Visual Art

“The Haight-Ashbury Experience and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Photography of Herb Greene” is a perfect time capsule, stills from '60s San Francisco preserved in time.

Born out of Indigenous American and African textiles, the Gee’s Bend quilts have come to represent the fortitude of African American culture.

Gracing the center’s main gallery in every medium imaginable, the exhibition in its entirety unveils how Black identity shifts, evolves and culminates uniquely through the lens of each artist.

Mesa-Bains’ self-proclaimed feminist art is a rich archive of heritage, memory, family, ancestry and the self.

Though some viewers may be overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the artist’s fantastical story, it’s only a glimpse into the frightening possibilities of the future, and Kongkee knows perhaps better than anyone the existential anxiety that plagues both past and present.

What do buttons, jumpsuits and flyers have in common? At San Francisco’s Letterform Archive, the answer is plain and simple: protest.

“I have had some experiences where I’ve actually used my voice and screamed, and it has actually saved me,” Whitney Bradshaw said in an interview with The Daily Californian.

The exhibit reconstructs Davis’ legacy through the lenses of race, gender, economics and policy with works from the Oakland-based Lisbet Tellefsen collection.

The immersive multimedia exhibition “Hella Feminist,” on display through January 2023, combines historical perspectives with contemporary art to tell stories of Bay Area feminists.