Exhibitions How It Is Nowadays, 2025

Group exhibition at Root Division, San Francisco, CA, November 8, 2025 through January 10, 2026. 

How do we tend to the unseen forces that permeate and shape the places we inhabit? Do we resist or capitulate? Do we work with, or work within? Topology is concerned with the connections between spaces, invisible until they shimmer into view. The contours we detect are inevitably distorted by our individual histories, creating a powerful counterpoint to traditional maps that calcify, suppress, or erase.

The artists in How It Is Nowadays explore the concept of constructive interference using process, observation, repetition, and chance. Engaged in a material dialogue with their environment, they map shifting flows and emergent patterns to trace imperfect grids — the topology of ‘now’ — that reveal how they interact with the systems that surround them.

Artists:

Jenna Bonistalli
Rachel Dawson
Katie Gong
Jason Gouliard
Doug Johnston

Joshua Moreno
Amy Tavern
Alice Wiese
Connie Zheng
Minoosh Zomorodinia

Photos: Hunter Ridenour, courtesy of Root Division