September 27, 2024

The New College Circle


The New College Circle is an exhibition which has opened at the Gray Loft Gallery in Oakland; it is unlike any shows previously shown at Gray Loft.         

This exhibition is a celebration of fifty years of creative achievement launched by an experimental education at New College of California (NCOC) in San Francisco.  On view in the exhibit are archival materials, costume design, film, drawing, landscape design, music, installation, sculpture, performance, and photography.

Featured Artists
Carola Anderson, David B. Doty, Michael Patrick Lynch, 
Elaine McKeen, Henry S. Rosenthal, Dale Soules 
and Meredith Tromble who curated the show

In the mid-1970s, a group of young artists at New College of California fueled their creative practices with friendship and the radically experimental education offered by the school. They drew each other, recorded their own physiological data, performed plays written by their professor, invented musical instruments, and received credit for a gallimaufry of life experiences. At the time, statistics revealed that of students graduating with an art degree, only 5% were still making art ten years later. But in the ensuing decades each person in the New College Circle created their own path over, under, or around the barriers that stop young artists from becoming mature artists, pursuing creative practices and careers. This exhibition presents the New College Circle’s vibrant work in context with the unique institution that prepared them to thrive creatively throughout life.             
 
September 21 – November 10, 2024
 
 

 
 


 
 

 Elaine McKeen above
Willow Rooms below
 

 
 
 
 
 Michael Lynch above
 Time As the Crow Flies - 2023 below
 

 
 
      
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