Celebrate Oakland Art Month with us!
FIRST ANNUAL
ART ROUTE OAKLAND!
ART ROUTE OAKLAND!
You are invited to join other art lovers like you at the first annual Art Route Oakland! This
event is a free, art filled activity for all ages held during Oakland
Art Month. Follow the official Art Route Map and explore galleries
and art venues throughout Oakland. Collect
stamps along your way and enter to win fabulous prizes from $250 to
$1,500 good toward original artwork, a hotel get-away, fine dining and
more!
HOW TO PLAY:
Pick up your official Art Route Oakland Map at any of more than 30 participating venues starting Friday May 3rd. Bring your map with you as you visit venues around the city, receiving a stamp for each venue along your route. Continue to get your map stamped and submit it to a participating Art Route Oakland venue by 5pm on Saturday, May 11th.
Pick up your official Art Route Oakland Map at any of more than 30 participating venues starting Friday May 3rd. Bring your map with you as you visit venues around the city, receiving a stamp for each venue along your route. Continue to get your map stamped and submit it to a participating Art Route Oakland venue by 5pm on Saturday, May 11th.
Visit Gray Loft Gallery and others in our area these dates:
Saturday Stroll
May 4th, noon-5pm
Second Friday
May 10th, 6-9pm
Last day to play! Saturday Stroll
May 11th, noon-5pm!
Please check the Art Route Oakland website for participating galleries and schedules.
Click here for prize details.
Click here for full contest rules.
We hope you come out to visit the awesome galleries
we have in Oakland, play ARO, and win!
Celebrate Art! Celebrate Oakland!
Photo by Irene Imfeld
On view in the gallery until May 18:
Abstractions - new work by five artists
Simone Simon, Peter Dreyfuss, Jennifer LaPierre,
Irene Imfeld and Andrea Wedell
2nd Friday Jingletown Reception, May 10, 6 – 9 pm
Closing reception: Saturday, May 18, 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Our current exhibit is Abstractions, an exhibit of new work by five Bay Area artists which includes painting, photography and sculpture. This celebration of abstract art will also be part of Art Route Oakland highlighting the arts in Oakland in May.
In the news! Read DeWitt Cheng's East Bay Express review of the show here.
Simone Simon
The paintings become arenas where light and gesture are gathered and stored. As the poured paint drives across the canvas, the currents imprint some places, and wash others away. Accidental opticals occur, revealing surprises. The ephemeral becomes an informant. Light delivers information, and the luminosity brings attention to other dimensional aspects, making the unseen, seen. Simon studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she worked under her mentor, Hassel Smith. She completed her BFA and MFA at SFAI.
Peter Dreyfuss
Working primarily with steel, Dreyfuss creates sculpture inspired by echoes of Bauhaus, cubism, and abstract expressionism. He has been a steel sculptor for 18 years, primarily self-taught. His art, both in steel and paint, is abstract and non-representational. Beginning with a concept, he allows the materials and processes to lead him, with gestural and hand-drawn shapes emerging to produce a balance between intention and imagination.
Jennifer LaPierre
Her art is continually evolving and created without narrative but a response to the process, finding a grace in the fluid nature of these recent works. Deconstructing the traditional figure, transitional and contemporary form, she is enamored with the boundaries of cohesion and tension. Rooted in a graphic design background with a love of typography and calligraphy, expression of line influences her. Receiving an atmospheric and intrinsic reaction, these pieces are reflective of our land healing from our recent fires with regrowth and a new compassion and memory. This body of work celebrates resilience
Irene Imfeld
By abstracting depictions of nature, Imfeld allows her images freedom of reference and interpretation without dwelling on what is shown and where it is. Composed in camera and later adjusted in Photoshop, her images retain much of their original natural form. Her process causes a reduction of recognition but not of complexity. By altering the tonal values and sometimes combining multiple exposures, the subject is shown in a way that is true but different from what we usually observe.
Andrea Wedell
Wedell seeks out rich experience above all other life pursuits; the impulse to uncover internalized moments, and to revisit them, stimulates her impulse to paint. By juxtaposing layer after layer of a rich color and allowing it to shift as the light and mood changes enhances the theatricality of her work. She thin layers, opaque ones, scribbled pencil lines, bold strokes, soft ones, and value changes, often destroying the work, then starting over. she draws on a variety of painting techniques including brushed gestures, cold wax applied with brayers, and paint spread with her hands, building on a changing sense of harmony, evolving her visual vocabulary, all in search of a deeper meaning that will connect her to something larger.
ABOUT GRAY LOFT GALLERY
“I have always enjoyed this gallery, superb atmosphere and lighting. The polished and worn hardwood floors creek slightly in places as you climb to the third floor, providing a granular and unique, organic aesthetic. This is a do-not-miss venue in the East Bay.” – Facebook Review
GRAY LOFT GALLERY
is a proud member of the Oakland Art Murmur, Jingletown Arts and Business Association, Oakland Grown and the San Francisco Art Dealers Association
Hours: closed until February 16th
(However, if you are interested in work that we have in our collection, please email us to set up a time to stop by. Please see website for available works.)
2889 Ford Street, third floor, Oakland CA 94601
DIRECTIONS
Our mailing address is:
Gray Loft Gallery
2889 Ford Street, third floor
Oakand, CA 94601
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