We are thrilled to have installed a show on actual walls!
Please stop by FLAX in Oakland to see our pop-up exhibit.
Please stop by FLAX in Oakland to see our pop-up exhibit.
Mosley Avenue
photo by Michael Teresko
photo by Michael Teresko
Landscape Stories
pop-up show at FLAX art & design
pop-up show at FLAX art & design
On view until March 30, 2021
Artists’ Opening Reception:
Saturday, February 6, 3:00 – 6:00 pm
Masks and social distancing required
Masks and social distancing required
Location: FLAX art & design,
1501 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, Oakland
FLAX Hours:
Monday - Saturday, 10 am - 6:30 pm,
Sunday 10 am – 6 pm
Gray Loft Gallery is very pleased to present Landscape Stories
– a pop-up exhibit at FLAX art & design in Oakland. The exhibit
includes four Bay Area artists' exploration, discovery and
interpretation of urban, natural and abstract landscapes and includes
painting, mixed media and photography.
About the Artists:
Anthony Holdsworth creates
paintings almost exclusively on site over a period of days or weeks.
In the process he comes to know the neighborhoods and the people who
live and work there. They contribute ideas, history and often pose on
the street.
Unlike a snapshot or a brief study, these paintings represent his experience of locations over time. Over the years he has documented the urban landscape in Oakland and the Bay Area under pressure of gentrification, giving us a disquieting testament of our common condition, conveying its original intensity. Though sometimes devoid of people these cityscapes emerge from his interaction with passersby and inhabitants at each site.
Ginny Parsons is
interested in dripping, pouring, splashing and moving paint. She works
intuitively, using a variety of common household ingredients like
beeswax, borax and castoff house paint. She uses whatever surfaces come
her way – left by the dumpster, dropped on her porch by the neighbors
or washed up from the estuary. Her imagery comes from nature, which is
where she feels connection and inspiration.
Michael Teresko's photographic
work pursues the study of the interaction between the man-made and the
natural worlds explored by the New Topographics photographers. Michael
states that photography is less a creative activity and more a reductive
exercise, an attempt to filter distractions from the visual world. He
tries to find structures hidden in the banal and chaotic spaces all
around us, and in them hopefully find images with a dream-like power and
mystery. Michael shoots with film as it lends itself to a more
measured and thoughtful pace, and it keeps him connected to the magic
and craft of analog photography.
Xan Blood Walker's photographic
work explores her urban environment and the impact it has on different
aspects of our lives; tangible, experienced and sensed. Xan’s photos
seamlessly blend humor and darkness. She draws heavily on her
background as a homeless, addicted 80s punk rocker. This past
experience was a dark time in her life, but it was also a beautiful,
authentic and deeply poignant period which has influenced her
photography today.
Urban Outings
Mixed Media by Ginny Parsons
Mixed Media by Ginny Parsons
Gathering Shade
Oil on canvas by Anthony Holdsworth
Oil on canvas by Anthony Holdsworth
Graffiti to the Bay - Albany
Photo by Xan Blood Walker
Photo by Xan Blood Walker
VIRTUAL EXHIBITS
Gray Loft Gallery virtual exhibits on our website.
Gray Loft Gallery virtual exhibits on our website.
The Meaning of Green
Our 3rd
annual color themed photography show. This virtual exhibit of green
inspired images from a wide array of traditional and alternative
photographic processes includes pinhole photography, images made with
plastic cameras, cyanotypes, collage, and other photo-based works by Bay
Area photographers.
Winter Salon
This
virtual online group show of gallery artists includes painting, mixed
media and photography by Bay Area artists. 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.
Please visit our website to view The Meaning of Green and Winter Salon galleries of art and contact us if you are interested in purchasing work from these shows.
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.
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
Hours: Online shows only until further notice
2889 Ford Street, third floor,
2889 Ford Street, third floor,
Oakland CA 94601
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