BLACK INTERIORS: Celebrating 5 Years of Black (Space) Residency

When Erica Deeman got into graduate school at UC Berkeley, she could have sublet her below-market studio at Minnesota Street Project Studios. She kept it for Black creatives instead, and in 2020 she and Ashara Ekundayo turned it into Black (Space) Residency: a free studio with a wood shop, darkroom and kiln, a small stipend, and no duty to make anything at all.

This show is five years of what came out of that room. Twenty-nine alumni fill the Atrium at 1275 Minnesota St with visual, material and literary work, and co-curator Trina Michelle Robinson is a former resident herself. Deeman once said a fellow who "wants to just do yoga in the studio for a month" can do exactly that, so you walk in knowing none of this work was owed.

The gallery's page singles out no individual works, so come for the spread of a Bay Area community rather than one star piece. Entry is free, Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm, until 31 October.