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.
| Friday, March 3 |
| Friday, March 3 |
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
| Friday, January 1 |
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/
| Thursday, February 2 |
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
| Friday, March 3 |
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
| Friday, February 2 |
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
FEB 5th, 2010
@ The New Parish
579 18th St. @ San Pablo Ave.
Oakland, CA
Artist Reception 5pm-9pm Free
Showtime 9pm-2am $10, All Ages (with parent)
| Friday, February 2 |
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.
| Friday, February 2 |
BRAND NEW Firehouse South on 24th & Telegraph is opening with Alan Chin, showing new work.
http://firehouseartcollective.blogspot.com/2010/01/alan-chin-firehouse-south-for-this.html
Alan’s website: http://www.alanchin.us/
| Friday, January 1 |
Oakland Music & Art Extravaganza
The Warehouse
416 26th St. between B’way and T’graph
FIVE EAST BAY BANDS LIVE!!!!
Beatworm
The Careerers
Million Star Hotel
Measures
Lunch
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DJ “Don Guapo”
***Featuring exhibits from local artists***
Cover $5-$8 (sliding)
| Friday, January 1 |
A public/private art program developed by Metrovation that screens fresh and provocative new art videos during the Oakland Art Murmur event occurring the first Friday of every month. Videos for each monthly show are selected by jury from the submissions of local, national and international video artists. The work is projected from the roof of the Broadway Grand residential building, across West Grand Avenue, onto the 8-story rear wall of the 2201 Broadway office building, achieving a 100’ by 100’ image on the wall. This uniquely large format provides a sort of “wallpaper” of interesting art for the Murmur event and has become an important venue for video artists to display their work. The partners in the Great Wall of Oakland project are Metrovation, Residents of Broadway Grand, the Oakland Museum of California and the City of Oakland.
Contact: Chris Curtis (510) 839-4000 x237
