RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Angel Anjos and Torreya Cummings Wednesday, May 10th 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.
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.
Their 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, they aim to empower those misunderstood for their intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. Angel teleports the viewer into a visual world that accepts and fosters authentic freedom. They 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.
Torreya Cummings works in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture, installation, performance and video, using drag aesthetics, poor substitutions, reflections, hardware store materials, theater tricks, and the language of interpretive sites. Projects usually begin with a site or event, and then incorporate historical, scientific or experiential research. Their current focus is queer landscape. Cummings is a Bay Area Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and an artist in residence at Recology beginning fall 2023.