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Personal archeology. A love letter to the underworld and time spent in Durango Mexico ⤦

Photos: @sahrajajarmikhayat ✰

𓄼Horn ring𑁤 + ruby star setting

Personal archeology. A love letter to the underworld and time spent in Durango Mexico ⤦

Photos: @sahrajajarmikhayat ✰

𓄼Horn ring𑁤 + ruby star setting

Personal archeology. A love letter to the underworld and time spent in Durango Mexico ⤦

Photos: @sahrajajarmikhayat ✰

‘Sanctuary’, a solo exhibition by @gaykiss___ features sculptural jewelry, functional home goods, and abstract forms. The exhibition explores resilience, preservation, and transformation within Queer, Latinx, and immigrant communities. Sanctuary considers how objects carry memory across generations, functioning simultaneously as protection, archive, and belonging.

Complementing the exhibition is ‘El Santuario’, an immersive installation curated in collaboration with @ofthreads_ . Conceived as a shoppable environment within the gallery, the installation brings together a curated collection of small wares and one-of-a-kind artworks honoring the strength, beauty, resilience, and cultural richness of the Mexican-American voice. Installed alongside ‘Sanctuary’, it expands the exhibition into a reverent space where objects become extensions of care, memory, and cultural continuity

‘Sanctuary’ opens June 6 from 6-8 PM. Save the date ⛓️

DM or email info@glassrice.com to request the early collectors preview or for inquiries.

📸 @chrisbehroozian

✶ Steel chain chair feature in @archdigest ✶ Big thanks to @studioahead for working with so many Bay Area artist ✶

Integral to ‘Sanctuary’, @gaykiss___ debut solo exhibition, is a dialogue between durability and fragility through the juxtaposition of metal and glass. If metal holds memory through resistance and endurance, glass introduces another truth: delicate, volatile, and capable of sudden transformation. Orb-like and spherical forms emerge as some of the strongest structural gestures within the exhibition, even when rendered in fragile material. In breaking, glass does not simply disappear; it fractures into something sharp, primal, irreversible. Together, these material tensions ask where strength actually lives—in what holds, or in what breaks.

‘Sanctuary’ opens this Saturday, June 6 from 6-8 PM! Tunes by @ligaya , a very special shopping experience curated by @ofthreads_ , and the artist will be in attendance. Don’t miss it!

DM or email info@glassrice.com for inquiries or to request the early collectors preview.

📸 @chrisbehroozian

Root Division is excited to celebrate Nico Corona @gaykiss___ joining our Studios Program 🎈

Nico Corona (b. 1993, Pomona, CA) is a queer sculptor based in San Francisco. The son of Mexican and Bolivian immigrants, he draws on his working-class background, where limited resources fostered experimentation and imagination. As a self-taught metalworker, he views metal and materiality as both personal and cultural archaeology, a medium to adapt and preserve histories often overlooked.

Corona’s process combines curiosity and experimentation through transforming materials into functional and non-functional objects. Through independent skill building, he designs a collection of objects using welding, metal finishing, wax carving, lost-wax casting, and sand casting. By mixing different processes and experimenting with scale, he works on everything from small wearable designs to furniture. Currently, he is experimenting with glass. Being a first-generation person and growing up experiencing how building and manual labor improved their family life motivates him to shape-shift materials into relics for my community and future generations.

Check out his upcoming solo exhibition ‘Sanctuary’ at @glass.rice opening 6/6 6-8pm

Give him a warm welcome in the comments 👋

Root Division is excited to celebrate Nico Corona @gaykiss___ joining our Studios Program 🎈

Nico Corona (b. 1993, Pomona, CA) is a queer sculptor based in San Francisco. The son of Mexican and Bolivian immigrants, he draws on his working-class background, where limited resources fostered experimentation and imagination. As a self-taught metalworker, he views metal and materiality as both personal and cultural archaeology, a medium to adapt and preserve histories often overlooked.

Corona’s process combines curiosity and experimentation through transforming materials into functional and non-functional objects. Through independent skill building, he designs a collection of objects using welding, metal finishing, wax carving, lost-wax casting, and sand casting. By mixing different processes and experimenting with scale, he works on everything from small wearable designs to furniture. Currently, he is experimenting with glass. Being a first-generation person and growing up experiencing how building and manual labor improved their family life motivates him to shape-shift materials into relics for my community and future generations.

Check out his upcoming solo exhibition ‘Sanctuary’ at @glass.rice opening 6/6 6-8pm

Give him a warm welcome in the comments 👋

Root Division is excited to celebrate Nico Corona @gaykiss___ joining our Studios Program 🎈

Nico Corona (b. 1993, Pomona, CA) is a queer sculptor based in San Francisco. The son of Mexican and Bolivian immigrants, he draws on his working-class background, where limited resources fostered experimentation and imagination. As a self-taught metalworker, he views metal and materiality as both personal and cultural archaeology, a medium to adapt and preserve histories often overlooked.

Corona’s process combines curiosity and experimentation through transforming materials into functional and non-functional objects. Through independent skill building, he designs a collection of objects using welding, metal finishing, wax carving, lost-wax casting, and sand casting. By mixing different processes and experimenting with scale, he works on everything from small wearable designs to furniture. Currently, he is experimenting with glass. Being a first-generation person and growing up experiencing how building and manual labor improved their family life motivates him to shape-shift materials into relics for my community and future generations.

Check out his upcoming solo exhibition ‘Sanctuary’ at @glass.rice opening 6/6 6-8pm

Give him a warm welcome in the comments 👋

Immensely excited to announce the return of @ofthreads_ with a takeover of our concept shop @stripmall.sf in dialogue with ‘Sanctuary’, the debut solo exhibition of @gaykiss___ opening June 6. Three visionaries, one space — each sharpening the other.

Thank you to @almajimenezlopez_ and @serg88mondragon for another opportunity to uplift our communities through collaboration! Save the date!

Immensely excited to announce the return of @ofthreads_ with a takeover of our concept shop @stripmall.sf in dialogue with ‘Sanctuary’, the debut solo exhibition of @gaykiss___ opening June 6. Three visionaries, one space — each sharpening the other.

Thank you to @almajimenezlopez_ and @serg88mondragon for another opportunity to uplift our communities through collaboration! Save the date!

Immensely excited to announce the return of @ofthreads_ with a takeover of our concept shop @stripmall.sf in dialogue with ‘Sanctuary’, the debut solo exhibition of @gaykiss___ opening June 6. Three visionaries, one space — each sharpening the other.

Thank you to @almajimenezlopez_ and @serg88mondragon for another opportunity to uplift our communities through collaboration! Save the date!

It is with great excitement for us to announce the debut solo exhibition of @gaykiss___ opening next month at the gallery!

‘Sanctuary’ will feature sculptural jewelry, functional home pieces, and abstract forms. This exhibition is an exploration of resilience and preservation within Queer, Latinx, and immigrant communities.

Nico Corona (b. 1993, Pomona, CA) is a queer sculptor based in San Francisco. The son of Mexican and Bolivian immigrants, he draws on his working-class background, where limited resources fostered experimentation and imagination. As a self-taught metalworker, he views metal as both personal and cultural archaeology, a medium to adapt and preserve histories often overlooked.

Through lost wax casting, sand casting, and welding, Nico explores the “queerness of metal” and its transformation of “fixed” forms into fluid, mystical objects. His work reconfigures everyday items from Chicanx and immigrant homes into enduring sculptures that embody resilience and shared autonomy. By shifting metal across states of solid, liquid, and gas, Nico creates lasting remains that offer a tactile sanctuary for Queer, POC, and immigrant communities.

His work has been archived in print with Architectural Digest and Cult Classic, with exhibitions throughout the Bay Area, New York, and internationally, including at SFMOMA Art Bash, Super House New York, and Territorio Art Fair during Mexico City Design Week and Mexico City Art Week.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

‘Sanctuary’ opens June 6 from 6-8 PM. Save the date! DM or email info@glassrice.com for inquiries or to receive the early collectors preview.

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📸 @hunterthegatherersf

Thank you @admexico for archiving and featuring @ofthreads_this April. Covering the install at Art Week Mexico 2026.

Being able to share my work through a collective that aims to represent independent Mexican American artist and designers is truly special. The past 6 months were two huge mile stones showing @designweekmex & Art Week.
Ty ✿ @almajimenezlopez_ @serg88mondragon

I’m also a book nerd & it’s in print
📸 @jennysharaf @new____note

Thank you @admexico for archiving and featuring @ofthreads_this April. Covering the install at Art Week Mexico 2026.

Being able to share my work through a collective that aims to represent independent Mexican American artist and designers is truly special. The past 6 months were two huge mile stones showing @designweekmex & Art Week.
Ty ✿ @almajimenezlopez_ @serg88mondragon

I’m also a book nerd & it’s in print
📸 @jennysharaf @new____note

Thank you @admexico for archiving and featuring @ofthreads_this April. Covering the install at Art Week Mexico 2026.

Being able to share my work through a collective that aims to represent independent Mexican American artist and designers is truly special. The past 6 months were two huge mile stones showing @designweekmex & Art Week.
Ty ✿ @almajimenezlopez_ @serg88mondragon

I’m also a book nerd & it’s in print
📸 @jennysharaf @new____note

Thank you @admexico for archiving and featuring @ofthreads_this April. Covering the install at Art Week Mexico 2026.

Being able to share my work through a collective that aims to represent independent Mexican American artist and designers is truly special. The past 6 months were two huge mile stones showing @designweekmex & Art Week.
Ty ✿ @almajimenezlopez_ @serg88mondragon

I’m also a book nerd & it’s in print
📸 @jennysharaf @new____note

Thank you @admexico for archiving and featuring @ofthreads_this April. Covering the install at Art Week Mexico 2026.

Being able to share my work through a collective that aims to represent independent Mexican American artist and designers is truly special. The past 6 months were two huge mile stones showing @designweekmex & Art Week.
Ty ✿ @almajimenezlopez_ @serg88mondragon

I’m also a book nerd & it’s in print
📸 @jennysharaf @new____note

Thank you @admexico for archiving and featuring @ofthreads_this April. Covering the install at Art Week Mexico 2026.

Being able to share my work through a collective that aims to represent independent Mexican American artist and designers is truly special. The past 6 months were two huge mile stones showing @designweekmex & Art Week.
Ty ✿ @almajimenezlopez_ @serg88mondragon

I’m also a book nerd & it’s in print
📸 @jennysharaf @new____note

Silver Glass Orbs-act as a container for the self. Distorted, reflective & encapsulated in material

Honored to be invited to show this new body of work at Art Week Mexico.

* @ofthreads_ booth * @mxterritoriocreativo
Febuary 4th - 8th @espacio_cdmx *

Photos @jennysharaf

Silver Glass Orbs-act as a container for the self. Distorted, reflective & encapsulated in material

Honored to be invited to show this new body of work at Art Week Mexico.

* @ofthreads_ booth * @mxterritoriocreativo
Febuary 4th - 8th @espacio_cdmx *

Photos @jennysharaf

Silver Glass Orbs-act as a container for the self. Distorted, reflective & encapsulated in material

Honored to be invited to show this new body of work at Art Week Mexico.

* @ofthreads_ booth * @mxterritoriocreativo
Febuary 4th - 8th @espacio_cdmx *

Photos @jennysharaf

꧁꧂Silver Glass Orbs—act as a container for the self. Distorted, reflective and encapsulated in material ꧁꧂

Honored to be invited to show this new body of work at Art Week Mexico.

⋆ @ofthreads_ booth ⋆ @mxterritoriocreativo Febuary 4th - 8th @espacio_cdmx ⋆

Photos @sahrajajarmikhayat 𓏲

꧁꧂Silver Glass Orbs—act as a container for the self. Distorted, reflective and encapsulated in material ꧁꧂

Honored to be invited to show this new body of work at Art Week Mexico.

⋆ @ofthreads_ booth ⋆ @mxterritoriocreativo Febuary 4th - 8th @espacio_cdmx ⋆

Photos @sahrajajarmikhayat 𓏲

꧁꧂Silver Glass Orbs—act as a container for the self. Distorted, reflective and encapsulated in material ꧁꧂

Honored to be invited to show this new body of work at Art Week Mexico.

⋆ @ofthreads_ booth ⋆ @mxterritoriocreativo Febuary 4th - 8th @espacio_cdmx ⋆

Photos @sahrajajarmikhayat 𓏲

꧁꧂Silver Glass Orbs—act as a container for the self. Distorted, reflective and encapsulated in material ꧁꧂

Honored to be invited to show this new body of work at Art Week Mexico.

⋆ @ofthreads_ booth ⋆ @mxterritoriocreativo Febuary 4th - 8th @espacio_cdmx ⋆

Photos @sahrajajarmikhayat 𓏲

꧁꧂Silver Glass Orbs—act as a container for the self. Distorted, reflective and encapsulated in material ꧁꧂

Honored to be invited to show this new body of work at Art Week Mexico.

⋆ @ofthreads_ booth ⋆ @mxterritoriocreativo Febuary 4th - 8th @espacio_cdmx ⋆

Photos @sahrajajarmikhayat 𓏲

꧁꧂Silver Glass Orbs—act as a container for the self. Distorted, reflective and encapsulated in material ꧁꧂

Honored to be invited to show this new body of work at Art Week Mexico.

⋆ @ofthreads_ booth ⋆ @mxterritoriocreativo Febuary 4th - 8th @espacio_cdmx ⋆

Photos @sahrajajarmikhayat 𓏲

☻ Custom hashioki set for the iconic @robinsanfrancisco ✰✰✰

Each piece hand carved in beeswax, one of one & cast in bronze.

Photos: @new____note

☻ Custom hashioki set for the iconic @robinsanfrancisco ✰✰✰

Each piece hand carved in beeswax, one of one & cast in bronze.

Photos: @new____note

☻ Custom hashioki set for the iconic @robinsanfrancisco ✰✰✰

Each piece hand carved in beeswax, one of one & cast in bronze.

Photos: @new____note

☻ Custom hashioki set for the iconic @robinsanfrancisco ✰✰✰

Each piece hand carved in beeswax, one of one & cast in bronze.

Photos: @new____note

☻ Custom hashioki set for the iconic @robinsanfrancisco ✰✰✰

Each piece hand carved in beeswax, one of one & cast in bronze.

Photos: @new____note

☻ Custom hashioki set for the iconic @robinsanfrancisco ✰✰✰

Each piece hand carved in beeswax, one of one & cast in bronze.

Photos: @new____note

☻ Custom hashioki set for the iconic @robinsanfrancisco ✰✰✰

Each piece hand carved in beeswax, one of one & cast in bronze.

Photos: @new____note

OF THREADS presents: Nuevas Herencias.

Nico Corona explores inheritance through metal as cultural archaeology. Drawing from working-class craft traditions and queer material transformation, his sculptural objects reimagine everyday forms from Chicanx and immigrant homes—treating metal as something fluid, adaptive, and alive.

Through orbs and vessels shaped by fire, pressure, and care, the work reflects how resilience, imagination, and survival are passed down—reshaping what was once fixed into objects of protection, softness, and possibility.

On view 2/4-2/8 @espacio_cdmx CDMX

@ofthreads_
@gaykiss___
@designweekmex
@mxterritoriocreativo