum, Transmediale and PS1 MOMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the New York Historical Society, among others, and has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired. Heather has a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is an artist fellow at AI Now, an Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium, as well as Science Center, and is an affiliate of Data & Society. She is also a co-founder and co-curator of REFRESH, an inclusive and politically engaged collaborative platform at the intersection of Art, Science, and Technology.

Art Garage Sale

July 03, 2019

RTS is having an Art Garage Sale! Come get a good deal on some art from RTS members and graduating Mills MFA students! Friday, July 12th, 5-7pm. This event is co-hosted by the 2019 Mills College MFA class.

OPEN CALL EXTENDED!

June 18, 2019

OPEN CALL EXTENDED! Applications now due Tues., June 25th.

APPLY HERE!

This open call is for our 2019-2020 residency program. All residencies are six weeks long. Residents receive a studio for the duration of their residency and an $800 stipend. Out of town artists will be given an additional $800 in travel and housing support. The residency studio at RTS is 170 sq ft and includes access to a communal wood shop. RTS is centrally located near BART and downtown Oakland.

RTS Talks: Richard Zimmerman and Bessie Kunath

June 07, 2019

RTS is excited to host talks with artist in residence Richard Zimmerman and LA based artist Bessie Kunath on Tuesday, June 18th at 7pm!

Richard Zimmerman received his MFA in Studio Art from Cornell University and BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. He was a recipient of the John Hartell Graduate Award, a Cornell Council for the Arts Grant, and a nomination for The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture. He was recently awarded a Tulsa Artist Fellowship and is currently living in Tulsa, OK. Past exhibitions include ‘Fluid Means’ at Artlot, Brooklyn, ‘Touch Move’, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland (2017), ‘After Laughter’, Werk Gallery, Los Angeles, ‘Meditating America’, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle.

Bessie Kunath received her MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2012. Previous solo exhibitions include ”Pearl” at Central Park Gallery, “Safety Dance” at Eastside International and “Free Normcore” at Autonomie Projects. Recent group exhibitions include “Baker’s Dozen” at the Torrance Art Museum, “The Garden” at TSA Los Angeles, “Lazy Susan” at Titanki gallerias in Finland and  “UFOLOGY” at Outpost Projects curated by Kio Griffith, “I know Everything” curated by Iris Hu at Dave Gallery, “From Dust Returns” at Ichibeicho Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, “Demolition Women” curated by Young Chung at Chapman University and “If Memory Serves”, curated by Allyson Unzicker. Kunath is also a member of an artist/ curatorial project called Manual History Machines. In the Fall of 2019, Kunath will be engaging in the health field by starting a nursing program at Drexel University.

RTS Residency OPEN CALL for 2019-2020

May 22, 2019

RTS is now accepting applications for our 2019-2020 residency program!

This open call is for our 2019-2020 residency program. All residencies are six weeks long. Residents receive a studio for the duration of their residency and an $800 stipend. Out of town artists will be given an additional $800 in travel and housing support. The residency studio at RTS is 170 sq ft and includes access to a communal wood shop. RTS is centrally located near BART and downtown Oakland. APPLY HERE.

Requirements for the residency:

• Work on site at the studio a minimum of 15 hrs a week
• Give an artist talk during residency period
• Create an artwork in the form of a multiple (edition of 7) for the RTS archive

RTS will dedicate one of our eight residency slots to a recent graduate of an undergraduate program or an artist without an MFA degree.  We will also award one Bay Area artist a 6-week residency in Claremont, France. The residency is part of an exchange program with Artistes en Residence. The dates for this residency are fixed: September 1st to October 15th, 2019. We are also asking that the selected artist be available for part of Oct 16th to Nov 15th to help host an exchange artist from Claremont, France. Real Time and Space will provide the selected artist an $800 stipend, plus $300 to defray travel expenses. Artistes en Residence will provide housing and a studio. Please indicate on your application if you are available and interested in this opportunity.  

To apply, submit the following: contact info, statement, and work samples with an accompanying image list. APPLY HERE.

Deadline for applications is June 18th, 2019.  

All applicants will be notified by July 31st, 2019.

Real Time and Supper

May 08, 2019

Join us for a night of dinner and entertainment! RTS is hosting a dinner fundraiser party on Friday, June 14th at 6pm. All proceeds will go directly to visiting artists and to support our international artist residency program. Delicious food by Lexa Walsh and decadent desserts by Lana Williams.

Guests will be treated to a seated buffet dinner, a site-specific performance by Cliff Hengst, and a special presentation by Kate Rhoades. Music by DJ Horse and DJ Billy Z.

Tickets are sliding scale $50 to $100. Limited seating – so get your ticket now!

TICKETS HERE!

Real Time and Supper is sponsored by:

RTS Talks: Jessalyn Aaland and Lisa Rybovich Crallé

April 27, 2019

RTS is delighted to host talks with artist in residence Jessalyn Aaland and artist Lisa Rybovich Crallé on Tuesday, May 7th at 7pm. See you there!

RSVP here!

Jessalyn Aaland is a Bay Area interdisciplinary artist working across social practice, painting, and sculpture to explore how the systems, particularly the K-12 education system, function as a sites for both conformity and resistance. Her socially-engaged projects address youth and teacher audiences, often taking the form of workshops and Risograph-printed posters and zines, and have been supported with funding from Southern Exposure, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has been an artist-in-residence at Facebook, North Mountain (West Virginia), and Sim (Reykjavik), and is a 2018-2019 Political Power fellow at YBCA. www.jessalynaaland.com

Lisa Rybovich Crallé is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Her research focuses on corporeality and embodied experience in relation to sculpture, installation, and performance – art forms that respond to the physical presence of a viewer or participant. Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad including Cornell University, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Syracuse University, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, and the Berkeley Art Museum. In addition to her studio practice, Lisa teaches at Berkeley City College and co-organizes Heavy Breathing, an experimental artist-led lecture series. For more info: www.lisaRcralle.com and www.heavyheavybreathing.com.

APRIL/MAY Artist in Residence: Jessalyn Aaland

April 02, 2019

RTS is happy to welcome our April/May artist in residence, Jessalyn Aaland!

Jessalyn Aaland is a Bay Area interdisciplinary artist working across social practice, painting, and sculpture to explore how the systems, particularly the K-12 education system, function as a sites for both conformity and resistance. Her socially-engaged projects address youth and teacher audiences, often taking the form of workshops and Risograph-printed posters and zines, and have been supported with funding from Southern Exposure, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has been an artist-in-residence at Facebook, North Mountain (West Virginia), and Sim (Reykjavik), and is a 2018-2019 Political Power fellow at YBCA.

RTS Talks: Joe Ferriso and Johanna Friedman

March 16, 2019

Join us on Wednesday, March 27th at 7pm for artist talks with current artist in residence, Joe Ferriso, and artist Johanna Friedman. See you there! RSVP Here!

Joe Ferriso is a San Francisco based painter and sculptor exploring the role of color and time through works which expose relationships both recorded and imagined. His primary mediums have been commercial building materials such as plywood and house paint, however, since 2019, Ferriso has been working primarily in watercolor on small note cards. Painting in a serial manner enables him to exhaust subjects and modes of depiction in a steady day by day process. Ferriso is a graduate of Cooper Union (BFA 2003) and Stanford University (MFA 2018) He has exhibited and lectured in the Bay Area, and abroad for more than a decade.

Balancing the act between meticulous planning and the repetitive “mindless” work of rhythm and repetition, Johanna Friedman uses textiles based on photography, video, text and rapid imagery, in order to cease the moment in between pattern (organized) and clutter (chaotic), where we think we can make sense of something but we are not completely sure. She earned her BFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm Sweden and an MFA in Studio Art from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work has been shown in numerous art galleries and museums around the world, such as Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway, Sputnik Auction in Tokyo, Japan and The Swedish Embassy in Washington DC where she was exhibited for the first time in the US. Her work is represented in 3 national collections in Sweden, among them Malmö Museum of Art.

FEB/MAR Artist in Residence

March 05, 2019

RTS is excited to welcome Feb/Mar artist in residence Joe Ferriso!

Joe Ferriso is a San Francisco based painter and sculptor exploring the role of color and time through works which expose relationships both recorded and imagined. His primary mediums have been commercial building materials such as plywood and house paint, however, since 2019, Ferriso has been working primarily in watercolor on small note cards. Painting in a serial manner enables him to exhaust subjects and modes of depiction in a steady day by day process. Ferriso is a graduate of Cooper Union (BFA 2003) and Stanford University (MFA 2018) He has exhibited and lectured in the Bay Area, and abroad for more than a decade.

Emotional.Store’s “100 Year Plan” at RTS

RTS is excited to host Emotional.Store’s “100 Year Plan” on March 13th!  Doors open at 7:30pm, event starts at 8pm.

“100 Year Plan” is a dystopian response to participating in the producer economy in the age of automation takeover. This live-cinema experience presents a performance of an online video IRL in which two “creatives” risk everything for digital success.

Running time approx. 45 min
Tickets: $5-15 sliding scale

RTS Final February Friday Fun!

February 22, 2019

Join us this Friday, Feb 22nd, from 6 to 8pm, for our February Happy Hour!  Grab some food from the food trucks outside and come hang out with us!  See you there!

RTS Talks: J Rivera Pansa and sair goetz

February 01, 2019

RTS is thrilled to host artist talks with artist in residenc Jerome Rivera Pansa and artist sair goetz on Wednesday, February 13th from 7pm to 9pm. RSVP here! See you there!

J Rivera Pansa is an Oakland-based artist working in sculpture, installation, and performance. They work in mythologizing material ability for autonomy augmenting the embedded histories beyond utilitarian functions and rigid expectations. Through objects, they narrate the potential agency of the inanimate and those predominantly seen as a secondary or the often overlooked. Their work seeks to showcase the possibilities of individual authority for actions through spaces. They received their B.A. in Art Practice at University of California, Berkeley. They have shown work Rhythmix Cultural Works, Kearny Street Workshop at Arc Gallery, AS Gallery at San Francisco State University, California Center for the Arts and a collaborative piece in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Rivera Pansa is a member of CTRL+SHFT Collective in West Oakland.

IG: @j_pansa

sair goetz writes instructions that queer problematic realities into speculative fictions. Their work seeks to leverage the weightlessness of language to complicate, manipulate, and annotate the weighty matters it circumscribes. sair received their MFA from the Ohio State University in 2017 and their BA from Duke University in 2011. sair has shown their work nationally and internationally and completed many residencies across the US, most recently Little Paper Planes @ Minnisota Street Projects, ACRE, Space, and the Dedalus Foundation post-MFA fellowship. goetz is currently working on performance, signage, & video pieces querying dynamics of voice and silence surrounding non-binary gender identities. They are a member of CTRL+SHFT Collective in Oakland, CA.

The Fondle Tour

January 23, 2019

RTS is excited to host the Oakland performance of The Fondle Tour on Monday, Feb. 4th at 7pm!  The Fondle Tour is a three-person show presenting new work by Mitra Saboury, Nina Sarnelle and Megan Snowe in an intimate event of everyday erotica, humor and doubt. In text, video and live music, the artists provide 75 mins of physical and emotional raunch—exploring the body as a site of indulgence and disgust, obsolescence and cleaning supplies.

Past Performances:

June 11 – Zentrale, Vienna

June 13 – A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam

June 14 – Marwan, Amsterdam

June 15 – Jupiter Woods, London

August 3 – American Medium, New York

August 19 – Driveway 327, Los Angeles

Jan 5 – High Tide, Philadelphia

Artist Bios: 

Mitra Saboury works with video, sculpture and performance, with a BS in neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh (2010) and MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2013). Solo exhibitions include Out_Sight, Seoul; Grand Union, Birmingham; and Smart Objects, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include UK City of Culture; and The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery. Saboury is one half of Meatwreck, a photographic collaboration with Derek Paul Jack Boyle. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Nina Sarnelle is an artist and musician living in Los Angeles, with a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a founding member of the Institute for New Feeling and dadpranks. In the last few years her work has been shown at Whitechapel Gallery, Hammer Museum, the Getty Center, Ballroom Marfa, MoMA (NY), Istanbul Modern, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, NADA Miami, Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology (Lisbon), Fundacion PROA (Buenos Aires), Black Cube (Denver), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Recess (NY), UNSW Galleries (Sydney), Project 88 (Mumbai), Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum (Genova), Mwoods (Beijing), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Human Resources (LA), and featured in Frieze, Art in America, Vogue Italy, Huffington Post, SFMoMA, Creators Project, FlashArt, and Hyperallergic.

Megan Snowe works in a variety of mediums including installation, animation, text, drawing and sound. Snowe questions how we understand, strategize and quantify our immaterial and emotional lived experiences. With a BA in Russian Studies & Studio Art from Oberlin College (2008) and an MFA in Time & Space Arts from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (2014) Snowe has exhibited and published throughout Europe, the US and online. Recently Snowe’s work has been shown at Banner Repeater (London), Custom Program (NYC), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NYC), SOHO20 (NYC), Upfors (Portland), Sorbus (Helsinki), kunstenaarsinitiatief beyoncé (Amsterdam), Titanik (Turku), Interstate (NYC), and NURTUREart (NYC). Resent residencies include Schloss-Post (digital) and SPACE Art & Technology (London). Snowe’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Anna Magazine, Art Monthly, Rhizome, Helsinki Sanomat and Tongue, Taste, Appetite.

RTS Final Friday Fun!

Join us this Friday, Jan 25th, from 6 to 8pm, for our January Happy Hour!  Grab some food from the food trucks outside and come hang out with us!  See you there!