July 2022: Common Thread Group Show
griffin jing martin is a san francisco based interdisciplinary artist. griffin’s work finds form through connection with community, reverence for the collective, and the belief that every trans person is precious and completely necessary. griffin’s work shares their transfeminine asian american perspective on togetherness and singular identity in all of their whimsical, prismatic complications. griffin’s poetry can be found in the ana, mixed rice zines, dekopon! magazine, sine theta mag, and is upcoming in foglifter journal vol. 8.1.
Nahyun Kim is a Korean-American painter living and working in San Francisco. Having immigrated to the Bay Area at age 10, her works reinterpret landscapes that exist within her through memories, familial ties, folk tales and dreams. Kim’s artistic practice redefines and expands upon symbols of empowerment that transcends the rigidity of societal expectations, so that we can rise above.
Kim earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, and has exhibited at Glass Rice (San Francisco, CA), Swim Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Root Division (San Francisco, CA), Abrams Claghorn Gallery (Albany, CA), CounterPulse (San Francisco, CA) and Little Raven Gallery (San Francisco, CA) among others.
TRUONG TRAN is a Vietnamese-American poet, visual artist, and teacher. He is an author of eight collections of poetry, artist book, and a children's book. As a visual artist Tran is best known for mixed media pieces and light installations. His work is in private collections, and has been featured in solo gallery shows as well as museum exhibitions across the Bay Area. As a teacher, Truong Tran has over twenty years experience as a professor of Creative Writing to both graduates and undergraduates, and has mentored thousands in the community.
Carah Jo is a self taught artist from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They are currently based in San Francisco, California.
laika
Zayd "headbdead"
Saviida
Steve H. Vu
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