Nikita Gale makes sculpture and installation-based work that explores the exchanges and barriers between audience and performer. Nikita talks about how artwork can influence group behavior, protest and dissent as performance, research as a way to pull out ideas, noise and silence as social and political positions, the similarities between studio visits and dating, maintenance and mind-body awareness, and art as an open invitation. See Nikita’s work HERENikita’s culture recommendation: Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang  Nikita Gale/Private Dancer at California African American Museum through May 9, 2021Support Deep Color