Kerry Tribe
1 October - 4 December, 2026
Image: Kerry Tribe, "Near Miss," 2005. Video projection with sound. Production still.
In collaboration with the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, Off-Screen Space includes experimental narrative films, video art, multi-channel video installations and a cinematic performance–all made by artists who reside or created the work on the west coast and in the region. The works in the show exist across every surface of the gallery and expand the experience and expectations of the ‘screen'.
Participating Artists:
Ava Aviva Avnisan, Dana Berman Duff, Zachary Epcar, Victoria Fu, Lev Kalman with Whitney Horn, Omar Lopex, Sarah Rara, Christopher Richmond & Young Joon Kwak, Rajee Samarasinghe, Lorna Simpson, Josh Tonies, Kerry Tribe, Adriana Trujillo, Jennifer West, Zomhlaba
Curated by Alison O’Daniel
Curatorial Assistant: Evan Apodaca
“Off-screen space” is a term used primarily in cinema that refers to a sensation that the image, sound, action and ideas can move past the edges of the screen. The off-screen space is possibly the most profound and magical space of cinema, because whether it is produced through the technical smoke and mirrors of cinematic production (such as editing or surround sound) or narrative construction (a subject looks beyond the frame and the audience anticipates what might appear), it is also the undefined amorphous place where our human spectator bodies are touched by physical sound waves, light and shadow, and the affect and lasting impact of the moving image. The off-screen space in cinema is where the suspension of disbelief occurs most poetically during the film. Even after the credits roll, off-screen space continues; it is where ideas, narrative, locations, characters and actions hover like ghosts, further develop, take on new meaning and shapeshift.