FEELING LANGUAGE

FEELING LANGUAGE examines comfort and power in text, writing, reading, sharing and communications.

In the curators' words: “This show is all about comfort text: resilience in everyday words, writing, and reading. Expression can also be wordless, the use of line and color as new vocabulary, pushing a thought out onto a surface, making marks and continuously trying to communicate with the world. We tell stories to sustain ourselves and find each other. These messages embedded in art become an emotional telegram – a signal flare with a flame of memory trailing behind it. FEELING LANGUAGE encompasses books, lists, slogans, language, gesture, touch and the trust given in sharing.”

Among the guest artists outside of these programs are: New York based visual storyteller and activist, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo; Mitsuko Brooks, artist & archivist also practicing in New York; interdisciplinary musician Abby Gregg, currently working in Atlanta; educator and printmaker Alex Lukas in Santa Barbara.

FEELING LANGUAGE also features guest artists who are based in the Bay: experimental printmaker and designer Negash Asegde; Steph Kudisch, an artist and queer researcher; Jer Garver, librarian and archival collagist; and Ocean Escalanti, poet and artist.

All of these artists’ practices embody yearning, text, and transmission of ideas.

Abby Gregg

Alex Lukas

Alex Schaffer

Ann Meade

Anthony Morrison

Cameron Kim

Deatra Colbert

Dorian Reid

Doris Yen

Gigot

Halisi Noel-Johnson

Heather Copus

Jason Powell-Smith

Jer Garver

John Patrick McKenzie

Karen May

Karen Ridge

Louie Spagnola

Luis Estrada

Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

Michael Nuñez

Mireya Betances

Mitsuko Brooks

Nathan Lam

Negash Asegde

Ocean Escalanti

Peter Harris

Rebecca Jantzen

Ronnie Goodman

Sara Malpass

Shana Harper

Shantae Robinson

Shawn Sanders

Steph Kudisch

Saturday May 17, 12 to 4pm: Opening Reception

Saturday May 17, 1pm: Sound Workshop with Abby Gregg

Saturday August 9: Closing Event