Current
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Andy Mister
I always knew it would come to this 12 Nov - 20 Dec 2024 Andy Mister: I always knew it would come to this is Mister’s third presentation with Rebecca Camacho Presents and includes a new suite of still life drawings rendered in the artist’s signature medium, pastel on linen. Mister's process is rooted in photography, and he primarily works directly from historically sourced... Read more -
Project Room | Maryam Yousif
Tremble Like Reeds 12 Nov - 20 Dec 2024 Maryam Yousif: Tremble Like Reeds is Yousif’s first solo exhibition in the Project Room at Rebecca Camacho Presents. Yousif’s show combines individual clay sculptures in an installation that elucidates the artist’s ongoing engagement with Mesopotamian mythologies, histories and objects alongside modernist visual vocabularies and contemporary popular culture. Yousif’s new... Read more
Past
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Anne Buckwalter
I Will Clean the Closet, I Will Climb the Stairs 19 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce I Will Clean the Closet, I Will Climb the Stairs, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Anne Buckwalter. Buckwalter's show inaugurates the gallery’s new home at 526 Washington Street and fills the main exhibition space and the new Project... Read more -
Beasties
20 Jul - 24 Aug 2024 Over the past few summers, pods of Orcas have been inexplicably linked to the destruction and sinking of boats across the Mediterranean and beyond, resulting in stories and widespread interest in this bizarre phenomenon. Perhaps this fascination stems from the unpredictability and raw defiance embodied by these aquatic mammals –... Read more -
We wake in the middle of a life, hungry
8 Jun - 13 Jul 2024 The opening of Jane Wong’s “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly.” Rapturous and visceral, the poem is a metaphorical call and response engaging gluttony and hunger across multiple generations, positioning life as a ravenous and relentless experience and encouraging the reader to stay rooted to home and inherited... Read more -
David Gilbert
Fairy Tale 27 Apr - 1 Jun 2024 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles based artist, David Gilbert. Creating fanciful spaces in the studio, Gilbert’s photographs capture magical storybook moments in (and out of) time. In his second solo presentation at the gallery, titled Fairy Tale, the mechanisms of... Read more -
Max Jansons
Wish You Were Here 8 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 For some years, Max Jansons has been making paintings that enthrall with their sensuous forms and alluring paint handling. In this new body of work, our engagement with those formal qualities is jump-started by an equally compelling psychological presence that seems to hover just on the other side of each... Read more -
Tony Feher
Free Fall 11 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce Free Fall, an immersive installation by American sculptor Tony Feher (b. 1956 – 2016). Renowned for work that employs quotidian and easily acquired materials that capture the transience of life, Feher’s deceptively simple media are specific, sought after, and chosen for their distinct... Read more -
Jamil Hellu
Odyssey 4 Nov - 16 Dec 2023 The sumptuous, vibrant photographs in Jamil Hellu’s Odyssey inhabit multiple realms at once, capturing moments fixed in time but hardly fixed in their meaning. At first glance, these candy-toned compositions seem abstract: swaths of brightly colored fabric, foam, paper, and in one case, reflective mylar, enrobe a figure, only identifiable... Read more -
Christy Matson: West of West
23 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles based artist Christy Matson. Marking her second presentation at the gallery, Matson debuts a new series of woven paintings that distill and explore abstraction, landscape and the relationship between reality and imagination. Titled West of... Read more -
Project Room: Andy Mister | My Apologies
23 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 Andy Mister is invested in the boundaries between mechanical and manual production, and a new suite of pastel on linen still lifes are installed in the gallery’s project room. Mister’s latest works shift away from traditional photographic appropriation and move towards collaboration; integrating partnerships with outside artists to create source... Read more -
The path guides the meaning
11 Aug - 9 Sep 2023 As our lives are increasingly consumed and our actions dictated by mediated experiences, dominated by screens, regulated by algorithmic determinacy, and divorced from the physicality of our world, the work of artists engaged in process-based practices remind us of the importance of making and doing as a pathway to meaning,... Read more -
Christopher Robin Duncan
SEASONS 21 Jun - 29 Jul 2023 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Oakland based multi-disciplinary artist Christopher Robin Duncan. Marking a second presentation at the gallery, Duncan debuts an ensemble of two- and three-dimensional objects mapping the passage of time and its inherent aftermath. Rooted in the observation and... Read more -
Yuval Pudik
Touching Myself with (Personal) History 5 May - 17 Jun 2023 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by New York based interdisciplinary artist Yuval Pudik. A searcher of origins, Pudik’s practice is rooted in his experiences as a dual layer foreigner: a naturalized immigrant in American culture and a queer man in a heterosexual male... Read more -
Esteban Ramón Pérez
Brown Noise 11 Mar - 22 Apr 2023 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce Brown Noise, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by Los Angeles based artist Esteban Ramón Pérez. Rooted in themes of legacy, the duality of belonging, obscurity, and emanation, Pérez’s interdisciplinary practice intertwines the cultural and artistic sensibilities of his Xicano heritage... Read more -
Forrest Kirk
Beneath No One 14 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles based artist Forrest Kirk. Forrest’s anomalous style merges figurative storytelling with gestural abstraction. Moving fluidly between realism, geometric form, pure color and texture, Forrest frequently incorporates elements of mixed media and collaged segments culled from... Read more -
ektor garcia
rehacer 12 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Mexico City based artist ektor garcia. Across a multidisciplinary practice, garcia (b. 1985, Red Bluff CA) challenges the hierarchies of gendered and racialized labor, combining a queer punk sensibility with the handcraft traditions of Mexico, his ancestral... Read more -
Jennie Ottinger
Bad Luck, Dutch. Your Face is on the Tea Towels: the Princess Series 10 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by San Francisco-based artist Jennie Ottinger. Ottinger’s abstract realist paintings investigate historical events through a contemporary feminist eye. With figures at once eerily distorted and pleasantly recognizable, Ottinger documents gendered social norms and investigates the power-holders who benefit... Read more -
Anne Buckwalter
Two Story House 25 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 Friends Indeed Gallery and Rebecca Camacho Presents are pleased to announce a dual venue exhibition of new paintings by Philadelphia based artist Anne Buckwalter. Inspired by the culture and folk-art traditions of her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, Buckwalter’s intricately detailed, small scaled domestic spaces serve as a framework to explore themes... Read more -
Edie Fake
Night Life 7 May - 11 Jun 2022 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Twentynine Palms-based artist Edie Fake. Blurring the lines between geometric and organic forms with structures adorned by elements that serve as both decorative and protective, Fake’s precise, intimately scaled, gouache paintings on panel center exploration of identity... Read more -
Claire Oswalt
HOLY SMOKES 5 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and collages by Austin, TX based artist Claire Oswalt. Known for subconscious-driven explorations on paper that are then meticulously rescaled to sewn canvas duplicates, her second presentation at the gallery, titled Holy Smokes, examines the origins of Oswalt’s... Read more -
Sahar Khoury
Orchard 15 Jan - 18 Feb 2022 “Please leave me alone. I’m dreaming.” -Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Oakland CA based sculptor Sahar Khoury. Marking a second presentation at the gallery, Khoury debuts an ensemble of two- and three-dimensional landscape constructions in metal, ceramic,... Read more -
Stephanie Crawford and Meg Lipke
Complimentary 5 Nov - 17 Dec 2021 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce a dual exhibition of new works by painters Stephanie Crawford and Meg Lipke. Complimentary in fluidity of form and color, the true symbiosis between the artists comes from their non-conformity of practice; Crawford and Lipke create outside of standardized norms. Stephanie Crawford (b.... Read more -
Emily Furr
Omni Mind 23 Sep - 29 Oct 2021 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by New York based artist Emily Furr. Titled Omni Mind, Furr explores the idea of a shared consciousness, one mind, that fuels all matter and energy. Measuring in contrasts, Furr’s sharp-edged paintings engage themes of patriarchal structures,... Read more -
Natani Notah
Normal Force 6 Aug - 3 Sep 2021 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce an exhibition of ambitious new works by Bay Area artist Natani Notah. Exploring Native American identity as a Diné (Navajo) woman, Notah's interdisciplinary practice sits at the intersection of art, history and culture. Titled Normal Force, the show references Newton's third law -... Read more -
Altered States
4 Jun - 23 Jul 2021 An altered state of consciousness is defined as any of various states of awareness (as dreaming sleep, a drug-induced hallucinogenic state, or a trance) that deviate from and are usually clearly demarcated from ordinary waking consciousness. Under this thesis, artist Gary Simmons curates Altered States, an exhibition of six artists... Read more -
Andy Mister
Solemn Anthems 2 Apr - 21 May 2021 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new works by Beacon NY based artist Andy Mister. Titled Solemn Anthems, from the Baudelaire poem 'Landscapes,' the show pairs drawings of recent social and political uprisings with mountain and seascapes; connecting and overlapping physical, ideological and environmental terrain.... Read more -
Sharing A (S)hell
15 Jan - 12 Mar 2021 Together, we are all living through this novel moment, trying our best to keep our families and communities sheltered and safe. But it’s more than just going through it together, there’s an underlying gravity to all we are experiencing. As the quarantine becomes familiar and time seems to drag on,... Read more -
Christopher Robin Duncan
Respite 14 Nov - 18 Dec 2020 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Oakland based interdisciplinary artist Christopher Robin Duncan. In both visual and sound based media, Duncan poses questions of time and its effects. His recent works are personal examinations of success and failure, cosmic correlation and the... Read more -
Christy Matson
Never Done 10 Sep - 23 Oct 2020 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based textile artist Christy Matson. Matson employs a hand-operated, computer-programmable Jacquard loom to create intricate weavings to which she applies unconventional fiber techniques such as paint and layered composition. Through the duality of the... Read more -
Project Room: Marie Herwald Hermann
10 Sep - 23 Oct 2020 In conversation with Christy Matson’s textiles in 'Never Done,' are three ceramic sculptures by Danish born, Chicago-based artist Marie Herwald Hermann. Spotlighting ordinary, functional objects, Hermann gives weight to isolated moments of significance. In variance to the often mundane and utilitarian use of clay, Hermann creates boldly saturated, impeccably rendered... Read more -
INSIDE.OUT.UPSIDE.DOWN.COSMIC.SPACE
7 Jul - 21 Aug 2020 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce the group exhibition INSIDE.OUT UPSIDE.DOWN COSMIC.SPACE. Taking pioneering French artist Marcel Duchamp’s assertion that ‘the spectator makes the picture’ as an organizing principle, the show investigates the positioning of the viewer in interior and exterior landscapes. Featuring Emily Furr, David Gilbert, Kirk Hayes,... Read more -
Claire Oswalt
Dawn Chorus 6 Mar - 17 Apr 2020 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Austin based artist Claire Oswalt. Titled Dawn Chorus, Oswalt’s mixed media practice encompasses paper collage, sewn canvas paintings and weavings. Fluid across medium and defined by a strong emotional sense of color and a sensitive understanding... Read more -
Leilah Babirye
Gwe Is Ye Nze, Lekka Mbele Nze (You Are Not Me, Let Me Be Me) 15 Jan - 28 Feb 2020 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Brooklyn based artist Leilah Babirye. Through a multidisciplinary practice that engages a personal and historical narrative, Babirye transforms marginalized materials into objects that address identity, liberty and power. Babirye arrived in the United States in 2015,... Read more -
David Gilbert
Painted Ladies 15 Nov - 20 Dec 2019 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist David Gilbert. Gilbert documents ephemeral vignettes he makes in his studio: photography offers an ability to capture and emphasize the transitory nature of the work. Thoughtfully orchestrating objects in scenes, Gilbert’s photographs depict... Read more -
Heritage
Melissa Cody, Bethany Collins, Deborah Roberts 4 Oct - 9 Nov 2019 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce a group exhibition with Melissa Cody, Bethany Collins and Deborah Roberts. Titled Heritage, the show highlights artists who transform their personal and cultural histories into platforms for their work. Confronting issues including race, gender, language, cultural equity and equality, the varied media and... Read more -
Max Jansons
Desire 23 Aug - 28 Sep 2019 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Max Jansons. Jansons’ complex and multi-layered paintings engage viewers with beauty. His luscious and luxurious surfaces cloak the purposeful hand and acuity of mind and vision that are the core of his practice.... Read more -
Sahar Khoury
Holder 17 May - 6 Jul 2019 Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition, a solo show of new work by Oakland-based artist Sahar Khoury. Titled Holder, Khoury’s multi-media sculptures are armatures to house objects significant to the artists’ life - whether her own possessions or those pointing to others by whom she is... Read more
