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October 2020
THE REMNANTS – JOHANSSON PROJECTS
The Remnants Amidst the upheaval of 2020, The Remnants featuring Megan Reed and Micah Wood explores what we leave behind and the agency in making as a way to move forward in the form of bold, colorful sculptures and paintings. Junkspace’s iconography is 13 percent Roman, 8 percent Bauhaus and 7 percent Disney (neck and neck), 3 percent Art Nouveau, followed closely by Mayan….Like a substance that could have condensed in any other form, Junkspace is a domain of…
Find out more »THE STOREFRONTS INITIATIVE
ART AND ARTISTS HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE VALUABLE – OR MORE ENDANGERED – THAN IN 2020 Beginning in October 2020 and through 2021, Oakland Art Murmur, in partnership with Immersive Arts Alliance and local property owners, will activate empty storefronts with art created by Bay Area artists. In this difficult Winter, as we look toward Spring, we ask you to support these artists and this initiative: to spark light and inspiration in the streets and sidewalks around us! Help OAM…
Find out more »November 2020
HUNTER SAXONY III RELATIVE STATEMENTS – GALLERY AT THE WERKSHACK
Hunter Saxony III born in Rhode Island, Hunter Saxony III is a self taught San Francisco based Calligraphy and Installation artist. Interested in mortality, ritualistic practices, an alpha, the omega, preservation, loss and the discovery of self. His work is continually investigating object, form and text to present a delicate and visceral look into the human condition.
Find out more »Stone Soup: “Ordinary Matter” Deborah Benioff Friedman, Phyllis Lasché, and Gina Telcocci
As artists, the three members of Stone Soup are observing and working with ordinary matter – the unnoticed, the discarded, extraneous, the disreputable and the beautiful scraps and fragments that we participants of this world leave in our wake. Deborah Benioff Friedman: http://www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com Phyllis Lasché: https://www.phyllislasche.com Gina Telcocci: https://www.ginatelcocci.com
Find out more »GEARBOX INNER ROOM – SUSPENDED BELIEFS – ROBERT SAYWITZ
The idea that one can suspend the trauma of their waking lives and seek refuge in their sleep does not hold true and these works explore the landscape where the waking life interacts with the unconscious. These works are highly personal and deal with the layered and idiosyncratic nature of storytelling and memory—and their roles within family relationships.
Find out more »December 2020
2020 RE:VISION
Artwork by Pantea Karimi Mercury 20 Gallery presents its annual holiday-season group show, this year titled 2020 RE:VISION. In this tumultuous year of 2020, where events have quickly revised natural and social orders, the artists of Mercury 20 are re-adjusting their sights. From December 4 through January 3, the gallery will be filled with new work that researches questions arising from this present moment and refines its simultaneous feelings of doom and liberation, collapse and possibility. Art responds, reinvents and repairs. The…
Find out more »January 2021
And the Unseen Colors Erupt virtual artists’ talk
Join us for a virtual Opening Reception and Artists' Talk with Mikey Kelly and Jen Pack, both featured in our exhibition: And the Unseen Colors Erupt. Register here on Eventbrite >
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