Kate Rhoades

Kate Rhoades is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. Her work has been presented in the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Santa Fe International New Media Festival. Rhoades has participated in exhibitions at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, Southern Exposure in San Francisco, as well as various venues, publications, hotel rooms, gay bars, and alleyways across the globe. Since 2014 she has co-hosted the Bay Area's no. 1 arts and culture podcast, Congratulations Pine Tree. Rhoades was also a Jay DeFeo Prize winner in 2014 and one of the Fleishhacker Foundation's Eureka Fellowship grantees in 2018.

On the work featured in this exhibition:

Trees (Please!) is the second installation in a series of videos meant to act as digital talismans to ward off disaster. In a time of environmental and psychic collapse, who can we look to for salvation or at least succor? The trees!

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Kate Rhoades, Trees (Please!), 2021
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Courtesy of the artist