Rad Tender
October 25-December 13, 2025​
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Meghana Bisineer,
Glenna Cole Allee,
Sara Cruz,
Alicia Escott,
raiinnee falling,
Diana Lara,
Charlotte Law,
Ann Schnake,
Tureeda Mikell,
Naomi Quiñonez
Susana Praver-Pérez,
Gabriel Vallecillo Marquez
a group exhibition of 12 visual and performance artists enacting the "energetic femme":
as radical kindness, care and ferocity, as antidote to patriarchal and theatrical cruelty,
as tools for survival
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Opening Reception, Saturday, October 25, 4-7PM, performance 5PM
Site specific performance Yelkaram
by Diana Lara in collaboration with Kriss Rulifson.
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Performance artist raiinnee falling ritual reading
of selected poems and spells of divine Black femininity
open Fridays and Saturday 1-6 PM or by appt
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(closed Thanksgiving weekend)
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Fronti:Meghana Bisineer, Kali Ma,Tapestry, 2024; Sara Cruz Harness wax, corn husks wood, steel 2024; Ann Schnake Hand Wound, watercolor, tea 2025
Diana Lara detail from Yelkaram 2024 Photo by Doreen Deckei
At the opening on October 25th, Diana Lara, in collaboration with Kriss Rulifson, will offer a site-specific performance of Yelkaram, an exploration of rituals, rivers, mountains, and weaving, connecting touch, movement and Honduran Lencan ancestry. This live performance takes place inside and parallel to La Compostura, an immersive 360º VR work by Berlin-based Honduran artist Gabriel Vallecillo Márquez. Drawing from the Lenca ritual. La Compostura de la Tierra, it honors the reciprocity between humanity and the earth while weaving sacred knowledge with digital realities. Beginning with the verses of the Popol Vuh, it traces the cycles of life and decay, bloom and transformation, offering a cosmic journey where past knowledge and future possibility converge in reflection on humanity’s path forward.
In this moment, as patriarchal authoritarianism rears its massive and hideous head, the work of 12 female and nonbinary visual and performance artists is convened to evoke the powers of the “radical femme”: the visionaries and deities: plants, human and nonhuman animals, and all the tender and ferocious forces of earthly, bodily and collective care; a cacophonous dream scape of physical work, as a rich visual and sensory field of embodied materiality and performance.​
Gabriel Vallecillo Márquez.Video still from La Compostura VR experience.
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PreTenderizing Poetry Event Sunday October 12, 4-6PM
Before the Rad Tender exhibition opening,
in an almost empty gallery,
poets Tureeda Mikell, Susana Praver-Pérez and Naomi Quiñonez
will embed the divine feminine into the space.
more information on the event here
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La compostura, VR installation by Gabriel Vallecillo Marquez image from Berlin Art Week
This installation will be punctuated by a December listening event
in the Annex
Saturday, December 6, from 3-5PM
​soft black kitten / soft black animal is interdisciplinary performance artist raiinnee falling’s first palindromic experiential art book—an expression of divine Black femininity. Laden with rich ecological and mythic metaphor, the work is an emboldening collection of ritual alchemical poems and spells that explore tender love, raw power, and erotic transformation. falling will offer a ritual reading of select poems and spells from this new collection at the opening of the exhibition and the physical book will be available to be touched, handled and read throughout the exhibition.​
Charlotte Law's installation in gold leaf and textile will be a dyad of vibrance born from alchemical process, evoking tenderness and deep listening as we compost the present moment. Evolving Donna Harroway’s Children of Compost, the annex will serve as a place of contemplation inviting the aud-ience to sound out and listen to perceptions of value as we collectively imagine ourselves as beings beyond the binary.
Earth-referencing visceral works will round out the exhibition
For a long time Ann Schnake has made planet-like structures of dirt and discarded materials, balls filling corners, hanging from trees, moved in performance. For this exhibition, the sculptures will flow out of closets, accompanied by paintings of red suns and moons.
Sara Cruz, fragile sculptural windows of sacred elements of bees wax and corn.
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Glenna Cole Allee explores choreographies of seabirds in flight, a new work that maps shifting avian migratory trajectories.
Alicia Escott's will show works including Metabolic Rifts: Touch Memory: videos of wildflowers sprouting in plastic intestines responding to the humans who reach out to them in gestures of reciprocity and questions of consent.