Gray Loft Gallery: The Meaning of Green

Please scroll down for information about our annual photo exhibit

The Meaning of Green and information about EBPCO Fest

happening this weekend!

Tea Time
photo by Yelena Zhavoronkova

The Meaning of Green
on view until November 30, 2020

Gray Loft Gallery presents The Meaning of Green, our 3rd annual color themed photography show selected by Ann M. Jastrab, independent curator, photography consultant, editor, writer; and Jan Watten, founder of Gray Loft Gallery.

Due to the world-wide pandemic, this exhibit is a virtual online exhibit of green inspired images from a wide array of traditional and alternative photographic processes – including pinhole photography, images made with plastic cameras, cyanotypes, collage, and other photo-based works by Bay Area photographers.

We believe that art is essential component in our lives, and our intention was to create an exhibit that could be a visual antidote to the current climate of our world. In the words of juror Ann Jastrab “Maybe this selection of images is an antidote to the pandemic too. I want to fly high over a green pond, or see fireworks again exploding against a night sky, or walk into rooms painted the coolest shades of green. Or really, just walk into a room that is unfamiliar, what would that be like? It would be like visiting this show.”

Participating Artists:

Francis Baker - Christina Bauer - Ingrid Becker - Roy Berkowitz - Jayne Biehn - Rose Borden - Maria Budner - Janis Burger - Sena Cakiroglu - Mima Cataldo - Virginia Chabre - Marna Clarke - Steven Condiotti - Gregory D'Agostino - Tamara Danoyan - Michael Dawson - Anthony Delgado - Fairlight de Michele - Mary DeShaw - Andi Benet - Gene Dominique - Marie Durquet - Richard Dweck - Ariel Epstein-Norris - Laura Epstein-Norris - Jennifer Freck - Dan Fenstermacher - David Gardner - Alexis Gerard - JM Golding - Steve & Ellen Goldband - John Greenleigh - Marsha Guggenheim - Susan Hillyard - Geoffrey House - Eleonore Hockabout - Edie Hoffman - Judi Iranyi - Becky Jaffe - Candice Jacobus - Drew Klausner - Sonia Melnikova-Raich - Deborah O'Grady - Eben Ostby - Marie Plakos - Steven Raskin - Charles Reilly - Gabrielle Rondell - Philip Sager - Neo Serafimidis - Brian Z. Shapiro - Elizabeth Sher - Morgan Shidler - Douglas G Stinson - Nathalie Strand - Styrous - Michael Teresko - Carol Thomas - George Tomberlin - Jeff Weston - Sally Weber - Susan West - Stephanie Williamson - Nick Winkworth - Beverly Tharp - Mitsu Yoshikawa - Yelena Zhavoronkova

Art is essential - now more than ever - and we hope you enjoy this exhibit that celebrates the importance of art in our lives. Your support of the arts is so important as we navigate this uncertain time in our lives. Please share this with anyone you think might like to savor and contemplate the beauty of the images in the show.

Please contact us if you are interested in purchasing work from this show.

Please visit our website to view the gallery of art.
For purchasing inquires, please email us.

Photo by Sally Weber

Photo by JM Golding

Photo by Judi Iranyi

EBPCO Fest 2020

EBPCO Fest! is a two day extravaganza of love, creativity, community, images, artists, demos, film, digital, landscapes, portraits, street, still life, and everything else that is good about photography.

EBPCO (East Bay Photo Collective) is an organization created by photographers for photographers. Check out more information about EBPCO on their website.

Tune in for two nights of artist talks, demos, debate and discussion on all things photography.

Join us

Friday, October 16, 7-9pm and

Saturday, October 17, 7-9 pm.

Click here to register!

Please join us for this annual event!

Our previous exhibit Summer Salon lives on in our website.
Please check out the inspired work by Bay Area artists here.
Please contact us with any sales inquiries

In Solidarity

Gray Loft Gallery continues to stand in solidarity with our Black brothers and sisters in the fight for justice and political reform. The ART world celebrates our Black creators, thinkers and doers. We hope that our supporters will stand strong with us and fight for what's right.

For purchases from The Art of the African Diaspora exhibit in February, we will donate 10% of the profits to Black Lives Matter.

Saving Gray Loft Gallery...

If you are able to help support the gallery during this uncertain time, please visit our GoFundMe page. This would mean so much to us - and to the community of artists and the art lovers who rely on the gallery to exhibit the beautiful and meaningful shows in our unique and aesthetic space.

We look forward to being able to celebrate with you when this pandemic is over!
With gratitude and thanks.

ABOUT GRAY LOFT GALLERY

Gray Loft Gallery - voted "Best Art Gallery" two years in a row - 2016 & 2017 - in the Oakland Magazine Readers' Choice Award - has promoted the rich art culture of Jingletown and the greater Bay Area for 7 years. The gallery has been referred to as a hidden gem in Jingletown, and noted by Kenneth Baker, former SF Chronicle Art Critic, in his Visual Arts Don’t Miss Column as “…A space gaining prominence in the Bay Area…” The mission of the gallery is to provide exhibition opportunities for artists in a setting that is an alternative to the traditional gallery model. We hope to inspire, engage and celebrate artists in our community and beyond. We acknowledge the achievements of emerging, mid-career and established artists – with an emphasis on those who live and work in the Bay Area – in a non-traditional art space. A number of artists began their art career at 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