Root Division

The Frank Ratchye Project Space is pleased to present Recollection/ Recolección, a solo exhibition by Root Division Studio Artist Brian Anthony López Romero (yNoT) .

Recollection/ Recolección brings together a collection of memories, familiar narratives, and personal histories, revealing what it means to reconnect with cultural heritage while navigating the weight of remembrance and displacement. Grounded in heartbreak and grief, nostalgia and peace, artist Brian Anthony López Romero (yNoT) examines the ways memory is documented, preserved, and inherited, revealing archiving to be a political and emotional act of preserving collective histories.

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THIS MONTH at Root Division

MACHISMOSA curated by aleo landeta



opening reception
june 13 at Root Division
5-7 pm
1131 Mission St

Exhibition runs from June 3 - July 25

Group exhibition featuring work from
exhibiting artists

angel a. anjos ()
erica jasmin cañas ()
tatti carvalho (.a.t.y.x)
luka fernandez (.art)
alexander hernandez ()
dani lopez ()
humberto maldonado (.maldonad0)
daniel arthur mendoza ()
jose angel nazabal (.nazabal)
itzel rios-ellis ()
angela zamora ()

Featuring live performances by Soy Papi Churo, Xochitl, and DJ katjabba.
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Root Division is proud to celebrate Nico Corona joining our Studio Program 🎈

Nico Corona (b. 1993, Pomona, CA) is a q***r sculptor based in San Francisco. The son of Mexican and Bolivian immigrants, he draws on his working-class background, where limited resources fostered experimentation and imagination. As a self-taught metalworker, he views metal and materiality as both personal and cultural archaeology, a medium to adapt and preserve histories often overlooked.

Corona’s process combines curiosity and experimentation through transforming materials into functional and non-functional objects. Through independent skill building, he designs a collection of objects using welding, metal finishing, wax carving, lost-wax casting, and sand casting. By mixing different processes and experimenting with scale, he works on everything from small wearable designs to furniture. Currently, he is experimenting with glass. Being a first-generation person and growing up experiencing how building and manual labor improved their family life motivates him to shape-shift materials into relics for my community and future generations.

Check out his upcoming solo exhibition ‘Sanctuary’ at .rice opening 6/6 6-8pm

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We are pleased to welcome Taylor Snowberger () as a new Studio Artist 💐

Taylor Snowberger is a multimedia artist, educator, and freelance writer from California’s Central Valley, now based in San Francisco.  She studied Art Education at Humboldt State University and has organized exhibitions, publications, and artist-led initiatives addressing access, collaboration, and community-based art-making.

Her work engages perception as something unstable and made through overlapping systems of belief, symbolism, and experience. Working across painting, performance, video, and social practice, her work is shaped by an expansive, materially curious approach, her media gluttony a response to growing up in an “art desert.”

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WE HAVE EXTENDED THE DEADLINE 🚨

Our teaching fellowships have been extended to Mon 5/25
We are offering multiple fellowship spots for 2026-2027

Benefits include:

✨ a free studio space
✨ access to the Root Division digital lab and wood shop
✨ professional development
✨ a generous fellowship stipend
✨ an invitation into our beautiful community

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening reception of They Stem and They Bloom, a solo exhibition by B Colleen () in our Frank Ratchye Project Space.

Growing outwards from their hands, eyes, and mouth, lavender becomes a symbol of renewal- a gesture that began as a way to heal from within and extends as an offering to others. What grows with the artist is not kept but shared. Colleen returns to its form repeatedly, drawn to its organic fluidity and ability to transform, bend, and exist without constraints.

📍 Visit Us
B Colleen | They Stem and They Bloom
On View: Now through June 6th
Gallery Hours: Wed–Fri, 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Root Division is thrilled to share that we are a recipient of Further Triennial’s Community Impact Fund Grant.

This grant will provide essential support towards our participation in the Triennial’s first edition, Around Here, which will bring together nearly 100 arts organizations across the Greater Bay Area to celebrate Northern California’s creative life.

In Spring of 2027, Root Division will present Tahrir, a site-specific sonic installation by Bay Area–based Iranian artist and curated by .

In Arabic and Farsi, tahrir means “freedom” and refers to a Persian vocal technique marked by oscillating pitch shifts shaped by both sound and silence. Asgary translates this tradition into a spatial experience using a calibrated network of industrial fans scored to produce shifting tonal frequencies that evoke sirens, breath, and lamentation.

At a moment of intensified global conflict, this project offers Bay Area audiences an urgently needed space for collective reckoning and reflection through contemporary art.

We look forward to celebrating Northern California’s vibrant art historical past and present with you!

Root Division is proud to present Machismosa
Curated by Aleo Landeta

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 13, 2026, 5-7 pm
Exhibition Dates: June 3 - July 25, 2026

In the tradition of chisme as lore, Machismosa examines how machismo is learned, whispered, and passed down. This exhibition dismantles it through the same radical storytelling that built it, bringing together eleven Latine artists whose multimedia practices unravel machismo’s rigidity and reimagine it as fluid, intimate, and communal.

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