RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Leonard Reidelbach and special guest Liz Roberts on Monday, November 25 from 6-8pm PST at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.
Leonard Reidelbach’s work opposes the legislature’s strategy to weaponize trans rights, pushing a fascist agenda threatening everyone’s privacy and autonomy. The media intentionally strips trans narratives of nuance and pleasure- qualities that define humanity. He uses silkscreen to create variations in matrixes. Pattern carries a history that he reconfigures, bringing in the infinite potential of past and future realities.
Reidelbach’s group and solo exhibitions include CUBE Space Gallery, Berkeley Arts Center, Adobe Backroom, Root Division, Kala, and Liminal Space. He was a recipient of the Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award and participated in Recology’s Artist in Residence Program. Reidelbach holds an MFA in Visual Art at San Francisco State University (2023), where he was a co-founding member of the Art Student Union. He holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and completed an apprenticeship program at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. He is a current fellow with Lucas Arts Residency (2023-2026) and was a graduate fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts (2023-2024).
Liz Roberts makes artwork that is often collaborative and rooted in moving image and sound. Her work positions personal histories in political landscapes, navigating from her lived experience and bringing decades of behind the scenes work in mutual aid recovery organizing. Her current projects address drug policy, harm reduction, and the drug war in the United States by centering the voices of people who use or have used drugs. She is advocating “nothing about us without us” be widely applied to documentary film. Roberts has shown with galleries, museums, alternative spaces, and film festivals. Her early 16mm films are in the collection of the Film-makers’ Cooperative in New York. Roberts was part of the 2022 BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition) Media Maker Fellowship to develop her short film MIDWASTE into a feature length film. In 2023 she was awarded a Film/Video Studio Residency with the Wexner Center for the Arts and became a Film House Resident at SFFILM in 2024. She will premiere a new short film commissioned by Visual AIDS at MoMA PS1 in 2025.