SPRING 2023 PORTFOlio REVIEWS

Portfolio reviews are a great opportunity to get feedback about your work and ask questions about navigating the professional art world from esteemed artists, curators, and educators. Each participant will have the opportunity to meet with two reviewers for 20 minutes each. Please note that you must be available for the scheduled time window associated with the reviewer you select. You will be confirmed for two (2) twenty-minute slots with two different reviewers, and your reviews will occur on different dates and times.

Saturday, March 18, 2023, 11AM–2PM

Demetri Broxton, Interdisciplinary Artist & Senior Director of Education, MOAD
Svea Lin Soll, Director, Johansson Projects SOLD OUT
Weston Teruya, Related Tactics

Sunday, March 19, 2023, 11AM–2PM

Elena Gross, Co-Director, Berkeley Art Center SOLD OUT
Anthony A. Russell, Interdisciplinary Artist & 2022 BAC Juror’s Award Winner
Zoe Taleporos, City of Berkeley

Meetings will take place over Zoom, and artists will present digital images of their work to the reviewers. We will share some tips to help you prepare by separate email upon confirmation of your registration. Please understand that due to the limited number of spots, there are no cancellations or refunds for this event.

Members: $125
Non-Members: $150

Please submit your registration at the link below. Schedule slots are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. No cancellations.

about the reviewers

DEMETRI BROXTON is a mixed media artist of Louisiana Creole and Filipino heritage who was born and raised in Oakland, CA. His textile sculptures reflect his connection to the sacred art of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, the beading traditions of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians, and his love of hip hop and graffiti. Broxton holds a BFA with an emphasis in oil painting from UC Berkeley (2002) and an MA in Museum Studies from San Francisco State University (2010). His work has been exhibited internationally and most recently at SFMOMA Artists Gallery (2019), UNTITLED Art Fair (2020 & 2021), and Kala Art Institute (2021). His work is held in several private collections and the permanent collection of the Monterey Art Museum. He is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, CA. 

SVEA LIN SOLL is a San Francisco Bay Area based gallerist and independent curator of contemporary art. Svea’s curatorial work includes organizing exhibitions, events, performances, experimental film and artist-in-residency programs, and speaking engagements on the topics of art, environment, and activism. In 2020, she curated a group exhibition at the Berkeley Art Center on issues concerning climate change and the environment. Prior, Svea directed Swarm Gallery in Oakland (2006-2013), a brick and mortar contemporary art space that featured work by emerging and established artists through exhibitions, flat files, studio space and programs, and was an experimental platform for sound, video, and installation-based work. Over the span of seven years, Svea curated over 70 exhibitions with some of the Bay Area's most treasured artists, represented artists at national art fairs, managed eleven on-site rentals studios to more than 40 artists, and produced hundreds of events and musical programs. Svea has served on several boards, committees, and panels at Bay Area arts organizations including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Alameda County Arts Commission, and the San Francisco Art Dealers Association. Svea worked at both the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Oakland Museum of California during her master’s work on social documentary photography, which outlined the argument for photographs as socially relevant historical documents, and presented strategic improvements modeled on archival practices to better enhance public access to the work. During and beyond that time, she was the exhibition and program director at Pro Arts (Oakland) and the arts editor for the Oakland-based art and literature publication, Tea Party Magazine. She earned a BA in Geology from the University of Montana and a Masters in Museum Studies from John F. Kennedy University. Svea continues her education with environmental history courses and Visual Thinking Strategies facilitation method. She is an active player in her son’s school community: A PTA Board member, a Green Team member and advocate for climate curriculum in schools, and co-founder of the Anti-Racism Learning Project.

WESTON TERUYA is an artist and cultural producer who moves between individual and collective modes of practice. In his individual work, he has created projects for the Mills College Art Museum, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Longhouse Projects & the NYC Fire Museum, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and public art commissions for the San Francisco and Alameda County Arts Commissions. Weston has received grants from Artadia, Asian Cultural Council, Creative Work Fund, and the Center for Cultural Innovation and has been an artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, A. Farm Saigon, Montalvo Arts Center, Ox-Bow, the deYoung Museum, Recology SF, and Kala Art Institute. For three seasons, he also produced and hosted (un)making, an interview-based podcast through the West Coast online arts writing and criticism publication, Art Practical.

ANTHONY A. RUSSELL is an interdisciplinary artist based in San Francisco. He is an alumnus of the San Francisco Art Institute and a creative contributor to underground film and stage projects by the Brothers Kuchar, Dreams for Dead Cats Productions, and Peaches Christ Productions. His short films have screened at festivals in California and New York. His horror feature "The Beast in Heat" has been shown in California and across Europe. Russell's installations employ strategies from different mediums to produce abstract, site-specific extensions of his more intimate, and at times severe, performances. He has performed and presented multimedia installations around the San Francisco Bay Area at underground and established venues such as The Galallery, ProArts, The Lab, and The Fort Mason Center For the Arts.

ELENA GROSS (she/they) is the Co-Director of Berkeley Art Center and an independent writer and culture critic living in San Francisco, CA. She received an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts in 2016, and her BA in Art History and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2012. She specializes in representations of identity in fine art, photography, and popular media. Elena was formerly the creator and co-host of the arts & visual culture podcast what are you looking at? published by Art Practical. Her research has been centered around conceptual and material abstractions of the body in the work of Black modern and contemporary artists. She has presented her writing and research at institutions and conferences across the U.S., including Nook Gallery, Southern Exposure, KADIST, Harvard College, YBCA, California College of the Arts, and the GLBT History Museum. In 2018, she collaborated with the artist Leila Weefur on the publication Between Beauty & Horror (Sming Sming Books). The two performed a live adaptation of their work at The Lab, San Francisco. Her most recent writing can be found in the publication This Is Not A Gun (Sming Sming Books / Candor Arts). Elena is the co-editor, along with Julie R. Enszer, of OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Culture (Rutgers University Press).

ZOE TALEPOROS is an arts administrator, curator, and writer based in Oakland, CA. She currently works as a Public Art Project Manager at the San Francisco Arts Commission where she is involved in commissioning a wide range of artworks for public spaces. Formerly, she was a Co-Director/Curator of two alternative art galleries - Royal NoneSuch Gallery in Oakland, CA and Queen's Nails Projects in San Francisco, CA. As an independent curator, she has implemented exhibitions and public programs for Pro Arts, Oakland, CA; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA; S.H.E.D. Projects, Oakland, CA; California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA; and Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Her writing has been published by KQED Arts, Art Practical, and MIT Press. She received her MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts.