Come to the theater early for ‘ART‘ and explore our lobby gallery featuring abstract works by local artists. These pieces, curated by Tiffany Yau, emphasize abstraction as marks with meaning, and echo the play’s deep dive into friendship, connection, perspective, and evolution over time. See how visual and theatrical storytelling intersect, then take your seat for the show with a fresh perspective.

Kierra Shadé  

She/her

kierrashadeart.com
Social Media: @kierra.shade.art

As a bi-racial woman raised in South Carolina, Kierra’s perspective was strongly shaped by contrast, with opposites merging to create something new and greater than its individual parts.  She is an Oakland-based abstract fluid artist, passionate about personal growth, creative expression and empowering others to access their own creativity – as her connection to the arts was how she made it through her childhood.  She aims to connect with true states of flow, fluidity, and timelessness in her work, providing a source of healing, inspiration, and connection to her audience – she sees this as a profound gift that creates a ripple effect in the world. 

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.  A dream you dream together is reality.” – Yoko Ono

At their core, the Vivid Dreams mini collection serves as both an encapsulation of a feeling and a powerful remembrance–images, notions, feelings that remain with you upon awakening, that shape and unfold your reality when nurtured. 

Swirling, mesmerizing, and bold in vibrancy and color –this collection is for those who have forgotten their dreams along their path or those that would love a reminder that their desires and dreams were always meant to become reality.  These minis are meant to empower you everyday to continue pursuing your dreams, as you hold them close, seeing them as the precious gifts that they are. 

You are the dreamer.  May you remember your dreams and bring them to life. 

Vivid Dreams

Fluid ink and 

$150 per piece

Pamela Ybañez

She/her

pamelaybanez.com
@ zenaby_map

Pamela Ybañez is a Bay Area based artist. Her artwork incorporates personal and social investigations as a way to discuss inequalities, social hierarchies and as a way to strengthen her connection to her homeland. Examining how class and race affects different groups of people in similar and different ways, she examines her own history of migration, when they were allowed to come here, and how her being in this country relates to the Civil Rights Movement. Understanding that solidarity is key as she tries to comprehend what true liberation can be. Ultimately all her investigations lead her to systems of power and that the American idea of freedom is only for some and not for all people. 

More recently, she is a recipient of the Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Grant and was an Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute in 2022. She has exhibited her work nationwide including at Hallwalls, Site:Brooklyn, East Hawaii Cultural Center, and Kearny Street Workshop. In 2003, she received her MFA from the University of Buffalo with a BA from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. She served as an adjunct instructor at Villa Maria College and SUNY at Brockport.

She is a founding member of a Filipina/o/x artists collective in the Bay Area called Epekto Art Projects and is also a member of Rock Paper Scissors Collective. 

During the pandemic ’ve learned that what we have is each other and nature. With this new insight I’ve shifted my work to incorporate more natural materials and learning more about the natural world as a source in guiding my art. This work also stems from the awe inspiring history of weaving in the Philippines and how it has been passed on generationally. Her goal as an artist is to explore how we are woven, unwoven, and how we can connect more constructively with our communities and ourselves.

Sunset 

Roving wool, yarn and stick 

$350 

Fire Bloom 

Wool on Latch Hook Canvas and hoop 

$400 

Amy Lange    

She/her

amy-lange.net

Amy Lange is an artist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work encompasses found textiles and soft sculpture, exploring themes of psychology as it relates to the inner child and feminism. She received her BFA in Fibers from the University of Oregon in 2009, and received her MFA in Studio Art from California College of the Arts in 2017. She is a founding member of Borderline Art Collective in San Francisco and has worked in arts education since 2011.    

These works were created in the early onset of the pandemic, when I was experimenting with house paint on scraps of clothing and other absorbent materials, exploring the relationship between these everyday — often discarded — materials. My work is borne out of scavenging and this work represents a particularly meager time in my life, a time that feels resonant today in light of the rise of fascism in our country. The world is constantly remaking itself with whatever it has on-hand, and that is a process we can either participate in or try to resist. Nothing we have ever known can be taken for granted.    

Drop your awareness

Cotton jersey sheet, denim, fruit bag, house paint, yarn    

$1,200    

Untitled (sweater)

Acrylic sweater, house paint,  polyurethane foam

$800    

Untitled (pink sweater)

Acrylic yarn, house paint, thread

$150

Milo Moyer-Battick

He/Him

milomoyer-battick.com

@milo.moyerbattick

Born in 1990 and raised in northern Vermont, Milo Moyer-Battick earned a BFA in printmaking from the University of Southern Maine in 2012. His artistic practice marries elements of photography, geometric abstraction, and pop iconography, resulting in process-based paintings characterized by playful deconstructions of form. Moyer-Battick’s meticulous mark-making techniques and clinical draftsmanship contribute to the intricate tapestry of his work, which finds its home in Emeryville, CA.

Untitled (Landscape)

Acrylic on canvas over panel

24 x 18″

$600

Snowy Signal 4

Acrylic on canvas over panel

16×20″

$400

Do Right

Acrylic on canvas over panel

16 x 20″

$400

Johan Ismael

Johan Ismael

He/Him

@johan__studio

Born in Paris in 1988, Johan Ismael is an artist and electronic musician based in Alameda, CA. Rooted in his spiritual practice and background in mathematics, his work aims to combine computational and organic processes in order to evoke invisible dimensions of reality.    

Steps is a series of algorithmically generated compositions exploring the relationship between the discrete and the continuous. Within the uncertain area between these states lie echoes of the unresolved tensions between the conceptual and the spiritual.

Steps – One

Algorithmic composition print

$100    

Steps – Beginning

Algorithmic composition print

$100