Gathering Shade
oil on canvas, 42. x 42 by Anthony Holdsworth
oil on canvas, 42. x 42 by Anthony Holdsworth
Landscape Stories
pop-up show at FLAX art & design
Landscape Stories is on view until March 30. pop-up show at FLAX art & design
This pop-up exhibit curated by Gray Loft Gallery is on display at FLAX art & design
in Oakland, and includes four Bay Area artists' exploration, discovery
and interpretation of urban, natural and abstract landscapes and
includes painting, mixed media and photography.
Please join us for the Artists’ Closing Reception:
Saturday, March 27, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
FLAX art & design, 15th and Martin Luther King, Oakland
Meet the artists at our outside reception at FLAX art & design.
Masks and social distancing are required.
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.
Please join us for the Artists’ Closing Reception:
Saturday, March 27, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
FLAX art & design, 15th and Martin Luther King, Oakland
Meet the artists at our outside reception at FLAX art & design.
Masks and social distancing are required.
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.
We are still open - virtually and remotely!
The physical gallery is not open - however we are holding online exhibits like this and online exhibits on our website.
Please email us with any inquiries.
The physical gallery is not open - however we are holding online exhibits like this and online exhibits on our website.
Please email us with any inquiries.
Land of Sunshine
Mixed media by Ginny Parsons
Mixed media by Ginny Parsons
Winter on Thunderbird Row
Oil on canvas by Anthony Holdsworth
Oil on canvas by Anthony Holdsworth
Linden Street
photo by Michael Teresko
photo by Michael Teresko
Graffiti to The Bay - Albany
Photo by Xan Blood Walker
Photo by Xan Blood Walker
GALLERY HIGHLIGHTS
ON OUR WEBSITE
ON OUR WEBSITE
Artist Highlight
This month we are showcasing Betty Jo Costanzo's work on our website.
Please check out her stunning paintings here.
This month we are showcasing Betty Jo Costanzo's work on our website.
Please check out her stunning paintings here.
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.
Click here to see the exhibit.
Please contact us if you are interested in purchasing work from these shows on our website.
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.
Click here to see the exhibit.
Please contact us if you are interested in purchasing work from these shows on our website.
Painting by Jennifer LaPierre
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.
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
“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: Temporarily closed for now
2889 Ford Street, third floor, Oakland CA 94601
2889 Ford Street, third floor, Oakland CA 94601
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Gray Loft Gallery
Gray Loft Gallery
2889 Ford Street, third floor
Oakland, CA 94601
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