The Sky Below

With artists: Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Sofía Córdova, Soleé Darrell, Julia Goodman, Ranu Mukherjee, Genevieve Quick, rel robinson, and Astria Supara

Curated by Heidi Rabben
July 19 – September 21, 2025

Set against the mythic backdrop of the San Francisco Bay Area, The Sky Below brings together eight local artists who draw on feminist science and speculative fiction to imagine alternatives to dominant predictions of the future. Inspired in part by groundbreaking Californian authors such as Ursula K. LeGuin, Octavia Butler, and NK Jemisin, these artists reclaim sci-fi tropes as tools for political resistance, introspection, and transformation.

The Sky Below flips the genre’s stereotypical upward and outward gaze. Instead of intergalactic domination, these artists root their futuristic visions in embodied experience, collective memory, and ecological entanglement. The works on view invite a conversation between traditionally female-dominated craft forms—such as quilting, textiles, and papermaking—and new media, collapsing binaries between analog and digital materials and domestic and cosmic expressions. When these artists look to the stars, it is not toward conquest or empire, but toward interconnection, care, and resilience, proposing that the infinite potential we often associate with the sky may in fact lie beneath our feet and within our internal universes.