Amy Lange
Angela Zamora
Blair Doss
Brielle Villanueva
Elizabeth Estrada
Kathryn Vercillo
Leo Pickard
Rowan Limbach
Zedekiah Gonsalves Schild

CCA’s PLAySPACE Gallery kick starts 2025 with vibrancy, texture, and tenderness in warp, the first exhibition this year. The pieces in the show dare to take up space and invite gallery visitors to do the same. Depending on the installation, we encourage you to touch, play, sit, or reflect on what warmth means to you. As you move through the gallery this January and February, consider how themes of vulnerability, healing, and heartfeltness can take culturally specific, abstract, or expansively personal forms. warp is proud to represent work from CCA’s MFA and BFA students, CCA alumni, Berkeley BFA, and local community artists.

Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, January 24, from 5pm to 8pm, with performances starting at 6:30pm.

About the 2024–2025 PLAySPACE Director

Giorgie O'Keeffe DePaolis (they/them) is a second-year graduate student in the Visual and Critical Studies (MA) program at CCA. O'Keeffe DePaolis recognizes creativity as a means to connect people, build relationships, and foster solidarity. Their curatorial debut in April 2024 showed them the potential for exhibitions to produce a gathering table for artists and amplify important local voices. Curatorial, O'Keeffe DePaolis collaborates with artists to display works that source inspiration from mythology, ancestry, memory, intimacy, mystery, and other alternative epistemologies. Academically, their research investigates how visual aesthetics emerge from DIY art scenes in San Francisco, contextualized by the City's bohemianism and history of economic stress. Each of these pursuits is a part of a larger goal to cultivate joy and sincerity in a strangely changing world.