Cube Space Gallery
Enjoy rotating art installations at the Cube Space, located at the Center Street Garage.
The Cube Space gallery is located on the ground floor of the City’s Center Street Parking Garage at the 2010 Addison Street entrance. This space in the heart of the arts district in Downtown Berkeley is viewable from the street and may be accessed during the Center Street Garage's business hours.
Cube Space features rotating installations by Bay Area emerging and mid-career artists working in video, multi-media, and sculpture.
Current Exhibition
Throughway by Kerri Conlon
Kerri Conlon’s installation, Throughway, is a material meditation on societal transformation within human networks and the interconnectivity required for them to form and bond. As with most social structures, this work also sees the potential for collapse. Inspired by the intricate design of lobster traps, the work visualizes the network as a series of actions and beliefs looped together to initiate change. Each of its corners and peaks builds a pattern that curves back and forth making a path along the edges of the space, and terminates with an upholstered umbrella tail bead hat receives the impact of the undulating form.
Conlon’s study of structure and architecture is evidenced in her ability to explore the possibility of change using a material that is strong enough to contain a mass but can be broken with the right amount of pressure. It is a reminder of the human capacity to make a social impact amidst the chaos.
IG: @kerriconlonstudio
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Curated by Leila Weefur
Past Exhibitions
been here by Charles Lee
July 1 – September 30, 2023
been here. is an excavation of the archive containing evidence in this poetic narrative of the African American Cowboy. Charles Lee’s installation of found objects is a reliquary that cultivates a deeper understanding of American iconography and uncovers the misconception that often surrounds familiar cultural representations, such as the American Cowboy. By using the archive as a resource to build a more inclusive and accurate vision this work embraces the complexities of our shared history, and facilitates a sense of belonging and community. Inspired by his family's migration story, which like most Black Americans in California means movement West from the Jim Crow South, Lee is examining, through deep research, the ways cultural heritage shapes contemporary American Life. His sculptural compositions illustrate a thoughtful narrative asserting historical presence on behalf of his family and the greater history of the Black Cowboy.
Curated by Leila Weefur
SIN DOMINGOS by Pablo Tut
January 27 – May 21, 2023
SIN DOMINGOS - (sin: without) (domingos: Sundays) is a sacred day of rest, as it was the day that God rested after finishing the world’s creation. Drawing inspiration from the double meaning of this phrase Without Sundays/ Sinful Sundays, this installation is an abstract representation of the crucifixion, a multilinear crucifixion. Nested in a hammock lays an undetermined body referencing the figure of Christ, with an arbitrary number of nails in various locations. The design of the hammock is one that you would typically see from the peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico where the artist is from. This bodily form is also a tired worker whose rest in the hammock is interrupted by this stream of wire. This juxtaposition of objects is a commentary on how resting, especially on Sundays, is perceived as sinful in an exploitative work culture. Tut offers an interrelated flow of cultural tensions between objects that illustrate what results from the hybridization of work and rest.
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Curated by Leila Weefur
Structures, by Cathy Lu and Tracy Ren
September 30, 2022 – January 8, 2023
This collaborative work by Cathy Lu and Tracy Ren explores the structures that hold our communities and ourselves together through time and space. Bags of ceramic fruits and photographs of hands printed on fabric hang off a bamboo composition inspired by the scaffolding used for construction in Hong Kong.
The ceramic forms are based on fruits sourced from local Chinese American produce markets, while the photographs are selections from Tracy's family archive. Together, the work focuses on fleeting relational moments between family members, and the objects and skills that are passed down through generations.
Cruising into Becoming, by Leonard Reidelbach
January 29 – August 19, 2022
Leonard Reidelbach’s installation cruising into becoming is a material, spiritual and social exploration of embodiment. Through an emphasis on touch and intimacy, this work urges you to cruise toward your own recessed desires. The images resting on the surface of these materials build a poetic texture to an alternate world. If you look closely, a pattern emerges which transports the past and recontextualizes itself across time and space.
Curated by Leila Weefur.
Trans Boxing: Remote Pictures, by Nolan Hanson and Ada Jane McNulty
August 21 – December 19, 2021
For their exhibition in the Cube Space Gallery, artists Nolan Hanson and Ada Jane McNulty invite the public to view archival materials from the past year of Trans Boxing. The multimedia installation includes a portrait series, screenshots from virtual classes, and other visual material produced by participants, alongside sculptural elements which evoke the experiential and aesthetic qualities of a boxing gym.
Trans Boxing is an ongoing co-authored art project in the form of a boxing club that centers trans and gender variant people. The project shifts in response to context and conditions and continuously reimagines possibilities for social engagement. Trans Boxing was founded in 2017 by Nolan Hanson and is housed in New York City. Ada Jane McNulty is an artist living in New York City. She spends her time in photography, boxing, skateboarding, and anti-capitalist organizing.
Curated by Leila Weefur.
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