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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
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SUMMARY:All That Blooms in the Darkness: Malisa Suchanya and Jennika Bastian
DESCRIPTION:Two artists. Two distinct worlds. One evening at Dear John. \nOn Saturday\, October 17\, we’re welcoming Malisa Suchanya and Jennika Bastian for an evening of art\, conversation\, and connection. \nMalisa’s work invites us into a world of nature\, imagination\, tenderness\, and the small details of being human. Jennika’s paintings move between the figurative and fantastical\, drawing on gesture\, color\, folklore\, and the inner landscapes of the psyche. \nTogether\, their work creates a conversation about what lives beneath the surface — memory\, desire\, transformation\, connection\, and the worlds we carry within us. \nCome spend an evening with us. See the work. Meet the artists. Have a drink. Stay awhile. \nSaturday\, October 17\n6–9 PM\nDear John\nOakland\, CA**
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/in-honor-of-life-and-death/
LOCATION:Dear John\, 3807 Macarthur Blvd\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:Angela Johal: Intersecting Colour
DESCRIPTION:Join us at SLATE Contemporary Gallery on Saturday\, October 10 from 4-6pm for an artist reception in celebration of our newest exhibition\, “Angela Johal: Intersecting Colour.” \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:Artist Talk – 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)\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, September 12\, 3 – 5 pm\nOakland Art Murmur / First Friday: October 2\, 5 – 9 pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/artist-talk-patricia-guthrie-get-up-stand-up/
LOCATION:Mercury 20 Gallery\, 475 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Oakland Style Week - Big\, Small\, and Everything In Between
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Oakland Style Week at Manna Gallery with an day at the intersection of art\, style\, and creative expression. Experience Big\, Small\, and Everything In Between and discover how Bay Area muralists Julie Engelmann\, Amos Goldbaum\, Liv Losee-Unger\, Fernanda Martínez\, and Deirdre Weinberg translate the energy\, color\, and scale of their public work into an intimate gallery setting. \nSeptember 26 – October 31\, 2026\nOakland Style Week: Saturday\, October 10\, 11-2 pm\nGallery Hours: Saturdays\, 12-5 pm & First Fridays\, 5-8 pm\nAll events and entrance to the gallery are free of charge
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/oakland-style-week-big-small-and-everything-in-between/
LOCATION:Manna Gallery\, 473 25th St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artists Talk
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SUMMARY:The Tiny Monster Show ~ Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Whether or not you like monsters\, one has to admit\, most of us like a good scare now and then. The word Monster derives from the Latin monstrum\, itself derived ultimately from the verb moneo (“to remind\, warn\, instruct\, or foretell”). From this vantage point\, monsters take on a new inspiring role\, not to just scare us\, but to inform us.  So what can monsters teach us about our fears\, our society and beyond?\nThe Tiny Monster Show explores our fears so we can take a deeper look at what we’ve been suppressing and what we need to confront. \nFrom classical to political\, The Tiny Monster Show gives space to capture\, reveal\, and maybe conquer those elements that keep us frozen\nin fear and hopefully shine a light on what it means to be human. Hopefully\, you’ll experience a moment of laughter in recognition that you are more powerful than the monster wants you to think.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/the-tiny-monster-show-artist-talk/
LOCATION:The Grand Gallery\, 560 2nd Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artists Talk
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk – Tara Esperanza: Close to Home
DESCRIPTION:Tara Esperanza\, Guardians\, 2026\, acrylic-on-panel\, 20” x 16”\, 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.\nCreated 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. For 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)\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, September 12\, 3 – 5 pm\nOakland Art Murmur / First Friday: October 2\, 5 – 9 pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/artist-talk-tara-esperanza-close-to-home/
LOCATION:Mercury 20 Gallery\, 475 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artists Talk
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SUMMARY:Artist Talks: Present Figures – Curated by Laura Malone
DESCRIPTION:Laura Malone\, Carnivale\, Oil on Linen\, 60” x 48”\, 2021\, 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)\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, September 12\, 3 – 5 pm\nOakland Art Murmur / First Friday: October 2\, 5 – 9 pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/artist-talks-present-figures-curated-by-laura-malone/
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SUMMARY:Angela Johal: Intersecting Colour
DESCRIPTION:Join us at SLATE Contemporary Gallery on Saturday\, October 10 from 4-6pm for an artist reception in celebration of our newest exhibition\, “Angela Johal: Intersecting Colour.” \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/2026-10-10/
LOCATION:Slate Contemporary Gallery\, 5510 College Ave\, Oakland\, 94618\, United States
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