Embark Gallery launches a new research-intensive partnership and exhibition program with recent graduates at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. The first “R & D Projects” exhibit features the work of emerging Master of Fine Arts artists Christopher Nickel and Tanja Geis.

Christopher Nickel has collaborated with the Internet Archive, a local online library that provides free access to digital archives and collections in various formats: images, sound and video files, and more. Nickel uses digital collages, photography, projections, and installations to explore contemporary virtual communication and information technologies and their reflection in the physical world. His exhibit title is “A Few Select Bits of Knowledge: A Digital Archive.”

Tanya Geis works with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center‘s Marine Invasions Lab at San Francisco State University‘s Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies in Marin County, California. Educated as both a scientist and an artist, Geis uses drawings, installations, paintings, and video to examine the perceptual transformations that occur in spaces that blur boundaries between transitions and other phenomena. Her Embark exhibit is called ” Lurid Ecologies: Ways of Seeing the Bay.”

The opening reception takes place on Friday, July 28, 2017, from 5:00 pm. to 8:00 p.m.

Free Admission