RTS is excited to host artist presentations by current artist in residence, 5/5, and RTS member Kico Le Strange, next Wednesday, Dec. 19th at 7pm. See you there! RSVP Here!
Multimedia collective, 5/5 is dedicated to exploring Black(ness) as an idea, consciousness, reference, and embodied experience through space, language, and visual culture. Tania Balan-Gaubert uses photography, found and ready-made objects, assemblage, and video to contemplate migration, long-distance nationalism, and belonging. Troy Chew’s work explores the African Diaspora within urban culture through painting and sculpture. while also questioning the definitions of “Fine art” and “Folk Art.” Employing hand sewing, dyeing, collage and assemblage, Nkiruka Oparah builds multimedia portraits from found objects, familial images, and repurposed materials to investigate black identity, and Nigerian cultural memory as an ongoing attempt to materialize her experience of displacement.
Kico Le Strange is a powerful drag entity. Like superman her parents sent her on a space ship because her home planet was self-destructing. Le Strange found her new home in a wittle town of South Texas. Her dreams were as big as belt buckles and hair. After a ferocious battle in the land of Alice Texas America she rediscovered her passion in the Land of Cows and Kings a.k.a. Kingsville. She got a paper for completing studies in fine arts and applied to to receive another piece of paper in Califas. She has said paper and done had it since 2015. She resides in Oakland where she constantly dances, crafts, sews, makes, and creates spaces of inclusivity.