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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Night Watch\, a striking exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Gregory Rick that boldly reimagines history painting through the fractured lens of contemporary life. \nApocryphal yet deeply referential and incisive\, Rick’s compositions collapse past events with biblical and mythological imagery\, art-historical allusions\, and capitalist spectacle into hypersaturated scenes that are at once facetious and unsettling. A burning cross\, a feline maw\, a tree of serpents\, and tigers charging toward machine-gun fire populate a world where violence–and communal acts of resistance–appear both ancient and immediate. \nFigures clad in Fila jackets\, yellow Hokas\, and other recognizable markers of contemporary consumer culture anchor these frenetic compositions in the present. As a veteran\, citizen\, and subject\, Rick draws upon collective memory to confront the cognitive dissonance of navigating everyday life amid recurring cycles of violence\, surveillance\, and oppression. In works such as Night Watch (We Got Us)\, Rembrandt’s civic militia meets Picasso’s Guernica\, transforming the historical tableau into a contemporary cry for help and vision of mutual aid. \nA few of the works are painted and collaged on silk mesh\, their transparencies exposing the layers of their construction and underscoring history itself as an unstable\, assembled narrative. In Night Watch\, Rick contends with what it means to stay woke and on watch in the 2020s. \nNight Watch runs from September 30 to October 31\, 2026 with an opening reception Friday\, October 2 from 5-8pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-03-26/
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/2027-03-26/
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Night Watch\, a striking exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Gregory Rick that boldly reimagines history painting through the fractured lens of contemporary life. \nApocryphal yet deeply referential and incisive\, Rick’s compositions collapse past events with biblical and mythological imagery\, art-historical allusions\, and capitalist spectacle into hypersaturated scenes that are at once facetious and unsettling. A burning cross\, a feline maw\, a tree of serpents\, and tigers charging toward machine-gun fire populate a world where violence–and communal acts of resistance–appear both ancient and immediate. \nFigures clad in Fila jackets\, yellow Hokas\, and other recognizable markers of contemporary consumer culture anchor these frenetic compositions in the present. As a veteran\, citizen\, and subject\, Rick draws upon collective memory to confront the cognitive dissonance of navigating everyday life amid recurring cycles of violence\, surveillance\, and oppression. In works such as Night Watch (We Got Us)\, Rembrandt’s civic militia meets Picasso’s Guernica\, transforming the historical tableau into a contemporary cry for help and vision of mutual aid. \nA few of the works are painted and collaged on silk mesh\, their transparencies exposing the layers of their construction and underscoring history itself as an unstable\, assembled narrative. In Night Watch\, Rick contends with what it means to stay woke and on watch in the 2020s. \nNight Watch runs from September 30 to October 31\, 2026 with an opening reception Friday\, October 2 from 5-8pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-03-27/
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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/2027-03-27/
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Night Watch\, a striking exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Gregory Rick that boldly reimagines history painting through the fractured lens of contemporary life. \nApocryphal yet deeply referential and incisive\, Rick’s compositions collapse past events with biblical and mythological imagery\, art-historical allusions\, and capitalist spectacle into hypersaturated scenes that are at once facetious and unsettling. A burning cross\, a feline maw\, a tree of serpents\, and tigers charging toward machine-gun fire populate a world where violence–and communal acts of resistance–appear both ancient and immediate. \nFigures clad in Fila jackets\, yellow Hokas\, and other recognizable markers of contemporary consumer culture anchor these frenetic compositions in the present. As a veteran\, citizen\, and subject\, Rick draws upon collective memory to confront the cognitive dissonance of navigating everyday life amid recurring cycles of violence\, surveillance\, and oppression. In works such as Night Watch (We Got Us)\, Rembrandt’s civic militia meets Picasso’s Guernica\, transforming the historical tableau into a contemporary cry for help and vision of mutual aid. \nA few of the works are painted and collaged on silk mesh\, their transparencies exposing the layers of their construction and underscoring history itself as an unstable\, assembled narrative. In Night Watch\, Rick contends with what it means to stay woke and on watch in the 2020s. \nNight Watch runs from September 30 to October 31\, 2026 with an opening reception Friday\, October 2 from 5-8pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-04-01/
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/2027-04-01/
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Night Watch\, a striking exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Gregory Rick that boldly reimagines history painting through the fractured lens of contemporary life. \nApocryphal yet deeply referential and incisive\, Rick’s compositions collapse past events with biblical and mythological imagery\, art-historical allusions\, and capitalist spectacle into hypersaturated scenes that are at once facetious and unsettling. A burning cross\, a feline maw\, a tree of serpents\, and tigers charging toward machine-gun fire populate a world where violence–and communal acts of resistance–appear both ancient and immediate. \nFigures clad in Fila jackets\, yellow Hokas\, and other recognizable markers of contemporary consumer culture anchor these frenetic compositions in the present. As a veteran\, citizen\, and subject\, Rick draws upon collective memory to confront the cognitive dissonance of navigating everyday life amid recurring cycles of violence\, surveillance\, and oppression. In works such as Night Watch (We Got Us)\, Rembrandt’s civic militia meets Picasso’s Guernica\, transforming the historical tableau into a contemporary cry for help and vision of mutual aid. \nA few of the works are painted and collaged on silk mesh\, their transparencies exposing the layers of their construction and underscoring history itself as an unstable\, assembled narrative. In Night Watch\, Rick contends with what it means to stay woke and on watch in the 2020s. \nNight Watch runs from September 30 to October 31\, 2026 with an opening reception Friday\, October 2 from 5-8pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-04-02/
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.
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
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URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-04-03/
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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.
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Night Watch\, a striking exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Gregory Rick that boldly reimagines history painting through the fractured lens of contemporary life. \nApocryphal yet deeply referential and incisive\, Rick’s compositions collapse past events with biblical and mythological imagery\, art-historical allusions\, and capitalist spectacle into hypersaturated scenes that are at once facetious and unsettling. A burning cross\, a feline maw\, a tree of serpents\, and tigers charging toward machine-gun fire populate a world where violence–and communal acts of resistance–appear both ancient and immediate. \nFigures clad in Fila jackets\, yellow Hokas\, and other recognizable markers of contemporary consumer culture anchor these frenetic compositions in the present. As a veteran\, citizen\, and subject\, Rick draws upon collective memory to confront the cognitive dissonance of navigating everyday life amid recurring cycles of violence\, surveillance\, and oppression. In works such as Night Watch (We Got Us)\, Rembrandt’s civic militia meets Picasso’s Guernica\, transforming the historical tableau into a contemporary cry for help and vision of mutual aid. \nA few of the works are painted and collaged on silk mesh\, their transparencies exposing the layers of their construction and underscoring history itself as an unstable\, assembled narrative. In Night Watch\, Rick contends with what it means to stay woke and on watch in the 2020s. \nNight Watch runs from September 30 to October 31\, 2026 with an opening reception Friday\, October 2 from 5-8pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-04-08/
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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/2027-04-08/
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Night Watch\, a striking exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Gregory Rick that boldly reimagines history painting through the fractured lens of contemporary life. \nApocryphal yet deeply referential and incisive\, Rick’s compositions collapse past events with biblical and mythological imagery\, art-historical allusions\, and capitalist spectacle into hypersaturated scenes that are at once facetious and unsettling. A burning cross\, a feline maw\, a tree of serpents\, and tigers charging toward machine-gun fire populate a world where violence–and communal acts of resistance–appear both ancient and immediate. \nFigures clad in Fila jackets\, yellow Hokas\, and other recognizable markers of contemporary consumer culture anchor these frenetic compositions in the present. As a veteran\, citizen\, and subject\, Rick draws upon collective memory to confront the cognitive dissonance of navigating everyday life amid recurring cycles of violence\, surveillance\, and oppression. In works such as Night Watch (We Got Us)\, Rembrandt’s civic militia meets Picasso’s Guernica\, transforming the historical tableau into a contemporary cry for help and vision of mutual aid. \nA few of the works are painted and collaged on silk mesh\, their transparencies exposing the layers of their construction and underscoring history itself as an unstable\, assembled narrative. In Night Watch\, Rick contends with what it means to stay woke and on watch in the 2020s. \nNight Watch runs from September 30 to October 31\, 2026 with an opening reception Friday\, October 2 from 5-8pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-04-09/
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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/2027-04-09/
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Night Watch\, a striking exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Gregory Rick that boldly reimagines history painting through the fractured lens of contemporary life. \nApocryphal yet deeply referential and incisive\, Rick’s compositions collapse past events with biblical and mythological imagery\, art-historical allusions\, and capitalist spectacle into hypersaturated scenes that are at once facetious and unsettling. A burning cross\, a feline maw\, a tree of serpents\, and tigers charging toward machine-gun fire populate a world where violence–and communal acts of resistance–appear both ancient and immediate. \nFigures clad in Fila jackets\, yellow Hokas\, and other recognizable markers of contemporary consumer culture anchor these frenetic compositions in the present. As a veteran\, citizen\, and subject\, Rick draws upon collective memory to confront the cognitive dissonance of navigating everyday life amid recurring cycles of violence\, surveillance\, and oppression. In works such as Night Watch (We Got Us)\, Rembrandt’s civic militia meets Picasso’s Guernica\, transforming the historical tableau into a contemporary cry for help and vision of mutual aid. \nA few of the works are painted and collaged on silk mesh\, their transparencies exposing the layers of their construction and underscoring history itself as an unstable\, assembled narrative. In Night Watch\, Rick contends with what it means to stay woke and on watch in the 2020s. \nNight Watch runs from September 30 to October 31\, 2026 with an opening reception Friday\, October 2 from 5-8pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-04-10/
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/2027-04-10/
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
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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.
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
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URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-04-16/
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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/2027-04-16/
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Night Watch\, a striking exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Gregory Rick that boldly reimagines history painting through the fractured lens of contemporary life. \nApocryphal yet deeply referential and incisive\, Rick’s compositions collapse past events with biblical and mythological imagery\, art-historical allusions\, and capitalist spectacle into hypersaturated scenes that are at once facetious and unsettling. A burning cross\, a feline maw\, a tree of serpents\, and tigers charging toward machine-gun fire populate a world where violence–and communal acts of resistance–appear both ancient and immediate. \nFigures clad in Fila jackets\, yellow Hokas\, and other recognizable markers of contemporary consumer culture anchor these frenetic compositions in the present. As a veteran\, citizen\, and subject\, Rick draws upon collective memory to confront the cognitive dissonance of navigating everyday life amid recurring cycles of violence\, surveillance\, and oppression. In works such as Night Watch (We Got Us)\, Rembrandt’s civic militia meets Picasso’s Guernica\, transforming the historical tableau into a contemporary cry for help and vision of mutual aid. \nA few of the works are painted and collaged on silk mesh\, their transparencies exposing the layers of their construction and underscoring history itself as an unstable\, assembled narrative. In Night Watch\, Rick contends with what it means to stay woke and on watch in the 2020s. \nNight Watch runs from September 30 to October 31\, 2026 with an opening reception Friday\, October 2 from 5-8pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-04-17/
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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/2027-04-17/
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Night Watch\, a striking exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Gregory Rick that boldly reimagines history painting through the fractured lens of contemporary life. \nApocryphal yet deeply referential and incisive\, Rick’s compositions collapse past events with biblical and mythological imagery\, art-historical allusions\, and capitalist spectacle into hypersaturated scenes that are at once facetious and unsettling. A burning cross\, a feline maw\, a tree of serpents\, and tigers charging toward machine-gun fire populate a world where violence–and communal acts of resistance–appear both ancient and immediate. \nFigures clad in Fila jackets\, yellow Hokas\, and other recognizable markers of contemporary consumer culture anchor these frenetic compositions in the present. As a veteran\, citizen\, and subject\, Rick draws upon collective memory to confront the cognitive dissonance of navigating everyday life amid recurring cycles of violence\, surveillance\, and oppression. In works such as Night Watch (We Got Us)\, Rembrandt’s civic militia meets Picasso’s Guernica\, transforming the historical tableau into a contemporary cry for help and vision of mutual aid. \nA few of the works are painted and collaged on silk mesh\, their transparencies exposing the layers of their construction and underscoring history itself as an unstable\, assembled narrative. In Night Watch\, Rick contends with what it means to stay woke and on watch in the 2020s. \nNight Watch runs from September 30 to October 31\, 2026 with an opening reception Friday\, October 2 from 5-8pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-04-22/
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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/2027-04-22/
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Night Watch\, a striking exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Gregory Rick that boldly reimagines history painting through the fractured lens of contemporary life. \nApocryphal yet deeply referential and incisive\, Rick’s compositions collapse past events with biblical and mythological imagery\, art-historical allusions\, and capitalist spectacle into hypersaturated scenes that are at once facetious and unsettling. A burning cross\, a feline maw\, a tree of serpents\, and tigers charging toward machine-gun fire populate a world where violence–and communal acts of resistance–appear both ancient and immediate. \nFigures clad in Fila jackets\, yellow Hokas\, and other recognizable markers of contemporary consumer culture anchor these frenetic compositions in the present. As a veteran\, citizen\, and subject\, Rick draws upon collective memory to confront the cognitive dissonance of navigating everyday life amid recurring cycles of violence\, surveillance\, and oppression. In works such as Night Watch (We Got Us)\, Rembrandt’s civic militia meets Picasso’s Guernica\, transforming the historical tableau into a contemporary cry for help and vision of mutual aid. \nA few of the works are painted and collaged on silk mesh\, their transparencies exposing the layers of their construction and underscoring history itself as an unstable\, assembled narrative. In Night Watch\, Rick contends with what it means to stay woke and on watch in the 2020s. \nNight Watch runs from September 30 to October 31\, 2026 with an opening reception Friday\, October 2 from 5-8pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-04-23/
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/2027-04-23/
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URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-04-24/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/nicole-irene-anderson-land-figures/2027-04-24/
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SUMMARY:Night Watch // Gregory Rick
DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Night Watch\, a striking exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Gregory Rick that boldly reimagines history painting through the fractured lens of contemporary life. \nApocryphal yet deeply referential and incisive\, Rick’s compositions collapse past events with biblical and mythological imagery\, art-historical allusions\, and capitalist spectacle into hypersaturated scenes that are at once facetious and unsettling. A burning cross\, a feline maw\, a tree of serpents\, and tigers charging toward machine-gun fire populate a world where violence–and communal acts of resistance–appear both ancient and immediate. \nFigures clad in Fila jackets\, yellow Hokas\, and other recognizable markers of contemporary consumer culture anchor these frenetic compositions in the present. As a veteran\, citizen\, and subject\, Rick draws upon collective memory to confront the cognitive dissonance of navigating everyday life amid recurring cycles of violence\, surveillance\, and oppression. In works such as Night Watch (We Got Us)\, Rembrandt’s civic militia meets Picasso’s Guernica\, transforming the historical tableau into a contemporary cry for help and vision of mutual aid. \nA few of the works are painted and collaged on silk mesh\, their transparencies exposing the layers of their construction and underscoring history itself as an unstable\, assembled narrative. In Night Watch\, Rick contends with what it means to stay woke and on watch in the 2020s. \nNight Watch runs from September 30 to October 31\, 2026 with an opening reception Friday\, October 2 from 5-8pm.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/night-watch-gregory-rick/2027-04-29/
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/2027-04-29/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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