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Exhibition

August 18 – October 27

Katie Revilla - placeholder - textile art

A placeholder reserves space for something to come later; it is to exist in the temporary. Katie Revilla's work focuses on examining personal relationships to labor and production through generations of family. More specifically, through the lens of her grandfather and father, she has been documenting the history of Filipino immigrants in the Bay Area, using fabric as a medium and metaphor for weaving narratives together. She is interested in imprinting as a way to explore her identity through familial heritage in an attempt to preserve and reclaim it, from traveling to the Philippines and using the land and dirt that her family came from, to wrapping fabric and leaving it at the Angel Island Immigration Station to absorb the rust from the beams inside. Approaching masculine labor of Filipino immigrants through traditionally feminine practices and material, Revilla confronts her connection to this historical framework.

Opening reception Sunday August 18 from 2pm to 4pm
Artist Q&A Panel Discussion Sunday October 20th at 2pm

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Exhibition

August 18 – October 27

Sudnya Shroff - When The Caged Birds Sing - activist sculpture

Sudnya Shroff - When The Caged Birds Sing - activist sculpture

For her show at PMA, Sudnya Shroff will construct a site-specific installation: a giant wood and steel cage hung from the ceiling crammed with barbed wire, a shooting rainbow curtain and wire stick figures, the face of each a hand-crocheted flower. The stick figure flowers represent the global refugee community presently in limbo, incarcerated, waiting their turn for emancipation. The flowers, created by refugee women from 17 countries who are housed at a center in Greece, symbolize the "tenacity of the refugee-activist collective resisting the darkness of fear while embracing the beauty of hope." - Shroff

Opening reception Sunday August 18 from 2pm to 4pm
Artist Q&A Panel Discussion Sunday October 20th at 2pm

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Exhibition

August 18 – October 27

Robin Apple - Nature Hiding in Plain Sight - photographs

Robin Apple - Nature Hiding in Plain Sight - processed acrylic photographic prints
Robin Apple immerses herself in nature and her work is the direct result. Her show incorporates abstracted, blended, collaged, and colorful images of butterflies, flowers, green plants, animals and other found objects. In creating, she seeks escape and relief from the occasional harshness of the world, the serious tone often adopted in documentary and photojournalistic series, and the sometimes sobering realities encountered in aspects of her day job as a clinical psychologist.

Opening reception Sunday August 18 from 2pm to 4pm
Artist Q&A Panel Discussion Sunday October 20th at 2pm

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