Linked to Home – Curated by Ollin Ramirez

Participating artists: Annika Javier, Rami KD, Diwa Malaya, Clansi Barreno, Fiorella Lema, Juana Ramirez-Avalos

In “Linked to Home,” six fiber artists explore how memory and weaving can deepen our understanding of, and engagement with, textile history and ancestry. These artists, through their practices, ask us to consider weaving as an archive chronicling their relationship between the weaver, their loom, and home through land, gender, body, and memory.

Weaving practices can be traced back to the beginnings of human civilization. The weavers in this show explore where they fit into this longstanding practice of continuous experimentation with material and its relationship to memory in order to understand how it can render authentic representations of the human experience. They are engaged in an embodied history, navigating what it means to use fiber as a means of reconnecting and exploring relationships to home.

Ollin Ramirez is an artist, educator, and budding curator currently based in San Francisco, CA. Ollin studied at the California College of the Arts (CCA), where they began their journey as weaver and fiber artist and continued their work as a painter. Ollin’s practice pays homage to their familial roots from El Salvador and creates a space for others in the diaspora to express and reconnect to their roots. Linked to Home’s artists have been part of Ollin’s own journey as weaver, beginning at CCA,and extending to a found-community of weavers based in the Bay Area.

October 25 – November 30, 2024
Gallery Hours: Fr + Sa; 12 – 5 pm
Opening Reception: Sat, October 26, 4 – 6 pm
Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: November 1, 5 – 9 pm

Image: Rami KD, “MIDI Rug”, 2023, fiber, 30″ x 30″, photo courtesy of the artist