Exhibitions

SAY HER NAME
October 1st, 2022 – April 6th, 2024

 
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Mara Lea Brown is a Bay Area Artist. Her work explores human singularity and relationships through realistic charcoal drawing and mixed media with elements from nature. Having been born in California and grown up in Southern Spain, diversity and a search for connection are always subtly present in her work. In her portraiture, Mara enjoys the process of learning from the individual as well as from a phenomenological exploration of the human form. Recently Mara has been working on a series examining human relationships to ancestry, immigration, travel and belonging. She uses motifs, such as roots and wings, to illustrate the beauty and struggle of this search for the self. For her work on the interior mural “SAY HER NAME” she collaborated with her daughter Emma Timberlea Brown at Red Poppy Art House.

ARTIST STATEMENT

“Women, Life, Freedom”
She rises…
her hair flying in the wind…
her voice lifting to the sky…
her being becoming the fire that melts the frozen grounds of time…
SAY HER NAME…
say it loud…

Mahsa Amini the 22 year old female whose death enflamed thousands of women and men to rise up.
For, the future IS female…
and #metoo is a global movement of our time…
A monumental uprising for feminism and women rights, against police brutality and oppression is happening in Iran right now…

Say Her Name…
Be the voice of the voiceless…
#MahsaAmini

 
Dina Zarif is an Iranian immigrant, performer, designer, and vocalist who combines Western classical singing with Middle Eastern styles inspired from her Persian roots. Some of her credits include SF International Arts Festival, Palace of Fine Art, San Jose Stage, Golden Thread Productions at Brava Theater, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, and the staged reading of Layla & Majnun at BAMPFA as part of the symposium with Mark Morris Dance Group and the Silk Road Ensemble. She tours both nationally and internationally as a costume designer and actress in the shadow light production Feathers of Fire. Dina is also a part-time architect and received her MA in Landscape Architecture from the University of Tehran, College of Fine Arts.

 
The Red Poppy Art House has featured installations and/or rotations of work by numerous Bay Area artists including Paz de la Calzada, Alberto Toscano, Fernando Diaz, Yolanda Lopez, Adriana Camarena, Indira Urrutia, Todd Thomas Brown, Adrian Arias, Ytaelena Lopez, Calixto Robles, Mona Caron, Dustin Fosnot, Claudio Nalerio, Sebastian Alvarez, and more.

As a predominantly multidisciplinary performance space, the Art House does not usually host formal exhibitions. Rather, we present works throughout the year via informal rotations of works for sale as well as socially engaged large-scale installation pieces. For more information on what is currently on display, please contact exhibitions@redpoppyarthouse.org or come by for one of our performances.

EXHIBITIONS ARCHIVE

 10/07/23 – present – Indigenous Woman Is Not Invisible

08/06/22 – Adrian Arias: Mini-ILLUSION

12/03/21 – 04/02/22 – Adrian Arias: Paintings in Pandemic and Revolution

10/30/21 – 04/02/22 – Adrian Arias: Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution

02/xx/21 – 04/xx/21 – Andrea Guskin: Hold me in the Palm of your Hand

10/01/20 – 10/08/20 – “Art into Auction” by the SF Coalition On Homelessness

12/07/19 – 01/19/20 – Ella Noe: In Conversation with Dance

12/01/19–12/01/19 – Rayyaneh Karami: Zhu Zhuye maman

09/01/19–09/30/19 – Carlos Cartagena: Silhouettes eMOTION

08/04/18–09/29/18 – Adrian Arias: Dream Escapes

05/16/18–06/30/18 – Fernanda Martínez: Suspended

03/19/18–05/14/18 – Santiago Insignares: ¡Aquí no hay moscas!

01/15/18–03/19/18 – Samaneh Salehi: The Past Collection

11/01/17–11/29/17 – Tana Quincy Arcega: Development and Maintenance

08/23/17–10/15/17 – Andrea Guskin: A Temporary Collection (of An Ordinary Bloodline)

06/27/17–08/21/17 – Mimi Herrera-Pease: Renewal

04/19/17–06/24/17 – Lise Silva: Spectrums & Prisms, Bodies & Realms

01/02/17–04/02/17 – Michelle L. Morby: The Audience

09/06/16–12/18/16 – Stephani Martinez & Jessica Tang: Needles in the Camel’s Eye

05/18/16–09/03/16 – Rodney Ewing & Joyce Nojima: Surface