Showing posts with label Gray Loft Gallery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gray Loft Gallery. Show all posts
November 3, 2026
October 28, 2026
Gray Loft Gallery ~ Gestures of Willful Abandon
photos by Styrous®
September 26 - November 14, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 26, 4:00 to 7:00 pm
Tessier Wine Tasting: October 24, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, November 14, 4:00 to 7:00 pm
Gray Loft Gallery presents Gestures of Willful Abandon, an exhibit that brings together seven Bay Area women artists whose practices explore the space between intention and instinct, control and surrender. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and installation, the artists embrace chance, movement, accumulation, and transformation as essential parts of the creative process.
Their works emerge from close attention to the natural world, the shifting layers of lived experience, and the subtle movements of mind and body. Through gesture, color, pattern, transparency, texture, and form, each artist allows the act of making to become a record of presence — of thoughts arising and passing, materials evolving, and images transforming.
Together, the works invite us into spaces of ambiguity and possibility, where meaning is not predetermined but discovered through looking. Here, surrender becomes a creative act, and uncertainty opens the way for something unexpected to emerge.
Featuring
Ruth Boerefyn, Beth Fein, Judith Foosaner, Katie Hawkinson, Pam Jue, Emily Lazarre, and Carol Lefkowitz
Presented by Gray Loft Gallery, and curated by Jan Watten, this woman-owned alternative art space in Oakland’s Jingletown Art’s District neighborhood, Gestures of Willful Abandon continues the gallery’s commitment to creating exhibitions that bring together compelling contemporary artists and encourage open-ended conversations about art.
Free/Open to Public
Visit the gallery on Instagram!
Hours: Saturday, September 3: 2:00 - 7:00 pmMasks are requested in the gallery.
Gray Loft Gallery
2889 Ford Street, third floor
Oakland, CA 94601March 18, 2026
March 14, 2026
Orange Crush opening @ the Gray Loft Gallery
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Today the Gray Loft Gallery opened its 8th annual color-themed juried photography exhibition, Orange Crush.
The exhibition features interpretations of orange with mixed media,
alternative processes, traditional color imagery, and hand-colored
photographs. The collection captures the world through the eyes of 80 photographers.
The show is in conjunction with PhotoCarmel and juried by Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art; and Jan Watten, founder, Gray Loft Gallery.
Orange Crush will be open until May 9, 2026, with a closing reception on Saturday, May 9, 4:00 – 7:00 pm.
photo by Jan Watten
installation photos by Styrous®
Of course, the food and flowers were color coordinated with the theme of the exhibition!
Gray Loft Gallery
2889 Ford Street
third floor
Oakland CA 94601
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