Play is a pathway to connection, innovation, and renewal. We use play to sustain our creativity, build relationships, and cultivate a love of life. Play can be done in isolation or in groups. It means action in athletics, rehearsal, in music, and in drama; it is the material to be animated. Play works with restrained rules, or it can be the act of breaking rules. It can be formula and pattern, or it can be experimental and adaptive. Play transcends age and species, occurring shortly after birth and is observed in animals of the earth and ocean. We invite artists to “play” both in representation and in abstraction, but most significantly, in an enjoyable form.

March150, Target Gallery’s 12th annual special exhibition and art sale, returns with all proceeds going to support new exhibitions and programs at Target Gallery and Torpedo Factory Art Center. Enjoy a wide variety of art from local artists who donated the work on the gallery provided 10×10 panels. The size and price makes the works ideal for collecting.

Exhibition Dates: September 14th - October 19th

Opening Reception: Friday, September 13th 2019 from 6:00pm-9:00pm

This exhibition aims to uncover the power within the mundane. What significance do the ordinary objects around you hold? Perhaps they lead double lives - hiding secrets, invoking memories, or acting as relics. Consumerism, attachment, and the domestic space are also possible subjects to explore. For this show, Embark is seeking artworks that somehow turn the ordinary into the unexpected or highlights the power of the mundane. As always, please make sure to include in your artist statement how, specifically, your submission relates to this prompt. Embark will consider artwork of any medium, including installation and performance.

Jurors: 

Maria Jenson, Executive Director, SOMArts

2nd Sat Reception: 

Saturday, March 9, 2019 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm

Exhibition Dates: 

Feb 21, 2019 to Mar 23, 2019

Including CREATIVE STATION, free all-ages art activities in our Classroom.

Gallery Hours (or by appointment): 

Wednesday-Saturday, 2-6pm

Root Division is proud to present MFA Now 2019, our biennial juried exhibition and archive publication featuring the works of MFA candidates at 9 of the top Bay Area institutions. 

Now in its sixth iteration, the MFA Now project provides a platform for looking at Bay Area artists and institutions in order to promote dialogue between programs and to archive current art-making practices and models. This year's exhibition will be juried by Maria Jenson, Executive Director, SOMArts.

This year’s exhibition will include the work of twenty five artists. Selected based on a single image and artist statement, the works included in this exhibition display a quality of content and execution that is indicative of the rigor of advanced art degree programs. Works range in media from large scale installation, to video, sculpture, photography and painting. This exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the developing practices of candidates prior to their thesis presentations. 

MFA programs include: California College of the Arts, Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, Stanford University, and University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, and University of California, Santa Cruz.

MFA Now Exhibiting Artists:
Luis Casas, California College of the Arts
Ben Cornish, San Francisco Art Institute
Karl Daum, San Francisco Art Institute
Zoe Eagan-Gardner, California College of the Arts
Jeff Enlow, California College of the Arts
Wyatt Hall, Mills College
Mallory Kimmel, California College of the Arts
Nathan Kosta, San Francisco State University
Heesoo Kwon, University of California, Berkeley
Shara Mays, San Francisco Art Institute
Megan Moriarty, San Jose State University
Keisha Mrotek, San Francisco State University
Ghazal Rahimi University of California, Berkeley
Julia Rigby, University of California, Davis
Lindsay Rothwell, Mills College
Hannah Subotnick, Stanford University
Greg Sullo, University of California, Santa Cruz
Hannah Tuck, San Francisco State University