as you summon other worlds, installation view, courtesy of Charles Lee
as you summon other worlds, installation view, courtesy of Charles Lee
Trina Michelle Robinson, Encoded, 2022, three-channel video (still)
Trina Michelle Robinson, Encoded, 2022, three-channel video (still)
Claire Dunn, Mountain Silver Dream, 2022, photogram
Claire Dunn, Mountain Silver Dream, 2022, photogram
Charles Lee, Destiny Manifested, 2022, silver gelatin print
Charles Lee, Destiny Manifested, 2022, silver gelatin print
Shao-Feng Hsu, Night Swimming III, silver gelatin photogram, 21 x 25 inches framed
Shao-Feng Hsu, Night Swimming III, silver gelatin photogram, 21 x 25 inches framed


1275 Minnesota St / Gallery 106 + 108 + Atrium

*Closing Reception: Saturday, January 28, 2023, 5-8pm

Group exhibition featuring large-scale installation, sculpture, photography, textile, video, and digital work by Bay Area artists Carolina Cuevas, Dance Doyle, Claire Dunn, Shao-Feng Hsu, nontoxicvirus (Haoyuan Lu), Charles Lee, Florencia Montefalcone, Trina Michelle Robinson, and Bryan Keith Thomas. Curated by Nunca No (Claire Dunn and Charles Lee), and Meghan Smith.

Art transports. It taps gently on the cracks in our reality until they splinter, falling away in fragments to reveal a world beyond. The artists in as you summon other worlds capture this moment – of crossing boundaries, of peering into alternate universes, of communing with unseen forces – in ways language never fully can.

For Shao-Feng Hsu, body becomes breath becomes bay. Claire Dunn transforms cells into galaxies (or have they always been one and the same)? For Trina Michelle Robinson, here becomes there and everywhere in between. Charles Lee lingers on the delicate borders between interior and exterior, self and world. For Keith Thomas, ancestors were, are, and will always be with us. Dance Doyle’s time warp reveals a moment of metamorphosis. Haoyuan Lu blends past and future into a fluid new aesthetic. Carolina Cuevas bridges time and memory, holding and healing them in tandem. Together, their work conveys moments of transition and transportation while expanding into themes of history, time, ancestry, and material culture. 

To contact the curators, please email summonworlds@gmail.com.