REAL TIME & SPACE

JAN/FEB Artist in Residence: J Rivera Pansa

January 07, 2019

RTS is excited to welcome Jan/Feb artist in residence, J Rivera Pansa!

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

RTS Needs You! Support Our Programming!

December 27, 2018

RTS needs you!  Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to RTS before the new year!  Donations go toward stipends for the arists in our residency program!  This 2018-19 residency cycle, we are hosting nine artists. Five of our artists are from outside the Bay Area.  Your donation allows us to offer free studio space for a month and a half, artist stipends of $800 each, and assistance with travel and housing expenses for out-of-town artists.  Your donation also helps to support our public artist talk series. In the current Bay Area economic climate, artists are especially in need of space and support and your donation will help to make a difference!  Thank you so much for considering a donation. Happy Holidays!  DONATE HERE!

RTS Final Friday Fun!

Hi Friends! Why wait til the new year to start a new tradition? RTS is having our first Final Friday Fun this Friday, Dec 28th at 6pm! This is the first of monthly happy hours at RTS on the last Friday of each month. BYO drinks. Food trucks are closed this Friday, so BYO food if you want to eat. See you then!

RTS Talks: 5/5 and Kico Le Strange

December 13, 2018

RTS is excited to host artist presentations by current artist in residence, 5/5, and RTS member Kico Le Strange, next Wednesday, Dec. 19th at 7pm.  See you there! RSVP Here!

Multimedia collective, 5/5 is dedicated to exploring Black(ness) as an idea, consciousness, reference, and embodied experience through space, language, and visual culture. Tania Balan-Gaubert uses photography, found and ready-made objects, assemblage, and video to contemplate migration, long-distance nationalism, and belonging. Troy Chew’s work explores the African Diaspora within urban culture through painting and sculpture. while also questioning the definitions of “Fine art” and “Folk Art.” Employing hand sewing, dyeing, collage and assemblage, Nkiruka Oparah builds multimedia portraits from found objects, familial images, and repurposed materials to investigate black identity, and Nigerian cultural memory as an ongoing attempt to materialize her experience of displacement.

Kico Le Strange is a powerful drag entity. Like superman her parents sent her on a space ship because her home planet was self-destructing. Le Strange found her new home in a wittle town of South Texas. Her dreams were as big as belt buckles and hair. After a ferocious battle in the land of Alice Texas America she rediscovered her passion in the Land of Cows and Kings a.k.a. Kingsville. She got a paper for completing studies in fine arts and applied to to receive another piece of paper in Califas. She has said paper and done had it since 2015. She resides in Oakland where she constantly dances, crafts, sews, makes, and creates spaces of inclusivity.

RTS Holiday Party and Open Studios

December 01, 2018

Come celebrate the holidays with us!  RTS is hosting a holiday party and open studios event on Sunday, Dec. 9th from Noon to 4pm.  There’s no better way to celebrate the holidays than with friends and lots of art!  See you there!

RTS Talks: adorie and Peter Hernandez

November 11, 2018

RTS is excited to host an event with performances by current artist in residence, adorie, and 2727 California artist in residence, Julius Smack.  Join us this Wednesday, Nov 14th at 7pm.  See you there!

adorie (they/them, she/her) is an emerging performance artist/storyteller whose work utilizes dance, writing, photography and soundscapes to externalize their inner space in an act of inviting others to encounter themselves more deeply. their work is profoundly intimate and explores their own experiences and relationships as vessels to explore larger themes of race, gender, sexuality, mental illness, temporality, love, and spirituality. she believes that we cannot break out of oppressive systems until we meet them within ourselves and that as we do, we can begin to move into becoming something else – hopefully something more free. In adorie’s words: “i hope that through my exploration of myself i can move something within you. help make a safer space for you to be and hopefully in doing so, we will feel as connected and divine as the planets around us. recognize that we too are stars and constellations – ever connected and ever expanding. defying any notion of “real time and space” and offering more possibilities of healing and connection.”

Julius Smack is the stage persona of Peter Hernandez, an American musician and performer whose work philosophizes technology and modernity. In addition to music production and keyboard performance, he composes scores for woodwind and vocal ensembles, which is performed as Julius Smack Ensemble. His performances feature dance and theater segments integrating heightened drama, pedestrian movement, and vogue dance.

2727 California Street is an art & education initiative + an artist in residence program. They are located in Berkeley, CA.

OCT/NOV Artist in Residence: adorie

October 24, 2018

RTS is excited to host October/November artist in residence, adorie.

adorie (they/them, she/her) is an emerging performance artist/storyteller whose work utilizes dance, writing, photography and soundscapes to externalize their inner space in an act of inviting others to encounter themselves more deeply. their work is profoundly intimate and explores their own experiences and relationships as vessels to explore larger themes of race, gender, sexuality, mental illness, temporality, love, and spirituality. she believes that we cannot break out of oppressive systems until we meet them within ourselves and that as we do, we can begin to move into becoming something else – hopefully something more free.

photo by vanessa vigil

Dinners Project

September 26, 2018

Real Time and Space is hosting a Dinners Project event on Oct 6th at 6pm. We hope you can join us for a potluck dinner and informal conversations around the role of artists in sparking political change.  Bring a dish to share!  Thank you for being part of our community!  RSVP here!

The Dinners Project is designed to bring together artists, community leaders, and neighbors to explore the role of art in building a strong democracy and imagining a better future. On the weekend of Oct 4-7 people will gather all across the country to break bread and discuss art and democracy. The Dinners Project is a non-partisan initiative of Creative Capital, in partnership with For Freedoms 50 State Initiative and #LoveArmy. Artists have always played a key role in how societies and cultures evolve–now is no different. In challenging times artists can lead the way. This is a time for imagination and vision. This is a time for artists. How can we stand alongside artists in creating change? What role will you play in shaping the future of our country and our democracy?

dinners.creative-capital.org

RTS Talks: Louise Porte and Gabriel Garza

September 18, 2018

The song was coming,

between the passed and the present.

Right now.

Waiting for the show.

(Still, I could spot some slight hits, I hope this will help.)

RTS is excited to host a collaborative performance/talk with artists Louise Porte and Gabriel Garza on Tues., Sept 25th at 7:30pm. Louise Porte is at RTS as part of a residency exchange program with Artistes en Residence, an artist residency program in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Louise’s housing is provided by 2727 California, a residency program in Berkeley.  Gabriel is the current artist in residence at 2727 California.

About the Artists: Louise Porte is a French artist graduate of the Clermont-Ferrand school of Fines Arts (MFA), in Clermont-Ferrand. She lives and works between Lyon and Paris. Her work includes plastic and scenic arts, using video, photography, installation, drawing and performance. She explores the boundary between reality and fiction, transposing the everyday to create new situations. Landscapes are like theatre stages, gestures like dance, wondering if something happened or is in latency.

Gabriel Garza received a B.A. in Art, and Minor in Music History from UCLA in 2017. His artwork is based around popular music, and its history that encapsulates and pinpoints cultural attitudes that have served as fuel for contemporary art practices. Mainly working in sculpture and performance, objects such as records, ephemera and promotional items, as well as the obscurities and emotions in the histories of musicians and labels, are key influences on his work. He is the September 2018 artist-in-residence at 2727 California Street, an art and education initiative in Berkeley.

About Artistes en Residence: Began in May of 2011, the project Artistes en Résidence aims support to visual artists by providing them a work space, accommodations and financial assistance.  The two main goals are studio work research and exchange between different actors of contemporary art.

About 2727 California: 2727 California Street is an art & education initiative + an artist in residence program. They are located in Berkeley, CA.

Thank you!

August 23, 2018

Thank you so much for all of your support at the fundraiser this past weekend! Thanks to you, we raised over $3300! We feel so lucky to be part of a wonderful supportive community! See you soon at our next artist talk!

AUG/SEPT France Residency Exchange Resident: Louise Porte

RTS is excited to welcome artist in residence, Louise Porte. Louise is at RTS as part of an exchange with Artistes en Residence, an artist residency program in Clermont-Ferrand, France.  This summer, we sent RTS member, Sam Vernon, to Artistes en Residence for a month and a half, and now we are hosting Louise at RTS! Housing for Louise is provided by our partners at 2727 California.

Louise Porte is a French artist graduate of the Clermont-Ferrand school of Fines Arts (MFA), in Clermont-Ferrand. She lives and works between Lyon and Paris. Her work includes plastic and scenic arts, using video, photography, installation, drawing and performance. She explores the boundary between reality and fiction, transposing the everyday to create new situations. Landscapes are like theatre stages, gestures like dance, wondering if something happened or is in latency.

RTS FUNDRAISER 2018

July 30, 2018

Open Studios! Trivia! Silent Auction! Food! Craft Cocktails! Music!  AUGUST 19th, 6-9pm! 

Join Real Time and Space for a fundraiser to support our programming and facilities. These funds will help us keep the rent down for all studio members and pay for wood shop and electrical maintenance. TICKETS ON SALE NOW!  Tickets are sliding scale $20-$50. We realized there is not a way to buy multiple tickets on the Eventbrite page, so if you make a donation of $40 or greater, we will assume that you will be bringing a friend!

Mingle with the charming studio members of RTS. Gourmet dinner provided by Oakland Stock’s Lexa Walsh is included in the price. Bring extra cash to buy art, and donate to the no-host bar.

Kate Rhoades will host a Bay Area Art History Trivia. Johnna Arnold will make participatory portraits.

Former RTS member, Aaron Harbour will rock the turntable.

There will be a slew of artwork to buy in our silent auction with work by RTS artists and friends.

Thanks to our sponsors:

Ratto’s International Market and Deli       Fort Point Beer Company

Feral Heart Farm       Left Coast Catering

RTS Talks at SF Art Book Fair: Macon Reed and Leila Weefur

July 17, 2018

RTS is excited to host our next artist talk at the SF Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Project on July 21st at 4pm. Current RTS artist in residence, Macon Reed, and RTS member, Leila Weefur, will be presenting. See you there!

Macon Reed’s work seeks to expand the agency of our collective imagination in response to the growing apathy and isolation inspired by late capitalism. Motivated by human relationships within evolving queer and intersectional feminist frameworks- her projects recognize that aesthetic form and social engagement are not mutually exclusive but rather, deeply intertwined. Most recently, her practice has evolved towards creating immersive sculptural environments that serve as public sites for dynamic inter-community conversation and transformative ritual. She understands her work as an act of creative resistance. Reed’s work has shown at venues including PULSE NYC Special Projects, BRIC Media Arts, ABC No Rio, The Kitchen, Art F City FAGallery, Chicago Cultural Center, Mana Contemporary, Roots & Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ICA Baltimore, Athens Museum of Queer Arts in Greece, and Transmediale in Berlin. Reed completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a University Fellow in 2013 and received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. Additionally she studied Radio Documentary at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and Physical Theater at the Dah International School in Belgrade. Recently, Reed was an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, a Research Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art+Technology, and taught at Brown University. She will be a fellow at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn and an artist in residence at Amherst College in 2018-2019.

Leila Weefur lives and works in Oakland, CA. Weefur received her MFA from Mills College in 2016. With a multidisciplinary practice, Weefur tackles the complexities of phenomenological Blackness through video, installation, printmaking, and lecture-performances. Using materials and visual gestures to access the tactile memory, she explores the abject, the sensual and the nuance found in the social interactions and language with which our bodies have to negotiate space. She is a recipient of the Hung Liu award, the Murphy & Cadogan award, and recently completed an artist fellowship at Kala Art Institute. Weefur has exhibited her work in local and national galleries including Southern Exposure and SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco, Betti Ono in Oakland, BAMPFA and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York. She is the Audio/Video, Editor In Chief at Art Practical and the co-director of The Black Aesthetic.

JULY/AUG Artist in Residence: Macon Reed

July 12, 2018

RTS is excited to welcome our July/August artist in residence, Macon Reed!

Macon Reed is an artist working in sculpture, installation, video, radio documentary, painting, and participatory projects. Her work has shown at venues including PULSE NYC Special Projects, BRIC Media Arts, ABC No Rio, The Kitchen, Art F City FAGallery, Chicago Cultural Center, Mana Contemporary, Roots & Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ICA Baltimore, and Athens Museum of Queer Arts in Greece. Reed completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a University Fellow in 2013 and received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. Additionally she studied Radio Documentary at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and Physical Theater at the Dah International School in Belgrade. Recently Reed was an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, a Research Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art+Technology, BRIC Workspace, and Abrons Art Center. She will be a fellow at A.I.R. Gallery in the coming year in New York.

Reed’s works seeks to expand the agency of our collective imagination in response to the growing apathy and isolation inspired by late capitalism. She understands the imagination as an emotive, theoretical, and corporeal realm of transformation. Motivated by human relationships within evolving queer and intersectional feminist frameworks- her projects recognize that aesthetic form and social engagement are not mutually exclusive but rather, deeply intertwined. Reed’s work reflects on intersections of trauma and healing, sacrifice and transcendence, and what it means to belong. Responding to the gravity of these subjects, she activates humor, relationship, and pleasure in her process wherever possible. Most recently, her practice has evolved towards creating immersive sculptural environments that serve as public sites for dynamic inter-community conversation and transformative ritual. She understands her work as an act of creative resistance.

Image Info: Eulogy For The Dyke Bar (Exterior), 2015/2016

Real Time & Space at NIAD

July 11, 2018

Come join us this Saturday, July 14th from 1pm to 4pm at NIAD Art Center for the opening reception of “Give a Little Take a Little: Real Time & Space at NIAD”.  RTS studio member Lexa Walsh recently invited artists from RTS to respond to and engage with artists from the NIAD art center.  Works by both NIAD and RTS artists are on exhibit in this show.

NIAD is a non-profit studio art project that helps nearly 70 artists with disabilities every week create art and launch a career in the contemporary art world.  NIAD is located at 551 23rd Street Richmond, CA.

2018-19 RTS Residents

July 03, 2018

We are very excited to announce our residents for 2018-19!  Thank you so much to everyone who applied!  Congrats to 5/5, Jessalyn Aaland, Wilder Alison, Akea Brown, Joe Ferriso, Adorie Howard, Louise Porte, Dorothy Santos, and Richard Zimmerman!

RTS Talks: Cliff Hengst and Johnna Arnold

May 21, 2018

Save the date!  We are hosting talks with artist in residence Cliff Hengst and RTS studio member Johnna Arnold on Wed, May 30th at 7pm.  See you then!

Cliff Hengst is an artist who works and lives in San Francisco. He is currently in the “Way Bay” show at BAMFA in Berkeley and in “Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward” a show curated by Nayland Blake at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Johnna Arnold is an artist, photographer, educator, and urban farmer based in Oakland, CA. Johnna’s work revolves around her interest in the infrastructure that supports our post-industrial lifestyle, and how a small, fleshy human such as herself can relate to this vast system. Johnna received her BA in Photography from Bard College in 1996, and her MFA from Mills College in 2005. She currently teaches classes in photography to graduate and undergraduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute. Johnna has worked as an Artist-in-Residence at Banff Center for the Arts, Kala Art Institute, and RayKo Photography. She has exhibited at venues including the Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco Camerawork, the Oakland International Airport, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. Her work is a part of public collections including Pier 24 in San Francisco and UNESCO in Paris, France.

APRIL/MAY Artist in Residence: Cliff Hengst

May 16, 2018

Meet our April/May artist in residence Cliff Hengst!

Cliff Hengst is an artist who works and lives in San Francisco. He is currently in the “Way Bay” show at BAMFA in Berkeley and in “Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward” a show curated by Nayland Blake at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

RTS Talks: Claudia Cortinez and Aspen Mays

March 17, 2018

RTS is excited to host artist talks by current artist in residence Claudia Cortinez and artist Aspen Mays on Monday, March 26th at 7pm.

Claudia Cortinez is a visual artist working between Buenos Aires and NYC. Her work focuses on the material traces of objects that make up urban and domestic spaces, exploring the relationship between architecture, history, and society, proposing memory as a physical and spatial quality. Through various photographic and sculptural processes she explores how information transfers between surfaces and the transformations that occur through material decomposition. Her work reflects on details within built spaces that construct the identity of a landscape and its inhabitants. Claudia received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA at Yale University. She is the recipient of the Alice Kimball Travel Grant from Yale University (2012), the Blair Dickinson Memorial Grant from Yale University (2013), and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant in NYC (2013), among others. She has participated in artist residencies at Mass MoCA (2017), La Ira de Dios (2016), LMCC Swing Space (2013), among others. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and Latin America.

Aspen Mays was born in 1980 in Asheville, North Carolina and received her MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009. She has had solo exhibitions of her work Higher Pictures in New York, at the Center for Ongoing Projects & Research in Columbus, Ohio and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Mays was a 2009-2010 Fulbright Fellow in Santiago, Chile, where she spent time with astrophysicists using the world’s most advanced telescopes to look at the sky. She is currently Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts. Mays lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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RTS Residency OPEN CALL for 2018/2019

March 01, 2018

A little later than usual…but RTS is now accepting applications for the 2018-2019 RTS Residency.  For all the info about the RTS Residency Program and our simple application…apply here.

We are also happy to announce 3 new initiatives as part of this year’s residency. RTS will partner with 2727 California Street to support out of town residents with affordable housing. RTS will expand upon a partnership with Artistes en Résidence to co-host a second exchange of a Bay Area artist and a French artist from the Auvergne region. And finally, in recognition of the scarcity of resources and opportunities for artists just starting out, we will reserve one of the 8 residency slots for a recent graduate of an undergraduate program or an artist without an MFA degree.

Studio shot, Jan-Feb RTS Resident Torreya Cummings