100 Years of Creative Visions
2025-09-24 11:00 - 2026-04-26 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mills College Art Museum, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA, 94613, United States
In celebration of the Mills College Art Museum’s centennial, 100 Years of Creative Visions features an intergenerational and cross-cultural selection of major works from the permanent collection that emphasizes creative communities and the importance of artist friendships. Thematic sections throughout the exhibition highlight the strengths of the collection, such as, ceramics, Modernist Photography, California Impressionism, Mexican Modernism, Printmaking from Dürer to the Expressionists, Asian and Asian American art, and more.

Wrapped Up
2025-11-01 - 2025-12-13 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Manna Gallery is pleased to present Wrapped Up, a celebratory end-of-year group exhibition featuring small works by nine talented Bay Area artists: Wayne Armstrong, Rita Benton, Patrick Crotty, Gina Gaiser, Julia Marchand, Olivia Meurk, Carole Moore, Halloran Parry & Sandra Wong Orloff. The show includes an engaging mix of drawings, paintings, photography, and wood inlay, each piece thoughtfully crafted and reasonably priced—perfect for collectors and gift-givers alike.
November 1 – December 13, 2025
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, November 15, 2-4 pm
25th St Galleries Holiday Party: Saturday, December 13, 2-5 pm
First Fridays: November 7 & December 5, 5-8 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Fridays, 5-8 pm

Not Heavy: Pacific Rim Sculptors
2025-11-14 12:00 - 2026-01-03 17:00 | Transmission Gallery, 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Transmission Gallery is pleased to announce NOT HEAVY, an exploration of lightness celebrating sculpture that uplifts the spirit or defies gravity in form or feeling, curated by Transmission Gallery Owner/Director, Ruth Santee, from work submitted by members of Pacific Rim Sculptors.
Artists selected include George-Ann Bowers, Walter Bruszewski, Cheryl Coon, Dale Eastman, Jane Grimm, Karl X. Hauser, Terry Kreiter, Elizabeth Medrano, Margaret Michel, Jann Nunn, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Lucy Snow, Kline Swonger, Ruth Tabancay, Kim Thoman, and Lynne Todaro.
Physically, Not Heavy may refer to works that are literally lightweight: airy constructions, suspended forms, delicate materials, or pieces that create the illusion of lightness despite their scale. Conceptually, the theme invites a break from the solemn or burdensome, instead embracing work that is buoyant, playful, warm, whimsical, uplifting, or even humorous. At Transmission Gallery plushies, plastic, steel wood, wire and clay showcase a surprising range of sculptural interpretations of weight, balance, and buoyancy. Heavyweight whimsy, seriously light-weight work, and unexpected materials expand on the concept.
Pacific Rim Sculptors (PRS) is a Chapter of the International Sculpture Center (publisher of Sculpture magazine). Founded on the beliefs that cultural vitality and artistic diversity contribute to a healthy society, the organization aims to increase public awareness of sculpture by promoting public and private exhibits, and through education and outreach programs.

Art for the Winter Solstice – Connecting in Community
2025-11-21 12:00 - 2025-12-20 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
This Winter Solstice, the Mercury 20 community comes together for the Art of the Winter Solstice – an exhibition that celebrates connection, belonging and shared creativity. In a time when these values feel especially vital, artist members present new work that reflects both individual perspectives and collective experience.
Diverse in form yet unified in spirit, the exhibition highlights the power of art to bring light, warmth, and reflection to the season.
List of Participating Artists:
Dalar Alahverdi, Andrea Brewster, Jessica Cadkin, Gustave Carlson, Tara Esperanza, Andrea Guskin, Patricia Guthrie, Leah Korican, Sara Lisch, Laura Malone, Alec Marin, Monika Mayer, Jill McLennan, Charlie Milgrim, Christine Meuris, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Pat O’Connor, KC Rosenberg, Caity Salamanca, Emily Shepard, Elizabeth Sher, Abby Zhang
Also, unwrap the joy of artistic expression with The Back Room Gallery exhibit, LIMITED, a gathering of works by gallery artists all 8″ x 8″ in a variety of media.
NOVEMBER 21, 2025 – DECEMBER 20, 2025
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, December 13, 3 – 5 pm
Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: December 5, 5 – 9 pm
Open Friday and Saturday: 12 – 5 or by appointment
(e-mail mercurytwenty@gmail.com or text 510-918-9093)
Images: Clockwise from upper left Jill McLennan, Leah Korican, Dalar Alaverdi, Pat O’Connor, Alec Marin, Elizabeth Sher, Mary Curtis Ratcliff
(photos courtesy of the artists)

DIPTYCHS; 2025 EBPCO Members' Exhibition
2025-12-05 - 2026-01-25 | Oakland Photo Workshop, 312 8th St, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
EBPCO’s annual member exhibition challenges photographers from all around the Bay Area to explore a single topic or theme. This year the challenge is DIPTYCHS, where two images placed side by side can create an unexpected resonance and deeper meaning beyond the individual images. Curated by John Park, formerly of Underdog Film Lab, this exhibition features thirty seven local photographers as they take on the mysterious power of diptychs, revealing a broad range of human experience and emotion.

House / Hold
2025-12-11 12:00 - 2026-01-17 17:00 | Gearbox Gallery, 770 West Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
GearBox Gallery
House / Hold
Featuring artists: Laura Van Duren and Mittie Cuetara
Dates: December 11, 2025- January 17, 2026
Reception: Saturday, December 13, 1-4 pm
Artist’ Talk: Saturday, January 10, 2pm
GearBox Gallery is pleased to present House/Hold, featuring GearBox Gallery artist
Mittie Cuetara and guest artist Laura Van Duren.
Laura Van Duren and Mittie Cuetara share a sensitivity to how architecture informs our human experience. Laura’s sculptures work through the physicality of form—playful, visceral structures that illuminate the body’s influence on the mind, embracing a deeply corporeal sensibility. Mittie’s paintings, by contrast, explore psychological space through slightly abstracted interior scenes, where domestic tension gathers in shadows,
thresholds, and doorways. While Laura builds outward from the tangible presence of
bodies, Mittie draws viewers inward to the charged quiet of domestic environments.
Cuetara’s work begins inside- slightly skewed dreamlike interiors act as metaphors for the body, exploring the tension, comfort, resistance, and pull of her shifting relationship to domesticity.
Cuetara is drawn to the friction between independence and belonging, ambition and
home. The house becomes a shell and an identity—a container for contradictory desires.
The interiors she paints aren’t pristine; their meaning comes from their histories. Rooms bear the imprint of lives lived, and doorways recur as thresholds of change, marking our hesitation before the unfamiliar.
House/Hold reflects this pause—the moment before transformation. Through these
spaces, she explores the house as an extension of the self: a site of memory, conflict,
vulnerability, and possibility.
In House/Hold, Van Duren navigates the complexities of support systems—those that
can feel uprooted and unsteady, even as they are built back up through collective
persistence. Through chairs and sculptural forms, the work examines the interwoven
issues of housing instability, community support, and resilience amid our shifting political reality.
Swollen ceramic pieces stride forward, precariously balanced on wheels, nozzles, and cobbled-together chairs, illustrating a narrative of collective effort and adaptive repair.
This pieced-together community becomes both vulnerable and resilient, emphasizing
that real stability and shelter are created not alone, but through interconnected acts of
care, ingenuity, and shared endurance. The installation considers how support is
made—and remade—together.
About the Artists:
Mittie Cuetara grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the daughter of an architect, she’s always been drawn to the particular interiors and strange paths that humans create for themselves. Graduating from the Boston Museum school, she moved to the Bay Area, where she wrote and illustrated several children’s books, then spent several years teaching art. Since receiving her MFA in 2022 from Mills college, she has been showing her acrylic paintings and sculptural work at shows around the Bay Area. She joined Gearbox Gallery in 2024.
Laura Van Duren is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California, recognized for her innovative approach to ceramics, and mixed-media sculpture. Her practice often
merges drawing, ceramics, glycerin soap, and recycled materials, reflecting a
commitment to experimentation and abstraction. She works with the Peter Voulkos
family helping to manage the archival aspect of his collection which has had a profound influence on her creative process.
Van Duren’s work has been exhibited at major institutions across the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Crocker Museum (as part of the feminist exhibition Making Moves), Sonoma Museum of Art, Southern Exposure, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, and Berkeley Art Center. She is dedicated to arts education, teaching ceramics and sculpture as an adjunct professor at several community colleges. Her achievements in the field include residencies, such as the Open Studio residency at Haystack in Maine (2023) and a 2025 residency at Dream Farm Commons Gallery in Oakland. Notably, her work has been acquired by The Crocker Art Museum.
Van Duren holds a BFA in drawing from Carnegie Mellon University and she completed her MFA in sculpture at San Francisco State University in 2017.
GearBox Gallery’s Opening Reception for Mittie Cuetara and Laura Van Duren’s
House/Hold will be Saturday, December 13th, 1-4pm All are welcome.
About Gearbox Gallery:
GearBox Gallery is an artist-run contemporary art gallery dedicated to showcasing the work of its members and a broad range of regional contemporary guest artists, fostering community and education through intellectual and cultural exchange focused on the visual arts. We are located at 770 West Grand Avenue in Oakland, California.

25th St Galleries Holiday Party - Wrapped Up
2025-12-13 14:00 - 17:00 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Join us for a celebratory end-of-year holiday party on 25th St! This is the last day to see Wrapped Up, a group exhibition by nine Bay Area artists: Wayne Armstrong, Rita Benton, Patrick Crotty, Gina Gaiser, Julia Marchand, Olivia Meurk, Carole Moore, Halloran Parry & Sandra Wong Orloff. We hope you can come and meet the artists.
November 1 – December 13, 2025
25th St Galleries Holiday Party: Saturday, December 13, 2-5 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturday, 12-5 pm

Opening Reception: Art for the Winter Solstice
2025-12-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
This Winter Solstice, the Mercury 20 community comes together for the Art of the Winter Solstice – an exhibition that celebrates connection, belonging and shared creativity. In a time when these values feel especially vital, artist members present new work that reflects both individual perspectives and collective experience.
Diverse in form yet unified in spirit, the exhibition highlights the power of art to bring light, warmth, and reflection to the season.
List of Participating Artists:
Dalar Alahverdi, Andrea Brewster, Jessica Cadkin, Gustave Carlson, Tara Esperanza, Andrea Guskin, Patricia Guthrie, Leah Korican, Sara Lisch, Laura Malone, Alec Marin, Monika Mayer, Jill McLennan, Charlie Milgrim, Christine Meuris, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Pat O’Connor, KC Rosenberg, Caity Salamanca, Emily Shepard, Elizabeth Sher, Abby Zhang
Images: Clockwise from upper left Jill McLennan, Leah Korican, Dalar Alaverdi, Pat O’Connor, Alec Marin, Elizabeth Sher, Mary Curtis Ratcliff
(photos courtesy of the artists)
Also, unwrap the joy of artistic expression with The Back Room Gallery exhibit, LIMITED, a gathering of works by gallery artists all 8″ x 8″ in a variety of media.
NOVEMBER 21, 2025 – DECEMBER 20, 2025
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday: 12 – 5 or by appointment
(e-mail mercurytwenty@gmail.com or text 510-918-9093)
Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: December 5, 5 – 9 pm

East Bay Open Studios and Cookie Party
2025-12-14 11:00 - 19:00 | The Grand Gallery, 560 2nd Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
This weekend the East Bay Open Studios continues at The Grand Gallery, 560 Second St, Oakland.
Over 40 artists in one location! Special bonus, Last Minute Gift Show: Art works $100 and under!

THE ART OF WALLY FIELDS
2025-12-17 08:00 - 2026-02-28 17:00 | Art@Archer, 431 13th Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
The art currently on display at Art@Archer is the work of Wally Fields – a good friend, and an interesting and truly unique individual. His art was inspired by the things he loved – science fiction, mid-century modern architecture and design, and modern art (particularly that of a psychedelic bent).
Wally died on November 2, 2025. His final wish to us was that we find homes for his artwork.
Wally’s art is available for sale for a donation to one or more of the following organizations:
American Cancer Society
American Heart Association
Chabot Science Center
East Bay SPCA
The amount of the donation is totally up to you.

Karaoke and Cookie Party
2025-12-20 12:00 - 16:00 | The Grand Gallery, 560 2nd Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Come for fun and cookies as you shop for last minute gifts ($100 and under) onSaturday December 20th at the Grand Gallery 12-4pm. Stop by 560 Second Street in Oakland near beautiful Jack London Square!

Not Heavy - Curators Walk-Through with Closing Reception
2026-01-03 14:00 - 17:00 | Transmission Gallery, 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Mark your calendar and plan to join us for the Curator’s Walk Through on Saturday, January 6th, with Closing Reception to follow. Starting at 2 pm, Curator Ruth Santee will discuss Not Heavy in a casual walk-through of the gallery, sharing her thoughts about the various pieces she selected for the exhibition . Stay after to enjoy light refreshments and a last chance to see the work before the exhibition closes at 5 pm.

MAPPING TIME: A Juried Group Exhibition
2026-01-09 12:00 - 2026-02-07 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Left: Linda MacDonald, “Revelation”, 2022, Oil on Canvas, 64 in. x 48 in. x 2 in. (Photo courtesy of the artist) Right: Kim Smith, “Village”, 2025, Collage & Ink on Paper, 26.5 in. x 24 in. x 1.25 in. (Photo courtesy of Tony Molatore)
Mapping Time shows artists who approach time as a living material, something that accumulates, decays, heals, and transforms. In this exhibition, time is marked through the body, through ritual, through the slow processes of making, and through the traces we leave behind. The 41 works chosen from over 600 entries, map the rhythms of aging, grief, regeneration, and ecological change, revealing how memory, matter, and attention connect. Across diverse mediums, time becomes tangible, layered through repetition, captured in the traces left behind, and illuminated in cycles of loss and renewal.
Many of the artists in Mapping Time explore the body as an archive, mapping lived experience through physical traces, marks of illness, healing, vulnerability, and endurance. Mapping Time invites viewers to slow down, to witness how acts of marking, remembering, and remaking give shape to our memories in time, reminding us that our stories unfold within larger cycles of transformation.
Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work explores the complex relationships between humans, nature, and technology. Through psychogeography and daily rituals, she documents time and movement across landscapes to challenge colonial histories, redefine borders, and highlight ecological interconnectedness. Zomorodinia has received numerous awards and residencies, including the YBCA 100, Lucas Artists Fellowship, Andy Warhol Foundation, Kala Media Fellowship Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi Residency, Recology Artist Residency, Alternative Exposure Award, and California Arts Council grants. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, Berkeley Art Center, Pori Art Museum (Finland), and Nevada Museum of Art. It has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Hyperallergic, KQED, and SFWeekly. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA and BA from Azad University in Tehran.
The artist awarded the solo exhibition in the Back Room Gallery will be announced at the Opening Reception.
Participating Artists:
﻿Adrienne Defendi, Alieh Rezaei, Andy Nguyen, Caleb Wheeler, Camille Schneider, Charlie Levin, Daniel Southard, David Ruth, Drew Klausner, Elaine Nguyen, Jean Cacicedo Leach, Joanna Ruckman, Judit Navratil, Katherine Lee, Kathy deRosas, Katya McCulloch, Kim Smith, Kimberlee Koym-Murteira, Leyla Rzayeva, Linda MacDonald, Luka Vergoz, M. Seishin Cádiz, ﻿Margaret E. Murray, Mark Brest van Kempen, Marsha Balian, Max Del Bosque, Mela Marsh, Michelle Lin, Michelle Mansour, Namrata Bhatter, Perry Meigs, Quinn Keck, Rainey Straus, Ruth Tabancay, Sarah Klein, Scott Idleman, Shelley Gardner, Sonja Lee, Syslee Rawlinson, Victoria Heilweil, Yvonne Cavanagh
Gallery Hours: Fri & Sat, 12–5 pm (or by appointment)
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 3 – 5 pm
Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: February 6, 5 – 9 pm

ON MATERIAL GROUND – A Group Show by Andrea Guskin, Monika Mayer, Caity Salamanca
2026-01-09 12:00 - 2026-02-07 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
From left: Monika Mayer, Soft Sculpture #11, 2025, Inner tubes and zip ties, 33” x 14” x 4”, Caity Salamanca, Untitled, Collage Landscape, 2025, mixed media on canvas mounted on board, 8”x 8”, Andrea Guskin, Blue Roots, 2025, Cyanotype on cotton, 8.5” x 11” (Photos courtesy of the artists)
On Material Ground brings together three Mercury 20 artists whose practices are rooted in the exploration of materials, form, and process, which serves as the foundation from which concepts and ideas emerge.
Andrea Guskin’s practice moves across the disciplines of photography, sculpture, and painting to create objects, images, and spaces where the familiar converses with the existential. Through layering, ripping, and transforming ordinary materials–spices, foil, thread, wool– her work explores ancestry, memory, and our methods for seeking knowledge.
Monika Mayer’s practice is rooted in an ongoing dialogue of working with everyday materials like inner tubes, canvas, paint, and found objects. Guided by an intuitive, process-driven approach, she lets new forms surface organically. Through play and transformation, her work uncovers the quiet rhythms and unexpected possibilities within the familiar.
Caity Salamanca embraces experimentation, slicing apart large repurposed canvases to create intimate landscapes. Guided by the willingness to take risks and the liberating act of cutting into older work, she opens new creative pathways. Through this transformative process, Salamanca uncovers a series of landscapes that emerge as a surprising, unexpected discovery.
Gallery Hours: Fri & Sat, 12–5 pm (or by appointment)
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 3 – 5 pm
Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: February 6, 5 – 9 pm

Wayne Armstrong - Between Here and There
2026-01-10 - 2026-02-14 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Manna Gallery is excited to present Between Here and There, a new exhibition of paintings by Oakland-based artist Wayne Armstrong. Grounded in a lifelong fascination with the California landscape, these recent works reflect Armstrong’s ongoing exploration of the state’s rich visual possibilities. Using color, pattern, and spatial divisions unique to the region, his paintings move between the memory of a place and the lived reality of a space. Infused with warmth, humor, and imagination, the work reflects Armstrong’s enduring sense of curiosity and gratitude. “How lucky am I,” he writes, “to always find something in these environments to inspire me.”
January 10 – February 14, 2026
Artist Reception: Saturday, January 17, 2-4 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Friday, February 6, 5-8 pm

Opening Reception – MAPPING TIME: A Juried Group Exhibition
2026-01-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Left: Linda MacDonald, “Revelation”, 2022, Oil on Canvas, 64 in. x 48 in. x 2 in. (Photo courtesy of the artist) Right: Kim Smith, “Village”, 2025, Collage & Ink on Paper, 26.5 in. x 24 in. x 1.25 in. (Photo courtesy of Tony Molatore)
Mapping Time shows artists who approach time as a living material, something that accumulates, decays, heals, and transforms. In this exhibition, time is marked through the body, through ritual, through the slow processes of making, and through the traces we leave behind. The 41 works chosen from over 600 entries, map the rhythms of aging, grief, regeneration, and ecological change, revealing how memory, matter, and attention connect. Across diverse mediums, time becomes tangible, layered through repetition, captured in the traces left behind, and illuminated in cycles of loss and renewal.
Many of the artists in Mapping Time explore the body as an archive, mapping lived experience through physical traces, marks of illness, healing, vulnerability, and endurance. Mapping Time invites viewers to slow down, to witness how acts of marking, remembering, and remaking give shape to our memories in time, reminding us that our stories unfold within larger cycles of transformation.
Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work explores the complex relationships between humans, nature, and technology. Through psychogeography and daily rituals, she documents time and movement across landscapes to challenge colonial histories, redefine borders, and highlight ecological interconnectedness. Zomorodinia has received numerous awards and residencies, including the YBCA 100, Lucas Artists Fellowship, Andy Warhol Foundation, Kala Media Fellowship Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi Residency, Recology Artist Residency, Alternative Exposure Award, and California Arts Council grants. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, Berkeley Art Center, Pori Art Museum (Finland), and Nevada Museum of Art. It has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Hyperallergic, KQED, and SFWeekly. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA and BA from Azad University in Tehran.
The artist awarded the solo exhibition in the Back Room Gallery will be announced at the Opening Reception.
Participating Artists:
﻿Adrienne Defendi, Alieh Rezaei, Andy Nguyen, Caleb Wheeler, Camille Schneider, Charlie Levin, Daniel Southard, David Ruth, Drew Klausner, Elaine Nguyen, Jean Cacicedo Leach, Joanna Ruckman, Judit Navratil, Katherine Lee, Kathy deRosas, Katya McCulloch, Kim Smith, Kimberlee Koym-Murteira, Leyla Rzayeva, Linda MacDonald, Luka Vergoz, M. Seishin Cádiz, ﻿Margaret E. Murray, Mark Brest van Kempen, Marsha Balian, Max Del Bosque, Mela Marsh, Michelle Lin, Michelle Mansour, Namrata Bhatter, Perry Meigs, Quinn Keck, Rainey Straus, Ruth Tabancay, Sarah Klein, Scott Idleman, Shelley Gardner, Sonja Lee, Syslee Rawlinson, Victoria Heilweil, Yvonne Cavanagh
Gallery Hours: Fri & Sat, 12–5 pm (or by appointment)
Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: February 6, 5 – 9 pm

Opening Reception: ON MATERIAL GROUND
2026-01-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Andrea Guskin, Monika Mayer, Caity Salamanca
ON MATERIAL GROUND
On Material Ground brings together three Mercury 20 artists whose practices are rooted in the exploration of materials, form, and process, which serves as the foundation from which concepts and ideas emerge.
Andrea Guskin’s practice moves across the disciplines of photography, sculpture, and painting to create objects, images, and spaces where the familiar converses with the existential. Through layering, ripping, and transforming ordinary materials–spices, foil, thread, wool– her work explores ancestry, memory, and our methods for seeking knowledge.
Monika Mayer’s practice is rooted in an ongoing dialogue of working with everyday materials like inner tubes, canvas, paint, and found objects. Guided by an intuitive, process-driven approach, she lets new forms surface organically. Through play and transformation, her work uncovers the quiet rhythms and unexpected possibilities within the familiar.
Caity Salamanca embraces experimentation, slicing apart large repurposed canvases to create intimate landscapes. Guided by the willingness to take risks and the liberating act of cutting into older work, she opens new creative pathways. Through this transformative process, Salamanca uncovers a series of landscapes that emerge as a surprising, unexpected discovery.
Gallery Hours: Fri & Sat, 12–5 pm (or by appointment)
Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: February 6, 5 – 9 pm
Image from left: Monika Mayer, Soft Sculpture #11, 2025, Inner tubes and zip ties, 33” x 14” x 4”; Andrea Guskin, Blue Roots, 2025, Cyanotype on cotton, 8.5” x 11”; Caity Salamanca, Untitled, Collage Landscape, 2025, mixed media on canvas mounted on board, 8”x 8”. (Photos courtesy of the artists)

Vessel, an exploration in clay of form, ritual and story
2026-01-15 12:00 - 2026-02-28 17:00 | Transmission Gallery, 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Artist’s Reception January 17 from 1-4 pm
Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Vessel: An exploration in clay of form, ritual and story, curated by Suzanne M. Long, on view from January 15 – February 28, 2026.
Drawing on her deep roots in the Bay Area ceramics community, Suzanne M. Long brings together a diverse range of ceramic works that interpret the concept of the “vessel” in expansive and unexpected ways—beyond function, into the realms of ritual, narrative, and abstract form. Included in the exhibition are works by James Aarons, Susana Arias, Michelle Gregor, Margaret Keelan, Mattie Leeds, Peggy Loudon, Kris Marubayashi, Lisa Reinertson, Claudia Tarantino, and Laura Van Duren. Through this collection, viewers are invited to consider how vessels can carry not only physical contents, but also cultural meaning, memory, and personal expression.
Vessel noun.
1a: A craft for traveling on water, a watercraft bigger than a rowboat; a ship or boat. An airship.
b: A hollow or concave utensil, a container (such as a cask, bottle, kettle, cup, or bowl) for holding something. A cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.
c: A human that serves as a receptacle for a spiritual entity to manifest, acting as a spokesperson for that deity. A person into whom some quality (such as grace) is infused.
d: A vessel is a hollow tube or canal that circulates body fluids, most commonly referring to blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries) that transport blood, oxygen, and nutrients throughout the body and remove waste. The term can also refer to other tubular structures that transport fluids, such as the xylem vessels in plants that carry water.
Vessel as Metaphor.
The essential vessel, devised in all cultures to antiquity, is the metaphorical container of all that has been and will be. For early cultures the sky was vessel, containing creation spirits and the departed; earth was mother vessel nestling, chiding and providing.
Images: Peggy Loudon, Vessels, up to 15”, Lisa Reinertson, Sentient beings, 74“ x 22” x 22“, Laura Van Duren, Rendering, 20” x 32” x 6”

Closing Reception: DIPTYCHS, 2025 EBPCO Members' Exhibition
2026-01-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Oakland Photo Workshop, 312 8th St, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Join us for a closing reception for DIPTYCHS, EBPCO’s annual Members’ Exhibition curated by John Park.
Friday, January 16th 6-8pm, Oakland Photo Workshop – 312 8th St., Oakland, CA 94607
Two images placed side by side can create an unexpected resonance and deeper meaning beyond the individual images. In EBPCO’s annual member’s exhibition, thirty seven local photographers take on the mysterious power of diptychs, revealing a broad range of human experience and emotion.
Visit the gallery exhibition through January 25th, 2026 and online, indefinitely, at ebpco.org

Tony Klass Memorial
2026-01-17 12:00 - 17:00 | The Grand Gallery, 560 2nd Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Tony Klaas Memorial
January 17th
1-5pm
Show runs through Jan 30th
The Grand Gallery
560 2nd St., Oakland
Wed-Thurs 12pm to 5pm
Friday – 11am to 7pm
Sunday 11am – 5pm
See the captivating work of artist/muralist Tony Klaas. From his early murals in North Beach with artist Billy Weber to encounters with iconic figures in Barcelona’s Plaza Real Klaas’s colorful journey unfolded on canvas.
Klaas studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland before venturing to Barcelona in 1972 where he dove into surrealism. It was here that Klaas meet both Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso exploring this art form with the masters.
Psychedelics played a significant role in the creation of many of Klass’s work allowing him to zero in on color and shapes. He also identified with Van Gogh as both struggled with their ability to harness the realities of life. As a testament that art saves lives, Klaas explained that revisiting his issues through art helped him to find solutions.
Tony Klaas passed away in 2025.

Vessel - Opening Reception
2026-01-17 13:00 - 16:00 | Transmission Gallery, 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
All are welcome to attend the Opening Reception, Saturday, January 17th from 1-4 pm. Greet the artists, enjoy the light refreshments and lively conversation. Free street parking in the nearby neighborhood.
Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Vessel: An exploration in clay of form, ritual and story, curated by Suzanne M. Long, on view from January 15 – February 28, 2026.
Drawing on her deep roots in the Bay Area ceramics community, Suzanne M. Long brings together a diverse range of ceramic works that interpret the concept of the “vessel” in expansive and unexpected ways—beyond function, into the realms of ritual, narrative, and abstract form. Included in the exhibition are works by James Aarons, Susana Arias, Michelle Gregor, Margaret Keelan, Mattie Leeds, Peggy Loudon, Kris Marubayashi, Lisa Reinertson, Claudia Tarantino, and Laura Van Duren. Through this collection, viewers are invited to consider how vessels can carry not only physical contents, but also cultural meaning, memory, and personal expression.
Vessel noun.
1a: A craft for traveling on water, a watercraft bigger than a rowboat; a ship or boat. An airship.
b: A hollow or concave utensil, a container (such as a cask, bottle, kettle, cup, or bowl) for holding something. A cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.
c: A human that serves as a receptacle for a spiritual entity to manifest, acting as a spokesperson for that deity. A person into whom some quality (such as grace) is infused.
d: A vessel is a hollow tube or canal that circulates body fluids, most commonly referring to blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries) that transport blood, oxygen, and nutrients throughout the body and remove waste. The term can also refer to other tubular structures that transport fluids, such as the xylem vessels in plants that carry water.
Vessel as Metaphor.
The essential vessel, devised in all cultures to antiquity, is the metaphorical container of all that has been and will be. For early cultures the sky was vessel, containing creation spirits and the departed; earth was mother vessel nestling, chiding and providing.

Sin Contar Cincuenta: Miguel Arzabe Solo Show
2026-01-17 13:00 - 2026-03-21 17:00 | Johansson Projects, 2300 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Johansson Projects is pleased to announce Sin Contar Cincuenta, the third solo exhibition by Oakland-based artist Miguel Arzabe with the gallery. Arriving at a moment of heightened social and cultural reckoning, the exhibition features a dynamic body of new weavings that reflect not only a rich “pluriverse” of influences–interpolated ways of being and expression that span the artist’s personal life, Bolivian heritage, and art historical precedent–but also the urgent need to honor and defend cultural plurality in today’s world.
Sin Contar Cincuenta runs from January 17 – March 21, 2026 with an opening reception and artist talk on January 17, from 3-5pm.
For all inquiries, contact Johansson Projects at 510-444-9140 or info@johanssonprojects.com

Opening Reception: Wayne Armstrong - Between Here and There
2026-01-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Meet Oakland-based artist Wayne Armstrong at the opening reception of Between Here and There at Manna Gallery. Join us to celebrate this vibrant new body of work inspired by California landscapes, memory, and imagination.
Wayne Armstrong was born in Fresno, California, and studied art education at Fresno State University. He taught art for more than three decades, first at a residential treatment center for autistic and emotionally disturbed children and later as a high school art teacher in the Hayward Unified School District, while continuing his own studies at Laney and Merritt Colleges, UC Berkeley, and the San Francisco Art Academy. Since retiring from teaching, Armstrong has remained deeply engaged in his studio practice and maintains a studio in Oakland. His work has been exhibited widely throughout California and the Pacific Northwest, including at the Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno State University Art Gallery, The Sun Gallery in Hayward, and Manna Gallery in Oakland, where he has had multiple solo and two-person exhibitions.
January 10 – February 14, 2026
Artist Reception: Saturday, January 17, 2-4 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Friday, February 6, 5-8 pm

Three Girls – Christine Ferrouge
2026-01-22 12:00 - 2026-02-28 17:00 | Gearbox Gallery, 770 West Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Three Girls, a solo exhibition with new paintings by Christine Ferrouge
Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays noon-5pm; and by appointment
Exhibition Dates: January 22, 2026 – February 28, 2026
Closing Reception: Saturday, February 28, 2026, 3-5pm
California painter, Christine Ferrouge makes paintings about the social and intrapersonal complexity of girlhood. Inside these paintings, her daughters and their friends have been growing up before our eyes. Now the girls are older. They are not little girls. They are teenagers. Ferrouge’s teens are not exactly what you might expect. They are not the weak, crazy, second class we often negatively associate with “teens”. They have the strength, dignity, and psychological presence that she has always shown us in her paintings of girls. They are still the “women-to-be” that you could always see simmering below the surface of these determined and confident characters.
These works are a mother’s view of her teens: their lounging around, napping frequently, and the quiet social understanding between the them. You can feel the unique and tight knit bond-especially connecting the girls- and the looks they give you when you catch them in that sacred space. “When you enter the gallery and stand in front of one of these scenes, you are present in their space, but you are not part of their circle.” –Ferrouge
This is a well established thread in Ferrouge’s work. After the Costume Party (2019), Desert Picnic (2020), After the Fires (2021), Watching/Waiting (2023), and Girls in the Mirror (2024) all give the viewer the feeling that you are in their space. The artist first observed exclusivity and girl power in her daughters and their little friends when they were just 5 and 6 years old, which inspired The Huddle (Ferrouge, 2016). To Ferrouge’s surprise, many young men found that painting scary.
“[Ferrouge] portrays complex humans, not cute, one-dimensional beings; her paintings are seriously insightful images…”
Betty Ann Brown, PhD
“…painter Christine Ferrouge, whose ongoing portraiture practice engages a particular thread of art history in which women paint women, girls, and girls on the cusp of womanhood—celebrating their insider’s perspective on subject’s inner lives, and their outsider’s perspective on the culture that surrounds them.”
–Shana Nys Dambrot, Art Critic
Los Angeles, 2024
In contrast to the seven feet high oil paintings that dominate the room, Ferrouge also has small works that capture the gestural, figurative narratives on an intimate scale. Since beginning to paint and exhibit some small paintings last year, they have become popular and easy to collect.
Please visit the gallery to experience this work in person:
GearBox Gallery
770 West Grand Ave.
Oakland, CA 94612
510-290-9660
info@gearboxgallery.com
gearboxgallery.com
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays noon-5pm

BookMaking with e Bond at Mighty Mighty studio
2026-02-01 11:00 - 15:30 | Mighty Mighty Studio, 480 23rd Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Cut, Fold, Cover, Sew with e Bond
February 1st Sunday 11:00 – 3:30
Bookbinding for Beginners
Binding your own books is a fun, challenging, and addictive adventure and it all starts with a few fundamental skills: cutting, folding, covering, and sewing. Join artist e bond in this intimate class setting to learn & practice basic bookbinding skills while making actual books. You’ll leave with 2-3 blank book forms: a star book ornament, an accordion book, and a hand-sewn journal (all by you!).
Supply fee of $15 covers:
all the paper, glue, bookboard, and sewing materials you’ll need to make three forms plus a small kit of tools you can take with you. Feel free to bring cash, or Venmo the instructor during the class. You are also encouraged to bring additional decorated paper to use for your book covers if you choose to.
BIO:
e bond is an artist, bookbinder, writer, and designer currently living in Richmond, CA. Under the studio name roughdrAftbooks—created in 2003—she creates artists’ books, handmade journals and mixed media pieces that blur the boundaries of art, craft, design, and poetry.  e holds an MFA in Book Art & Poetry from Mills College. Her work has been featured at The San Francisco Center for the Book, in Anthropologie stores, the Berkeley Poetry Review, & 500 Handmade Books. See more of e’s work here (ebondwork.com) or follow @eisroughdraft (https://www.instagram.com/eisroughdraft/)

California Unseen, Along the Hills of the Central Valley
2026-02-06 - 2026-03-22 | Oakland Photo Workshop, 312 8th St, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
The California Central Valley is more than the giant open fields we cross when driving down from San Francisco to Los Angeles via Interstate 5. It is a place of beauty and complexity, a land of contrast undergoing rapid changes: a housing frenzy, an alternance of droughts and floods, vibrant yet struggling migrant communities, immense fields producing half of the fruits and vegetables of the US, all surrounded by stunning natural beauty. This place has always fascinated artists (from Dorothea Lange to Jack Kerouac, Robert Dawson, and Stephen Johnson) and keeps doing so today. By featuring certain works done in the 1930s by Dorothea Lange and putting them into perspective with today’s works, this show will be an invitation to explore the Central Valley over a century.
This East Bay Photo Collective exhibition, curated by Claire Maen, brings together 6 photographers from the East Bay, Fresno, and Los Angeles (Ryan McIntosh, Stephen Johnson, Noah Gottesman, Michael Behlen, Steve Molnar, and Claire Maen) who explore this land of extremes on film: Polaroid, small, medium and large format. In addition, William Peterson, from Sacramento, will show his 3D ceramics with aerial views of the agricultural landscape. The show will be visible from February to March 2026 at the EBPCO Gallery in Oakland, CA.

Open First Friday: Between Here and There – Wayne Armstrong
2026-02-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Manna Gallery is pleased to present Between Here and There, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Oakland-based artist Wayne Armstrong. Grounded in a lifelong fascination with the California landscape, these recent works reflect Armstrong’s ongoing exploration of the state’s rich visual possibilities. Using color, pattern, and spatial divisions unique to the region, his paintings move between the memory of a place and the lived reality of a space. Infused with warmth, humor, and imagination, the work reflects Armstrong’s enduring sense of curiosity and gratitude—“How lucky am I,” he writes, “to always find something in these environments to inspire me.”
January 10 – February 14, 2026
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Fridays, 5-8 pm

Fourwalls – new works by Mike Texada at mighty mighty studio
2026-02-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Mighty Mighty Studio, 480 23rd Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Opening February 6th 5:00 – 8:00 pm at Mighty Mighty studio
Mike Texada – Foruwalls
Four Walls invites the audience into the foundational practices of MATTE Universe worldbuilding. This exhibition dives into the origins of reoccurring themes in the artist’s work such as Camoism and the Gatekeepers. Artistically, Four Walls showcases the creative pillars of Texada’s practice using multiple mediums and techniques such as digital illustration, mixed media oil paintings, Hand-painted 3D collectibles, and creative writing to emphasize his ever-expanding vision.
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BIO:
Mike Texada is a self-taught mixed media artist working in an abstract style he calls Camoism, a visual language rooted in the interconnectedness of all things. Through colorful, camouflage-like sequences, his work explores themes of history, philosophy, worldbuilding, and identity, inviting viewers to consider how meaning emerges through connection.

Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday – Mapping Time: A Juried Show
2026-02-06 17:00 - 21:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Mapping Time shows artists who approach time as a living material, something that accumulates, decays, heals, and transforms. In this exhibition, time is marked through the body, through ritual, through the slow processes of making, and through the traces we leave behind. The 41 works chosen from over 600 entries, map the rhythms of aging, grief, regeneration, and ecological change, revealing how memory, matter, and attention connect. Across diverse mediums, time becomes tangible, layered through repetition, captured in the traces left behind, and illuminated in cycles of loss and renewal.
Many of the artists in Mapping Time explore the body as an archive, mapping lived experience through physical traces, marks of illness, healing, vulnerability, and endurance. Mapping Time invites viewers to slow down, to witness how acts of marking, remembering, and remaking give shape to our memories in time, reminding us that our stories unfold within larger cycles of transformation.
Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work explores the complex relationships between humans, nature, and technology. Through psychogeography and daily rituals, she documents time and movement across landscapes to challenge colonial histories, redefine borders, and highlight ecological interconnectedness. Zomorodinia has received numerous awards and residencies, including the YBCA 100, Lucas Artists Fellowship, Andy Warhol Foundation, Kala Media Fellowship Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi Residency, Recology Artist Residency, Alternative Exposure Award, and California Arts Council grants. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, Berkeley Art Center, Pori Art Museum (Finland), and Nevada Museum of Art. It has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Hyperallergic, KQED, and SFWeekly. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA and BA from Azad University in Tehran.
Participating Artists:
﻿Adrienne Defendi, Alieh Rezaei, Andy Nguyen, Caleb Wheeler, Camille Schneider, Charlie Levin, Daniel Southard, David Ruth, Drew Klausner, Elaine Nguyen, Jean Cacicedo Leach, Joanna Ruckman, Judit Navratil, Katherine Lee, Kathy deRosas, Katya McCulloch, Kim Smith, Kimberlee Koym-Murteira, Leyla Rzayeva, Linda MacDonald, Luka Vergoz, M. Seishin Cádiz, ﻿Margaret E. Murray, Mark Brest van Kempen, Marsha Balian, Max Del Bosque, Mela Marsh, Michelle Lin, Michelle Mansour, Namrata Bhatter, Perry Meigs, Quinn Keck, Rainey Straus, Ruth Tabancay, Sarah Klein, Scott Idleman, Shelley Gardner, Sonja Lee, Syslee Rawlinson, Victoria Heilweil, Yvonne Cavanagh
Image: Left: Linda MacDonald, “Revelation”, 2022, Oil on Canvas, 64 in. x 48 in. x 2 in. (Photo courtesy of the artist) Right: Kim Smith, “Village”, 2025, Collage & Ink on Paper, 26.5 in. x 24 in. x 1.25 in. (Photo courtesy of Tony Molatore)

Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday – On Material Ground
2026-02-06 17:00 - 21:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Andrea Guskin, Monika Mayer, Caity Salamanca
ON MATERIAL GROUND
On Material Ground brings together three Mercury 20 artists whose practices are rooted in the exploration of materials, form, and process, which serves as the foundation from which concepts and ideas emerge.
Andrea Guskin’s practice moves across the disciplines of photography, sculpture, and painting to create objects, images, and spaces where the familiar converses with the existential. Through layering, ripping, and transforming ordinary materials–spices, foil, thread, wool– her work explores ancestry, memory, and our methods for seeking knowledge.
Monika Mayer’s practice is rooted in an ongoing dialogue of working with everyday materials like inner tubes, canvas, paint, and found objects. Guided by an intuitive, process-driven approach, she lets new forms surface organically. Through play and transformation, her work uncovers the quiet rhythms and unexpected possibilities within the familiar.
Caity Salamanca embraces experimentation, slicing apart large repurposed canvases to create intimate landscapes. Guided by the willingness to take risks and the liberating act of cutting into older work, she opens new creative pathways. Through this transformative process, Salamanca uncovers a series of landscapes that emerge as a surprising, unexpected discovery.
Gallery Hours: Fri & Sat, 12–5 pm (or by appointment)
Image from left: Monika Mayer, Soft Sculpture #11, 2025, Inner tubes and zip ties, 33” x 14” x 4”; Andrea Guskin, Blue Roots, 2025, Cyanotype on cotton, 8.5” x 11”; Caity Salamanca, Untitled, Collage Landscape, 2025, mixed media on canvas mounted on board, 8”x 8”. (Photos courtesy of the artists)
