July Exhibit: Hanging by a Thread
Sameena Sitabkhan, Doron Serban & Tammy Ho

Hanging by a Thread

The past year brought an upset in routines, a forced domesticity and shifting uncertainty in timelines and identities. This show charts our personal and intimate narratives over the past year, through the use of common household materials such as paper, masking tape and fabric. Works are visibly threaded together, emphasizing a shared collective narrative and the amalgamation of our own messy identities.

Sameena Sitabkhan
Sameena is an architect and educator living in Oakland California. A first generation child of Indian Muslim immigrants born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles, she is focused on working in spaces of rich diversity with an emphasis on activism and engaging local communities. For the past 12 years, she has designed and managed public school projects, affordable housing for the formerly homeless, murals and community installations in the Bay Area. Sameena has been an artist in residence in Michoacan, Mexico, the West Bank of Palestine and a YBCA fellow. She has recently conducted youth design workshops in India and Bosnia. She founded and ran the B.Lab program in the architecture school at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, which focuses on a participatory design strategy aiming to cultivate advocacy and spatial justice. Her collage artwork explores themes of identity and her family’s immigrant narratives.

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Doron Serban

Born in Tel Aviv, Doron grew up in Switzerland before moving permanently to the United States in 1987. He is in his 6th year  of a decade-long daily doodle project, consisting of creating a new work of art every single day. As a George Stout Fellow for Art in the Public Sphere, his drawings and line-installation were exhibited in Des Moines, Iowa. His work was selected as part of the Drawing Attention, The Digital Culture of Contemporary Architecture Drawings, exhibited at the Roca Gallery in London and The Carnegie Museum of Art, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  He is the Emerging Technologies Coordinator at the Academy of Art University School of Architecture in San Francisco, CA, where he coordinates the B.Arch and M. Arch digital curriculum, teaches a design studio focused on homelessness and social equity and seminars in 2D/3D media, color theory, fabrication, and storytelling. 

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Tammy Ho

Tammy Ho is a first generation Chinese American architectural designer from the SF Bay Area. She has designed and managed a wide range of built work including high end hospitality, retail and single family residences.  For over ten years Tammy worked on international projects as a principal at Kupa Studios, a design studio located in Beijing, China and Oakland. Her projects have been published in Dwell Magazine, Casa Abitare, and the Los Angeles Times. With a background in Butoh dance, she often thinks about design as a choreographed story, focused on moments in the built environment. Her textile artwork picks up on these themes and has been exhibited in Beijing and the Bay Area. 

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