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Glossy Dream Guest Performance: First Friday February 2
February 2 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free
Glossy Dream Guest Performance combines poetry and fashion to transport the audience into the realm of a girl’s imagination. In collaboration with the concurrent art exhibition, the performance expands on the hopes and dreams that form a girl’s sense of self and future. Come listen, watch, and experience this unique event.
About the Fashion Designer
Samantha Ferrouge is a young upcoming fashion designer. Samantha’s costume and fashion sense is inspired by fairytales and novels. In addition to inspirational travel ranging from Minnesota to Madrid, she has always kept a keen watch on the diverse and artistic influences of Oakland and Los Angeles. Samantha Ferrouge currently has a small couture line that she looks toward expanding in the future. Samantha is 13 years old.
About the Poetry
Wendy Ferrouge is a musician and poet. She constantly studies and plays music. Literature, art, and her sisters are all a source of inspiration for Wendy. The Glossy Dream art show is the main influence her poetry in this performance. Wendy has participated in Oakland Art Murmur and various art scenes as a spectator since she was only a few weeks old. This is her second performance with GearBox Gallery events. Wendy is 16 years old.
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About the concurrent art exhibition at GearBox Gallery:
Glossy Dream, features paintings by Christine Ferrouge and torn paper collage by TaVee McAllister Lee. This exhibition reveals glimpses of the internal fragments of a girl’s imagination. Complicated expectations, history, cultural adornments, and advertising surrounds and influences the optimistic young woman-to-be.
Beneath Ferrouge’s painted surfaces is a world of imagination and serious introspection. Each female character has an intense psychological presence. TaVee McAllister Lee’s work references modern-day advertising, idealized beauty and luxury, at times juxtaposed ironically to the harsher realities that simultaneously exist in the world.
This thought-provoking exhibition touches on what lies beneath the gloss and sheen held out as a promising future. An exploration of the American girl psyche, it is simultaneously startling and hopeful.
About Gearbox Gallery:
GearBox Gallery is an artist-run contemporary art gallery dedicated to showcasing the work of its members and a broad range of regional contemporary guest artists, fostering community and education through intellectual and cultural exchange focused on the visual arts. We are located at 770 West Grand Avenue in Oakland, California.
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GearBox Gallery
770 West Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94612
Gallery Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 12-5 pm and First Fridays, 5-8 pm gearboxgallery.com
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