Oakland Artists Gallery & Fine Art Services

"Lava Thomas has earned the right to design San Francisco’s monument to the poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou again," Zachary Small writes in the NYTimes.

The Culture of Grief: Philosophy, Ecology & Politics of Loss in the Twenty-First Century Hosted by Alfred Bordado Sköld; Organized by The Research Centre The Culture of Grief, Aalborg University Judith Butler, Martin Hägglund, Jonathan Lear, Arne Johan Vetlesen and Simon Critchley... One-Day Online Seminar Thursday, December 3, 2020 12-7:30 PM PT Streaming Free Online Registration Not Necessary Link to Event: https://www.oaklandartistsgallery.com/shows #EditorsPick

Ever wish you had a visual guide for how to draw flowers? This brilliant artist is revealing all the secrets, step by step.

Free: Virtual event today, October 19, 2020, 5:00PM (EST) Join Paul Ha, Director of MIT List Visual Arts Center for a conversation with Ethel Kessler an Art Director for the United States Postal Service. Kessler has designed hundreds of stamps for the USPS, including the sought-after tribute stamps to artists Ruth Asawa and Louise Nevelson. This virtual conversation will delve into the process of designing artwork for the USPS, how individual stamps are presented together on a sheet, and the significance of creating tributes for great woman artists. RSVP in link to attend.

Nancy Toomey Fine Art is pleased to announce, in partnership with The Space Program San Francisco, an exhibition of collaborative works by Rodney Ewing and Tahi...ti Pehrson titled What Kind of Cool (Will We Think of Next), on view through November 30, 2020. The gallery is located inside San Francisco's Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street. The public is invited to visit the gallery by appointment--please contact [email protected] or 415-307-9038and online here: https://bit.ly/316DfAH Rodney Ewing and Tahiti Pehrson, while working independently on public art pieces, have considered collaborating ever since bonding over the Isley Brothers' song "For the Love of You." Initially, they were scheduled to work together in residence onsite at The Space Program San Francisco, but shelter-in-place offered a new challenge. Instead, the artists created their part of the project and mailed it to each other to work on from a distance. As Rodney Ewing and Tahiti Pehrson began their residency, they never imagined the significance of their partnership. Initially, quarantine brought isolation and inaccessibility to materials. The rules of engagement changed and developed with the ongoing pandemic. They began to formulate their creations according to the materials at hand. Tahiti Pehrson began making new pieces with works that he had already begun in his studio, while Rodney Ewing had been making a piece every day-and-a-half in response to COVID-19. Now, instead of finishing their own works, they sent the pieces partially completed to the other, a new way of making art for both of them. The half tones of Ewing's historical portraits changed as he contemplated the dimensionality and complexity of Pehrson’s cuts to paper. As the process and shape of the collaboration developed, George Floyd’s murder changed the artists’ narratives and intentions. The global social event of Black Lives Matter brought an unanticipated poignancy to Ewing and Pehrson’s project. The inevitable questions that arise in any artistic process took holdwhat is my place in this, how do I subscribe meaning to these events? The powerful historical documentation of Ewing’s work took on new resonance with the fragile, ethereal overlay of Pehrson’s meticulous dissection of paper. Through two radically different approaches to subject and process, a new meaning emerges; compression and expansion offer a direct link to content. These artists have come together to create, with unmistakable intentionality and meaning, tour de force works both poetic and potent More: https://bit.ly/316DfAH

Nomadic Press and Eastside Arts Alliance announce a joint partnership publication of Painting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in the Time of Rebelliona ~250-page... oversized, full-color, glossy art book featuring essays, interviews, poetry, and over 100 of the protest art murals that have gone up all around Oakland since May 2020 in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless other Black people. Painting the Streets uses writing and art to express solidarity with the national and international protests against the police brutality/murder of Black people and systemic-institutional racism in the US. The book will impress this through celebrations of self-determination and the continuum of Black liberation movements. Painting the Streets features: Intro by Alicia Garza, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter Emory Douglas interview by Tongo Eisen-Martin Essays by Robin D. G. Kelley, Greg Morozumi and Leslie Lopez, Cat Brooks, and Mizan Alkebulan-Abakah Poetry by Umar Bin Hassan, Tureeda Mikell, Ayodele Nzinga, James Cagney, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Arnoldo Garcia, Sonia Sanchez, Sizwe, Miasha Quint, and more. 100+ photos of Oakland protest murals that have been painted since May 2020 Classroom guide for instruction in Kcollege Black Lives Matter! Black Power Matters! : Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith Artwork : Mark Lilly Fine Art Photography

When #Rightnowish host Pen Harshaw pulled up to the corner of 17th and Telegraph in Oakland, he saw a large-scale mural of two individuals being painted by Rachel Mandala. One of them, he later learned, was non-binary runway model Yanni Brump. bit.ly/RightnowishYanni

The Unbearable Lightness of Mathematics Pantea Karimi at Mercury Twenty Meet the Artist in the Gallery Oct 3, 12-6pm and Oct 17, 3-6pm... Gallery Open Friday and Saturday 12-6pm 475 25th Street, Oakland, Calif. www.mercurytwenty.com September 11 October 17 https://www.oaklandartistsgallery.com/shows

Jamie Romanet's "All the Hemispheres" is on view now by appointment at Municipal Bonds through October 17th. Comprised of works on paper, the exhibition consid...ers the coalescence of poetry and paint, beginning with its title, which was informed by a poem written by the 14th-century Persian mystic Hafiz. For those looking for an online look at the exhibition, head over to #Adjacent! https://minnesotastreetprojectadjacent.com//municipal-bon/ Jamie Romanet Red, 2019 Ink, watercolor, acrylic, highlighter and soft pastel on Arches paper 8 x 8 in (20.32 x 20.32 cm) #MunicipalBonds #JamieRomanet #AlltheHemispheres

From September 4 until October 23, 2020, Tierra del Sol Gallery, California, is presenting "The Evolution of Helen Rae", open by appointment only. To find out more: https://tierradelsolgallery.org/

TAKE ME BACK, a new program on Artist Cinemas, convened by Jumana Manna is a six-part program of films, video works, and interviews put together by Manna. It is the third program in Artist Cinemas, a long-term, online series of film programs curated by artists for e-flux Video & Film. Take Me Back will run through September 29, 2020, screening a new film each week accompanied by an interview with the filmmaker(s) by the program's curator and invited guests. With films by Omar Amiralay, Caroline Monnet, Ibrahim Shaddad, Deborah Stratman, and Mikhail Lylov and Elke Marhöfer; interviews with the filmmakers and texts by Shuruq Harb, Shahira Issa, and Jumana Manna; and other filmmakers and participants to be announced.

Nadia Shihab's JADDOLAND is an intimate portrait of the work and process of the director’s visual artist mother Lahib Jaddo. The film offers viewers a fresh look at the immigrant story in America. Through an exploration of her mother’s art and connections to her life in Texas, Shihab also drafts a unique picture of how art can help both the creator and the audience make sense of familial and cultural connections, loss, perseverance and life. Tune in to the encore broadcast of Jaddoland and stream it for free for the next 2 weeks on America ReFramed on WORLD Channel. Enter your local station in the link below.

Take a look at our editors pick of art shows, virtual and in-person viewing by appointment, from galleries around the Bay Area and beyond. Image: The World Repeats by Genevieve Cohn on view at Mindy Solomon Gallery through 30 August. https://www.oaklandartistsgallery.com/shows... #OaklandArtistsGallery #EditorsPick #Shows #ContemporaryArtandPractice