Art/Act: Local

Nicole Irene Anderson’s stunningly vertical drawings explore complex questions of land, home, and the psychological and environmental impacts of expansion in the West.

Alicia Escott is a an interdisciplinary artist based in the land we currently call San Francisco. She practices in solidarity with thinkers across fields undoing the construct of “nature” as a thing separated from us and our world. She makes space for the unspoken individual and collective experiences of loss, heartbreak, and grief resulting from climate chaos and mass extinction.

Dominick Porras is a Coahuiltecan/Chicano artist based in Sacramento. As a 3D artist and animator, he cultivates abstract figures and forms into reflective observations that can be experienced through virtual interaction. Porras pushes an Indigenous perspective focused on cultural reclamation from institutional stewardship.

View more work & for sale inquiries: SherryXiang.com A love affair—that is my story—a life in which my heart possesses no sense of self. I was meditating by a waterfall when suddenly I couldn’t perceive my heartbeat as hard as I was searching for it…a sense of levitating calmness impregnated my soul. My heart was…