ANDREA GUSKIN, LEAH KORICAN, ABBY ZHANG: RE/NEW
January 3 – February 1, 2025
Artist’s Reception: Sunday, January 12, 2 – 4 pm
In Re/New, three gallery artists approach the new year. Through layering, ripping, and transforming ordinary materials such as spices, funnels, tape, and wool Andrea Guskin explores ancestry, domesticity, and strategies of repair and transformation in our daily lives. Leah Korican expresses the liminal space of this new year through the Tarot image of the Hanged One/Hanged Man. Abby Zhang delves into the theme of renewal, examining it through varied lenses such as the joy of celebration, the rhythms of housekeeping, the journey of personal growth, and the transformative power of a fresh haircut.
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Abby Zhang
Abby Zhang is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Trained as a painter, she holds a Masters of Fine Arts From the Pratt Institute and has exhibited her work nationally. Zhang’s expansive body of work includes paintings, sculpture, site-specific installations, and video. She has shown her work in Target Gallery, VA; Capital Culture house, Madrid, Spain; Art X Gallery, Fremont, CA; and Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA. She recently participated in the Nomad III and TRYST Alternative Art Fair, hosted by the Torrance Art Museum. She will be an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center in spring/summer 2025.
Leah Korican
Leah Korican is a visual artist and writer. She has lived around the world, including Cave Junction, Oregon; and Florence, Italy. She has a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited nationally including at the Richmond Art Center, Bedford Gallery, and the Triton Museum. Her public art commissions include a large-scale site-specific cut-out for the Nashville International Airport, and permanent artworks for Kehilla Community Synagogue and Rumsey Engineers in Oakland, California. Her writing has appeared recently in Heartwood Literary Magazine.
Andrea Guskin
Andrea Guskin is a San Francisco Bay Area based artist working across multiple disciplines including photography, sculpture, and painting to create objects and installations where the familiar converses with the existential. With interests in quantum physics, ancestral archives, and Buddhist philosophy, she transforms everyday materials—spices, funnels, foil, thread—to explore our relationship to the vast, from microscopic particles to deep space. After studying painting at Antioch College in Ohio, Guskin moved to New York City and became part of the art and songwriting communities on the Lower East Side. Since moving to California in 2003, she has regularly exhibited her work throughout California, often combining her experience in museum education (The Oakland Museum,The Contemporary Jewish Museum) with her creative practice to lead participatory art events throughout the Bay Area including the Richmond Art Center, Berkeley Art Center, The Drawing Room, and the Red Poppy Art House. Guskin graduated with an M.F.A in Interdisciplinary Arts from Mills College at Northeastern University.