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SUMMARY:Andrew Catanese Solo Exhibition | I Watched Your Leaves Grow Silver in the Wind
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents I Watched Your Leaves Grow Silver in the Wind\, an exhibition featuring paintings by Andrew Catanese. The exhibition explores ecologies of recollection\, as Catanese channels connections among places and individuals\, particularly those who linger only in memory. \nFor Catanese\, painting is a narrative medium that moves across time and space\, reshaping how we see the everyday world. Their canvases feature landscapes\, shifting weather\, animals\, and spectral figures\, each serving as a portal to distinct moments and memories the artist calls “slips” in time and place. Painting becomes a bridge to people and environs that have been lost\, abandoned\, or rediscovered. Gazes\, where they appear\, are slant\, unfocused. Animals sulk through forests\, searching\, unaware that they are being watched. Full figures\, with backs turned\, are ensconced in brambles\, alienating them from the viewer. Imbued with distance and uncertainty\, Catanese’s lush compositions swim in windswept\, haunting ambiguity. \nA mysterious and quiet spirituality permeates the work\, suggesting something just beyond reach. Catanese’s expressive use of color deepens the atmosphere\, intensifying the sense of connection and longing throughout the exhibition. Amid today’s uncertainty and division\, Catanese’s paintings remind us of our deep-rooted desire for kinship. These poetic works encourage reflection and uncover the bonds that persist\, even in the most turbulent times. \nI Watched Your Leaves Grow Silver in the Wind will run from August 6 to September 27\, 2026.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/andrew-catanese-solo-exhibition-i-watched-your-leaves-grow-silver-in-the-wind/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artists Talk,Ongoing Exhibitions,Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:Ultrahive4
DESCRIPTION:For August and September we are excited to feature UltraHive 4; a traveling art show with over 100 artists making original cd cover art! This vibrant and eclectic exhibition showcases artists from around the globe\, each contributing unique works that explore the CD cover as both canvas and concept. From reimagined album art to sculptural pieces crafted from actual CD cases\, the show celebrates the cultural legacy of physical media while pushing the boundaries of contemporary art. By transforming these once-ubiquitous objects into personal and provocative expressions\, the artists revive nostalgia\, challenge format\, and reframe the way we view music\, memory\, and material. Together\, their works create a dynamic visual mixtape that pays homage to the golden age of the compact disc—remixed for a new era. \nUltraHive 4 has recently shown at the Hive Gallery in Los Angeles. After showing here at FM Oakland\, it will then travel to Japan for display at the Tokyo Designfesta Gallery. Enjoy while it’s here with us today!  \n“Ultrahive4”\nAugust 7th – September 26th\, 2026\nArt Murmur Receptions:\nFriday\, August 7th\, 5-10pm\nFriday\, September 4th\, 5-10pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/ultrahive4/
LOCATION:FM Gallery\, 483 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:GearBox Gallery Presents\, MOMENTUM
DESCRIPTION:GearBox Gallery presents MOMENTUM\, August 20 – September 19\, 2026. Momentum captures a moment in the evolving landscape of the Northern California Art Scene with 39 artists selected for this unique snapshot of the broader artistic community. Momentum presents diverse artistic perspectives\, genres and media chosen by our 2026 guest juror\, Demetri Broxton. \nArtists selected: Amy Ahlstrom\, Allison Allessio\, Gale Antokal\, Irman Arcibal\, Joy Broom\, Connie Cagampang Heller\, Kimberley Campisano\, Anthony Chavez\, Diane Che\, Vibrata Chromodoris\, Deborah Corsini\, Laurence Elias\, Jeff Ellis\, April Ford\, Erik Friedman\, Gina Gaiser\, Patrice Gelband\, Rachel Gelenius\, Stanley Goldstein\, Kitty Gordon\, Jaya Griscom\, Rachel Katz\, Brett Kaufman\, Jeff Key\, Kathleen King\, Elisabeth Koss\, Georgianna Krieger\, Charlie Levin\, Patricia Ludovici\, Monika Mayer\, Sarah Merola\, Tim Metallo\, Mary Mocas\, Mokhtar Paki\, Jeff Palmer\, Taylor Stoneman\, Matthew Felix Sun\, Jonathan Wieder\, Jun Yan  \nOpening Reception\nSaturday\, August 22nd\, 1-4 pm \nDemetri Broxton Juror’s Talk\nSaturday\, September 19th at 2 pm \nGearBox Gallery\n770 West Grand Ave\nOakland\, CA 94612\nThursdays –  Saturdays 12 – 5pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/gearbox-gallery-presents-momentum/
LOCATION:Gearbox Gallery\, 770 West Grand Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:Hannah Franco: Poiesis
DESCRIPTION:SLATE is pleased to present Hannah Franco: Poiesis\, a solo exhibition of new paintings by abstract artist Hannah Franco. Featuring ten new paintings\, Hannah Franco brings her once-hidden washes of color forward as the true subject of the work\, revealing a self that had long lived quietly beneath the surface. Honoring the power of softness and vulnerability\, Franco pays tribute to the often invisible and systemically undervalued domestic labor and love women have long contributed to their communities. \nFranco earned a BFA from Pratt Institute in New York City and studied fresco painting in Florence\, Italy\, now currently living and working in Oakland\, California. She has shown with Oxide Collective in San Francisco and is represented by SLATE Contemporary Gallery in Oakland. \nOpening Reception: September 12\, 4-6pm\nHannah Franco: Poises is on view at SLATE from September 4-October 3\, 2026. \nSLATE Contemporary Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11am-5pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/hannah-franco-poiesis/
LOCATION:Slate Contemporary Gallery\, 5510 College Ave\, Oakland\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions,Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:False Gods  ~  Opening Reception with El Gallo
DESCRIPTION:False Gods\nA new show by surrealist painter\, muralist Bill Weber\, aka El Galllo at The Grand Gallery\, in Oakland.  \nArtist Reception\nSeptember 5\nNoon – 5pm \nArtist Talk\nSeptember 12\n1pm – 2pm \nBill Weber’s work takes a hard look at the corruption of government and a decaying civilization. With a dystopian thread\, his meticulous technique involving layering color upon color reveals what life can look like given our current trajectory. The details are rich\, often depicting corporate\, industrial giants as ungainly four legged creatures roaming a desolate earth\, or a nightmarish transport machine with hellish backgrounds\, and Imagine Hieronymus Bosch meeting Dali. There you will find El Gallo.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/false-gods-opening-reception-with-el-gallo/
LOCATION:The Grand Gallery\, 560 2nd Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:Where the Shadow Falls - New works by Faye Wheeler
DESCRIPTION:Where the Shadow Falls by Faye Wheeler explores the California wilderness as both inspiration and refuge. Drawing from her experiences hiking through Bay Area redwood forests and golden-grass hillsides\, Wheeler creates brightly saturated landscapes that blur the line between memory and imagination. Slightly surreal in color and form\, these paintings and drawings become meditations on love\, connection\, loss\, and the places—and people—we carry with us. Through her work\, Wheeler invites us to see the lands
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/where-the-shadow-falls-new-works-by-faye-wheeler/
LOCATION:Dear John\, 3807 Macarthur Blvd\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception – Patricia Guthrie: Get Up Stand Up
DESCRIPTION:One purpose of art is to support and communicate political messages. Using color\, letters\, and shapes\, Patricia Guthrie’s abstract quilts deliver political messages relating to the government\, international relationships\, and global warming. She creates artwork using cotton fabric\, wool batting\, dyes\, and machine stitching. \nBio:\nAfter retiring as a professor and department chair of Human Development and Women’s Studies at California State University East Bay\, Patricia Guthrie decided to actively engage in the visual arts. She began taking community-based art classes: drawing\, photography\, quilt making\, and printing on fabric. Quilt making and all its aspects has become her passion. Guthrie hopes her quilts encourage viewers to move beyond art that is merely pleasing to the eye to seek a deeper meaning.\nHer work has been shown nationally and internationally including Schweinfurth Memorial\, Art Center\, Auburn\, New York; International Quilt Museum\, Lincoln\, Nebraska; Philadelphia Museum of Art\, Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania; and Tuch + Technik Museum\, Neumunster\, Germany. This is Guthrie’s second solo show at Mercury 20 Gallery. \nGallery Hours: Friday and Saturday\, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)\nArtist Talks: Saturday\, October 10\, 3 – 5 pm\nOakland Art Murmur / First Friday: October 2\, 5 – 9 pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/opening-reception-patricia-guthrie-get-up-stand-up/
LOCATION:Mercury 20 Gallery\, 475 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception – Tara Esperanza: Close to Home
DESCRIPTION:Tara Esperanza\, Mango-Sunset\, 10”x10” on wood-panel\, Photo courtesy of the artist \nWhether painted in California or Oaxaca\, the works in Close to Home begin with the same impulse: to slow down and look closely. Working on a more intimate scale than in her previous work\, Tara Esperanza found herself drawn to quiet moments of observation\, where familiar plants reveal unexpected beauty through color\, form\, and light. Created between two places that have become part of her life\, these paintings are less about geography than about attention. Though rooted in different landscapes\, each painting is shaped by the same curiosity and sense of wonder inspired by the resilience and sculptural elegance of plants.\nFor many years\, succulents have been Esperanza’s way of exploring themes of adaptation\, diversity\, and endurance. Through this body of work\, the smaller scale invites viewers to slow down\, look closely\, and discover that what is closest to us often has the most to reveal. \nBio:\nTara Esperanza resides in Oakland\, California\, where succulents thrive year-round. When she is not painting\, she enjoys running and capturing images that later inspire her work. Esperanza earned a BFA in Painting\, graduating cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth\, and studied plein air painting in Brittany\, France. A representational painter inspired by nature\, she has dedicated years to portraying the remarkable beauty and diversity of succulents. She has been a member of Mercury 20 Gallery in Oakland\, CA\, since 2020. Her work has been shown at the Women’s United Art Movement Virtual Gallery\, as well as numerous group exhibitions. In 2025\, Esperanza received Best of Show at the Annual National Juried Painting Exhibition at Emerald Springs Art Center in Oregon. Her paintings have been featured in Create! Magazine\, New Visionary Magazine\, and other publications\, and are held in private collections throughout the United States. \nGallery Hours: Friday and Saturday\, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)\nArtist Talks: Saturday\, October 10\, 3 – 5 pm\nOakland Art Murmur / First Friday: October 2\, 5 – 9 pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/opening-reception-tara-esperanza-close-to-home/
LOCATION:Mercury 20 Gallery\, 475 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Present Figures – Curated by Laura Malone
DESCRIPTION:Nina Kath\, Enigma in Shadow\, Oil on Canvas\, 56” x 40”\, Photo courtesy of the artist \nPresent Figures brings together five California painters whose works exist within the figurative language of portraiture\, simultaneously expanding and disrupting it. Centered around themes of intimacy\, boundaries\, and embodied emotion\, each artist takes an individual approach to media\, scale\, and the capacity of the human form to be both a site of identity and a vessel of metaphor. Engaging in profound considerations of what it is to be human—our physicality\, sense of self\, relationships\, consciousness\, and creativity\, these artists invite us to engage with these shifting\, eternal questions and reflect on our own experiences—be they practical\, peaceful\, disturbing\, humorous\, fragmented\, spiritual\, or otherworldly. As individuals\, choices that begin with who and what to portray later manifest in stylistic and material communiquès that boldly and poetically reveal themselves to the world. Collectively\, the psychologically charged spectrum of the group reminds us of the myriad ways our sentience can be narrated. Like Anais Nin said\, “We don’t see things as they are\, we see them as we are.” \nBio:\nWith Present Figures\, Laura Malone expands her practice to curation. Malone invited four artists to show alongside her\, chosen for their unique and diverse approaches to representing the figure: two Southern California artists — Cindy Craig and Shannon Rae Fincke — and two from the Bay Area — Nina Katz and Heidi Brueckner. Collectively their work has been shown across the globe in Europe\, Asia\, and the United States. Malone’s artwork was featured in The Crocker Kingsley National Art Competition and included in “Disrupted Realism\,” juried by John Seed\, who wrote the book of the same name. Malone currently resides in Oakland\, CA and has been a member of Mercury 20 since 2023. \nGallery Hours: Friday and Saturday\, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)\nArtist Talks: Saturday\, October 10\, 3 – 5 pm\nOakland Art Murmur / First Friday: October 2\, 5 – 9 pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/opening-reception-present-figures-curated-by-laura-malone/
LOCATION:Mercury 20 Gallery\, 475 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Under The Thumb – Artist’s Reception
DESCRIPTION:Artist’s Reception for the group exhibition at Werkshack Studios that brings together four artists to explore themes of oppressive systems\, power\, and control through glass and mixed media. \nWorking across diverse techniques including fusing\, painting\, stained glass\, cast glass and more\, each artist brings a distinct perspective to the ways power shapes our lives and communities. Glass becomes both medium and metaphor: beautiful yet fragile\, transparent yet obstructive\, resilient yet vulnerable. Together\, the works examine how systems of power are experienced differently across individuals and groups\, inviting us to consider who holds power\, who is affected by it\, and what it means to resist\, endure\, or transform it. \nArtists: Elin Christopherson\, Lynne-Rachel Altman\, Cricket\, Anne Wong \nGallery Hours: Saturday\, 1 – 5 pm (and by appointment)\nArtists’ Reception: Saturday\, September 19th\, 5 – 7pm \nOakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday\, September 4th and October 2nd\, 5:30 – 9:30 pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/under-the-thumb-artists-reception/
LOCATION:Werkshack\, 481 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:GearBox Gallery presents\, FUTURE VISION with Caleb Dowdell & TaVee McAllister Lee
DESCRIPTION:Future Vision brings together the work of Caleb Dowdell and TaVee McAllister Lee\, two artists looking at the forces that shape the world we imagine and the world we create. Opening reception\, Saturday\, September 26th\, 2-5pm\, with Caleb Dowdell performance at 4:30pm \nCaleb Dowdell’s Our Prism of Dreams is a kinetic\, five-sided plexiglass prism featuring hand-painted portraits of people whose lives have expanded what others might believe possible appear together as examples of persistence\, courage\, and possibility. Painted with layers of translucent acrylic\, the portraits shift and overlap as the prism moves\, suggesting that one person’s accomplishments can become another person’s starting point. \nTaVee McAllister Lee approaches the future from a different direction. Her floating paper collages are assembled from torn magazine images and fragments of text\, bringing together scenes of desire\, consumption\, achievement\, violence\, environmental damage\, displacement\, and everyday life. Images that once belonged to advertising and mass media are removed from their original contexts and placed into new\, often uneasy relationships. \nTogether\, the works ask us to consider what we carry forward. Lee examines the competing interests and consequences of our collective and individual choices. Dowdell points to inspiration in individuals who light the way toward who we can be and what we can do. Future Vision does not offer a single picture of what lies ahead\, instead\, it places hope\, aspiration\, responsibility\, and uncertainty alongside one another—and leaves room for us to consider what kind of future we are helping to make.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/gearbox-gallery-presents-future-vision-with-caleb-dowdell-tavee-mcallister-lee/
LOCATION:Gearbox Gallery\, 770 West Grand Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gearbox Gallery Presents\, ALTAR STRUCTURES\, with Monica Valdez Harb
DESCRIPTION:GearBox Gallery Presents\, Altar Structures with the 2025 ABSTRACTION NOW! winner of the GearBox Gallery Award\, Monica Valdez Harb. Altar Structures will be a Solo Exhibition in the Inner Room Gallery of her mixed media\, intricate paintings. The opening reception will be concurrent with the FUTURE VISION reception in the Main Gallery on Saturday\, September 26th at 2pm with a Caleb Dowdell performance at 4:30. There will also be an Artist Talk\, Saturday\, October 24th at 2pm along with TaVee McAllister Lee and Caleb Dowdell discussing FUTURE VISION.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/gearbox-gallery-presents-altar-structures-with-monica-valdez-harb/
LOCATION:Gearbox Gallery\, 770 West Grand Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:Artist’s Reception – William Rhodes: Fear Not
DESCRIPTION:William Rhodes: Fear Not\nSeptember 17 – October 31\, 2026 \nArtist’s Reception: Saturday\, September 26th from 1-4 pm \nAll are welcome! Please join us for the Artist’s Reception for William Rhodes’ solo exhibition\, Fear Not\, in conjunction with the reception for concurrent exhibition\, Ellen Bepp: The Ghosts We Carry. Greet the artists\, check out the exhibitions and enjoy the light refreshments and lively conversations.  \nLook for the “ART” Building at 770 West Grand Ave and come upstairs to Transmission Gallery for this event.  \n Free street parking on West Grand Ave and in the neighborhood south of West Grand. \nMore about Fear Not: \nWilliam Rhodes’s sculptures on view incorporate objects that have been used\, inherited\, discarded\, or found with elements he has carved himself. Trained early on as a furniture maker\, he combines hand carved figures\, flames and snakes with objects collected from a family home\, photographs\, hardware\, tools\, and other remnants of everyday life. Neon words signal from some pieces. \nThe resulting works resemble shrines or memorials\, but they remain grounded in the ordinary. Religious symbols appear alongside household objects. A photograph might be surrounded by carved waves\, tools\, hardware\, animals\, or religious symbols. A suitcase can become an architectural space. A toilet becomes the base of an unexpected monument. Things with little apparent value are carefully incorporated into elaborate constructions\, their histories becoming part of the work.\n​\nRhodes is equally interested in people; family\, mentors\, and leaders\, as well as those who have been overlooked or treated as disposable\, recognizing and elevating their presence in his work. By giving attention to these lives\, enshrining and revering them\, he considers how value is assigned and who gets remembered. \nThe title Fear Not appears in the work as both a phrase and a kind of instruction. It can be read in relation to the religious imagery that runs throughout the sculptures\, but it also takes on a morepersonal meaning. To look closely at lives and objects that are easily dismissed is\, in its own way\, an act of resistance to that dismissal.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/artists-reception-william-rhodes-fear-not/
LOCATION:Transmission Gallery\, 770 West Grand Ave.\, Suite A\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception - Ellen Bepp: The Ghosts We Carry
DESCRIPTION:Ellen Bepp: The Ghosts We Carry\nSeptember 24 – November 7\, 2026 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, September 26th from 1-4 pm \nAll are welcome! Please join us for the Artist’s Reception for Ellen Bepp: The Ghosts We Carry\, in conjunction with the reception for concurrent exhibition\, William Rhodes: Fear Not. Greet the artists\, check out the exhibitions and enjoy the light refreshments and lively conversations.  \n770 West Grand Ave is a great place to check out art on September 26th with receptions on deck at two galleries in the building. Look for the “ART” Building and come upstairs to Transmission Gallery for this event.  \n Free street parking on West Grand Ave and in the neighborhood south of West Grand.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/opening-reception-ellen-bepp-the-ghosts-we-carry/
LOCATION:Transmission Gallery\, 770 West Grand Ave.\, Suite A\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opening Reception
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