June 2024 / Low Dust
Low Dust
Jasmine Zhang
Natasha Loewy
Leyi (Ruby) Yang
June 06 - 29, 2024
Opening Reception / Thursday, June 06, 5–8pm
Spring Hours:
Friday–Sunday, 12–5pm
Jasmine Zhang, Natasha Loewy and Leyi (Ruby) Yang present Low Dust, a
multimedia exhibition that approaches the idea of performance from different
perspectives.
With a playful undertone and slippery intentions, the artists twist the functions of
objects and actions to reconsider the structure of language and its relationship to
art. Through self-performed sculptures, private acts of maintenance, and
performances initiated with social engagement, the artists blur the boundaries between performers, objects, and audience and unveil their ongoing inquiries into the potential of poetic language.
ARTIST STATEMENTS // BIOS
Natasha Loewy (she/her) lives and works in Oakland, California. Her work draws from personal accounts of family joy and trauma as well as from our shared socio-political climate.
Through sculpture, drawing, performance, and video, she creates works that use tension, anticipation, and fragility to explore the relationships between humor and healing. Using time as an essential material, components of her artworks often change form to fracture, fade, or otherwise shift in color, shape, or sound. These relationships evoke physical and emotional responses, which point to a connection between our psychological conditions, material reality, and embodied experiences.
Natasha graduated with a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute in 2008 and an MFA from San Francisco State University in 2022. She is a recipient of the Cadogan Contemporary Art Award and has exhibited at galleries such as SOMArts, the Marin County Civic Center, The Great Highway, Southern Exposure, Root Division, and Hit SF.
Born in 1996, Suzhou China, and moved to the states at 18, Jasmine (Mengjiao) Zhang is a first gen immigrant who currently lives in West Oakland. Realizing art shares the same origin of language but beyond language description, Jasmine seeks to subvert and break down boundaries created by language categorical divisions, and twisting functionality of daily objects in order to raise questions to the postmodernity world and its human condition.
Through photography, text, social engagement, sound and performance, Jasmine is a
multimedia artist that is fluent in different artistic languages and she’s always down to experiment and collaborate.
Jasmine has been showing both internationally and locally in Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Milan, Ningbo, and Suzhou etc. Jasmine has done projects with the lab, Di Rosa, and Minnesota Street Project. Currently Jasmine is an adjunct faculty at California College of the arts.
Leyi (Ruby) Yang is enthusiastic about her mostly large-scaled canvases, covered with layers of paints, extremely vibrant colors, a touch of untamed drawing of shapes, and fragmented words.
Characterized by continuously expanding investigation into painting, her practice transformed into multi-media, which allows her to unfold the space in painting into spaces within digital media, neon art, printmaking, time-based installations, and performance.
Leyi currently lives and works in Seattle, WA. She graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017, and an MFA at San Francisco Art Institute in 2020. Her works have been included in solo shows, group exhibitions, art fairs, and Film Festivals in Chicago, upstate New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Shenzhen, and Beijing, China.