RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Ahn Lee and Angel Anjos Wednesday, January 25th from 7-9pm PST.
Real Talks will be held at RTS, located at 125 10th St. Oakland. We are excited to have this event back in person again. We do ask everyone to wear a mask indoors, and there will be hand sanitizer available.
Ahn Lee is a nonbinary (they/she), queer Cantonese artist and researcher. Their interdisciplinary practice of ceramics, research and performance relies on a combined methodology of autobiographical re-making and research on the Cantonese diaspora. As a person of Sunwui (Xinhui) descent, Ahn explores their ancestral roots to this contested site of capitalism and imperialism through leveraging archival research historiography, critical race and gender theory.
Ahn received their MFA in May 2022 from UC Berkeley’s Art Practice Department, where they were the 2021 Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Awardee. Ahn previously studied in UCLA’s Gender Studies Department as a Eugene V. Cota Robles Graduate Fellow before leaving the program to pursue art full time. Their work has been shown at SOMArts, Root Division, The SF International Asian American Film Festival (CAAMFEST), TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, and as an Emerging Artist with Disabilities Grant recipient and a Creative Capital Artist Training Grant recipient at The Kennedy Center. In 2022, Ahn received the Simone V. Leigh Zenobia Award for the Watershed Ceramics Residency. Ahn is currently a 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts and a resident at Real Time and Space, Oakland.
Angel Albie Anjos is a first-generation Brazilian-American, multidisciplinary Queer and Trans Artist based in Oakland, CA, and working in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Anjos recently graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s in Art Practice and a minor in Art History, primarily focusing on Painting and Ceramics.
My art practice is introspective and reflective of the emotional and physical experience of queerness/transness but specifically articulates its profound and historical resilience. By examining lived, intimate moments captured through photography, I aim to empower those misunderstood for their intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. I teleport the viewer into a visual world that accepts and fosters authentic freedom. I explore multicultural identity, queer visual representation in society and history, and “The Queer Body” through a multidisciplinary lens, primarily using figurative painting, ceramic sculpture, and photography. Each piece contemplates the combination of the queer body with symbolic metaphors illustrated through nature, texture, and an emphasis on highly saturated color to develop a dramatized and exaggerated exposition of queerness and transness in its highest form.