Group Show · Waiting for the Wind · Fall 2025

Opening Reception
September 27, 2025 | 6–10PM

Kite Building Workshop
September 27, 2025 | 4–7PM

On View
Through November 16, 2025

Exterior elements, specifically wind — embodied in objects, specifically kites — guide artists to indeterminate places both inside and outside of the studio. What can we learn from an object that is in flight, yet remains tethered to the ground? We are seemingly in control of the string at one end, yet reliant on the will of the wind to guide its unpredictable aerial pathways on the other. In this way, we witness kite-flying as an act of hope and an opportunity to build connection to place, oneself, and each other. 

Borrowing its title from Gertrude Stein’s quote, “waiting for the wind to fly a kite,” from her book Everybody's Autobiography, this show represents the human experience of waiting. In waiting, we suspend expectations between current and future moments. Like a kite in midair, these moments can be fleeting, freeing, ever-changing and shifting, as determined by the power of nature. They allow us to build new perspectives of our physical horizons, natural connections, and possibilities.

Miguel Arzabe, Oakland-based and of Bolivian heritage, films his playful interactions with the unforeseen forces that exist in the environment. A means of witnessing climactic and environmental changes, his conceptual performances interpret ancient cosmology of Andean cultures through a contemporary sensibility. In two of his videos, we witness how a circular kite in the desert is used as a viewfinder to capture the full moon. For this exhibition he has created Nochero, a weaving assembled from scraps collected over time from his painting process. Colorful chevrons reverberate echoes of paintings' past lives as the weaving's placement blocks out sunlight, allowing the videos of the moon to be seen in a darker environment.

Kristen Jean Wheatley explores the ways we move and the way the world moves around us. By carefully observing both natural and man-made systems, she learns, follows, tracks, and responds through artistic production. She creates objects that make the invisible visible, and through that process activates and investigates each cycle. She encourages audiences to look around and question how they consume, interact with, and even depend on the movement of resources, people, information, and themselves. The wind is a player that helps her move objects she leaves out in nature, then tracks movement of objects through space with manual and GPS systems. The indeterminate and unpredictable movement of tracking objects becomes a performance.

beck haberstroh and Katie Giritlian create a participatory aerial performance through kite flying and prompt sharing. They invite two people to unspool a string and by balancing tension and tangle together, create a line in the sky floating with the wind: the simplest kite. Alongside a video and sculptural installation, they publish small take-home kits so visitors can recreate these actions themselves.