"Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC) and San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) host the West Coast debut of Rashaad Newsome’s To Be Real, an exhibition environment of collage, sculpture and the interactive AI Being. The exhibition presents a series of neo-Cubist portraits in expressive frames, threading an ornamental glamour through figures reflecting on human agency, Blackness, and the radical futurity of emerging identities. Paired with new sculpture, A.I. and installation elements To Be Real invites the viewer to imagine a richer and mutually shared way of being in the world."