B e l l i e s   &   B e a r d s :
New Art on Gender, Sexuality & Ladyness

Opening: Friday, May 7th. 7-9pm. Farley’s East. 33 Grand Ave (at Broadway). Uptown Oakland.

Artist: E. Morrow Howe.
Samples: http://myevolvingprojects.blogspot.com/
Contact: paintcollageflow@gmail.com

Oakland School for the Arts annual Spring Exhibition spotlights the amazing artwork created by OSA’s Visual Arts students. The show opens Friday, April 2, in the Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre and features hundreds of student-generated prints, paintings, drawings, digital artworks, sculptures, jewelry pieces, and more. Prices start at just $10. Opening night runs from 6 to 10 p.m. and coincides with the monthly Oakland Art Murmur and Midtown Art Walk. The event will also feature the musical talents of OSA’s gifted instrumentalists. The Spring Exhibition continues Saturday, April 3, from noon to 5 p.m. and Sunday, April 4, from 1 to 5 p.m. The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theater is located at 531 19th St. near Telegraph, in the same building that houses the OSA campus and the historic Fox Theater in Oakland’s revived Uptown district. Founded in 2002, Oakland School for the Arts (http://www.oakarts.org) is a public charter school that strives to provide students in grades 6 to 12 with intensive conservatory-style training in the arts while maintaining a rigorous college-preparatory curriculum.

Custom, and Vintage Cars at Giant Burger, 22nd & Telegraph. 7:00pm – 11:00pm

Pro Arts presents 2 X 2 Solos, a series of solo exhibitions featuring the artwork of regional artists selected through nomination by Bay Area arts leaders and organizations.

Currently on exhibition is Elisheva Biernoff and Luther Thie, curated by Cicely Sweed and Anuradha Vikram respectively.  This show runs from March 9 – April 9, 2010 at Pro Arts’ gallery in downtown Oakland.

Come celebrate the artists’ reception and release of a companion catalog on Friday, April 2 from 6 – 8 pm.

San Francisco based artist Elisheva Biernoff’s work uses the installation of large scale painting and sculpture to investigate myths, fictions and fantasies through interactive scenes. In her first solo exhibition at Pro Arts, Biernoff addresses these myths through voyeuristic environments that are reminiscent of images from magazine clippings, photographs and postcards of far away places.

Oakland-based artist Luther Thie’s work uses large-scale installation and real-time data to respond to America’s often-fatal obsession with cars.  In his first solo exhibition at Pro Arts, Thie shows his LA Interchange, a fully functional scale model of a public memorial he proposes be erected at the intersection of the Santa Monica and Harbor freeways in Los Angeles.

Pro Arts | 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, 94612 | 510.763.4361 | www.proartsgallery.org