Dawn Chorus

work by Layan Attari, an emard and Katie Revilla

August 3 – 31, 2025

on view Sundays
11 a – 2 p

Opening Reception
Sunday, August 10th
2 – 5 p

Join us in celebration of the opening of Layan Attari, an emard and Katie Revilla’s exhibition, Dawn Chorus. 

Katie Revilla is an artist whose work considers the hybridization of nature and material to convey narratives centered around the Filipino diaspora and post colony. Through former ownership, magic realism and proximity to specific events, her intention is to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value and reconciliation​. In examining personal relationships to land, labor and belonging through generational inheritance, Revilla explores larger systemic constructs through which cultural aphasia takes form. These ideas are conveyed through the lens of her own family’s lineage of whiteness, racial passing and migration from the Philippines. She facilitates performances of materials and stages detailed assemblages to translate metaphors of value and resiliency within hybridity, largely driven by how that can shift and amplify boundaries of objectification.

Katie has exhibited her work throughout the U.S. and has been awarded support for her research from UC Berkeley, the Headlands Center for the Arts and Northwestern University. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S. and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; Block Museum of Art, Chicago; among others. She has been published at KQED Arts, Inga Books and Platform Editions. Her work is in the collection of the City of Oakland and the Block Museum of Art. In 2017 she received a BFA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2018 Revilla was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020-2021, and has most notably attended ACRE, MASS MoCA, and SOMA Summer for art residencies. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2023 with an MFA in Art, Theory and Practice and was awarded the Paschke Grant. Currently she has work on view at the Hyde Park Art Center for the Ground Floor Biennial and a solo presentation at /(Slash) Gallery in Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco.

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an emard’s practice is a meditative process exploring world-building mythologies and the myth-making potential of queerness. Working with oil paint and leaded glass, they find poetry in the space between art and meaning; between concept, intention and form.

In emard’s paintings, the surface of the canvas is in an interstitial state at all times. The image finds its way through processes of rubbing and blending paint on the surface and acts of removal by sanding and scraping. It is through this approach that emard creates an atmosphere of becoming, where boundaries are forgiving and time is nonlinear. emard’s leaded-glass objects function as viewfinders and are a means to implicate and imprint physical space. The accumulation of glass and solder impose image, gesture and frame onto their surroundings as an acknowledgement and question. In doing so, these leaded-glass objects create a kaleidoscope of the coexisting queer mythologies.

Like queerness, the future exists in the cracks and gestures of the present. It is from this devotional, affective space that emard creates art that enchants, clinging to the notion that art is a conduit towards new places, dimensions and futures.

an emard was born into a working-class family in suburban Ventura, CA and spent their formative years navigating queerness in the shadow of the Catholic Church and the light of lemon orchards, asphalt and the Pacific Ocean. emard now resides on the unceded homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires / Chicago, IL. emard has exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Vermont at venues including Steve Turner Gallery, Block Museum, Usdan Gallery, Kibum MacArthur, Weatherproof, Some Clouds, among others. emard is a resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition.

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Layan Attari's practice looks at the synthetics of identity and national belonging. She seeks to understand the boundaries of the “natural” and the artificial and how they are preserved, maintained and transformed through perceptions of nature within the nation-state. Her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving images. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); and Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2019) and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where she received her MFA in Art, Theory and Practice at Northwestern University.

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