REAL TIME & SPACE

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

FEB/MARCH Artist in Residence: Claudia Cortinez

February 23, 2018

RTS is happy to welcome our Feb/March artist in residence, Claudia Cortinez!

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.

RTS Talks: Torreya Cummings and Ven Voisey

February 07, 2018

JAN/FEB Artist in Residence: Torreya Cummings

January 23, 2018

RTS is excited to host Jan/Feb artist in residence Torreya Cummings!

Torreya Cummings is an artist making project-based work that takes the form of installations, sculpture, performance, photo, and/or video. The work is a way of thinking about time, place, and how our relationships to those things are grounded in identity. Torreya’s work has been shown locally and internationally, most recently at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, and the Oakland Museum of California where their commissioned installation “Notes from ‘Camp’ AKA Transdimensional Ghost Town Discotheque” is on view until May 2018.

JAN Small Press Traffic Resident: Sophia Dahlin

RTS is excited to have Sophia Dahlin as our Jan Small Press Traffic Writer in Residence!

Sophia Dahlin is a poet who just moved back to the bay from Philadelphia, PA. She is a teacher for California Poets in the Schools. Sophia has run various reading and talk series, including the Poem Talks//Butterfly Dissection Sessions in Oakland and the Human Body Series in Iowa City, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in many journals, and is forthcoming in Supplement, Elderly, and Fence.

RTS Talks: Chelsea A. Flowers and Sam Vernon

December 09, 2017

Do you like talking artists? Whiskey straight up? Karaoke? Cookies? Human interaction? Then you’re in store. Monday, December 18th at 7:00 PM, RTS member Sam Vernon and visiting artist in residence Chelsea A. Flowers will be sharing their work. In conjunction with the talks, space for singing, and cookie and alcohol consumption will be available. Feel free to bring your mixers.

Based in Detroit, Chelsea A. Flowers is an artist who holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. And a BFA from Denison University with a concentration in Black Studies. She has shown work at various galleries in Columbus and Cleveland Ohio; including Marcia Evans Gallery, Junctionview Studios, with upcoming exhibits at Muted Horn Gallery and ACRE Projects Space. Additionally she has held performances at Hatch Gallery in Detroit, and the Museum of Human Achievement in Austin. She has given performative lectures at Cranbrook Academy of Art, College for Creative Studies and Wayne State University. She has expanded her skills and research by attending ACRE and Unlisted Projects residencies, culminating in various performances at the establishments. Her practice explores subversion to popular culture and how “otherness” is created, and social and cultural critique of her environment. She explores these ideas through comedic troupes, physical play, nostalgic memorabilia, and participatory performance.

Sam Vernon earned her MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University in 2015 and her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2009. Her installations combine xeroxed drawings, photographs, paintings and sculptural components in an exploration of personal narrative and identity. She uses installation and performance to honor the past while revising historical memory. Vernon has exhibited with Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Seattle Art Museum, Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the Emery Community Arts Center at the University of Maine, Farmington, MoCADA, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn.

Potluck and Sewing Circle at RTS!

Sewing Circle & Spice Trade Potluck with The Rhinoceros Project

cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, turmeric…

Join us at RTS for a sewing circle & potluck with The Rhinoceros Project on December 16th at 6pm!

As we delve further into the constellation of ideas surrounding The Rhinoceros Project – colonialism, imperialism, habitat decimation, wonder, reconnecting with our bodies and the land, and the whole of the complexities of our time, we invite you to whip up a dish inspired by the Spice Trade and join us in a warm evening of dining, sharing voices, and adding stitches to the life-size embroidery of a greater one-horned Indian Rhinoceros.

Through participatory sewing circles, The Rhinoceros Project is recreating Albrecht Durer’s 1515 woodblock print of an Indian Rhinoceros as a life size embroidery that will in turn be used to make a watermark in monumental sheets of handmade paper. When the embroidery is complete, we will pull an edition of three of these watermarks – an image literally created by the absence of paper pulp – to commemorate the three remaining Northern White Rhinoceri. Albrecht Durer’s print documents the 1515 landing of an Indian Rhinoceros in Lisbon – a gift from a sultan to a king and the first to be seen in Europe in 1000 years – a nearly mythic creature. In his Nuremberg workshop, Durer based his image on a sketch & descriptive account, never having seen the creature himself. Forebodingly, our Rhinoceros was re-gifted to Pope Leo & drowned in a shipwreck, shackled below deck, on the way to Rome.

Durer’s Rhinoceros travelled to Lisbon via the newly discovered seafaring passage to and from India: down the west coast of Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope, back up the eastern coast, and across the Indian Ocean. In 1497, Vasco da Gama set out in search of this route in order to cut out the middlemen in the Mediterranean who had exclusive control on the spice trade. Operating on orders from the same Portuguese king who received our Rhinoceros in 1515, da Gama found a direct path to the city of Calicut, also known as The City of Spices, giving Portugal a firm hold on the spice trade as well as a site for colonization and growing empire.

The Rhinoceros Project instigators are Anne Beck & Michelle Wilson. For more information: http://rhinocerosproject.tumblr.com/

Michelle Wilson is a printmaker, papermaking, book, installation, and social practice artist. Her practice includes frequent collaborations with other artists, in particular her ongoing projects Book Bombs (with Mary Tasillo) and the Rhinoceros Project (with Anne Beck). Her practice explores interconnections between environmental issues, colonialism, natural history, migration, and the loss of diversity. She is a past recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Artist-Investigator Project of the Triangle Arts Lab, and the Small Plates Imprint program from the San Francisco Center for the Book. Her works of art are in various collections, including Yale University (New Haven, CT), the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), and the Mediatheque Andre Malraux (Strasbourg, France). Wilson currently teaches printmaking at San Jose State University and Stanford University.

Anne Beck works collaboratively and independently in a variety of media from painting to print and bookmaking to public intervention. Broadly, she explores the roles of amateur naturalist and lay surveyor of the current landscape—collecting specimens and recording data, cataloging that which seems useful, and investigating further that which seems impermeable. This is all in the context of envisioning a sustainable path forward for herself and the planet, which is often a playful exercise in the face of absurd and complex circumstance. Beck’s works of art have been featured in In the Make, Studio Visits with West Coast Artists, Works & Days Quarterly, Hyperallergic, and Dublin’s The Visual Artists News Sheet. She has received residency awards from the Virginia Center of Creative Arts, Can Serrat in El Bruc, Spain, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, and was Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University. She is a 2015 recipient of the Fath Scholarship for Artists and Artisans of the Book from the Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia, and received a project grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Beck lives and works in Northern California.

DEC Small Press Traffic Resident: Leora Fridman

December 06, 2017

RTS is excited to welcome December Small Press Traffic writer in residence, Leora Fridman.

Leora Fridman is a writer, artist and educator, author of MY FAULT (Cleveland State University Press, 2016) in addition to multiple chapbooks. Her poems, prose and translations appear or are forthcoming in the New York Times, the Rumpus, Tricycle Magazine, Temporary Art Review, Open Space, Denver Quarterly, jubilat and jacket2. She is recipient of grants and honors from organizations including Caldera, the National Endowment for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. More at leorafridman.com.

NOV/DEC Artist in Residence: Chelsea Flowers

December 02, 2017

RTS is excited to have artist in residence Chelsea Flowers here for Nov and Dec!

Based in Detroit, Chelsea A. Flowers is an artist who holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. And a BFA from Denison University with a concentration in Black Studies. She has shown work at various galleries in Columbus and Cleveland Ohio; including Marcia Evans Gallery, Junctionview Studios, with upcoming exhibits at Muted Horn Gallery and ACRE Projects Space. Additionally she has held performances at Hatch Gallery in Detroit, and the Museum of Human Achievement in Austin. She has given performative lectures at Cranbrook Academy of Art, College for Creative Studies and Wayne State University. She has expanded her skills and research by attending ACRE and Unlisted Projects residencies, culminating in various performances at the establishments. Her practice explores subversion to popular culture and how “otherness” is created, and social and cultural critique of her environment. She explores these ideas through comedic troupes, physical play, nostalgic memorabilia, and participatory performance.

RTS Talks: Johnny Bicos and Léonie Guyer

November 01, 2017

RTS is excited to host artist talks by our current artist in residence Johnny Bicos and artist Léonie Guyer on Monday, November 6th from 7pm to 9pm.  Hope to see you there!

Johnny Bicos is a painter based out of San Francisco. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2014) and is currently enrolled at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard (2020). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Altman Siegel and Et al etc. in San Francisco; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York; and Brand New Gallery, Milan.

Léonie Guyer’s paintings, drawings and installations explore idiosyncratic, nuanced shapes and the spaces they inhabit. Her work has been exhibited at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, New Lebanon, NY, Peter Blum Gallery, NYC, Feature Inc., NYC, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA, Lumber Room, Portland, OR, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College Portland, OR, odium fati, San Francisco, [ 2nd Floor Projects ], San Francisco, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, PLUSkunst, Düsseldorf, and other venues. Her work is held in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon and others. Léonie Guyer was born in New York, NY. She received a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. She lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

Left image: Johnny Bicos, Right image: Léonie Guyer, Untitled, no. 90, 2017, oil on marble, 5-5/8 x 4-1/2 inches