2020-21 Platform Gallery Exhibition: Living Democracy

The 2020–21 Platform exhibition engages with the IHC’s public events series theme, Living Democracy, which explores the forces and conditions that imperil democracy and the political, social, and cultural interventions needed to make democracy equitable, vibrant, and just.

Artists
Nikiya Kiara Basilio Crisostomo, https://www.paintandpalate-nkbc.com
Emily Halpern, www.EmilyElisaHalpern.com
Andrea Hercules, College of Letters and Science, UC Santa Barbara
Trinh Mai, www.trinhmai.com
Johnny Onionseed, Department of Art, UC Santa Barbara
Sydnie Kae Pace, College of Creative Studies and Department of Art, UC Santa Barbara

*The gallery in HSSB is not currently open to the public due to COVID-19 closures.

Nikiya Kiara Basilio Crisostomo
Color Outside The (White) Li(N)es
Acrylic on mixed media paper
2020

Nikiya Kiara Basilio Crisostomo
Corona
Acrylic on mixed media paper
2020

Nikiya Kiara Basilio Crisostomo
Sanctuary City
Photography
2018

Emily Halpern
Bridge to Nowhere
Oil Painting
2020

Andrea Hercules
Anger is a Gift, Sacramento
Digital photography
2020

Johnny Onionseed
Galilei’s Gallbladder Splatter
Mixed media
2018

Johnny Onionseed
Six Sick Styx
Mixed media
2020

Sydnie Kae Pace
Saving Face and Stacking Masks
Monoprint and collagraph
2020

Trinh Mai
From the Snare of the Fowler
Acrylic, charcoal, gouache, hand embroidery, and tears on paper
2019

Artist statement: “This piece began as a story of a Vietnamese greenfinch who is working tirelessly to untangle the refugee children from the snares that befall them. After some time living with it in the studio, my perception of the work shifted: The greenfinch began binding the children in a cord from which he will pull them out of the wilderness. A prayer for the refugee children who wander in confusion, that they may be led to firm terrain.”