Call for Artists – Pro Arts and Oakland Art Gallery present
BAY AREA CURRENTS 2010

ENTRY DEADLINE: May 14, 2010
 
WHAT: Bay Area Currents is an exhibition juried by a regional curator that showcases the depth and variety of inspired artists currently working in the Bay Area arts scene. Artists must reside or work within 9-county Greater Bay Area. As final selections through studio visit will be made June 23 – 26, artists or representatives must also be available during this scheduled time.
 
JUROR: Jens Hoffmann is the director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He has curated over three dozen exhibitions internationally since 1997 and written more than 150 articles on art and curatorial practice over the last decade.
 
MORE INFO / ENTER: www.proartsgallery.org/callforentry/2010_BAC.php

No Man’s Land Scape
Jessalyn Haggenjos
April 22 – June 4
reception: April 22nd 5-8pm
First Friday receptions: May 7th, June 4 5-8pm

Jessalyn’s work is process oriented and steeped in its materiality. The thick, glossy enamel she uses erupts on the panel and causes a reaction to other paints by cracking and flowing in both a playful and toxic way. This duality conveys a sense of both the beauty and contamination the artist sees in the American landscape.  The luscious colors combine with force to create tumultuous yet sensuous abstractions of monumentally iconic American Southwest scenes.

Jessalyn Haggenjos is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in San Francisco. Jessalyn received an MFA from California College of the Arts. Her work has been shown in New York, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, Las Vegas, Portland, Seattle and Copenhagen. She was a recent resident at Ox-Bow.

Jessalyn’s work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, New American Paintings, ArtSlant, Cheap and Plastique, Shotgun Review and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Branch Gallery
455 17th St, 3rd Floor
Oakland, CA 94608
510-508-1764
www.bayvan.org
Hours: Thurs-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm, First Friday until 8pm

New mixed media paintings by Gared Luquet

Reception: Friday May 7, 6-9 pm

the Hive Gallery

301 Jefferson St, Oakland

www.hivestudios.org

+ wine tasting in the same building at Urban Legends Winery!

An event not to be missed

Emily Farish Brown will be showing tool related paintings and drawings at Mua Restaurant and Bar, 2442 Webster St., upstairs. In her work, Emily combines images of hand-held tools and binary code to explore the what it means today to build something. Come enjoy the show and stay for dinner!

Organs, Cacti & Interstitial
Landscapes BY Ann Schnake
OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY MARCH 5TH
SHORT FILMS BY ALEX WANG AND MALAK HELMY AT 8PM FOLLOWED BY A BRIEF DISCUSSION. RICE AND BEANS WILL BE SERVED BY THE ARTIST.

Oakland Public Conservatory of Music

1616 Franklin St., Downtown Oakland (510)836-4649

http://opcmusic.org/

Join us for our monthly jam sessions every First Friday. Our program includes:

OPC Youth Jam Session at 4:30pm

Art Class Performance and Jam Session at 8pm

Hot Rod and Clasic Car Cruise at 1/4lb Giant Burger located at 22nd & Telegraph. Open to anyone who wants to bring out a car, please no art cars. 7-10:00 pm the first friday of every month. Hosted by the Royal Jokers car club. http://royaljokers.blogspot.com/

Discolorations
Solo Exhibition by Karen Gallagher

February 18 – April 2nd
reception February 18th 5-8pm
first friday events 5-8pm, March 5th, April 2nd

Karen has been working to isolate in her artistic process, the facets integral to the alchemical ‘print’ process in both her printed & hand drawn works.  By focusing on the underlying elements: pressure, stains, and the use of information systems as a sieve these hand drawn encaustic works are created.

Within this body of work, bruises are her primary subject.  Focusing on the pure mechanics of writing & line work (similar to handwriting), brocade & other flourished line patterns are layered on wax panels in raw pigment to build up images of bruises.  This subject matter illuminates her deep interest in scars & bruises as a fading, or permanent, record of an action or event that is intense enough to cause an imprint or stain on the body. The physical and observable evidence of damage to the body is represented as sensual and seductive undulations of brocade patterning.

Karen Gallagher was born in Queens, New York and is currently maintaining her studio in Oakland, CA. She is an experimental printmaker focused on disassembling the traditional format of printmaking into a contemporary experience of self-documentation and re-composition. Gallagher has taught in Bay Area educational programs such as Kala, the San Francisco Art Institute (where she received her MFA with the department Merit Fellowship), and the Richmond Art Center. She exhibits locally and on the east coast in Solo and Group exhibitions, and maintains an Artist Residency at Kala in Berkeley. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art through their acceptance of a group printmaking portfolio “The Printable Principles of Dialogue” and The State University of New York at Albany Art Museum.

Image: Black and Blue 7 (detail) drawn dry pigment on beeswax panel, 2009

Branch Gallery
455 17th Street, Suite 301
Oakland, CA 94612
info@bayvan.org
(510) 508-1764

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