#oakland art murmur

[salmaarastu]

I feel grateful to share the following announcement from curator Ruth Tabancay who has invited my works along with other four established Eco artists from the Bay Area. Mercury 20 Gallery is pleased to present THE NATURAL OTHER, an earth month group show featuring visiting artists: Salma Arastu, Alicia Escott, Julia Feldman, Linda Gass, and Amy Hibbs. March 31 - May 6, 2023 Artists Reception: Saturday, April 15, 4 - 6pm Gallery hours: Friday and Saturday from 12 to 5pm, and by appointment. Oakland Art Murmur: April 7 and May 5, 5 – 9 pm. THE NATURAL OTHER Curated by Ruth Tabancay In honor of Earth Day, April 22, Mercury 20 Gallery member Ruth Tabancay curated a show of artwork that fits into the premise, The Natural Other. The work in this show falls along a continuum with “What would happen without human intervention?” at one end and “With human intervention, what is the extent of disruption to a particular earth system and can we fix it?” at the other. Whether impacted or not, to what end will natural history evolve? The selected artists depict an intimate relationship with the earth through a variety of concepts. #ecoart #ecoartists #myceliummagic #mycelialflow #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #salmaarastu https://www.instagram.com/p/CqlQOAqJZGO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#ecoart #ecoartists #myceliummagic #mycelialflow #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #salmaarastu

[shesaidred]

the house, the field, the eye, exhibiting @grayloftgallery along with some of my friends… i’ve just been really tired & behind sharing all the opportunities that have knocked on my door…my lack of sleep & health have slowed me down, wishing you all creativity & loads of yummy delicious deep sleeps & good health Shades of Gray 10th Anniversary Photography Exhibit In the final celebration of our 10th anniversary year, Gray Loft Gallery is delighted to present SHADES OF GRAY, a group exhibit selected by Ann Jastrab, executive director of Center for Photographic Art and Jan Watten, founder of Gray Loft Gallery.  On display will be a dynamic group photography show with a vast array of elegant, cool and mysterious examples of the color gray.  Photographs in cool neutrals, sophisticated deep charcoal gray images, glimmers of gray in a color landscape and the beautiful mid-tones of perfect gelatin silver prints.   Mixed media, alternative processes, color imagery and traditional black and white photographs will be on view. Examples of photographs in the show can be viewed here <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17SG64a2IT8VzQGFN2xbxGAD4I3PRyPwr?usp=sharing>. Exhibit Details: Show Dates: Saturday, December 10 – Saturday, January 21, 2023 Opening Reception, Saturday, December 10, 4:00 – 6:30 pm Closing Reception, Saturday, January 21, 4:00 – 6:30 pm Gallery Address: Gray Loft Gallery 2889 Ford Street #32 (third floor), Oakland, CA  94601 About Gray Loft Gallery: Gray Loft Gallery – celebrating its 10th year - voted Best Art Gallery in 2016, 2017 and 2021 in the Oakland Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards and has been referred to as a hidden gem in Jingletown.  The mission of the gallery is to provide exhibition opportunities for artists in a setting that is an alternative to the traditional gallery model. We hope to inspire, engage and celebrate artists in our community and beyond.  We acknowledge the achievements of emerging, mid-career and established artists – with an emphasis on those who live and work in the Bay Area.   The gallery is a member of the Oakland Art Murmur, Oakland Indie Alliance and Jingletown Arts, Business and Community. (at Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClwyVicIYjE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[johanssonprojects]

Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday tomorrow check out this fierce group of artists in our annual summer show Community Garden group show is open Thurs - Sat 1-5pm, First Friday 1-8pm Featuring: Maria Calandra, Andrew Catanese, Madeline Donahue, Howard Fonda, Cathy Lu, Humbert Ramirez, Sheena Rose @johansson_projects #JohanssonProjects #MariaCalandra #AndrewCatanese #MadelineDonahue #HowardFonda #Cathy Lu #HumbertRamirez #Sheena Rose (at Johansson Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg2BYWKrAqz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#johanssonprojects #mariacalandra #andrewcatanese #madelinedonahue #howardfonda #cathy #humbertramirez #sheena

[radicaladventure]

Local Language by Dan Gildor

Via Flickr

We should have known that the John Brothers Piano Company was going to be playing in the gallery at Local Language when we saw this piano. But it was the horn that lead us back after we circled the block.

#piano #antique #piano keys #keyboard #instrument #music #ivory #oakland art murmur #local language galley #gallery #art #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #lensblr #imiging

[bikerlovertexas]

#America #Art Murmur #Black Lives Matter #California #East Bay #First Friday #First Friday 06-05-2015 #Fuck the Curfew #Oakland #Oakland PD #Oakland Police Department #USA #United States #United States of America #cops #police #protest #fav10

[oaklandartenthusiast]

Johansson Projects: Sofie Ramos Show runs January 8 – March 11, 2017 Art Murmur: February 3 and March 3, 2017

PRESS RELEASE In pathways / in and out, Sofie Ramos’ evolving exhibition at Johansson Projects, vivid playgrounds, fantastical constructions, and vibrantly textural wonderlands take over the gallery space. Spilling beyond the confines of the canvas, Ramos stretches fabrics, string, sharp lines of color, and absurd forms in her physical interactions with space. Ramos insists on emphasizing process over outcome, resulting in installations where imagination runs free and throws itself into physical being. Her ‘visual logic’ contains an essential open-endedness and ambiguity. The resulting abstractions invoke human characteristics, domestic tropes through common household items, and integral elements of play. Ramos self-references mentor and poet Lyn Hejinian’s “Rejection of Closure” through the perpetually “unfinished” nature of her installations, discarding the hierarchy of “closure” in her ever-changing, ever-moving artistic process. She continuously reuses materials from past installations, so each individual piece lives on in newly evolved iterations. Her works exist in constant bold transition and cathartic, intuitive movement.

#Johansson Projects #Sofie Ramos #oakland #oakland art #oaklandartenthusiast #oakland art murmur #eastbayart #color #art #ArtGallery #art enthusiast #SFArt #bayareaart #urbanart #installation art #sculpture #oaklandfirstfridays #painting #artwork #urbanwalls

[nuthingoodat4]

Oakland Creates 2019

Inspired.Motivated.Grateful.Humbled. Excited for the future. These are some of the words that describe how I feel after Oakland Creates. It’s been five years since the first Oakland Creates in 2015. I can’t believe how fast five years has gone by.

I started Oakland Creates because I couldn’t find an art show in Oakland to be a part of or a venue to engage with to show my work.  In fall of 2015 I approached various venues I felt super uncomfortable and honestly unwelcome. The Oakland Art Murmur was not the same as Oakland First Friday’s are now, meaning there wasn’t a mix of all types of people showing their art. Back then  I was looking to showcase my own work on my own terms. Instead of a solo show or 2 or 3 person show I decided to curate a mini comics and zine fest with Black and Brown folks I knew and who’s work I admired and felt would make a good mix of art styles. The most important factor in who I would invite to table would be who the artist is as a person and not just their art, comics or zines. I never want anyone to feel unwelcome or be treated poorly so that means organizing with true care about the people involved.  All that being said, Oakland still has limited venue space and availability. The Eastbay Community Space has been amazing these past two years.

This year I was blessed by the community with donations and volunteers. Big shout out to everyone who gave and came through to help set up and watch the door, run the workshops and break down and clean up.  A huge thank you and big ups to the Eastbay Community Space for making an extra effort to accommodate us, from helping with table rental and storage to the very responsive correspondence and communication. Thank you so much to all the artists and makers for tabling. I appreciate you.

Oakland Creates is about community and providing a resource for Black and Brown artists, underrepresented artists to share and sell their comics, zines and art. Thank you to everyone who came and supported with your positive energy and the awesome power of time plus finances. Without the community coming out to spend money and share space Oakland Creates could not happen. The exchange is more than economics but a clear communication of your desire to be connected and help artists  lead our society in ways that aren’t always obvious or tangible but create everlasting change. 

It is amazing to build with artists in the SF Bay Area. Lets go into 2020 with positive intention and mindful of the ways in which we affect those around us. Visual art, music and the written or spoken word can move people in ways politics, governmental agencies or fear can not. 

Artists can be  cultural leaders in our community. I’m so glad and grateful that Oakland Creates pushes folks forward to be truth sayers, educators and change-makers. In 2020 lets give more and continue to support each other. Check out the photo’s here and ofcourse more on my flickr page here, https://www.flickr.com/photos/storm1sky/albums/72157712347830487

#oakland #oaklandcreates #zines #comics #art #drawing #education #sfbayarea #zinefests

[dustedmagazine]

Toner — Silk Road (Smoking Room)

Silk Road by TONER

Toner, from Oakland, practices the long-running art of embedding tunefulness in roiling waves of dissonance, like MBV and Dinosaur finding soft, woozy reveries in the tone-bending wake of guitar feedback. The band began as a solo project for singer and guitar player Samuelito Cruz (who used to be in Happy Diving) but has solidified into a foursome; it is hard to imagine it now as a bedroom project.

A foursome with a couple of EPs and one previous LP in the catalogue, the band learned brevity, perhaps, from mixer/masterer Jasper Leach, who also works with Tony Molina. These songs don’t linger, but they are by no means minimal. “Smoov” takes up just a minute and a half with its chiming riff, its battering drum racket, its whispery vocals that swell and waft in the roil of sound. “Heavy Glow” is as epic as a two-minute song can be, a side-winding guitar solo slipping out between dreamy “la la la la” choruses.

You can imagine these songs engulfing you live, building crashing crescendos of sound that nearly pick you up off your feet, like Ovlov did two years ago in Tru. It’s not all texture and mood, though. These songs bury insistent hooks in their brief, chaotic onslaughts. “Still Warm” pounds a woozy guitar riff through the floor, but what you remember is the chugging, droning melody that surges under piles of guitar sound. Despite their volume, these songs have a half-dreamed quality, a fuzzy indistinctness that speaks to the subconscious. “Cherry Plaza,” the clear high point, works with more clarity than most, its fractious trebly guitar part ringing out over the murk, then dissolving in sliding whammy notes, as if slipping beneath the tide.  

Silk Road is just 20 minutes long, but its blend of strung out fuzz and murmured melody has a large, psychedelic impact. If you liked the way that Purling Hiss found a dreamy core in blistering skree or the way the Ovlov blew out enveloping waves of dissonant feedback, you’ll probably like Toner. Just don’t stand right next to the speaker.

Jennifer Kelly 

#toner #silk road #smoking room #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #rock #guitars #feedback #distortion #fuzz

[oceanridersf]

(Vincentatsea)  Hey People, this is my set from the First Friday Art Murmur Oakland last Friday.   This Friday, Nov 8th, there will be a big block party around the Oakland Museum of California after work to celebrate the No Spectators Burning Man Event. The Off-Grid Food Trucks will be there, Artis Mobilus,Janky Barge, a few other sound crews and my crew representing Farfalle Gustose, Unaverz & Pongo Lounge. Oh yeah, we'll be bringing our sound so be prepared to get your dance on! Should be a great time. Join us! #oakland #bayarea #eastbay #sanfrancisco #berkeley #housemusic #burningman

#SoundCloud #music #Vincentatsea #Deep House #melodic house

[mannagallery]

Oakland gallery featuring the best contemporary art in Northern California. A member of Oakland Art Murmur.

[carrielederer]

Join us tonight for First Friday! Thank you @thefourthwallgallery for the post of my current installation. #repost ・・・ While celebrating Oakland Art Murmur's First Friday Art Walk, tonight April 1st from 5-8pm, check out Carrie Lederer and Michelle Mansour's work at The Fourth Wall. Both artists will be on hand. Lederer’s exhibition UNDER THE WIDE SKY WE GATHER and Mansour’s show WARRIORS are on view thru 4/30. Image by Carrie Lederer: Abstracted Garden (Homage to My Grandma Helmi), 2020, 40” x 30”, acrylic, fabric, pom poms, glitter, fur, glass eyes. Installed on unique wallpaper. @mansour_michelle @oakfirstfridays @uptownoaklandevents #immersiveart #surreallandscape #gardeninspiration #fractalart #natureinspired #landandsky #carrielederer #michellemansourstudio #oaklandartmurmur #25thstreetoakland #fourthwalloakland (at The Fourth Wall Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb0KnURLb71/?utm_medium=tumblr

#repost #immersiveart #surreallandscape #gardeninspiration #fractalart #natureinspired #landandsky #carrielederer #michellemansourstudio #oaklandartmurmur #25thstreetoakland #fourthwalloakland

[citymaus]

“Powerful murals full of rage, anger, defiance, pain, sorrow and hope sprang up across blocks of downtown Oakland’s boarded-up streets during recent Black Lives Matter protests, displaying perhaps what words could not convey.

The murals spoke powerfully to what was going on in the city, the nation and the world. Now, Black leaders are trying to capture lightning in a bottle, preserving the works of art along with the voices and the relevance of the moment.

The plan, led by East Oakland’s Black Culture Zone, is to uninstall the murals, document who painted them, and store the art until it can be curated and put on display, possibly at the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland Art Murmur and city galleries.

“It’s not a novel idea,” says Randolph Belle, who represents the Black Culture Zone, “but it’s an extremely complicated one.”

It’s not as simple, Belle says, as taking the murals down and storing them. There are questions of ownership and how the art will be displayed in the future.

No one is quite certain at this stage who even owns some of the art. Does it belong to the property owner who put up the plywood or to the artist? Some of the works, Belle says, were commissioned by the business owners. And while some artists want to be able to sell their pieces, others find the idea of monetizing the movement distasteful.

“The murals began in concert with the protests and marches sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. The protests called for justice for Blacks and an end to the systemic racism that has shaped our nation from its beginning.

As some protests brought violent clashes with police and looters, shop owners and businesses rushed to board up building windows. Although a few store owners contacted artists about using the plywood as canvases, most murals were spontaneous. Artists found the long swaths of plywood an irresistible attraction. Raw emotions mixed with paint to spread a message.

The Black Culture Zone entered the picture soon after, intent on preserving the art and the message of the movement. The group has support from the City of Oakland, Oakland Museum of California and Oakland Art Murmur to help with the preservation, curation and display, but those officials are taking a backseat, so the Black community can lead the way and the discussion.”

read more: eastbaytimes, 03.07.2020. 

#black lives matter #protests #murals #mural #art #artists #oakland

[johanssonprojects]

‘Wringer’ — 😂 Madeline Donahue is in town during Art Murmur tonight for Community Garden, our annual summer group show. We are open 1-8 today and from 1-5 Sat. Great interview by Nadine Zylberberg with her just came out "...I was immediately drawn to Madeline’s work for her intimate, honest, at times chaotic, portrayals of motherhood. As a new mom myself, I’m realizing how rare it is to find representations of motherhood in our culture that feel authentic to the messy, yet beautiful, experience of it. Madeline’s paintings, ceramics, and drawings encapsulate just that. Now more than ever, as my mind reels in despair over the idea that a woman’s autonomy—her decision to be a mother, and when and how—would ever be in question, these representations matter... my conversation with Madeline about what inspires her, why she favors bold colors, and how motherhood has changed her. Plus, a look at her vibrant work, some of which is on display now as part of Johansson Projects’ summer show, Community Garden, in Oakland, California..." 🫧 Color pencil on paper, 14" x 11" 🫧 #MadelineDonahue #johanssonprojects #womenartists #girlpower #artmom #womensupportingwomen (at Johansson Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfeSV7fLn7K/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#madelinedonahue #johanssonprojects #womenartists #girlpower #artmom #womensupportingwomen

[radicaladventure]

Black Power Afro by Dan Gildor

Via Flickr

Artists can be so clever.

#protest #oakland art murmur #oakland #warehouse 416 #brick #art #colin kaepernick #black power #afro #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #lensblr #imiging

[bikerlovertexas]

#America #Art Murmur #Black Lives Matter #California #East Bay #First Friday #First Friday 06-05-2015 #Fuck the Curfew #Oakland #Oakland PD #Oakland Police Department #USA #United States #United States of America #cops #police #protest

[annieareumshin]

Final Work & Concept Statement

‘A Curation of the In-between’

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Concept Statement

My final work explores and highlights the ‘grey areas’ that exist between constructed binaries. Binary oppositions often limit individuals’ perceptions of the world by offering a categorical way of thinking, which induces the negligence of nuances and intermediate forms that lie between the extremes. While this simplification of information is appealing as it enables an undemanding mode of understanding, recognising the in-between states of binaries are often crucial. This contemporary obsession with binaries has largely influenced my research and creative interrogation of binary forms themselves – to unsettle them, and in doing so, challenge our fixations with them.

In my work, I have curated objects that possess a certain binary labelled to them, and physically emphasised the in-between areas and interstices that are often unnoticed. Examples of binary labels include the beginning and the ending of a book, the positive and negative ends of an electrical cord and the figure representing a human, which as a being cannot be easily defined as fitting into one category or another. Each of the curated items manifest a sense of vagueness as their original purpose and identities have been erased with accretions of paint. The formation of ‘grey’ matter involved mixing a variety of colours in the visible light spectrum, to parallel the transitional quality of these in-between forms. The resulting amalgams of colour that were applied to each object became metaphorical platforms of intersections for the corresponding binary pairs. The idea of ‘highlighting’ this grey matter was visualised by the use of the yellow background, by paradoxically reversing the functions that these colours are associated with.

This conceptual basis to my work has been informed by research into the notions of categorical and dimensional thinking in psychology that was also illustrated in my poster. These modes of thought essentially compare to what is commonly known as black-and-white thinking (options) and grey thinking (on an extent or spectrum) that represent an individuals’ way of understanding and interpreting information. In light of this investigation, the monochromatic colour scheme was used as a symbolic reference to these frameworks.

This initial insight has led to specific research into artists that have also represented these ideas of ‘in-between’ forms in their artworks. In particular, I was intrigued by Karin Lijnes’ statement of what it means for her to unsettle the binaries, that it “gives more sense of truth and often reveals what is not being said or what is not there”. The facilitation of meaning by exposing the unfamiliar and unseen states addressed by Lijnes has shaped my approach to my work, to render emphasis on the in-between. In addition, the artist Shane Porter’s definition of in-betweenness as “moments, situations, objects which are transitory and between states, in a strange world which is neither truth or fiction, real or fake, but somewhere in between” has founded my intentions to explore what separates the ambiguous from its absolute states.

Perhaps the motive behind my practice of curating these objects stemmed from my observations of dualities and oppositional pairs evident in most of what we engage with in our daily lives, even in mundane objects such as pencils. As such, my experiments involved a gradual, cumulative gathering and integration of old and found objects. These were developed into iterations of more ‘grey matter’. This repetitive process has led to a conceptual intertwining of the objects that were used. The unrelated items developed a sense of connection as a body of grey, intra-binary forms.

What is truly intriguing about binaries is that they are social and culturally influenced schemas into which we mould or organise information that we perceive. While the in-between areas of binaries may be seen as futile and ambiguous to an extent, it is the continuum and spectrum of these vast arrays of ‘grey’ information that ultimately delineate binary pairs. The schemas become fluid by birthing infinite shades of grey as results of overlapping the opposite structures. Thus the final collection of grey objects can be perceived as a portrayal of my perspective towards the need to highlight to in-between forms, as a gateway to understand ideas and information beyond its simple categorisations and to engender further meanings.

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Cass Art, ‘Inbetween Forms: Artist interview with Shane Porter’, Cass Art [interview], 2015, https://www.cassart.co.uk/blog/artist_interview_shane_porter.htm (accessed 10 September 2017)

Clausen, O., ‘Karin Lijnes: Unsettling Binaries’, Beautiful Bizarre [interview], 2014, https://beautifulbizarre.net/2014/12/02/karin-lijnes-unsettling-binaries/ (accessed 11 September 2017)

Geher, G., ‘Black-and-White Thinking in our Social Worlds: The Evolutionary Basis of Simple Thinking’, Psychology Today [web blog], 2016, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/darwins-subterranean-world/201601/black-and-white-thinking-in-our-social-worlds (accessed 30 August 2017)

Silka, P., ‘Contrast in Art and the Value of the Opposites’, Widewalls [web article], n.d., http://www.widewalls.ch/contrast-in-art-and-the-value-of-the-opposites/ (accessed 29August 2017)

Treilhard, M., ‘The Art of In-Between’, Modern Magazine [web article], 2017, http://modernmag.com/the-art-of-in-between/ (accessed 10 September 2017)

Van Der Borne, J., ‘Black and white or shades of gray: The colour of your thinking matters’, Sott.net [web article], 2016, https://www.sott.net/article/325471-Black-and-white-or-shades-of-gray-The-color-of-your-thinking-matters (accessed 31 August 2017)

Williams, B., ‘Black and White Thinking doesn’t Work in a Gray World’, Huff Post [web blog], 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/byron-williams/black-and-white-thinking-_b_30747.html (accessed 31 August 2017)

#adad1002 #majorproject