Gray Loft Gallery ~ Oakland Art + Style Week!

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 Oakland Art Murmur + Visit Oakland present
Oakland Style Week

 

October 9 to 13, 2024

        

        

There will be an exciting Art and Style walking and bus tour adventure on October 12th during the Oakland Style Week, a collaboration of Visit Oakland and the Oakland Art Murmur. Several galleries will present various forms of style and fashion.          

The Gray Loft Gallery will feature a fashion show of creations by designer Carol Lee Shanks, who has previously shown at the gallery (link below), and Devin Doyle Crane. There will be runway music created by Alex Starfield.     

 

The show will be presented during the New College Circle exhibition (link below) now showing at the gallery. It's a unique exhibition, so it's a chance to see mesmerizing art & fashion at the same time.      

        

 Saturday, October 12

3 PM to 4 PM 

 

Gray Loft Gallery

2889 Ford Street 

Third Floor 

Oakland CA 94601

  

As they used to say in the jazz scene of the 40's

"Be there or be Square"!     

     

     

     

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Styrous® ~ Sunday, September 29, 2024     

     

 

 

 

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Oakland Art Murmur Non Stop Art bus tour

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On Saturday, October 21, 2023, Director Jean Marie Durant, of the Oakland Art Murmur, is leading a "Discover Art Bus Tour" to find undiscovered arts spaces on an art and fashion bus tour in Oakland.       

 

The art spaces to be visited: 

UMA Gallery; Art and Fashion Market featuring Wysterium Wear, Dirty Blond, Nakita Nikinga and more!

 

Gearbox Gallery; Art Exhibition Featuring Gearbox Gallery Artists Linda Ellinwood and Diane Williams. 

 

Transmission Gallery; Special demonstrations highlighting the incredible talents of Oakland Technical High School Fashion/Art/Design Academy students.

 

John Natsoulas 519 Gallery; Three Sculptural Installations from East Bay Artists: Featuring Yoyo Hu, Yingling Lin, and Seongmin Yoo.     

Gray Loft Gallery; Fashion as Art exhibition featuring three Oakland artists and a fashion show featuring the work of Obiko designer Carol Lee Shanks. The show will feature a Soundscape by Styrous®, Wine and chocolate reception, featuring Tessier Winery Wines, and swag bag for all attendees. Space is limited to 19, RSVP Required. Ages 12+ and up are welcome.     

Oakland Art Murmur Individual Members receive discounted admission.    

Additional details, including Accessibility information by clicking the link below.   

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/708141078027?aff=oddtdtcreator.       

     

     
      

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Transmission Gallery              

Uma Gallery        

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
Styrous® ~ Wednesday, October 18, 2023        
        

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Jingletown Open Studios last weekend

 

 

Don't miss the the last weekend 

of the annual Jingletown Open Studios!

Art is essential!

 

The last weekend of
East Bay Open Studios

May 20 + 21
11:00 - 5:00 pm

Participating Artists

Malcolm Ryder – photography
Alex Starfield – photography 
Susan Tuttle – jewelry/mixed media 
Emilie Watten – photography 


JOIN  THE CELEBRATION  IN  JINGLETOWN!
 

Emilie Watten 

Photo by Jan Watten

  

   

While you are in Jingletown...
 

More than 20 artists in Jingletown 

will be showcasing their work for Open Studios! 

Be sure to walk around the artists' community 

for a weekend of great art and get inspired!

GRAY LOFT GALLERY
is a proud member of the Oakland Art Murmur and
Jingletown Arts and Business Association.

 

 

Gray Loft Gallery

2889 Ford Street, third floor

Oakland, CA 94601

Not wheelchair accessible.

      

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Styrous ~ Saturday, May 20, 2023

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Francis Baker & Jan Watten ~ radiant landscape photography

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Photographer Jan Watten will be showing her new black and white work with photographer Francis Baker from October 23 - December 4, 2021, at Gallery at the Werkshack in Oakland.            

 

Baker uses gum bichromate, a 19th-century photographic printing process based on the light sensitivity of dichromates which is capable of rendering painterly images from photographic negatives in his surreal and vibrant images. He also works with cyanotype which results in a blue image and argyrotype which results in a "Van Dyke" brown image.       

Watten utilizes many out-dated cameras to produce the images she captures such as the Holga and pinhole cameras; the latter is a simple camera without a lens.          

Gallery at the Werkshack features talented emerging artists from Oakland and beyond. Their solo exhibitions showcase guest artists, while the Werkshack building has 8 artist and designer studios on view. Resident artist Christine Ferrouge manages curation for the gallery and serves on the Oakland Art Murmur venues committee and is the director of Art Route Oakland.        

 

There will be an artist's reception on Saturday, the 6th of November, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, at which time both artists will be in attendance.    

            

 

 
Saturdays 1-5pm
Gallery at the Werkshack
481 25th Street, Oakland, CA 94612

 

 

 

        

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Amy Sollins ~ Introspective

Amy Sollins: Introspective

On view until 

August 26, 2017

@ the Gray Loft Gallery

Closing Reception: 

Saturday, August 26, 4:00 – 6:30 pm

photos by Styrous®

Amy Sollins creates charcoal drawings of her possessions, including her grandmother’s cast iron doorstop, underwear, jewelry, and other inanimate objects that have meaning for her, revealing a whimsical nostalgia for sacred and personal artifacts. Uprooted from the context of her life, the artifacts are drawn on large white pieces of paper, floating and swimming, disregarding the natural laws of gravity. She draws with the softest charcoal possible so that the dust falls in shadows, enhancing the objects from her personal mythology and that of her heritage. The result is a surreal narrative, where scale and context are less relevant than emotive charge, and the everyday, inanimate object is poetry.  She is interested in the difference between perception and reality, and her work is rooted in the ways in which the scale of objects and their meanings may be opposite and the same—at the same time; the unity of opposites, the co-existence of being and non-being.  

Baccarat Cat & Plastic Shoe 

 charcoal on paper

 

Pink & Blue Creche Angels 

charcoal on paper

 

Strawberry Shortcake Plate

charcoal on paper

Her charcoal images are subtle, moody but stunning when examined closely. The Marsh King's Daughter is one of these amazing works, however, the frame for it is as astonishing as the work itself. The frame is made up of hundreds of match sticks she glued on one-by-one.      

The Marsh King's Daughter

 charcoal on paper, matchsticks 

Sollins is known for her intricate abstract paintings from earlier in her career – of which a few will be on display in the gallery.        

 Adyta 

oil on canvas

A native of Baltimore Maryland, Amy Sollins earned her M.F.A. from the California College of Arts in Oakland and her B.A. from Syracuse University. Her work has been exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, San Jose Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, Richmond Art Center and numerous galleries.  

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oil pastel on paper

Gray Loft Gallery

2889 Ford Street, third floor

Oakland, CA 94601
510.499.3445
email: Gray Loft Gallery

The gallery is a member of the
Jingletown Arts and Business Association
and the Oakland Art Murmur
Hours: Summer Hours by appointment  (call or email)

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Styrous® ~ Monday, August 7, 2017         

           

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Illuminating Shadows @ Frisbie

Last month it was my pleasure to have been part of a wonderful experiment in a new way of viewing art. In darkness.

Only flashlights, provided by the organizers of the exhibition (Lanell Dike, Becky Jaffe and Carrie-Andrea Kaye), given to the attending public to view the art, lighted the artwork. It was a three-day event and the exhibition gallery was one of many venues of the Oakland Art Murmur event.

It sounds a bit wacky, or at least it did to me when I was first invited to participate; but it was that element of wackiness that intrigued me and tempted me to join in the experiment. I have absolutely no regrets.

Barcelona, 2 am, photo by Styrous®

The amazing thing is that my work took on a dimension it had never had nor had it ever occurred to me to try viewing it in that manner. I had four pieces in the show, street scenes at night. The strangest thing happened when my work was viewed with a flashlight. The image took on an eerie, other-world quality as shown in the photograph (above right) taken by Debra Jan Bibel by flashlight. They came alive, as I have never seen them do before.

There were 15 artists who participated in the show (that's me on the left.) The work ranged from sculpture, 2-D & 3-D art, photography and video.

The artists were:

Myles Boisen

C. Brooks

Mercy Calman

Lanell Dike

JJ Fryzel

Kamran Golriz

Kristen Hoard

Happy/L.A. Hyder

Becky Jaffe

Eli Jenkins

Carrie-Andrea Kaye

Cheryl Laube

Courtney McCutcheon

Elisa Salasin

Styrous®

photo by Styrous®

Across from me, Becky Jaffe showed her ethereal transparencies.

photo by Styrous®

JJ Fryzal was a big hit with her florescent, 3-D artwork.

photo by Styrous®

Lanell Dike showed her amazing filmstrip-body light sculpture.

photo by Styrous®

Kristen Hoard had her jelly fish/metal sculpture

on display in the middle of the room. It was remarkable.

In the backroom, Carrie-Andrea Kaye created an installation piece featuring video by Gustavo Porras.

photo by Eli Jenkins

My favorite work in the show was a photo by Eli Jenkins;

a delightfully playful optical illusion image that I found charming and engaging.

Cara Wick & Kim Lembo, photo by Styrous®

I wasn't able to attend the opening night on Friday due to my photo shoot of the BAMscape I had scheduled but I was there on Saturday evening to enjoy the great music of Cara Wick, on guitar, and Kim Lembo, playing violin.

On Sunday, it was beautiful and sunny and in the back of the building an outdoor living room was set up with drawing materials for people and children to create work that could then be brought into the darkened gallery to view under the black lights.

What a great experience it was. Good job Frisbie.

Styrous® ~ February 25, 2010

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