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This weekend, Saturday, June 5th & Sunday, June 6th and next weekend, Saturday, June 12th & Sunday, June 13th, the artists of Jingletown (link below) with the group, Jingletown Arts & Business Community (JABC), will be showing and selling their work.
As San Francisco artists have been increasingly priced out, Oakland has had a boom that's been compared to New York's most famous neighbor, Brooklyn. A part of Oakland is actually the old Brooklyn—as in, mid-19th century old! As reported last year by the East Bay Express, a large swath of East Oakland—between the Park Street and Fruitvale bridges, near the Oakland Estuary—was a town called Brooklyn from 1856 to 1872. Today, the old Brooklyn is living the re-energized Oakland life as Jingletown, a burgeoning artists' community that's become a destination for Bay Area artists and art lovers.
The Gray Loft Gallery is just one of many venues in Jingletown; in addition to the gallery there are artist studios open as well. The Gray Loft will only be open on the first weekend, Saturday, June 5th & Sunday, June 6th.
Gray Loft Gallery
East Bay Open Studios
Six artists will be participating in a soft gallery opening at the Gray Loft Gallery.
Jennifer LaPierre - painting
Susan Hillyard - photography
Dorie Meister - hand wrought jewelry
Jenny Sampson - photography
Susan Tuttle - jewelry and photography
Jan Watten - photography
Susan Hillyard - photography
Dorie Meister - hand wrought jewelry
Jenny Sampson - photography
Susan Tuttle - jewelry and photography
Jan Watten - photography
Saturday, June 5 & Sunday, June 6
11 - 6 pm
Gray Loft Gallery
2889 Ford Street
third floor
Oakland, CA 94601
The artists
photo by Susan Hillyard
mixed media by Jennifer LaPierre
photograph by Jan Watten
tintype photo by Jenny Sampson
photo by Susan Hillyard
The original live-work spaces in Jingletown has fostered the careers of some well-known Bay Area artists. Among them, Ruth Boerefljn, whose site-specific installations have appeared at museums including the de Young; the fine art photographer Styrous; oil painter Suzy Bernard, whose studio now sits at Pier 70 in SF; and Tracey Snelling, an installation artist based both in Berlin and here at Gray Loft, where there are currently about 26 artists in residence. If you were to visit today, you might find documentary filmmaker Kyung Lee (Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui), who is currently shooting a doc about gentrification; or painter Josh Greenberg, who was called "adventuresome, eccentric, unique" by OMCA's chief curator Philip Linhares.
But the true heart of the building is the third-floor Gray Loft Gallery. Once the live-work studio of photographer Jan Watten ("the small room adjacent to the kitchen used to be my dark room," she says), the space was transformed into a gallery after Watten got married moved out. In 2016 and 2017, Oakland magazine named it the best gallery in town. Look for "Seeing Red," an upcoming exhibit showcasing photography with a scarlet theme by Bay Area artists.
An art installation in itself, Jingletown Art Studios is decorated with mosaics inside and out. Here, artists share workspaces and few have their own studios. If you visit (by appointment only), you can see Barbara DiSalvo's handmade paper and glass objets, and Angela Hunkler's stick-and-ink drawings and paintings. Reflect upon it all in the 4,500-square-foot community-created Enchanted Garden filled with wall mosaics and sculptures.
Jingletown Art Studios
3001 Chapman St.
Oakland, CA
For more information about Jingletown and the monthly art walk, go to jingletown.org. or check the Internet links below.
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