Gray Loft Gallery ~ Night Vision closing reception

photo by Jan Watten

Closing Reception for Night Vision
 

 Saturday, September 3, 4:00 – 7:00 pm 

 

gallery open at 2:00 pm

 
 

Saturday will be the last day to celebrate this very special exhibition of nine artists.

 

"Their diverse practices tune into subtle and fugitive wavelengths - revealing glimpses of the tender, haunting, kaleidoscopic, sensual, and expansive worlds hidden within us and around us.  ~

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On display is painting, sculpture and mixed media works utilizing braided textile, collage, ceramic, driftwood, jellyfish, painting, and works on paper

                                                                                        

Night Vision was curated by Isaac Jasper Amala and he has included his work in the exhibition. This is Amala's curatorial debut.       

Other artists in the Night Vision exhibition include Llane Alexis, Abel Soto Díaz, Vita Hewitt, Esther Hilsenrad, dj whelan, Tom White, Mariana Varela and Caleb Yono.       

        

Gray Loft Gallery 

2889 Ford Street

Third Floor

Oakland CA

94601     

    
     

      

Viewfinder links:       

        
Isaac Amala         

Abel Soto Díaz          

Gray Loft Gallery         

Vita Hewitt               

Esther Hilsenrad                 

Night Vision      

Jan Watten          
Tom White                          

     

Net links:      

        

Gray Loft Gallery

Vita Hewitt        

dj whelan         
         

        
        
        
        
        
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Of Water presentation @ The Gray Loft Gallery

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Vita & Bryan Hewitt held a special presentation of their fifteen minute video, Of Water, at the Gray Loft Gallery yesterday.          

 

Vita is currently showing her work entiled, A Mass of Winners (link below), in the exhibition Night Vision at the Gray Loft Gallery, in Jingletown, Oakland.           

Lauren Jade Szabo, no relation to Gabor, (link below), who appears in the film and designed the costumes for it was also there.        

 

photos by Styrous® 

    

Lauren Jade Szabo, Vita & Bryan Hewitt    

Bryan Hewitt setting up for the presentation . . .

    

Bryan with the work of dj whelan behind him

Bryan and Lauren Jade Szabo spoke about the making of the video, the process and the location which was the Smith River, the largest river system in California that flows freely along its entire course.     

 

 

Bryan and Lauren Jade Szabo

           

 

Rhiannon Hewitt, the daughter of Bryan and Vita, wrote two poems and narrated them in the soundtrack of the video. She spoke about them and her work.      

 

 

Rhiannon Hewitt

The viewers were entranced with the presentation . . . 

 

 

 

After each viewing of the video, the producers and attendees could leisurely check out the amazing work that is in the Night Vision exhibition (link below).           

  

          

The Hewitts, SheSaidRed & 

Isaac Amala, curator of Night Vision, 
 checking out A Mass of Winners (link below) 

Iris Meinolf of the Marin County Free Library                                                                                    

                                                                            Jan Watten, Gray Loft Gallery director & 

                                                                             Eleanore Hockabout

Vita with daughter Rhiannon                                                         

 

SheSaidRed looking at the work of Abel Díaz

SheSaidRed

No reception is complete without some wine and good vittles to munch on . . .

 

 

. . . there were three varieties of hummus, one of which was with beets; I'd never had that before.   

 

Night Vision will be showing until September 3, 2022, with a closing reception on September 3 from 4:00 to 7:00 PM.            

       

Other artists in the Night Vision exhibition include Llane Alexis, Isaac Amala, Abel Soto Díaz, Esther Hilsenrad, dj whelan, Tom White, Mariana Varela and Caleb Yono.       

        

Gray Loft Gallery 

2889 Ford Street

Third Floor

Oakland CA

94601     

    
     

      

Viewfinder links:       

        
Isaac Amala         

Abel Soto Díaz          

Gray Loft Gallery         

Bryan Hewitt          

Vita Hewitt               

Esther Hilsenrad                 

A Mass of Winners            

Night Vision           

SheSaidRed          

Gabor Szabó ~ Dreams               

Jan Watten          

Tom White                          

     

Net links:      

        

Gray Loft Gallery

Bryan & Vita Hewitt        

dj whelan         
         

Vimeo link:      

        

Vita Hewitt ~ Of Water teaser        
        
        
        
        
        
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Night Vision ~ Vita Hewitt: Of Water

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 Vita Hewitt ~ Of Water

 

 

Vita Hewitt, who is showing her work entiled, A Mass of Winners (link below), in the exhibition Night Vision at the Gray Loft Gallery, will present a screening of a film she and her husband Bryan directed, Of Water. 

 

The presentation will be held on Friday, August 26 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. The film will be shown intermittently that evening.        

 

The fifteen minute film includes Lauren Godla, Lauren Jade Szabo with an experimental score written by Italian artist, Valerio Belloni.       

Valerio Belloni

date & photograher unknown

        

Night Vision will be showing until September 3, 2022, with a closing reception on September 3 from 4:00 to 7:00 PM.            

       

Other artists in the exhibition include Llane Alexis, Isaac Amala, Abel Soto Díaz, Esther Hilsenrad, dj whelan, Tom White, Mariana Varela and Caleb Yono.       

        

Gray Loft Gallery 

2889 Ford Street

Third Floor

Oakland CA

94601     

    
     

      

Viewfinder links:       

        
Isaac Amala         

Abel Soto Díaz          

Gray Loft Gallery         

Vita Hewitt ~ A Mass of Winners           

Esther Hilsenrad                 

Night Vision          

Tom White                          

     

Net links:      

        

Gray Loft Gallery

Vita Hewitt       
         

YouTube link:      

        

Valerio Belloni ~ various        
        
        
        
        
        
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Vita Hewitt ~ A Mass of Winners in Night Vision

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Vita Hewitt ~ A Mass of Winners

photo by Styrous®

 

One of the many knockout works in the exhibition Night Vision, at the Gray Loft Gallery in Oakland, is A Mass of Winners by Vita Hewitt.           

 

The piece is comprised of thousands, if not millions of the skeletons of tiny, free floating, ocean surface jelly fish called Velella. Hewitt has them brilliantly mounted and back-lit so the beauty of the creatures are shown at their best.          

 

 

Vita Hewitt ~ A Mass of Winners detail

detail photo by Styrous®

 

This small cnidarian is part of a specialised ocean surface community that includes the better-known cnidarian siphonophore, the Portuguese man o' war. Each apparent individual is a hydroid colony, and most are less than about 7 cm long. They are usually deep blue in color . . . 

 

 

 

 

. . . the blue pigment is actually a protection against radiation from the sun but their most obvious feature is a small stiff, transparent and colorless sail that catches the wind and propels them over the surface of the sea. 

 

 

photo by Denis Riek

 

 

Velella velella lives in warm and temperate waters in all the world's oceans. Under certain wind conditions, they may be stranded by the thousand on beaches. I have seen this happen on the shoreline of San Francisco and down the peninsula.         

 

 

stranded Velella -  Rodeo Beach, Marin County, California  
 photographer unknown

 

 

 

Velella

 photographer unknown
 

 

Once the Velella have died, the blue fades and the skeletons that are left are almost colorless and transparent.            

dead Velella
 photographer unknown

 

Night Vision will run until September 3, 2022, so you have three weeks for the opportunity to see these amazing creatures, the exhibition and all the other amazing work that is in it.  

 

Night Vision was curated by Isaac Jasper Amala who will be showing his work as well as other artists: Llane Alexis, Abel Soto Díaz, Esther Hilsenrad, Mariana Varela, DJ Whelan Tom White and Caleb Yono.       

        

Gray Loft Gallery 

2889 Ford Street

Third Floor

Oakland CA

94601     

    
      

     
      

Viewfinder links:       

        
Isaac Amala         

Abel Soto Díaz          

Gray Loft Gallery         

Vita Hewitt         

Esther Hilsenrad                      

Night Vision                

Tom White             

     

Net links:       

         

Awesome Ocean ~ Velella: Under Water and Upside Down    

Deep Marine Scenes ~ By-the-Wind Sailor (Velella)          

 Gray Loft Gallery        

One World, One Ocean ~ Blue Zoo: Velella          

Tom White           

        
         

YouTube links:       

        

        

MBAR ~ The secret life of Velella: Adrift by-the-wind   

        
        
        
        
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Night Vision ~ the dwellings of dj whelan

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  dj whelan ~ Dwellings

photo by Styrous®

 

 

Dwelings by dj whelan is showing in the exhibition Night Visions at the Gray Loft Gallery in the Jingletown section of Oakland. The show will run until September 3, 2022.           

 

whelan says the wanderings of her parents in the seventies taught her the beauty of making somehing out of nothing. She made a home wherever she found herself. This is reflected in her series entitled, dwelings, which she started in 1996. She now has her studio in Berkeley, California.   

       

Other artists in the exhibition: Llane Alexis, Isaac Amala, Abel Soto Díaz, Vita Hewitt, Esther Hilsenrad, Mariana Varela and Caleb Yono.       

        

Gray Loft Gallery 

2889 Ford Street

Third Floor

Oakland CA

94601     

    
      

     

 

      

Viewfinder links:       

        
Isaac Amala         

Abel Soto Díaz          

Drawn & Quartered          

Gray Loft Gallery        

Esther Hilsenrad                 

Night Vision          

Tom White                          

     

Net links:       

        

Gray Loft Gallery

dj whelan        

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
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News Flash! December Violets in Night Vision

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  Tom White ~ December Violets

photo by Styrous®

 

 

December Violets by Tom White has been added to the exhibition Night Visions at the Gray Loft Gallery in the Jingletown section of Oakland. This also is a work from his new series, Drawn & Quartered (link below).         

 

The show will run from July 30 to September 3, 2022, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 30, 2022, from 5 to 8 PM.             

Other artists in the exhibition: Llane Alexis, Isaac Amala, Abel Soto Díaz, Vita Hewitt, Esther Hilsenrad, Mariana Varela, DJ Whelan and Caleb Yono.       

        

Gray Loft Gallery 

2889 Ford Street

Third Floor

Oakland CA

94601     

    
      

     
      

Viewfinder links:       

        
Isaac Amala         

Abel Soto Díaz          

Drawn & Quartered          

Gray Loft Gallery        

Esther Hilsenrad                 

Night Vision          

Tom White                          

     

Net links:       

        

        

Gray Loft Gallery

Tom White        

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
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