“Fracture Zones” by Andrea Guskin
June 7th – Present
Red Poppy Art House Exhibitions Presents: Fracture Zones by Andrea Guskin
Andrea Guskin is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist working across multiple disciplines, including photography, sculpture, and painting. She often uses everyday domestic materials and tools for mending–such as thread, foil, spices– to explore ancestry, domesticity, and strategies for repair and transformation in our daily lives.
Her current body of work, Fracture Zones, was inspired by the geographical language and imagery of topographic maps — particularly the large scars forming “fracture zones” deep beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. She sees the fracture zones as a metaphor for the layers of emotional experience related to ancestry, immigration, and lost family narratives.
OPENING RECEPTION:
June 7th, 2025
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Andrea Guskin is a San Francisco Bay Area based multidisciplinary artist who was raised amongst the woods and college campuses of Wisconsin and Ohio. After studying painting at Antioch College in Ohio, Guskin moved to New York City and became part of the art and songwriting communities on the Lower East Side, joining a group of visual and performing artists working in a 19th century school building now known as The Clemente. She exhibited her work and performed her songs regularly in the East Village (Sidewalk Cafe, C Note, CBGB’s Gallery).
Since moving to California, she has regularly exhibited her work throughout the state (Berkeley Art Center, H Gallery, Mercury 20 Gallery), often combining her experience in museum education with her creative practice to lead participatory art events. Andrea is a 2025 recipient of the San Leandro Arts and Culture grant for her community cyanotype project, Local Roots.
In 2023, she graduated with an M.F.A degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from Mills College at Northeastern University. She currently lives in San Leandro with her husband and two sons.
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
10/03/24 – 01/18/25 – Adrian Arias: Corazones / Hearts
10/01/22 – 04/06/2024 – Mara Lea Brown: SAY HER NAME
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
