Opening Reception – MAPPING TIME: A Juried Group Exhibition

Left: Linda MacDonald, “Revelation”, 2022, Oil on Canvas, 64 in. x 48 in. x 2 in. (Photo courtesy of the artist) Right: Kim Smith, “Village”, 2025, Collage & Ink on Paper, 26.5 in. x 24 in. x 1.25 in. (Photo courtesy of Tony Molatore)

Mapping Time shows artists who approach time as a living material, something that accumulates, decays, heals, and transforms. In this exhibition, time is marked through the body, through ritual, through the slow processes of making, and through the traces we leave behind. The 41 works chosen from over 600 entries, map the rhythms of aging, grief, regeneration, and ecological change, revealing how memory, matter, and attention connect. Across diverse mediums, time becomes tangible, layered through repetition, captured in the traces left behind, and illuminated in cycles of loss and renewal.

Many of the artists in Mapping Time explore the body as an archive, mapping lived experience through physical traces, marks of illness, healing, vulnerability, and endurance. Mapping Time invites viewers to slow down, to witness how acts of marking, remembering, and remaking give shape to our memories in time, reminding us that our stories unfold within larger cycles of transformation.

Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work explores the complex relationships between humans, nature, and technology. Through psychogeography and daily rituals, she documents time and movement across landscapes to challenge colonial histories, redefine borders, and highlight ecological interconnectedness. Zomorodinia has received numerous awards and residencies, including the YBCA 100, Lucas Artists Fellowship, Andy Warhol Foundation, Kala Media Fellowship Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi Residency, Recology Artist Residency, Alternative Exposure Award, and California Arts Council grants. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, Berkeley Art Center, Pori Art Museum (Finland), and Nevada Museum of Art. It has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Hyperallergic, KQED, and SFWeekly. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA and BA from Azad University in Tehran.

The artist awarded the solo exhibition in the Back Room Gallery will be announced at the Opening Reception.

Participating Artists:
Adrienne Defendi, Alieh Rezaei, Andy Nguyen, Caleb Wheeler, Camille Schneider, Charlie Levin, Daniel Southard, David Ruth, Drew Klausner, Elaine Nguyen, Jean Cacicedo Leach, Joanna Ruckman, Judit Navratil, Katherine Lee, Kathy deRosas, Katya McCulloch, Kim Smith, Kimberlee Koym-Murteira, Leyla Rzayeva, Linda MacDonald, Luka Vergoz, M. Seishin Cádiz, Margaret E. Murray, Mark Brest van Kempen, Marsha Balian, Max Del Bosque, Mela Marsh, Michelle Lin, Michelle Mansour, Namrata Bhatter, Perry Meigs, Quinn Keck, Rainey Straus, Ruth Tabancay, Sarah Klein, Scott Idleman, Shelley Gardner, Sonja Lee, Syslee Rawlinson, Victoria Heilweil, Yvonne Cavanagh

Gallery Hours: Fri & Sat, 12–5 pm (or by appointment)
Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: February 6, 5 – 9 pm