Closing Reception: DIPTYCHS, 2025 EBPCO Members' Exhibition
2026-01-16 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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)

Opening Reception: California Unseen, Along the Hills of the Central Valley
2026-02-06 18:00 - 21:00 | Oakland Photo Workshop, 312 8th St, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Join us for an opening reception for California Unseen; Along the Hills of the Central Valley with refreshments and music by DJ Pedal.
The California Central Valley is a place of beauty and complexity, a land of contrast undergoing rapid changes: a housing frenzy, a cycle of droughts and floods, vibrant yet struggling migrant communities, and immense fields, all surrounded by stunning, natural beauty. This exhibition follows six photographers working in film and one ceramic artist as they explore and interpret this region.

Artists of the African Diaspora - Grand Gallery
2026-02-07 14:00 - 17:00 | The Grand Gallery, 560 2nd Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
IN CONNECTION WITH ARTISTS @ STUDIOS 11
ARTISTS: CYNTHIA BRANNVALL, ORA CLAY, JOANNE JOHNSON PARADISE, LOUISE SCHIN, YOLANDA PATTON
OPENING RECEPTION | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH | 2-5PM
560 2ND ST. | OAKLAND, CA. 94607 | https://thegrandgalleryoakland.com

Artists of the African Diapora - Studios11
2026-02-07 14:00 - 17:00 | Studios 11, 560 2nd St Oakland, California, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
IN CONNECTION WITH ARTISTS @ THE GRAND GALLERY
STUDIOS
ARTISTS: HELEN CLARK, JBCA, KEANA DOLLAR-DICKERSON, ERIC MURPHY, PAT PATTERSON, XIONEIDA RUIZ
OPENING RECEPTION | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH | 2-5PM
560 2ND ST.| OAKLAND, CA. 94607 | https://www.studios11oakland.com

Christine Meuris: Wellspring
2026-02-13 12:00 - 2026-03-21 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Using silk thread and simple motifs, Christine Meuris has created a series of semi-transparent weavings that reflect feelings of harmony, joy, flow, and wholeness.
In 2023, Meuris began studying weaving as a way to deepen and ground her creative practice. Working with weaving teacher Travis Meinolf, at the Richmond Art Center and at his eponymous weaving school in Marin County, Meuris was influenced by Meinolf’s judgment-free and open minded approach to weaving, a practice that can otherwise become exacting.
After a period of experimentation, Meuris settled on a simple weaving technique — using plain weave with supplemental weft to construct imagery. In her weavings, Meuris returns to the font of her creativity, the work that steadies her in calm or tumultuous times, repeating simple steps to build something greater than the sum of its parts.
Bio:
Mercury 20 member Christine Meuris lives and works in Berkeley, CA. She has shown her work in solo and group shows locally, notably at the Berkeley Art Center, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and Mercury 20 Gallery, and in group shows around the U.S. She was a resident artist at Kala Institute in 2023 and was the inaugural Digital Artist in Residence at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (SJMQT) in 2020. Her work has appeared in the Surface Design Journal, Fiber Art Now, and the Textile Society of America News, and is included in the collections of the City of Berkeley, SJMQT, Kaiser Permanente, and Four Seasons Residences SF, as well as several private collections.
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, February 21, 3 – 5 pm, artist talks at 4:00 pm
﻿Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, March 6, 5 – 9 pm
Weaving Demonstrations: Saturdays, February 14, March 7, 14, 21 @ 1:30
Image: Christine Meuris, “Return, Poppy, Rain,” 2025, silk, dimensions variable, photo credit: Mark Serr

Dr. KC Rosenberg: Raised by Wolves
2026-02-13 12:00 - 2026-03-21 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Dr. KC Rosenberg creates her work on the floor of her studio, where raw canvas and paper are walked on, soaked, and marked through movement and touch. Her background in printmaking and textiles informs a material-driven approach that values impressions, repetition, and layered surfaces as records of action. Lines and bands of color function as spaces where stories can unfold. In her newest series, Rosenberg introduces narrative fragments into these abstract forms. Images and words appear like passing thoughts or half-remembered moments—sometimes humorous, sometimes dark—forming a personal visual vocabulary. Using collage, she brings together abstraction, text, and imagery to create poetic connections rather than fixed meanings. The work invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and make their own associations. At its core, Rosenberg’s practice explores how memory, language, and the body intersect, transforming process itself into a form of storytelling.
Bio:
Born in Marin County, California, Dr. KC Rosenberg was raised in a bohemian household shaped by intellectual rigor and domestic improvisation; while her mother worked and studied law, Rosenberg and her siblings were cared for by a shifting network of caretakers, an environment whose chaos fostered early strategies of invention through imagined companions, substitute characters, and close observation of animal behavior. In 2021, medical complications during the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a significant shift in her practice toward abstraction, reducing narrative certainty and temporarily setting aside personal history, which later returned as material rather than subject; these formative experiences now register in her work as form and emotional traces rather than representation. Rosenberg has exhibited with Patricia Sweetow Gallery, and her work is held in the collections of the California Arts Council and the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. She holds an Ed.D. and conducts social research on collective mentorship systems among artists.
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, February 21, 3 – 5 pm, artist talks at 4:00 pm
﻿Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, March 6, 5 – 9 pm
Image: KC Rosenberg, “Men Named Merle,” 2025 from Raised By Wolves series, 2026, Acrylic paint and yarn on wood panel, 8″ x 8″, photo courtesy of the artist

Body, Quilt, Animal – Pat Guthrie, Jill McLennan, Sara Lisch
2026-02-13 12:00 - 2026-03-21 17:00 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
This group exhibition in The Backroom at Mercury 20 Gallery brings together a human figure, an abstract quilt, and a series of animal forms. The figure is constructed from layered hand-cut paper, the quilt from fabric and dye, and the animals through collage, drawing, and painting. Each piece is arranged through an intuitive search for balance and rhythm, allowing form and pattern to emerge through the process of making rather than through planning or narrative. Across the works as a whole, pattern, repetition, and process play a central role, shaping how the images are built and experienced. Collage, mixed media, and fabric function as constructive tools, with materials layered, pieced, and assembled over time. Rather than describing specific scenes or narratives, the works emphasize accumulation, surface, and structure as the means through which the images take form.
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, February 21, 3 – 5 pm
﻿Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, March 6, 5 – 9 pm
Images: Left to right, clockwise: Sara Lisch, “Oceanic,” 2026, Layered Paper, 36 x 48 inches; Pat Guthrie,”Rolling Virus,”2026, Textile, 78 x 77 inches; Jill McLennan,”Natures Critters,” 2025, coyote, ink, watercolor, collage on wood panel, 8 x 8 inches, photos courtesy of the artists

The Stories We Tell - Opening Reception at Creative Growth
2026-02-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Creative Growth Art Center, 355 24th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
“The Stories We Tell” features seven Creative Growth artists who translate their lived and imagined experiences into vivid visual narratives. Spanning painting, drawing and collaborative short films, this mixed-media presentation celebrates storytelling as a force that can spark humor and inspire new paradigms. The exhibition features artists currently practicing at Creative Growth: Kristian Cheek, Meyshe Shapiro-Nygren, John Martin, William Tyler, Larry Randolph, and George Wilson. Together, these artists all have a form of storytelling within their individual practices that takes the viewer into worlds both imagined and real.
Creative Growth is a studio and gallery where artists with developmental disabilities create work collected by leading museums and celebrated around the world. Together they constitute one of the most vital avant-gardes working today, challenging dominant narratives of authorship, aesthetics, and artistic agency. Their influence now extends across international biennials, galleries, and cultural institutions, redefining the future of contemporary art.
Opening Reception: Friday, February 13th, 6-8 PM
Exhibition Dates: February 13 – April 25, 2026
(Featured Artwork by John Martin)

Weaving Demonstrations: Christine Meuris
2026-02-14 13:30 - 14:30 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Join Mercury 20 Gallery for weaving demonstrations by artist member Christine Meuris.
Saturdays, February 14, March 7, 14, 21 @ 1:30
Using silk thread and simple motifs, Christine Meuris has created a series of semitransparent weavings that reflect feelings of harmony, joy, flow, and wholeness.
In 2023, Meuris began studying weaving as a way to deepen and ground her creative practice. Working with weaving teacher Travis Meinolf, at the Richmond Art Center and at his eponymous weaving school in Marin County, Meuris was influenced by Meinolf’s judgment-free and open minded approach to weaving, a practice that can otherwise become exacting.
After a period of experimentation, Meuris settled on a simple weaving technique — using plain weave with supplemental weft to construct imagery. In her weavings, Meuris returns to the font of her creativity, the work that steadies her in calm or tumultuous times, repeating simple steps to build something greater than the sum of its parts.
Bio:
Mercury 20 member Christine Meuris lives and works in Berkeley, CA. She has shown her work in solo and group shows locally, notably at the Berkeley Art Center, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and Mercury 20 Gallery, and in group shows around the U.S. She was a resident artist at Kala Institute in 2023 and was the inaugural Digital Artist in Residence at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (SJMQT) in 2020. Her work has appeared in the Surface Design Journal, Fiber Art Now, and the Textile Society of America News, and is included in the collections of the City of Berkeley, SJMQT, Kaiser Permanente, and Four Seasons Residences SF, as well as several private collections.
Image: Christine Meuris, Upwelling II, 2025, commercially and naturally dyed silk, 29 h x 24 w inches, photo credit: Mark Serr

Closing Reception: Wayne Armstrong - Between Here & There
2026-02-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Join Manna Gallery for a Valentine’s Day closing reception celebrating Between Here and There, an exhibition of paintings by beloved Oakland artist Wayne Armstrong. Rooted in a lifelong fascination with the California landscape, Armstrong’s recent works explore the space between memory and lived experience through color, pattern, and spatial rhythms unique to the region. Infused with warmth, humor, and imagination, the paintings reflect an enduring curiosity and deep appreciation for place. As Armstrong notes, “How lucky am I to always find something in these environments to inspire me.” Spend the afternoon surrounded by art, community, and a little Valentine’s Day love.
Between Here and There – Wayne Armstrong
January 10 – February 14, 2026
Closing Reception: Saturday, February 14, 2-4 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Fridays, 5-8 pm

One Thing Leads to Another -- Gina Borg & Patrick Crotty
2026-02-21 - 2026-03-28 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Manna Gallery presents One Thing Leads to Another, a two-person exhibition featuring Oakland-based painter Gina Borg and San Leandro–based artist and designer Patrick Crotty. Bringing together painting and marquetry, the exhibition highlights two distinct practices shaped by close attention to materials, process, and the evolving language of making.
Gina Borg explores how color behaves in relationship, using a limited palette of warm and cool shifts layered through repetitive marks to create subtle tonal changes that generate movement, spatial tension, and optical vibration across the surface.
Patrick Crotty works in traditional marquetry, precisely assembling thin wood veneers to “paint” with natural grain, tone, and texture, transforming a centuries-old craft into detailed contemporary imagery.
Together, their work creates a dialogue between gesture and construction, surface and structure, where each decision leads to the next and the process becomes a visible chain of connections.
February 21 – March 28, 2026
Artist Reception: Saturday, February 28, 2-4 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Friday, March 6, 5-8 pm

Opening Reception and Artist Talk – Dr. KC Rosenberg: Raised by Wolves
2026-02-21 03:00 - 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Dr. KC Rosenberg creates her work on the floor of her studio, where raw canvas and paper are walked on, soaked, and marked through movement and touch. Her background in printmaking and textiles informs a material-driven approach that values impressions, repetition, and layered surfaces as records of action. Lines and bands of color function as spaces where stories can unfold. In her newest series, Rosenberg introduces narrative fragments into these abstract forms. Images and words appear like passing thoughts or half-remembered moments—sometimes humorous, sometimes dark—forming a personal visual vocabulary. Using collage, she brings together abstraction, text, and imagery to create poetic connections rather than fixed meanings. The work invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and make their own associations. At its core, Rosenberg’s practice explores how memory, language, and the body intersect, transforming process itself into a form of storytelling.
Bio:
Born in Marin County, California, Dr. KC Rosenberg was raised in a bohemian household shaped by intellectual rigor and domestic improvisation; while her mother worked and studied law, Rosenberg and her siblings were cared for by a shifting network of caretakers, an environment whose chaos fostered early strategies of invention through imagined companions, substitute characters, and close observation of animal behavior. In 2021, medical complications during the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a significant shift in her practice toward abstraction, reducing narrative certainty and temporarily setting aside personal history, which later returned as material rather than subject; these formative experiences now register in her work as form and emotional traces rather than representation. Rosenberg has exhibited with Patricia Sweetow Gallery, and her work is held in the collections of the California Arts Council and the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. She holds an Ed.D. and conducts social research on collective mentorship systems among artists.
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, February 21, 3 – 5 pm, artist talks at 4:00 pm
﻿Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, March 6, 5 – 9 pm
Image: KC Rosenberg, Backfloat, 2026, from Raised By Wolves Series, Acrylic paint and fabric collage on wooden panel 24” x 36”

Artist Talks
2026-02-21 12:00 - 17:00 | Studios 11, 560 2nd St Oakland, California, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
A Lively Afternoon of meeting the Artists of The African Diaspora, hearing their stories and learning their journeys.
Studios 11 & Grand Galleries
560 – 2nd Street, Oakland CA
Our Exhibit Runs Feb 1 – Mar 29, 2026

Opening Reception and Artist Talk – Christine Meuris: Wellspring
2026-02-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Using silk thread and simple motifs, Christine Meuris has created a series of semitransparent weavings that reflect feelings of harmony, joy, flow, and wholeness. In 2023, Meuris began studying weaving as a way to deepen and ground her creative practice. Working with weaving teacher Travis Meinolf, at the Richmond Art Center and at his eponymous weaving school in Marin County, Meuris was influenced by Meinolf’s judgment-free and open minded approach to weaving, a practice that can otherwise become exacting. After a period of experimentation, Meuris settled on a simple weaving technique — using plain weave with supplemental weft to construct imagery. In her weavings, Meuris returns to the font of her creativity, the work that steadies her in calm or tumultuous times, repeating simple steps to build something greater than the sum of its parts.
Bio:
Mercury 20 member Christine Meuris lives and works in Berkeley, CA. She has shown her work in solo and group shows locally, notably at the Berkeley Art Center, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and Mercury 20 Gallery, and in group shows around the U.S. She was a resident artist at Kala Institute in 2023 and was the inaugural Digital Artist in Residence at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (SJMQT) in 2020. Her work has appeared in the Surface Design Journal, Fiber Art Now, and the Textile Society of America News, and is included in the collections of the City of Berkeley, SJMQT, Kaiser Permanente, and Four Seasons Residences SF, as well as several private collections.
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, February 21, 3 – 5 pm, artist talks at 4:00 pm
﻿Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, March 6, 5 – 9 pm
Weaving Demonstrations: Saturdays, February 14, March 7, 14, 21 @ 1:30
Image: Christine Meuris, Upwelling I, 2025, commercially and naturally dyed silk, 29 h x 24 w inches, photo credit: Mark Serr

Crowns, Power Grace and Wisdom
2026-02-28 12:00 - 2026-03-01 17:00 | Studios 11, 560 2nd St Oakland, California, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
An exhibition created by high school students at Oakland Tech’s Fashion, Art & Design Academy (FADA).
In celebration of Black History Month, students created artwork exploring themes of ethnic and cultural identity, and personal empowerment.
Presented at Studios 11 Gallery in Oakland’s Jack London Square
560 2nd Street, Oakland | Enter through The Grand Gallery On view from Sat, Feb. 28 – Sun, Mar. 1, 2026
Reception on Feb. 28, 2-5pm | Free and Open to the Public

Artists' Reception -- Gina Borg & Patrick Crotty
2026-02-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Meet the artists of our current show, One Thing Leads to Another.
Gina Borg is a painter based in Oakland. Her work explores how color behaves in relationship, using a limited palette of warm and cool shifts layered through repetitive marks to create subtle tonal changes that generate movement, spatial tension, and optical vibration across the surface.
Patrick Crotty is an artist with experience bridging fine art and applied design. Raised in Chicago and now based in San Leandro, his practice is informed by a background in product and furniture design. He works in traditional marquetry, precisely assembling thin wood veneers to “paint” with natural grain, tone, and texture, transforming a centuries-old craft into detailed contemporary imagery.
Together, their work creates a dialogue between gesture and construction, surface and structure, where each decision leads to the next and the process becomes a visible chain of connections.
February 21 – March 28, 2026
Artist Reception: Saturday, February 28, 2-4 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Friday, March 6, 5-8 pm

Closing Celebration: Three Girls
2026-02-28 15:00 - 17:00 | Gearbox Gallery, 770 West Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Join us for the Closing Celebration of Christine Ferrouge’s solo exhibition Three Girls.

Artist Talk: California Unseen, Along the Hills of the Central Valley
2026-02-28 17:00 - 19:00 | Oakland Photo Workshop, 312 8th St, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Join us for a presentation and Q&A with the artists of California Unseen, Along the Hills of the Central Valley.
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 and one ceramicist from the Bay Area, the Central Valley, and Los Angeles who use photography to explore this land of extremes. The show will be visible from February to March 2026 at the EBPCO Gallery in Oakland, CA.

Howard Harawitz: Protest Photographer of the 60's
2026-03-04 12:00 - 2026-03-29 17:00 | The Grand Gallery, 560 2nd Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Start date: March 4, 2026
End date: March 29, 2026
You’re invited to the Grand Gallery’s Artist reception for protest
photographer Howard Harawitz March 7 from 1-5pm.
With his Leica camera in his hands, Howard Harawitz
documented protests during the Free Speech
Movement in Berkeley from 1964-5. The photographs in
this exhibit reveal the conditions in the Bay Area that
birthed many of the protests of this time. From fair housing
to farm workers’ rights with the Free Speech Movement at
the core, Harawitz shines a light on present-day parallels
as a reminder to us all:
People have the power.
