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SUMMARY:Paul Thompson’s “West Wild: American Culture”
DESCRIPTION:For October/November FM Oakland is excited to host the recent works by local Berkeley native Paul Thompson in his latest collection entitled “West Wild: American Culture.” Thompson’s work focuses on the romance and excitement of the wild west as he plays with paint\, line\, brushwork\, and composition to depict various scenes and portraits. His imagery highlights a range of cowboy life\, as it shows the somber loneliness of ranching\, to the rowdy and rough “fight or die” culture of bar fights and shootouts. Within that range one underlying aspect remains: his love for the wild west. \nPaul Thompson: Life of a Cowboy\n“I always played cowboys and indians with my brother as a kid \, and our father loved westerns. He would often play with us and eventually lived in the middle of the Nevada desert. We fantasized being cowboys and when we went to Nevada\, I enjoyed meeting real cowboys. It is still romantic and engaging to visit old western towns and imagine living as one. As an adult\, I took a tour of old western towns dressed as a cowboy. My mother used to draw with us and encouraged us to draw things that we imagined\, so I have been drawing and painting western themes ever since. I don’t make art for money. It is my therapy and as my mother says\, we share a healthy addiction.”  \nOctober 2nd – November 28th\, 2026
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/paul-thompsons-west-wild-american-culture-2/
LOCATION:FM Gallery\, 483 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Material As Witness
DESCRIPTION:What happens when a two-dimensional image escapes the bounds of the frame\, the scrapbook\, or the screen? Material as Witness explores the photograph as object\, with its own material sensibility and narrative. Objects can trigger powerful emotions and memories\, and materials carry their own associations based on tactile properties or cultural significance. The artists in the exhibition engage in image-making\, in a truly hands-on sense\, to subvert (or amplify) the power attributed to photos as documentary evidence and bearers of truth. \nFeaturing Amy Yoshitsu\, dani lopez\, Gabby Severson\, Lucy Puls\, Sam Kober\, Sarah Sanford\, & Shirin Towfiq \nCurated by Rena Tom
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/material-as-witness/
LOCATION:Oakland Photo Workshop\, 312 8th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Angela Johal: Intersecting Colour
DESCRIPTION:SLATE Contemporary Gallery is pleased to present “Angela Johal: Intersecting Colour.”  \nNow on view through November 14th at 5510 College Ave. Oakland. \nThis exhibition invites viewers to explore how hue and tone interact across vividly painted color fields. Johal approaches each painting as a puzzle to solve\, seeking balance among dichotomous realms—physical and spiritual\, light and dark\, vivid and subdued—creating compositions that reveal how each color shifts\, responds to\, and is transformed by those around it. Steeped in color theory\, Johal’s work is deeply informed by the human eye’s natural passage through dimension. This exhibition features abstracted geometric compositions that\, when meditated on\, transform into natural landscapes\, animal-like forms\, and shifting light.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/angela-johal-intersecting-colour/2026-10-09/
LOCATION:Slate Contemporary Gallery\, 5510 College Ave\, Oakland\, 94618\, United States
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SUMMARY:Leah Korican: DOILoveYou Too
DESCRIPTION:Leah Korican\, DOILoveYou Too\, 2026\, acrylic\, cutouts\, lantern globe\, dimensions variable\, photo courtesy of the artist \nLeah Korican’s installation is part of her ongoing DOILoveYou series and is a variation on a piece created for the Nashville International Airport\, which was installed 2020-2022. It celebrates anonymous women\, crocheting and creating\, making doilies and antimacassars\, and the meditative aspects of their repetitive gestures. This work says let’s not merely make decor — let’s take up space. The cut paper drapes across the ceiling and plays with light and shadow\, and brings the viewer into a place of both reverie and exhilaration.  \nBio:\nLeah Korican is a visual artist and writer based in Oakland\, CA. She has a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited nationally\, including at the Richmond Art Center\, Bedford Gallery\, and Triton Museum\, among others. Her public art commissions include a large-scale\, site-specific cutout at the Nashville International Airport and permanent artworks for Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont\, California and Rumsey Engineers in Oakland. She is an award winner in the 2026 Guild of American Paper Cutters exhibition “Cutting East to West” at the Heritage Asian Art Museum in Chicago\, Illinois. This is her third solo exhibition at Mercury 20 Gallery. \nGallery Hours: Friday and Saturday\, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)\nArtists’ Opening Reception: Saturday\, October 24\, 3 – 5 pm\nOakland Art Murmur / First Friday: November 6\, 5 – 9 pm\nArtist Talks: Saturday\, November 7\, 3 – 5 pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/leah-korican-doiloveyou-too/
LOCATION:Mercury 20 Gallery\, 475 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Jill McLennan: harm_less
DESCRIPTION:Jill McLennan’s work gives voice to the harmless\, reflecting on the federal government’s decision to rescind the definition of harm (2026) as it applies to the protection of animals and their habitats\, listed under the Endangered Species Act (1975). In her art\, she depicts animals adapting\, inventing new ways to thrive amidst human impact. Using sumi ink\, a brush\, and mulberry paper\, she paints mammals\, birds\, amphibians\, plants\, trees\, and rivers. Then\, tearing the paper\, she applies these images to wood panels. Adding watercolor and handmade paper\, she creates a transformation from reality to wonder. McLennan states\, “The animals are here alongside us\, they have always been here\, and it is our duty to ensure that they remain\, that their habitat is here on earth for generations to come. May my art be a message to harm less\, a cry to the present and a hope for the future.” \nBio:\nJill McLennan creates paintings\, collages and prints inspired by her surroundings and the stories that she collects. She has been a member of Mercury 20 Gallery since 2007. She is an active member of her neighborhood\, Jingletown Arts\, Business + Community (JABC)\, organizing Open Studios as well as beautification projects. She recently printed a series of linoleum blocks with poems\, telling stories of migration and climate change\, through a residency at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley\, CA. McLennan has completed two public art projects: Jingletown Birds at 401 Derby and Emeryville Perspectives at 65th and Christie Streets. Both are cut steel fences depicting the local shoreline with birds\, designed by McLennan and executed by local metal fabricators. Her work was accepted to the deYoung Open in 2020 and 2023. As an artist and teacher\, she is deeply invested in protecting her environment\, inspiring the youth\, and spreading hope and joy into the world. \nGallery Hours: Friday and Saturday\, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)\nArtists’ Opening Reception: Saturday\, October 24\, 3 – 5 pm\nOakland Art Murmur / First Friday: November 6\, 5 – 9 pm\nArtist Talks: Saturday\, November 7\, 3 – 5 pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/jill-mclennan-harm_less/
LOCATION:Mercury 20 Gallery\, 475 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pat O'Connor\, K.C. Rosenberg\, Emily Shepard: Material Messages
DESCRIPTION:Left to right: KC Rosenberg\, “Redeem\,” 2017\, Acrylic paint and laser cut canvas on felt 8”x 9” unframed\, 13”x16” framed (photo courtesy of the artist); Emily Shepard\, “Approach I\,” 2026\, acrylic\, ink\, canvas\, thread on panel\, 24” x 30”. Photo: Sibila Savage; Pat O’Connor\, “A Realignment” 2024\, Salvaged cardboard\, acrylic paint 22 in H x 120 in W x 12 in D. Photo: Jeannie O’Connor \nMaterial Messages brings together three artists whose abstract practices are guided by a collaboration with their materials. Each follows a distinct pathway\, using stains\, layering\, repetition\, text fragments\, and evidence of the body as carriers of information. \nPat O’Connor considers the histories held in ordinary objects. Found and repurposed cardboard becomes a layered assemblage\, taking on new form while traces of its previous life remain. K.C. Rosenberg uses words and fragments of language as both material and meaning. Removed from conventional narrative\, words shift between language and form\, creating a space where recognition gives way to abstraction and interpretation remains open. Emily Shepard builds forms through mark-making and assembly\, emphasizing presence. Gestures and materials come together into surfaces that echo experience\, attention\, and movement. Together\, the artists invite viewers to slow down and consider what material can reveal through their surfaces\, histories\, and transformations.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/pat-oconnor-k-c-rosenberg-emily-shepard-material-messages/
LOCATION:Mercury 20 Gallery\, 475 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Tiffany Schmierer: Aggregate Vision
DESCRIPTION:Tiffany Schmierer: Aggregate Vision\nNovember 5 – January 9\, 2027\n​(Closed Nov 26-28\, Dec 23 – Jan 2)​ \nArtist’s Reception: Saturday\, Nov 14th\, 1-4 pm\nStop by to greet the artist and enjoy the light refreshments with real people at a real place at a real time. \nArtist’s Talk: Saturday\, December 5th\, starting at 2 pm \nTransmission Gallery is pleased to present Aggregate Vision\, a solo exhibition of recent work by Tiffany Schmierer in the Small Space of the gallery\, at the top of the stairs. \nSchmierer’s ceramic sculptures bring together an intricate vocabulary of color\, pattern\, texture\, and form. Constructed from interlocking shapes and multi-planar facets\, the works balance geometric structure with organic movement. Each element has its own surface\, pattern\, and character\, yet contributes to a larger composition of surprising connections and visual complexity anchored by repeated motifs. \nThrough multiple glaze firings\, Schmierer builds richly layered surfaces\, combining varied colors\, graphic patterns\, and tactile details. Curves\, angles\, ridges\, and open spaces intersect and overlap\, creating a sense of movement and depth. As the eye travels across the work\, individual forms shift in relation to one another\, revealing new patterns and spatial relationships.  The interplay of structure\, color\, and surface gives the work an animated quality\, while the complexity of their construction holds the parts together as a cohesive whole. \nPlease join us for the Artist’s Reception\, concurrent with the Reception for No Life Guard on Duty. Stop in any time between 1 and 4 pm\, Saturday\, November 14th to greet the artists and check out the work while enjoying the light refreshments on our lovely outdoor deck (weather permitting). All are welcome!   \nAggregate Vision is one of two concurrent solo exhibitions at Transmission gallery\, with more art to see in the Artist’s Showroom.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/tiffany-schmierer-aggregate-vision/
LOCATION:Transmission Gallery\, 770 West Grand Ave.\, Suite A\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Hindsight is 20/20 – Wayne Armstrong\, Patrick Crotty\, Gina Gaiser\, Pam Jue\, Sandra Wong Orloff\, Alexander Yoshikawa
DESCRIPTION:Manna Gallery presents Hindsight is 20/20\, its end-of-year group exhibition featuring six East Bay artists working across painting\, drawing\, sculpture\, photography\, and wood marquetry. On view November 6 through December 12\, 2026\, the exhibition brings together work by Wayne Armstrong\, Patrick Crotty\, Gina Gaiser\, Pam Jue\, Sandra Wong Orloff\, and Alexander Yoshikawa. Yoshikawa joins the exhibition as the Manna Gallery Award winner from the Everything Must Go Juried Show. This exhibition celebrates the breadth of artistic practices in the Bay Area\, bringing together distinct materials\, approaches\, and perspectives in a single exhibition. \nArtists’ Reception – Saturday\, November 14 | 2–4 pm\nOakland Art Murmur First Friday – November 6 & December 4 | 5–8 pm\n25th Street Block Party & Closing Reception – Saturday\, December 12 | 3–5 pm \nGallery Hours – Saturdays | 12–5 pm & First Fridays | 5–8 pm\nAll events and admission to Manna Gallery are free of charge
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/hindsight-is-20-20-wayne-armstrong-patrick-crotty-gina-gaiser-pam-jue-sandra-wong-orloff-alexander-yoshikawa/
LOCATION:Manna Gallery\, 473 25th St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Dana DeKalb: No Lifeguard on Duty
DESCRIPTION:November 12 – January 16\, 2027\nRegular Gallery Hours: Thursdays\, Fridays and Saturdays\, 12-5 pm\n​(Holiday Schedule: by appointment only from Nov 22-28 and Dec 22 – Jan 2)​​​ \nArtist’s Reception: Saturday\, November 14\, 1-4 pm \nArtist’s Talk: Saturday\, January 9th\, starting at 2 pm \nDana DeKalb’s Statement about No Lifeguard on Duty: \nSet within a long tradition of narrative art\, my figure paintings are riddles\, which balance the familiar and nostalgic with the surreal\, bringing a psychological charge to seemingly ordinary moments. The enigmatic subjects are situated in improbable dioramas\, which glow with the colors of a tinted photograph. With an inner emotion\, and a dash of humor\, they take on curious tasks and unforeseen events\, and are often caught in a moment of decision. At first\, they appear engaged in everyday actions; yet on closer inspection\, unexpected details reveal that something strange is unfolding. Each scene captures a narrative pause\, inviting viewers to unravel the plot and insert their own interpretation to complete the story. \nNo Lifeguard on Duty specifically focuses on the ocean\, an iconic environment by turns wildly beautiful\, serenely nurturing and dangerously volatile.  It’s tidal rhythm of ebb and flow is a symbol of transition and adaptation\, serving as an apt metaphor for the fluctuations of life. The figures in the paintings wobble in undersized lifeboats\, stilt walk determinedly through high tide\, or balance in a human tower on a diving platform. They build sandcastles\, play with inflatable toys\, and collect specimens from the sea and sky. Like the marooned seafarer Robinson Crusoe\, they are portrayed navigating their way through an unpredictable world. \nIn addition to figure paintings\, the show features a wall of miniature\, detailed panels of undersea zoophytes — an archaic term meaning\, literally\, “animal-plants” — which transition from lush color to cool monochrome. Mysterious and evocative\, they bring to mind alien flora and fauna\, while alluding to the bleaching of coral in warming ocean waters.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/dana-dekalb-no-lifeguard-on-duty/
LOCATION:Transmission Gallery\, 770 West Grand Ave.\, Suite A\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Nicole Irene Anderson // Land Figures
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Land Figures\, Nicole Irene Anderson’s second solo exhibition of landscape paintings and drawings with the gallery.  \nKnown for her haunting California landscapes\, Nicole Irene Anderson renders subjects not as static portraits but as living atmospheres—shifting\, flickering\, and at times nearly dissolving into their environments. These forms become little islands unto themselves\, bound not by topography but by the emotional weather of their surroundings. Her work stirs with an uncanny\, near-hallucinatory stillness\, drawing us into moments where the familiar becomes spectral and the personal\, mythic. \nIn Anderson’s world\, the human condition is not a singular state but a diffuse\, mercurial experience. Our disparate and illusory natures seek to know each other in the darkness. The artist’s subjects—sometimes solitary\, sometimes accompanied—are lanterns in the fog. They search for connection\, and occasionally\, they find it in ways we do: in familiarity\, in strangeness\, in memory\, and the mirrors of perception. Her work suggests that this kind of connection\, fragile and radiant\, is possible only when we open ourselves to the ache of vulnerability. To witness the illusion of stillness in an entropic universe. \nTo describe Nicole Irene Anderson as simply a painter is to understate the force majeure she embodies in the studio. She mines the emotional terrain with an unrelenting commitment\, refusing sentimentality in favor of something sharper\, truer. Her hyperrealities are not polished simulations but cracked and flickering truths formed in the crucible of lived experience. They are a response to a world that often feels unreal—and a defiant claim that feeling\, in all its terror and tenderness\, is real. \nThis is not escapism. It is a radical kind of noticing. \nI’d like to believe her singular ability to reconstitute contemporary landscapes—both internal and external —was born from her formative time here on the Central Coast. A terrain too stark and too honest to allow for illusion. There is a coastal realism that imprints itself on those who grow up alongside its fog-drenched cliffs and fractured light. It teaches you to see things for what they are\, even when they hide. Anderson never stopped looking. Her paintings speak the visual language of that upbringing: attuned to absence\, lit by empathy\, edged with mystery. \nIn the lineage of artists who collapse the boundaries between place\, psyche\, and spirit\, Anderson is carving out her own topography—one that is deeply rooted\, relentlessly curious\, and wholly her own. \nBy Charles Smith \nLand Figures runs November 21\, 2026 to January 9\, 2027.  \nAn opening reception will be held Saturday\, November 21 from 3-5pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/nicole-irene-anderson-land-figures/2026-11-21/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nicole Irene Anderson // Land Figures
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Land Figures\, Nicole Irene Anderson’s second solo exhibition of landscape paintings and drawings with the gallery.  \nKnown for her haunting California landscapes\, Nicole Irene Anderson renders subjects not as static portraits but as living atmospheres—shifting\, flickering\, and at times nearly dissolving into their environments. These forms become little islands unto themselves\, bound not by topography but by the emotional weather of their surroundings. Her work stirs with an uncanny\, near-hallucinatory stillness\, drawing us into moments where the familiar becomes spectral and the personal\, mythic. \nIn Anderson’s world\, the human condition is not a singular state but a diffuse\, mercurial experience. Our disparate and illusory natures seek to know each other in the darkness. The artist’s subjects—sometimes solitary\, sometimes accompanied—are lanterns in the fog. They search for connection\, and occasionally\, they find it in ways we do: in familiarity\, in strangeness\, in memory\, and the mirrors of perception. Her work suggests that this kind of connection\, fragile and radiant\, is possible only when we open ourselves to the ache of vulnerability. To witness the illusion of stillness in an entropic universe. \nTo describe Nicole Irene Anderson as simply a painter is to understate the force majeure she embodies in the studio. She mines the emotional terrain with an unrelenting commitment\, refusing sentimentality in favor of something sharper\, truer. Her hyperrealities are not polished simulations but cracked and flickering truths formed in the crucible of lived experience. They are a response to a world that often feels unreal—and a defiant claim that feeling\, in all its terror and tenderness\, is real. \nThis is not escapism. It is a radical kind of noticing. \nI’d like to believe her singular ability to reconstitute contemporary landscapes—both internal and external —was born from her formative time here on the Central Coast. A terrain too stark and too honest to allow for illusion. There is a coastal realism that imprints itself on those who grow up alongside its fog-drenched cliffs and fractured light. It teaches you to see things for what they are\, even when they hide. Anderson never stopped looking. Her paintings speak the visual language of that upbringing: attuned to absence\, lit by empathy\, edged with mystery. \nIn the lineage of artists who collapse the boundaries between place\, psyche\, and spirit\, Anderson is carving out her own topography—one that is deeply rooted\, relentlessly curious\, and wholly her own. \nBy Charles Smith \nLand Figures runs November 21\, 2026 to January 9\, 2027.  \nAn opening reception will be held Saturday\, November 21 from 3-5pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/nicole-irene-anderson-land-figures/2026-11-26/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Nicole Irene Anderson // Land Figures
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Land Figures\, Nicole Irene Anderson’s second solo exhibition of landscape paintings and drawings with the gallery.  \nKnown for her haunting California landscapes\, Nicole Irene Anderson renders subjects not as static portraits but as living atmospheres—shifting\, flickering\, and at times nearly dissolving into their environments. These forms become little islands unto themselves\, bound not by topography but by the emotional weather of their surroundings. Her work stirs with an uncanny\, near-hallucinatory stillness\, drawing us into moments where the familiar becomes spectral and the personal\, mythic. \nIn Anderson’s world\, the human condition is not a singular state but a diffuse\, mercurial experience. Our disparate and illusory natures seek to know each other in the darkness. The artist’s subjects—sometimes solitary\, sometimes accompanied—are lanterns in the fog. They search for connection\, and occasionally\, they find it in ways we do: in familiarity\, in strangeness\, in memory\, and the mirrors of perception. Her work suggests that this kind of connection\, fragile and radiant\, is possible only when we open ourselves to the ache of vulnerability. To witness the illusion of stillness in an entropic universe. \nTo describe Nicole Irene Anderson as simply a painter is to understate the force majeure she embodies in the studio. She mines the emotional terrain with an unrelenting commitment\, refusing sentimentality in favor of something sharper\, truer. Her hyperrealities are not polished simulations but cracked and flickering truths formed in the crucible of lived experience. They are a response to a world that often feels unreal—and a defiant claim that feeling\, in all its terror and tenderness\, is real. \nThis is not escapism. It is a radical kind of noticing. \nI’d like to believe her singular ability to reconstitute contemporary landscapes—both internal and external —was born from her formative time here on the Central Coast. A terrain too stark and too honest to allow for illusion. There is a coastal realism that imprints itself on those who grow up alongside its fog-drenched cliffs and fractured light. It teaches you to see things for what they are\, even when they hide. Anderson never stopped looking. Her paintings speak the visual language of that upbringing: attuned to absence\, lit by empathy\, edged with mystery. \nIn the lineage of artists who collapse the boundaries between place\, psyche\, and spirit\, Anderson is carving out her own topography—one that is deeply rooted\, relentlessly curious\, and wholly her own. \nBy Charles Smith \nLand Figures runs November 21\, 2026 to January 9\, 2027.  \nAn opening reception will be held Saturday\, November 21 from 3-5pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/nicole-irene-anderson-land-figures/2026-11-27/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Andrea Brewster: Draft
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Brewster\, Draft 1\, 2026\, giclee print\, woven vellum\, 10″ x 10″\, photo courtesy of the artist \nAndrea Brewster’s new body of work\, Draft\, begins with the fundamental structure of weaving: warp and weft\, whose interlacing creates both fabric and an underlying grid. She approaches the grid not as a rigid system\, but as a living structure capable of variation\, interruption\, rhythm\, and ambiguity. The work draws from weaving drafts\, diagrams that function as instructions for generating complex patterns\, resembling a form of pre-digital code. The term “draft” also refers to an initial idea or work in progress\, connecting structure with imagination and instruction with image.This connection between weaving and digital systems is central to Brewster’s thinking. Although digitally constructed\, these pieces retain the appearance of hand-drawn marks\, creating a tension between material and virtual\, order and improvisation. Through line\, color\, repetition\, and interruption\, Brewster explores the relationship between visible patterns and the structures beneath them. \nBio:\nAndrea Brewster is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates the intersection of nature\, fiber art\, and technology through intricate forms and layered textures. Brewster earned a B.A. in Sculpture from Pomona College and an M.F.A. in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. A 1993 NEA grant recipient\, she has exhibited widely in the San Francisco Bay Area\, with solo shows at Mercury 20\, The Lab\, and Southern Exposure\, as well as group exhibitions at Metal Haus Gallery\, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary\, The Oakland Museum\, and the Peninsula Museum. Her work has been featured in fiber art exhibitions in Ireland and the U.S. She has participated in the Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, and in 2025\, her AI work appeared at Load Gallery\, Barcelona\, and in the book Neo Botanica. She has been a member of Mercury 20 Gallery since 2020. \nGallery Hours: Friday and Saturday\, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)\nArtists’ Opening Reception: Saturday\, October 24\, 3 – 5 pm\nOakland Art Murmur / First Friday: November 6\, 5 – 9 pm\nArtist Talks: Saturday\, November 7\, 3 – 5 pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/andrea-brewster-draft/
LOCATION:Mercury 20 Gallery\, 475 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Nicole Irene Anderson // Land Figures
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Land Figures\, Nicole Irene Anderson’s second solo exhibition of landscape paintings and drawings with the gallery.  \nKnown for her haunting California landscapes\, Nicole Irene Anderson renders subjects not as static portraits but as living atmospheres—shifting\, flickering\, and at times nearly dissolving into their environments. These forms become little islands unto themselves\, bound not by topography but by the emotional weather of their surroundings. Her work stirs with an uncanny\, near-hallucinatory stillness\, drawing us into moments where the familiar becomes spectral and the personal\, mythic. \nIn Anderson’s world\, the human condition is not a singular state but a diffuse\, mercurial experience. Our disparate and illusory natures seek to know each other in the darkness. The artist’s subjects—sometimes solitary\, sometimes accompanied—are lanterns in the fog. They search for connection\, and occasionally\, they find it in ways we do: in familiarity\, in strangeness\, in memory\, and the mirrors of perception. Her work suggests that this kind of connection\, fragile and radiant\, is possible only when we open ourselves to the ache of vulnerability. To witness the illusion of stillness in an entropic universe. \nTo describe Nicole Irene Anderson as simply a painter is to understate the force majeure she embodies in the studio. She mines the emotional terrain with an unrelenting commitment\, refusing sentimentality in favor of something sharper\, truer. Her hyperrealities are not polished simulations but cracked and flickering truths formed in the crucible of lived experience. They are a response to a world that often feels unreal—and a defiant claim that feeling\, in all its terror and tenderness\, is real. \nThis is not escapism. It is a radical kind of noticing. \nI’d like to believe her singular ability to reconstitute contemporary landscapes—both internal and external —was born from her formative time here on the Central Coast. A terrain too stark and too honest to allow for illusion. There is a coastal realism that imprints itself on those who grow up alongside its fog-drenched cliffs and fractured light. It teaches you to see things for what they are\, even when they hide. Anderson never stopped looking. Her paintings speak the visual language of that upbringing: attuned to absence\, lit by empathy\, edged with mystery. \nIn the lineage of artists who collapse the boundaries between place\, psyche\, and spirit\, Anderson is carving out her own topography—one that is deeply rooted\, relentlessly curious\, and wholly her own. \nBy Charles Smith \nLand Figures runs November 21\, 2026 to January 9\, 2027.  \nAn opening reception will be held Saturday\, November 21 from 3-5pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/nicole-irene-anderson-land-figures/2026-11-28/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Nicole Irene Anderson // Land Figures
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Land Figures\, Nicole Irene Anderson’s second solo exhibition of landscape paintings and drawings with the gallery.  \nKnown for her haunting California landscapes\, Nicole Irene Anderson renders subjects not as static portraits but as living atmospheres—shifting\, flickering\, and at times nearly dissolving into their environments. These forms become little islands unto themselves\, bound not by topography but by the emotional weather of their surroundings. Her work stirs with an uncanny\, near-hallucinatory stillness\, drawing us into moments where the familiar becomes spectral and the personal\, mythic. \nIn Anderson’s world\, the human condition is not a singular state but a diffuse\, mercurial experience. Our disparate and illusory natures seek to know each other in the darkness. The artist’s subjects—sometimes solitary\, sometimes accompanied—are lanterns in the fog. They search for connection\, and occasionally\, they find it in ways we do: in familiarity\, in strangeness\, in memory\, and the mirrors of perception. Her work suggests that this kind of connection\, fragile and radiant\, is possible only when we open ourselves to the ache of vulnerability. To witness the illusion of stillness in an entropic universe. \nTo describe Nicole Irene Anderson as simply a painter is to understate the force majeure she embodies in the studio. She mines the emotional terrain with an unrelenting commitment\, refusing sentimentality in favor of something sharper\, truer. Her hyperrealities are not polished simulations but cracked and flickering truths formed in the crucible of lived experience. They are a response to a world that often feels unreal—and a defiant claim that feeling\, in all its terror and tenderness\, is real. \nThis is not escapism. It is a radical kind of noticing. \nI’d like to believe her singular ability to reconstitute contemporary landscapes—both internal and external —was born from her formative time here on the Central Coast. A terrain too stark and too honest to allow for illusion. There is a coastal realism that imprints itself on those who grow up alongside its fog-drenched cliffs and fractured light. It teaches you to see things for what they are\, even when they hide. Anderson never stopped looking. Her paintings speak the visual language of that upbringing: attuned to absence\, lit by empathy\, edged with mystery. \nIn the lineage of artists who collapse the boundaries between place\, psyche\, and spirit\, Anderson is carving out her own topography—one that is deeply rooted\, relentlessly curious\, and wholly her own. \nBy Charles Smith \nLand Figures runs November 21\, 2026 to January 9\, 2027.  \nAn opening reception will be held Saturday\, November 21 from 3-5pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/nicole-irene-anderson-land-figures/2026-12-03/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:2026 FM Annual: “I Left My Heart In Oakland”
DESCRIPTION:For December and January we will be hosting the 2026 FM Annual.  This is a show featuring the latest work by every studio member in FM Oakland\, and serves as a celebration our eclectic lineup\, as we highlight each artistic talent outside their individual studio settings. This years theme is\, “I Left My Heart In Oakland.”  Come see how each artist interprets this concept as we honor our town Oakland which we love so dearly. \nOur lineup features Chico Barretto\, Maria Blanco\, Ricardo Cervantes\, Jervis Corner\, Joseph Kowalczyk\, Karen Lopez\, Stefanie Papaiacovou\, Ryan Tesluk\, Azar Vaghefi\, and Katie Yarnold. \n“FM Annual 2026”\nDecember 4th\, 2026 – January 30th\, 2027\nArt Murmur Receptions:\nFriday\, December 4th\, 5-10pm\nFriday\, January 1st (likely to be rescheduled for the 8th)\, 5-10pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/2026-fm-annual-i-left-my-heart-in-oakland/
LOCATION:FM Gallery\, 483 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Nicole Irene Anderson // Land Figures
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Land Figures\, Nicole Irene Anderson’s second solo exhibition of landscape paintings and drawings with the gallery.  \nKnown for her haunting California landscapes\, Nicole Irene Anderson renders subjects not as static portraits but as living atmospheres—shifting\, flickering\, and at times nearly dissolving into their environments. These forms become little islands unto themselves\, bound not by topography but by the emotional weather of their surroundings. Her work stirs with an uncanny\, near-hallucinatory stillness\, drawing us into moments where the familiar becomes spectral and the personal\, mythic. \nIn Anderson’s world\, the human condition is not a singular state but a diffuse\, mercurial experience. Our disparate and illusory natures seek to know each other in the darkness. The artist’s subjects—sometimes solitary\, sometimes accompanied—are lanterns in the fog. They search for connection\, and occasionally\, they find it in ways we do: in familiarity\, in strangeness\, in memory\, and the mirrors of perception. Her work suggests that this kind of connection\, fragile and radiant\, is possible only when we open ourselves to the ache of vulnerability. To witness the illusion of stillness in an entropic universe. \nTo describe Nicole Irene Anderson as simply a painter is to understate the force majeure she embodies in the studio. She mines the emotional terrain with an unrelenting commitment\, refusing sentimentality in favor of something sharper\, truer. Her hyperrealities are not polished simulations but cracked and flickering truths formed in the crucible of lived experience. They are a response to a world that often feels unreal—and a defiant claim that feeling\, in all its terror and tenderness\, is real. \nThis is not escapism. It is a radical kind of noticing. \nI’d like to believe her singular ability to reconstitute contemporary landscapes—both internal and external —was born from her formative time here on the Central Coast. A terrain too stark and too honest to allow for illusion. There is a coastal realism that imprints itself on those who grow up alongside its fog-drenched cliffs and fractured light. It teaches you to see things for what they are\, even when they hide. Anderson never stopped looking. Her paintings speak the visual language of that upbringing: attuned to absence\, lit by empathy\, edged with mystery. \nIn the lineage of artists who collapse the boundaries between place\, psyche\, and spirit\, Anderson is carving out her own topography—one that is deeply rooted\, relentlessly curious\, and wholly her own. \nBy Charles Smith \nLand Figures runs November 21\, 2026 to January 9\, 2027.  \nAn opening reception will be held Saturday\, November 21 from 3-5pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/nicole-irene-anderson-land-figures/2026-12-04/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Oddly Familiar\, 2026 EBPCO Members' Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:“Oddly familiar” is a term usually used to describe the feeling of déjà vu\, or the eerie\, nostalgic sensation of looking at liminal spaces—places that look exactly like memories from your childhood\, but you can’t quite place where or when you saw them. The 54 artists included online and in the gallery looked beyond the literal and found unusual and unexpected moments. \nCurated by Kendra Luck and Kevin Flynn.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/oddly-familiar-2026-ebpco-members-exhibition/
LOCATION:Oakland Photo Workshop\, 312 8th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Nicole Irene Anderson // Land Figures
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Land Figures\, Nicole Irene Anderson’s second solo exhibition of landscape paintings and drawings with the gallery.  \nKnown for her haunting California landscapes\, Nicole Irene Anderson renders subjects not as static portraits but as living atmospheres—shifting\, flickering\, and at times nearly dissolving into their environments. These forms become little islands unto themselves\, bound not by topography but by the emotional weather of their surroundings. Her work stirs with an uncanny\, near-hallucinatory stillness\, drawing us into moments where the familiar becomes spectral and the personal\, mythic. \nIn Anderson’s world\, the human condition is not a singular state but a diffuse\, mercurial experience. Our disparate and illusory natures seek to know each other in the darkness. The artist’s subjects—sometimes solitary\, sometimes accompanied—are lanterns in the fog. They search for connection\, and occasionally\, they find it in ways we do: in familiarity\, in strangeness\, in memory\, and the mirrors of perception. Her work suggests that this kind of connection\, fragile and radiant\, is possible only when we open ourselves to the ache of vulnerability. To witness the illusion of stillness in an entropic universe. \nTo describe Nicole Irene Anderson as simply a painter is to understate the force majeure she embodies in the studio. She mines the emotional terrain with an unrelenting commitment\, refusing sentimentality in favor of something sharper\, truer. Her hyperrealities are not polished simulations but cracked and flickering truths formed in the crucible of lived experience. They are a response to a world that often feels unreal—and a defiant claim that feeling\, in all its terror and tenderness\, is real. \nThis is not escapism. It is a radical kind of noticing. \nI’d like to believe her singular ability to reconstitute contemporary landscapes—both internal and external —was born from her formative time here on the Central Coast. A terrain too stark and too honest to allow for illusion. There is a coastal realism that imprints itself on those who grow up alongside its fog-drenched cliffs and fractured light. It teaches you to see things for what they are\, even when they hide. Anderson never stopped looking. Her paintings speak the visual language of that upbringing: attuned to absence\, lit by empathy\, edged with mystery. \nIn the lineage of artists who collapse the boundaries between place\, psyche\, and spirit\, Anderson is carving out her own topography—one that is deeply rooted\, relentlessly curious\, and wholly her own. \nBy Charles Smith \nLand Figures runs November 21\, 2026 to January 9\, 2027.  \nAn opening reception will be held Saturday\, November 21 from 3-5pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/nicole-irene-anderson-land-figures/2026-12-05/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nicole Irene Anderson // Land Figures
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DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Land Figures\, Nicole Irene Anderson’s second solo exhibition of landscape paintings and drawings with the gallery.  \nKnown for her haunting California landscapes\, Nicole Irene Anderson renders subjects not as static portraits but as living atmospheres—shifting\, flickering\, and at times nearly dissolving into their environments. These forms become little islands unto themselves\, bound not by topography but by the emotional weather of their surroundings. Her work stirs with an uncanny\, near-hallucinatory stillness\, drawing us into moments where the familiar becomes spectral and the personal\, mythic. \nIn Anderson’s world\, the human condition is not a singular state but a diffuse\, mercurial experience. Our disparate and illusory natures seek to know each other in the darkness. The artist’s subjects—sometimes solitary\, sometimes accompanied—are lanterns in the fog. They search for connection\, and occasionally\, they find it in ways we do: in familiarity\, in strangeness\, in memory\, and the mirrors of perception. Her work suggests that this kind of connection\, fragile and radiant\, is possible only when we open ourselves to the ache of vulnerability. To witness the illusion of stillness in an entropic universe. \nTo describe Nicole Irene Anderson as simply a painter is to understate the force majeure she embodies in the studio. She mines the emotional terrain with an unrelenting commitment\, refusing sentimentality in favor of something sharper\, truer. Her hyperrealities are not polished simulations but cracked and flickering truths formed in the crucible of lived experience. They are a response to a world that often feels unreal—and a defiant claim that feeling\, in all its terror and tenderness\, is real. \nThis is not escapism. It is a radical kind of noticing. \nI’d like to believe her singular ability to reconstitute contemporary landscapes—both internal and external —was born from her formative time here on the Central Coast. A terrain too stark and too honest to allow for illusion. There is a coastal realism that imprints itself on those who grow up alongside its fog-drenched cliffs and fractured light. It teaches you to see things for what they are\, even when they hide. Anderson never stopped looking. Her paintings speak the visual language of that upbringing: attuned to absence\, lit by empathy\, edged with mystery. \nIn the lineage of artists who collapse the boundaries between place\, psyche\, and spirit\, Anderson is carving out her own topography—one that is deeply rooted\, relentlessly curious\, and wholly her own. \nBy Charles Smith \nLand Figures runs November 21\, 2026 to January 9\, 2027.  \nAn opening reception will be held Saturday\, November 21 from 3-5pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/nicole-irene-anderson-land-figures/2026-12-26/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nicole Irene Anderson // Land Figures
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Land Figures\, Nicole Irene Anderson’s second solo exhibition of landscape paintings and drawings with the gallery.  \nKnown for her haunting California landscapes\, Nicole Irene Anderson renders subjects not as static portraits but as living atmospheres—shifting\, flickering\, and at times nearly dissolving into their environments. These forms become little islands unto themselves\, bound not by topography but by the emotional weather of their surroundings. Her work stirs with an uncanny\, near-hallucinatory stillness\, drawing us into moments where the familiar becomes spectral and the personal\, mythic. \nIn Anderson’s world\, the human condition is not a singular state but a diffuse\, mercurial experience. Our disparate and illusory natures seek to know each other in the darkness. The artist’s subjects—sometimes solitary\, sometimes accompanied—are lanterns in the fog. They search for connection\, and occasionally\, they find it in ways we do: in familiarity\, in strangeness\, in memory\, and the mirrors of perception. Her work suggests that this kind of connection\, fragile and radiant\, is possible only when we open ourselves to the ache of vulnerability. To witness the illusion of stillness in an entropic universe. \nTo describe Nicole Irene Anderson as simply a painter is to understate the force majeure she embodies in the studio. She mines the emotional terrain with an unrelenting commitment\, refusing sentimentality in favor of something sharper\, truer. Her hyperrealities are not polished simulations but cracked and flickering truths formed in the crucible of lived experience. They are a response to a world that often feels unreal—and a defiant claim that feeling\, in all its terror and tenderness\, is real. \nThis is not escapism. It is a radical kind of noticing. \nI’d like to believe her singular ability to reconstitute contemporary landscapes—both internal and external —was born from her formative time here on the Central Coast. A terrain too stark and too honest to allow for illusion. There is a coastal realism that imprints itself on those who grow up alongside its fog-drenched cliffs and fractured light. It teaches you to see things for what they are\, even when they hide. Anderson never stopped looking. Her paintings speak the visual language of that upbringing: attuned to absence\, lit by empathy\, edged with mystery. \nIn the lineage of artists who collapse the boundaries between place\, psyche\, and spirit\, Anderson is carving out her own topography—one that is deeply rooted\, relentlessly curious\, and wholly her own. \nBy Charles Smith \nLand Figures runs November 21\, 2026 to January 9\, 2027.  \nAn opening reception will be held Saturday\, November 21 from 3-5pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/nicole-irene-anderson-land-figures/2026-12-31/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nicole Irene Anderson // Land Figures
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Land Figures\, Nicole Irene Anderson’s second solo exhibition of landscape paintings and drawings with the gallery.  \nKnown for her haunting California landscapes\, Nicole Irene Anderson renders subjects not as static portraits but as living atmospheres—shifting\, flickering\, and at times nearly dissolving into their environments. These forms become little islands unto themselves\, bound not by topography but by the emotional weather of their surroundings. Her work stirs with an uncanny\, near-hallucinatory stillness\, drawing us into moments where the familiar becomes spectral and the personal\, mythic. \nIn Anderson’s world\, the human condition is not a singular state but a diffuse\, mercurial experience. Our disparate and illusory natures seek to know each other in the darkness. The artist’s subjects—sometimes solitary\, sometimes accompanied—are lanterns in the fog. They search for connection\, and occasionally\, they find it in ways we do: in familiarity\, in strangeness\, in memory\, and the mirrors of perception. Her work suggests that this kind of connection\, fragile and radiant\, is possible only when we open ourselves to the ache of vulnerability. To witness the illusion of stillness in an entropic universe. \nTo describe Nicole Irene Anderson as simply a painter is to understate the force majeure she embodies in the studio. She mines the emotional terrain with an unrelenting commitment\, refusing sentimentality in favor of something sharper\, truer. Her hyperrealities are not polished simulations but cracked and flickering truths formed in the crucible of lived experience. They are a response to a world that often feels unreal—and a defiant claim that feeling\, in all its terror and tenderness\, is real. \nThis is not escapism. It is a radical kind of noticing. \nI’d like to believe her singular ability to reconstitute contemporary landscapes—both internal and external —was born from her formative time here on the Central Coast. A terrain too stark and too honest to allow for illusion. There is a coastal realism that imprints itself on those who grow up alongside its fog-drenched cliffs and fractured light. It teaches you to see things for what they are\, even when they hide. Anderson never stopped looking. Her paintings speak the visual language of that upbringing: attuned to absence\, lit by empathy\, edged with mystery. \nIn the lineage of artists who collapse the boundaries between place\, psyche\, and spirit\, Anderson is carving out her own topography—one that is deeply rooted\, relentlessly curious\, and wholly her own. \nBy Charles Smith \nLand Figures runs November 21\, 2026 to January 9\, 2027.  \nAn opening reception will be held Saturday\, November 21 from 3-5pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/nicole-irene-anderson-land-figures/2027-01-01/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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