"Museum programming appears to be pandering to the tech bros. Rent is surging. But if the region's art scene has one strength, it's coming together when we need solidarity the most. The spring season is evidence of that, with arts organizations doubling down on local art history and reinforcing community. From stories of Bay Area migration to deep dives into local art history and examinations of the region's ecology, there's never been a better time to support the Bay Area's art scene."
"In her first solo exhibition, legendary Bay Area muralist Cece Carpio stays true to form. Featuring paintings on canvas alongside a multimedia installation, Carpio remixes street art stylings with folk-art traditions, blending ancestral memory with Indigenous folklore. Each piece is accompanied by a poem, marking Carpio's foray into writing, teasing out the narratives in her canvases of entangled lovers, goddesses, and warriors."
The San Francisco Bay Area art scene is undergoing a cultural crisis marked by gallery and nonprofit closures, museums courting tech audiences, and rising rents. Community solidarity is emerging as organizations emphasize local art history and regional ecology through spring programming. Exhibitions range from Cece Carpio's first solo show combining street-art aesthetics, folk traditions, paintings, multimedia installation, and poems that invoke ancestral memory and Indigenous folklore, to Torreya Cummings and Sarah Lowe's Victorian period room at Berkeley Art Center examining colonialism's effects, evolution, extinction, and industrialization in California. Several high-profile features include Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's vital scrolls, a Matisse work linked to Fauvism, and examinations of Japanese ceramic art's future.
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