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Friday March 5th, 6pm to 9pm |
Please join us on Friday March 5, during Oakland Art Murmur, for our much-anticipated opening night show with artist, Noah Ptolemy. Noah’s vibrant and powerful paintings on paper will be available for viewing and purchase at the gallery for a limited time only. In addition, we will be screening short video art pieces on our gallery screening wall. Don’t miss this event!
WHAT: ART OPENING: NOAH PTOLEMY AT COLLECT ANNEX
WHEN: FRIDAY MARCH 5, 2010
TIME: 6-9PM
WHERE: COLLECT ANNEX, 815 BROADWAY ST., OAKLAND, CA 94607
COST: FREE
COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS AND LIGHT FARE WILL BE SERVED
contact Collect:
e: info@collectartsf.com
t: 415.345.9885
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Friday March 5th, 6pm to 9pm |
The Hive Gallery
301 Jefferson St.
Oakland, CA 94607
The Hive Gallery will present new work by artist Brian Lucas.
Lucas’s work consists of spontaneous compositions, improvised from their beginning and proceeding incrementally until the painting has manifested its own possibilities. Each painting corresponds to one another, forming a transportive circuit of micro- and macro-cosmic images that could also be said to be relief maps of the inner eye. The morphological shapes and minute accents are glimmers and reflections of a consciousness seeking to move beyond the purely phenomenal and into areas of more varied meaning.
The paintings are considered to be Maps of Mirabilia: symbolic depictions of the marvelous.
Lucas finds inspiration not from a consensus-driven form of reality, but from a mutable perspective informed by mystical insight, green hermeticism, anarchist spiritualism, and the findings of the Dynaton group and various dissident surrealists. The writings of artist Gordon Onslow-Ford have also been intrinsic to Lucas’s approach to painting.
March 6-26 showing by appointment only. Contact: 510-926-1664 or earinsound@yahoo.com for information.
Oakland artist Megan Fister will premiere a new work at Luka’s Taproom 3/5. Join us in the lounge for a pre-Murmur reception! 5-7pm
Art Farm Motel is a large and loose art collective founded by Tony Speirsand Lisa Beerntsen of Graton, Ca. “Portrait of a Girl” is a 8ft x 12ft detail of a room-sized installation (8 feet by 39 feet) called “The Game of Hope or Fear”, created for the 2006 Burning Man festival. The Art Farm artists (more than 60 participants including the East Bay’s Gary Amaro, Claire Cotts, Erik Friedman, Lauren Ari, and Mike Terry) contributed the thousands of drawings that became the paintings’ background, drawing images of either a hopeful or fearful nature. The 2006 Burning Man theme was “The Future: Hope or Fear?” Speirs designed a 16-foot-long, playable game board, (”The Game of Hope or Fear”) flanked by portraits of a girl and a boy, who represent both the players of the game as well as the future. The resulting three-panel piece was hung in a room just below the Burning Man sculpture at the 2006 festival.
| March 20, 2010 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
480 23rd Street, near Telegraph
www.chandracerrito.com
(510) 260-7494
Hours: Fridays 2-6, Saturdays 1-5, and by appointment (415) 577-7537
A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground
Mari Andrews and Sheila Ghidini
February 5 – March 20, 2010
LAST DAY: Saturday, March 20, 1-5 PM
Mari Andrews, Sheila Ghidini
Through careful observation, collecting and re-presentation, Mari Andrews and Sheila Ghidini honor both nature and the man-made. Andrews gathers multitudes of leaves, stones, seeds, moss and other objects she finds on nature walks in the Sierras and elsewhere. Working intuitively while surrounded by these specimen-like treasures, she singles out some, combining them with wire, pasta, pipe cleaners or paper to create sculptures she describes as three-dimensional drawings. Either mounted on the wall or suspended, these delicate juxtapositions recall web-like structures, pods and other fundamental forms. As in nature, each of Andrews’ works can be seen individually as a subtly complex whole, or it may be viewed as one unique element among a symphonic array of interrelated parts.
Ghidini is also a collector of natural objects and images, many of which she finds at her rural Connecticut refuge. She closely observes roots, birds, feathers and nests, which she uses as subjects for sensitively rendered graphite drawings that she coats in beeswax. The man-made is not excluded from these representations, for many bird nests actually incorporate bits of stray string, paper, ribbon, etc. In Ghidini’s most recent works, she creates drawings directly on the wall and assembles with them found objects such as branches, a chair or an old tricycle to create vignette-like installations. Encountering one of these is like discovering a succinct and evocative haiku. Weaving together disparate elements, the works of Andrews and Ghidini invite us to rethink distinctions between drawing and sculpture and to reconsider boundaries between the natural and the manufactured.
| February 18, 2010 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Please join us to celebrate our new space!
WHEN: Thursday, February 18, 6 – 9 PM
WHERE: 480 23rd Street, near Telegraph
We want to celebrate the opening of our new space with YOU, many of whom have been gallery contributors, supporters, enthusiasts, colleagues and neighbors since we opened in Oakland in 2007. Thank you!
Come enjoy sushi by Ozumo, Oakland… wine by James Cole Winery, Napa… live music by Gamelan Seker Jaya’s Gender Wayang Ensemble… art performances by Dr. Boo-Boo (A.K.A. Lynne-Rachel Altman) and Claudia Tennyson… and the current exhibition, A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground featuring Mari Andrews and Sheila Ghidini.
20% of profits from art sales at the Grand Opening will go to the American Red Cross to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
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Tuesday November 30th, 5pm to 2am |
Art by TDK crew, with DJs Apollo, ShortKut, Sake One, Fuze, & Myke One with performances by Equipto, F.A.M.E. and The Bangerz.
The Bay Area’s best DJs and artists will assemble to pay tribute to life and legacy of Oakland’s beloved Graffiti King and Bay Area legend, Mike “DREAM” Francisco. This show is the second tribute show with work submitted by artists from across the country old and new. Featured artists include Seen, Brett Cook (Dizney), Vogue, Spie, Estria, Krash, and many of Dream’s TDK brethren. World renowned as a style master, Dream’s graffiti established the visual aesthetic of Oakland’s Hip Hop culture, and thrust Oakland into the spotlight as a leader in what is now the fastest growing art movement in human history.
This event marks ten years since Dream was tragically murdered in a robbery on February 17, 2000. All DJs, Performers and organizers will be donating their skills to benefit Akil Francisco, Dream’s only son (now 10 years old) who also just lost his mother to breast cancer in January.
Mike Dream’s use of a temporary and renegade art form created a lasting legacy of radical education, social justice, speaking truth, and creative self expression. His life and work continue to inspire thousands and bring pride to his community. The TDK crew is also proud to announce the forthcoming book on Dream’s art and life: “The Title of My Book Reads: Advanced Vandalism.”
“Dream Day” Honoring The Life & Legacy of Mike “Dream” Francisco
@ The New Parish
579 18th St. @ San Pablo Ave.
Oakland, CA
Artist Reception 5pm-9pm Free
Showtime 9pm-2am $10, All Ages (with parent)
| February 5, 2010 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
www.warehouse416.com
ArtWorks by
Aydasarra mixed media
Michael Brown mixed media
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Resident Artists
Angela Scrivani photography
Elwyn Crawford felt hats
DJs
Jamin Creed
Patricia Chavez
Michael Brown
Liba Falafel Truck out front
