REAL TIME & SPACE

Moving party!!!

February 19, 2026

Real Time and Space is moving! It’s official: we’re packing up the paint, the wood, and the camaraderie and taking it to a brand new space! To celebrate our final days at 125 10th st, you are formally (and fun-ally) invited to our Studio Moving Party! Join us for a night of community and general excitement.

When: March 8th, 5-10pm

Where: 125 10th st Oakland

What:

• Talks from folks running experimental art spaces
• Free Pizza: Because no moving party is complete without grease and cheese. (Gluten free and vegan options available)
• A Pumping DJ: We’ll have DJ Jazzy Aaron playing the beat-tastic classics.

Come help us celebrate this huge new chapter. It’s going to be a memorable night.

REAL TALKS: Jayna Dias and Ada Liv

January 26, 2026

Real Time and Space is hyped to host REAL TALKS with resident Jayna Dias and special guest Ada Liv. Join us Wednesday, February 18th at 6pm. RTS is located at 125 10th St in Oakland, CA. Get here early for pizza! This might be our last Real Talk for a while, so bring your friends and come enjoy one while you can.

As a Senegalese-Amerian artist, Dias’ work is rooted in the complexity of cultural hybridity in the Black diaspora, Black female subjectivity, and fetishization. She graduated from the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California in 2024 and currently practices in Los Angeles, California. Through drawing, painting and performance, Dias creates visual exemplifications of the intricacy of Black identity, Western colonialism’s intervention on it, and how deconstruction can be a powerful tool in reasserting it. Unstable compositions, expressionistic bodies, boisterous colors, found materials and seductive clarity are all utilized in her practice to stage invitations for viewers to engage with the underrepresented themes she depicts. Above all, Dias’ practice is about visibility. She creates to be seen. 

 Ada Liv (b. 2001) is an artist based in the Bay Area who utilizes organic materials to create abstract and unidentifiable forms. Employing textile, installation, and painting, her work reflects an appreciation for nature and biology through a macro/micro lens. She transforms materials primarily sourced from waste physically and symbolically through intense manipulations. She graduated with a BA in Art from University of Southern California in 2024. Prior to that she attended Mills College and also earned a Diploma in Fashion Design from Central Saint Martins.

Real Talks! Helia Pouyanfar and Shirin Towfiq

October 25, 2025

Real Time and Space is excited to host REAL TALKS with residents Helia Pouyanfar and Shirin Towfiq. Join us Wednesday, November 5th at 6pm. RTS is located at 125 10th St in Oakland, CA. Get here early for pizza!

Helia Pouyanfar is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the permanently transient state of the refugee body and its negotiation and reconciliation with Place. Pouyanfar has received her B.A. in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Studio Art from UC Davis. 

She has been the recipient of the Certificate of Excellence in Sculpture from UC Berkeley, Mary Lou Osborn Award, the 2021 Margrit Mondavi Graduate Fellowship from UC Davis, 2024 Berkeley Civic Arts Artist Grant, 2024 Kala Art Institute Fellowship, 2025 Recology Artists in Residence Program, and Makaan Arts Residency at Minnesota Street Foundation. Her work has been exhibited at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Miami University, Foyer-LA, Root Division, Southern Exposure, Berkeley Art Center, Kala Art Gallery, Richmond Art Center, San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery, and SF Camerawork.”

Shirin Towfiq, is an Iranian-American artist predominantly working with an emphasis on instwhose work addresses cultural memory, family histories, legacies of trauma, transnational migration, and translation. Towfiq completed her Bachelor of Arts in Art Practice from the University of California Berkeley in 2016 and a Masters of Fine Arts from Stanford University in 2020.

In recent years, Towfiq has presented solo-exhibitions at Spill 180 Gallery, New York, NY; The Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA; 1078 gallery, Chico, CA; City Gallery, San Diego, CA; and has been included in group exhibitions at Four Freedoms Park, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; The De Young Museum; Minnesota Street Project; SOMArts; San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery; c3artspace, Melbourne, Australia. She has won various awards, such as the Rydell Award and Harpo Award in 2024.

REAL TALKS! Asari Aibangbee and Jana Lang

July 07, 2025

Real Time and Space is overjoyed to host REAL TALKS with resident artist Asari Aibangbee and our special guest, Jana Lang. Join us on Wednesday, July 23rd at 6pm. RTS is located at 125 10th St. Oakland – get here early for PIZZA!

Asari Aibangbee is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, specializing in filmmaking, fiber/textile art, and art curation. Originally from Los Angeles, Asari’s artistic journey began in San Francisco, where they founded the collective To Be Black and Queer and established themselves as an independent filmmaker. As a queer Nigerian femme, their work centers on the experiences of Black Queer individuals across the African diaspora, exploring themes of identity, community, and intersectionality.

In 2021, Asari began experimenting with tufting, a medium that gained momentum in 2023 during their first artist residency, alongside their work with cyanotypes. Their fiber art blends traditional techniques, such as hand tufting with a tufting gun and punch needle, with sustainable yarn and other materials to create intricate compositions. These pieces explore symbols, cultural artifacts, and motifs significant to the Black Queer community, serving as metaphors for broader conversations on identity, belonging, and the diasporic experience.

Asari’s work emphasizes the softness and vulnerability of Black Queer individuals, particularly Black non-men, challenging traditional narratives and offering a nuanced perspective on tenderness and resilience. Their involvement in programs like Beyond the Screen with A24, the Promise Workshops at the Academy Museum, and the Queer Women of Color Film Festival has influenced their world-building approach to art.

Jana Malkia Lang (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, community organizer, and practitioner + culture bearer of African diasporic wisdom. She uses painting, collage, language, graphic design, fabrics, and altar building to bring forth truths, stories, and memories for her holistic health, communal healing and survival.

REAL TALKS! Nicole Shaffer and tamara suarez porras

June 12, 2025

Real Time and Space is ecstatic to host REAL TALKS with resident artist Nicole Shaffer and our special guest, tamara suarez porras. <<note time change>> Monday, June 30th at 7pm at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland – get here early for PIZZA!

Nicole Shaffer is a Bay Area interdisciplinary visual artist with a focus on research based installations. Their work offers space for poetic and phenomenal understanding while centering the nuance and beauty of non-normative and divergent embodiments. By reconfiguring visual language from local archives and passed down craft techniques, Shaffer reclaims access to a sense of lineage and belonging historically denied to gender variant, queer, and mad lives.
Nicole is a current Fellow at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. They were exhibiting artist in Bay Area Now 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and a 2023 Graduate Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts. Their work has been exhibited at galleries and museums in the Bay Area including YBCA, Southern Exposure, SOMArts, 500 Capp Street, 41 Ross, and Root Division. They were a distinguished graduate of their 2022 class at San Francisco State University, and recipient of the 2019 Murphy Cadogan award.

tamara suarez porras (they/she) is an artist, writer, and educator from (south) Brooklyn, NY and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who works across photography, filmmaking, and writing. tamara examines dynamics of seeing, remembering, forgetting, and how photography attempts to know the unknowable. Often beginning with collected and family archives, their work explores how memory and self-knowledge can be unraveled through layers of a photograph. tamara has exhibited nationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, School at the International Center of Photography, Filter Space, Houston Center for Photography, San Francisco Center for the Book, Root Division, and Kala Art Institute Gallery. They have published artist books with Sming Sming Books, Deep Time Press, and National Monument Press, held in library collections including Harvard University, National Gallery of Art, and SFMOMA. tamara has written criticism for The Brooklyn Rail, 48Hills, and Art Practical, and published essays with Saint Lucy Books, SFMOMA’s Open Space, and CCA Wattis Institute / Sternberg Press. They are a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Photography + Imaging and California College of the Arts with an MFA/MA in Fine Arts and Visual & Critical Studies. tamara is a Lecturer at Stanford University in Photography, adjunct faculty in photography and art history at colleges across the Bay Area, and on the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure.

REAL TALKS: Aisha Shillingford and Kristen Zimmerman

May 02, 2025

Real Time and Space is ecstatic to host REAL TALKS with resident artist Aisha Shillingford and our special guest, Kristen Zimmerman. Get here early for pizza on Thursday, May 29th from 6-8pm at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.

Aisha Shillingford builds more beautiful worlds in public. She is a collagist, street artist and world builder originally from Trinidad & Tobago. She is the Artistic Director of Intelligent Mischief, a creative studio unleashing the power of Black radical imagination to shape the future. She is a former Fellow and Artist In Residence (Create Change Fellow ‘20 and AiR ‘23)  at the Laundromat Project, former mentor at the New Museum Incubator (New Inc.), and a former Project Fellow at NYU ITP. Her work has been commissioned by the Anchorage Museum, Earthseed, Good Mirrors, Collective Acceleration, Borders Like Water, Movement for Black Lives, Root Rise Pollinate and Creative Wild Fire and licensed by Nonprofit Quarterly, marginalia, Leadership Learning Community, Cooper Hewitt, and the Center for Third World Organizing. Her work with Intelligent Mischief has been included in Occupancies @ Boston University Art Galleries (2017); Who Owns Black Art (Zeal Coop, 2019);  How To Survive @ Anchorage Museum (2024); Witness @ Photoville  (Good Mirrors, 2024), and Alhamdu: Muslim Futurism @ Colorado College Fine Arts Center (2024-3925). With Intelligent Mischief she has co-created experiential futurist installations at Carnegie Hall, Tone Gallery in Memphis, TN and Nation X,  a virtual 24 hour rave all based on collectively imagined future worlds in which Black people are thriving, sovereign, and free. She crafts IMaginals, meditative world building experiences to guide individuals and groups in creating visceral, palpable, irresistible visions of more beautiful futures through rest, dreaming, and  bold imagination.

Kristen is a multidisciplinary artist, storyteller, world-builder and way-finder based in Oakland, CA. Her comics and stories weave magic, memory & nonfiction to repair intergenerational trauma, reconnect us to ancestral wisdom, and open new possibilities for the future. Her people are the ones who live in the in-between spaces and generate hope. Kristen is on faculty at California State University, East Bay, where she teaches illustration and comics. She holds an MFA in Comics from the California College of Art and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University. Her first graphic novel, Ten Thousand Beloved Communities, was released in 2024. She is currently working on two graphic memoir projects about chosen family, Starting Route to Home and the Hawai’i Blue Ink series. Some of her happy places are hanging out with her modern queer family, training in zen, spending time in nature and making really good food with friends.

REAL TALKS: madeleine aguilar, bex ya yolk, and Vivian Sming

April 01, 2025

Real Time and Space is overjoyed to host REAL TALKS with resident artists madeleine aguilar and bex ya yolk, and our special guest, Vivian Sming. Get here early for pizza on Wednesday, April 9th from 7-9pm at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.

madeleine is a multidisciplinary artist + musician from chicago. her work is often mobile / modular / interactive and can be found in backyards, libraries, storefronts, homes, galleries & book fairs. she responds to existing environments, building structures, furniture & environments that prompt users to actively reconsider & redefine their function(s). using the archive as form, she marks time by cataloging lived spaces, collected objects, familial histories, personal relationships, natural phenomena, mundane routines, and ephemeral moments. 

she is the founder of bench press, a risograph press based on friendship, play & collaboration. bench press often partners with artists who are new to the book as form, utilizing the risograph as a tool for skill sharing and cultivating new friendships. she currently runs the print lab in the school of design at the university of illinois chicago and co-teaches a summer risography & bookmaking course at ox-bow school of art & artists’ residency.

bex ya yolk is a visual artist, graphic designer, book maker, and adjunct professor based in Chicago, IL. yolk received a BFA in Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts and an MFA in Visual Communication Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a concentration in Book Arts as a full merit scholar.

yolk is the founder of THUNGRY––a practice + publishing initiative, and artists’ book bindery complicating traditional ways of book building and semantics through experimentation + queering praxis. yolk utilizes the confines and structure of the Artists’ Book, fundamental principles in design, and exploratory methodologies in sculpture to activate, interrogate, speculate, and disrupt what we’ve come to understand qualifies a Book through extensive, generative research into the ‘Maternal Complex’ made up of subgenres like care work, reproductive design, abortion access activism, reproductive justice and health care disparities, and container technics exploring the intersectionalities between the Book + these kinds of bodies.

Vivian Sming is an artist and publisher who experiments with books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive. Since 2017, Sming has published a wide range of artists’ books through their studio Sming Sming Books. They work in close collaboration with artists whose works and ideas inform design, material, and printing choices. Sming is committed to promoting critical discourse, advancing cultural equity, and creating alternative sites of knowledge production through the act of publishing. 

Workshops at RTS!

March 17, 2025

We are hosting a series of workshops at RTS this spring. Check out what we have to offer and email the workshop instructor to reserve your spot! Spots fill up quickly, so reserve yours ASAP. All workshops are free.

Art Emergency! Visual Intervention Skillshare

April 13th 4-6pm

Its an art emergency!  Visual Interventions needed Stat!!  Join this fun hands on worksop on creating and using stencils, wheatpaste, messaging and other creative techniques for posters, stickers and more.   Every participant gets a stencil and a spraycan. 

10 spots.  Email: inesixierda@gmail.com to reserve

Containers for a Miniature Alpine Rock Garden

April 19th 11-2pm and April 20th 3-4pm

If you’ve not already been seduced by alpine plants, it’s only a matter of time.  Their adaptations to high elevations make them diminutive and compact, and their jewel-like flowers are vibrantly colored. (Check out alpine gentian– “gentian blue” comes from the intense color of the flowers).  

Join me for this sculpture-meets-plant-nerd workshop where you’ll create a hypertufa container for your own alpine rock garden.  Natural tufa is a porous limestone rock that alpine plants root into.  It is rare, expensive, and makes a very heavy container.  Hypertufa is an affordable, lighter weight, cement-based substitute that mimics tufa, making it possible to grow these gems down here at sea level.  Come prepared to get messy.  

8 spots. Email Beth Krebs beth.krebs@gmail.com to confirm your spot.

From Path to Page: Walking, Photography, and Zine-Making

May 3rd 12-3pm

This workshop is for anyone who enjoys exploring the intersection of digital art, photography, and walking as an art form. We will examine the work of various artists who incorporate walking into their practice and discuss the role of photography and video documentation as artistic mediums. Participants will create their own artwork inspired by the experience and documentation of a walk, culminating in the creation of a zine.

10 spots. Email Minoosh Zomorodinia: raheleh.zomorrodinia@gmail.com  to confirm your spot

Queer Gaze

May 4th 3-5:30 pm

This is a movement and performance workshop. We will practice making tiny little performances and witness each other doing them! We will do some light physical warm ups and then practice making little ephemeral experiences for each other. All levels of experience are welcome. No dance or performance background needed- this could be your first time!. “Performing” is scary and fun so I want to offer low key space to practice. Queer centered but all folks welcome.

6 spots. Email Chani Bockwinkel: chanibocks@gmail.com  to confirm your spot

California Forever Police Department: Collective Critique of California’s Techno Rich Future

May 18th 3-6pm

Who is California for? In this workshop, participants will create a speculative recruitment video for a fictional police force that will guard the new planned community called California Forever. Since 2017, wealthy venture capitalists have formed a real estate company called Flannery Associates, and spent over $800 million to anonymously acquire 60,000+ acres in Solano County as a “stealth campaign” —  with announced plans to build a new city for 400,000 people. They have titled this project California Forever. Since the beginning, there has been building controversy around this plan, particularly around water supply concerns, traffic, urban sprawl, and impact on local communities. Critics have noted that designs for the new city resemble The Jetsons in their simple futurism, blustering techno-optimism, and retro desire to double down on failed approaches of the past.

One thing that history has taught us is that California Utopianism is not for everyone: it is for the white and wealthy. What California Forever wants is to guard the wealth they have acquired and protect it for themselves. (Indeed California Forever’s city renderings show only white, able bodied, thin people exercising and engaging in leisure, never work.) California Forever has not yet announced their plans for a police department to protect their wealth, but we know it is coming. Drawing from the practices of culture jamming, tactical media, and performance, together we will critique this narrow vision of the future by creating a speculative recruitment video for the yet to be created California Forever Police Department. Participants are welcome to contribute as performers, behind the scenes, or both. Join us!

10 spots.  email: liat.berdugo@gmail.com to confirm your spot

Pastel Pal: A Drawing Workshop

May 24th 6-8 pm

Join this fun drawing event where we will draw with our friends ….. soft pastels. Soft pastels are a buttery delight to work with and how oh the fun awaits. Never worked with soft pastels before, no problem. Artist Kico Le Strange will be your soft pastel guru guide. Already a pro with our pal soft pastels thats fantastic. Bring a buddy and have a chill drawing night with us. 

15 spots. Email Kico Le Strange kicolestrange@gmail.com to confirm your spot. 

Cameras: Obscura + Pinhole

June 8th 1:30-3pm

Experience the magic of a camera obscura! We’ll convert a closed container cargo trailer into an immersive art installation suitable for all ages. Our workshop begins with a short, illustrated presentation exploring the history of this optical device. Participants will then have the opportunity to step inside the trailer and witness the incredible effect firsthand.  Projected images of the surrounding environment will come to life on the interior walls.  Groups of 5-6 will explore the camera obscura at a time. Inside the trailer, we’ll offer paper and pencils for those who wish to trace the projected images. Alongside the trailer, we’ll host a pinhole camera activity, where participants can construct their own miniature camera obscuras to take home. The entire workshop lasts approximately 2.5 hours. This workshop will be ADA compliant. Inside of the truck, masks will be encouraged. 

15-20 spots email: muz@muzcollective.com to reserve a spot

REAL TALKS: Anais De Los Santos and Paige Valentine

March 07, 2025

Real Time and Space is excited to host REAL TALKS with resident artist Anais De Los Santos and special guest Paige Valentine on Thursday, March 27th from 6-8pm PST at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.

Anais De Los Santos (b.1996) grew up in suburban New Jersey and received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2019. Working mainly in ceramic sculpture, she utilizes her background in drawing and film to transform ceramic surfaces. She has worked in clay studios between the Bay Area, Philadelphia and New York City. Centering a DIY approach to her practice, Anais prefers to collaborate with young artists in her community, curating art shows, holding weekly ceramic workshops and hosting a monthly drawing club. She is currently based in Brooklyn.

Paige Valentine (b.1996, Los Angeles)  is an East Bay-based multidisciplinary artist who merges painting and ceramics with themes of humor, tenderness, grief and interspecies connection. Her ceramics often defy traditional functionality, creating scenes through combined and assembled elements.  She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2018 with a BFA in Painting. She has had two solo exhibitions at Pt.2 Gallery (Oakland, CA) and has exhibited in group shows across the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, Europe, and more.

OPEN CALL: Residency Program 2025-26

February 24, 2025

Apply here: realtimespace.submittable.com/submit

Our residency includes a 170 sq. ft studio, access to a large common space, and use of our communal woodshop. We also provide a $4000 stipend for local artists. Out of town artists receive a $2000 stipend plus $2000 in travel support.

Requirements for the residency:

• Work on-site at the studio for a minimum of 15 hrs per week
• Give an artist talk during the residency period
• Create an artwork in the form of a multiple (edition of 10) for the RTS Residency archive  

Note: No hazardous or toxic materials may be used in the studio space. We have no kiln on site.

We accept artists working in the following areas:

Visual arts 

Interdisciplinary Practice

Performance

Social practice  

We do not accept artists currently enrolled in a degree program.

Deadline for applications is April 24, 2025. 

All applicants will be notified by May 12, 2025.

REAL TALKS: dani lopez and Richard-Jonathan Nelson

January 30, 2025

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist dani lopez and special guest Richard-Jonathan Nelson on Thursday, February 20 from 6-8pm PST at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.

dani lopez is a textile artist working within weaving, embroidery, and textile sculpture to explore lesbian desire, non-linear narratives, disidentifications, and femme identity. She received her MFA in Textiles from CCA. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Surface Design Journal, Warp and Weft, and Other People’s Pixels. lopez has shown at Bedford Gallery, MACLA in San Jose, Berkeley Art Center, and 120710. Her work was in Queer Threads at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. In 2022, she received a Puffin grant and a Money for Women grant for her project “3 Dykes Walk Into a Bar…”. lopez was named a Lucas Visual Art Fellow at Montalvo Art Center. She also teaches tapestry weaving at Richmond Art Center.

Richard-Jonathan Nelson’s textile works explore new visions of Blackness through an associative vision steeped in the languages of science fiction and craft. Nelson’s experience with textile work dates back to his childhood in Savannah, Georgia, when his mother and grandmother taught him to sew. Stitching together different materials, the artist discovered how sewing could allow him to build his own worlds.

The cosmic explosions that appear in Nelson’s work harken back to his upbringing in the Southern Evangelical Church, where the threat of Armageddon loomed large. Living in the South as a queer Black man, that threat was always present, causing Nelson to feel alien in his environment. Accompanying these images are excerpts of poetic language, taken from the closed captions on films and television that the artist is accustomed to reading, having grown up with a hearing-impaired uncle and Deaf Interpreting mother. In his work, they serve as subtle clues, stepping stones amidst a noisy and highly-saturated amalgam of images, forms, and colors. Collectively, these elements come together in a material sense to build a new aesthetic of Blackness, one that is gentle and soft-spoken, yet simultaneously self-assured, bold, and primed to take the next leap into an ever-evolving future.

REAL TALKS: Leonard Reidelbach and Liz Roberts!

November 11, 2024

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.

Open Studios – Nov. 2nd!!!

October 23, 2024

Real Time and Space is throwing open its doors for OPEN STUDIOS!

Come on down to 125 10th St on November 2nd from 12 – 4pm for a sneak peek at what artists are making here. There will also be snacks and high quality hanging out. Free and open to the public! Fun for the whole family!

REAL TALKS: Joshua Moreno and Gericault De La Rose

July 27, 2024

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Joshua Moreno and RTS member Gericault De La Rose Wednesday, August 28 from 6-8pm PST at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.

Joshua Moreno’s work examines the overlapping relationship between the natural and human-made environment and highlight patterns and systems of efficiency that exist within them. Through installation, drawing, and film, he re-evaluates the everyday spaces and objects that surround us, with added attention to elemental phenomena.

He was born and raised in Watsonville, California. In 2011, he graduated from the University of California San Diego with a BFA in art practice, and in 2022 he graduated from Stanford University with an MFA in studio art. Since 2012, he has been working in art education, teaching courses in art history, filmmaking, and art. Presently, he is teaching drawing courses at Stanford University.

Gericault De La Rose is a queer trans Filipinx, multidisciplinary artist, and educator. While developing her art practice, she worked as a Co-curator of Philippine Objects at the Field Museum of Natural History where she organized a series of monthly events called Pamanang Pinoy using the objects within the collection as conduits for community discussion. After graduating with a BFA with an emphasis in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she formed an artist collective, Export Quality, together with other Queer Filipinx alumni.

De La Rose has also showcased her work in group shows in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Johnson City, New York, and Toronto. De La Rose attended the ACRE residency in Steuben, Wisconsin and the HATCH artist residency for the Chicago Artist Coalition in 2020. In 2022, she received the San Francisco Foundation’s Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award and received her MFA from UC Berkeley in 2023. Most recently, she had her first solo exhibition at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago and was an Artist in Residence for the Arrozidency at Minnesota Street Project. 

REAL TALKS: Jose Iniguez & Kico Le Strange

May 08, 2024

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Jose Iniguez and RTS member Kico Le Strange Wednesday, May 29th from 6-8pm PST at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.

Jose Luis Iniguez Lopez is a Central Valley artist based in Oakland, California, whose artistic journey is marked by the insightful exploration of identity and belonging. Graduating in 2014 with a Master of Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts with a concentration in ceramics from California State University Bakersfield. His artist repertoire extends beyond traditional ceramics, embracing an interdisciplinary approach that melds various mediums to narrate themes of queerness, mysticism, displacement, and pop culture. Jose’s work transcends conventional boundaries, incorporating tactile procedures and recycled sentiments to retell stories that resonate deeply with both himself and his community. His exploration of disoriented heritage through forced adaptation reflects a poignant introspection into the complexities of identity and belonging.

Jose’s experience as an artist is punctuated by notable achievements and residencies that have further enriched his practice. From receiving the merit award from 2012 to 2014 from CCA to participating in residencies like the Red Brick Cooperative Studio in San Francisco and the Sedona Summer Colony in Sedona, Arizona. These residencies have served as incubators for creativity, allowing Jose to delve deeper into his artistic process and engage in meaningful dialogues with fellow artists. They have provided him with invaluable opportunities to experiment with new techniques and collaborate across disciplines, ultimately shaping the trajectory of his artistic career.

In addition to his residencies, Jose has exhibited his work in venerated art institutions such as SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco LGBT community Center, UC Berkeley, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Mexican Consulate of San Francisco, among others. These exhibitions not only showcase his artistic prowess but also highlight his commitment to engaging with diverse audiences and communities.

 As Jose continues to push his boundaries of artistic expression, he hopes to transcend limits and foster connections with a fusion of mediums and themes that not only challenge societal norms but also invite viewers to contemplate the intricacies of the human experience.  

Kico Le Strange is a dancer, performer, visual artist, fashion designer, art educator and studio manager. Le strange lives and works in Oakland Ca. Kico was born and raised in South Tejas.

Kico attended Texas A&M University-Kingsville and received his BFA in 2012. Le Strange attended California College of the Arts & Crafts and obtained his MFA in 2015.

Isn’t Life a Blast

April 09, 2024

Celebrating Real Time Residency

We are excited to announce our residency archive show curated by the fabulous Amy Owen. The show is happening at Gallery 16.

The artists presented here often engage complex ideas with inventive approaches to materiality and place while simultaneously imbuing their work with a sense of humor, absurdity, and curiosity. The exhibition’s tongue-in-cheek title (drawn from the work of past resident Jessalyn Aaland) captures this inherent duality by embracing the freewheeling yet critical character of RTS’ ethos that has made it such an essential undercurrent of the Bay Area art community since its inception. 

In this way, the show’s assembly of artworks is reflective of various modes of working that feel deeply connected to the region in a historical sense but also link it to a more expansive contemporary conversation, nationally and internationally. From painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, and sound to performance, social practice, language, publishing, archives, and more, the artists’ myriad ways of working demonstrate the breadth and reach of this seminal program and the import of the region beyond its borders. 

Real Time and Space was founded by Emma Spertus and Mark Taylor in 2011. Former and current studio directors include Amy Ho, Nancy Bach, Lana Willams, Kico Le Strange, and J. Pansa.

Isn’t Life a Blast is made possible with support from the Ruth Arts Foundation. The exhibition is curated by Amy Owen.

Real Talks: Eva Claycomb & Chani Bockwinkel

April 03, 2024

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Eva Claycomb and RTS member Chani Bockwinkel Thursday, April 24th from 6-8pm PST at RTS. Location: 125 10th St. Oakland.

Eva Claycomb is a multimedia artist living and working in Marfa, Texas. Her work is characterized by a distinct visual language and instinctual compositional style: a spaciousness, a playfulness, and a weirding of language and symbols. Across print, plastic, pulp, and digital formats, she seeks to use her tools to process her environment and inscribe her place in time. Hers is a bewilderment made visual, an ongoing query into the ethos and aesthetics of living in the end of the anthropocene.

Chani Bockwinkel is a dancer and filmmaker based in the Bay Area. She makes interdisciplinary-collaborative-queer feminist imagery for the stage, gallery, and internet.

Real Talks: Elena Yu & Emma Spertus

March 07, 2024

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artist Elena Yu and RTS member Emma Spertus Thursday, March 21st from 6-8pm PST at RTS located at 125 10th St. Oakland.

Elena Yu is an interdisciplinary artist and arts organizer from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice weaves together many mediums and intentions including textiles, performance, drawing, sculpture, archival research and community practice. Elena is currently a UCSB Arts Equity Commons Campus Artist-in-Residence, where she is working in partnership with the UCSB Art Department, the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archive (CEMA), and UCSB Library’s Ethnic and Gender Studies (EGS) collection. During her residency at UCSB and RTS, Elena is working on archival research, a series of workshops, and objects for an intervention in the UCSB library that aims to engage students with histories of radical student organizing towards racial justice and the formation of Ethnic Studies programs at UCSB. For her Real Talk, Elena will be speaking about this project and sharing in-progress works. 

In both her artist and organizing practices, Elena’s emphasis is on developing public programs and exhibitions that consider and care for all aspects of a community ecosystem, bringing together local residents, artists, partnering organizations and sites around contemporary art and issues. She has worked in arts programming at Arts Connection the Arts Council of San Bernardino (2022-2023), High Desert Test Sites (2016-2022), Headlands Center for the Arts, and the MAK Center. In 2022, she co-founded The Firehouse (@thefirehousejt) and Sun Spot (@sun___spot), two artist-run spaces in Joshua Tree, CA. Elena is currently the Ruffin Gallery and Visiting Artist Coordinator at University of Virginia’s Department of Art in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Emma Spertus creates sculptures and architectural interventions, which bring attention to two- and three-dimensional space in humorous or unexpected ways. Her work focuses on questions around the vacancy, materiality, resource use, language, and display. Emma lives and works in the Bay Area. She is founding director of Real Time & Space. She holds an MFA from Hunter College in New York, and BA from Macalester College in St. Paul. This July, Emma will be in residence at the Winslow House Project, Vallejo, CA. www.emmaspertus.com

Real Talks: Dena Al-Adeeb

February 13, 2024

RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Dena Al-Adeeb & Kathy Zarur Wednesday, February 21st from 6-8pm PST in person and via Zoom.

125 10th St. Oakland Ca

Zoom Meeting Link

Meeting ID: 838 0562 0710
Passcode: 435956

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keJn4hASUQ

Dena Al-Adeeb is an Iraqi born feminist scholar-activist, artist-cultural worker, educator, and mother. Her transdisciplinary research is at the intersection of U.S. imperial war geographies, militarism, and extractive capitalist economies in West Asia with an emphasis on visual, material, and petro-culture of the Arab/Muslim worlds. Dena’s creative practice explores gendered histories and lived experiences of war, refugee narratives and collective memory, affect and embodied survival practices through a decolonial framework. Her artwork takes on varied practices including live art, video art, installation, digital art, photography, text, and activism. She creates performative, relational works, dedicated to participatory art, socially engaged projects, collaborative engagement and the cultivation of solidarity. Her work appears in a diversity of publications and shown internationally in spaces ranging from national museums to abandoned buildings. She is a recipient of numerus awards including a Mellon Artist and Practitioner fellowship at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration as well as the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has undertaken many academic research positions throughout her career including her role as Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg. She has taught at New York University, Pratt Institute, San Francisco State University, and Expression College for Digital Arts. Dena holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Culture and Representation, from New York University, M.A. in Sociology-Anthropology from the American University in Cairo, and a B.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University. Dena curates DIWAN: SWANA Futurisms and is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and HEKLER Collective. After completing her residency at Real Time & Space, she will be a resident artist with CULTURE HUB; Dresher Ensemble; and ARAB.AMP.

https://linktr.ee/denaaladeeb

Kathy Zarur is an educator and culture worker in San Francisco. Through courses, exhibitions, and conferences, she seeks to highlight artists and histories that have historically been sidelined. Preferring metaphor over representation, her approach to exhibition making centers around place to explore topics including belonging, identity, and the landscape. Previously at the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates, she was an assistant curator and producer of live art. More recently as an independent curator, she has created exhibitions for the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco Arts Commission, Minnesota Street Project, and SOMArts. She has organized conferences with San Francisco State University at the de Young and Asian Art Museum. Her writings and editorial work appear in Art in America, Broadsheet, and a Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts publication with Sternberg Press. She is Associate Professor of Art History at Skyline College, Fellow of Modern and Contemporary South West Asian and North African art at Smarthistory.org, and a board member of Arab.AMP. Kathy has a PhD in Art History and a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan.

www.kathyzarur.com

REAL TIME RESIDENCY OPEN CALL

February 01, 2024

RTS is excited to announce our 2024-2025 Residency Open Call.There are 2 residency tracks. Track 1: 3 local artists will be awarded a 3-month period residency with a $2000 stipend. Track 2: 3 out of town (non Bay Area person) artists will be awarded a 1 month residency, a $1000 stipend, and a $2000 travel and housing stipend. Note you can only apply to one, not both tracks.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.
Requirements for the residency:
Work on-site at the studio for a minimum of 15 hrs a week
Give 1-2 artist talks during the residency period
Create an artwork in the form of a multiple (edition of 10) for the RTS Residency archive
Note: No hazardous or toxic materials may be used in the studio space.

Deadline for applications is April 12, 2024. 

All applicants will be notified by May 1 , 2024.

Program begins June 1, 2024.

If you have any questions please email BOTH realtimeandresidency@gmail.com & realtimeandevents@gmail.com

https://realtimespace.submittable.com/submit/287030/rts-real-residency-open-call-2024-2025