See & Experience

White text on a black background spelling "SEE & EXPERIENCE."

Ranu Mukherjee, a place to find the light, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris.

The Sky Below

July 19 - September 21, 2025

July 19 | Members Preview: 1 - 2pm
July 19 | Public Reception: 2 - 4pm

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.

Maria Guzmán Capron, Intrepida, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Nazarian/Curcio.

Maria Guzmán Capron, Brisa Corriendo, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Nazarian/Curcio.

Ranu Mukherjee, time warriors, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris.

Featured Artists

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

Curated by Heidi Rabben.

The Sky Below is made possible through the generous support of the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art's Board of Directors, Marin Cultural Association, and more.

rel robinson, Black Hole, 2024. Courtesy the artist.

The Sky Below Book Club

For The Sky Below, each artist in the exhibition was invited to recommend a work of science or speculative fiction to contribute to a reading room inside of the gallery. Based on these selections, a biweekly summer reading group will assemble throughout the exhibition’s run to delve more deeply into some of these points of inspiration for the artists. The reading group will take place on Sundays at MarinMOCA as well as at local libraries.

More information and other programs coming soon.

Genevieve Quick, Cel Bell, 2024. Courtesy the artist.