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SUMMARY:Ellen Bepp: The Ghosts We Carry
DESCRIPTION:Ellen Bepp: The Ghosts We Carry\nThursdays\, Fridays and Saturdays\, 12-5 pm or by appointment. \nArtist’s Talk: Saturday October 31st\, starting at 2 pm \nAddressing ideas of identity\, cultural preservation and social justice\, Ellen Bepp’s mixed media work in The Ghosts We Carry reflects on the experience and legacy of a difficult period in our American history\, WWII incarceration camps and their aftermath\, with a keen awareness of current events. \nMore than 120\,000 people of Japanese descent were remanded to these camps in a wave of fear that swept America in response to attacks on Pearl Harbor\, including Heart Mountain in Wyoming\, where Bepp’s family was incarcerated.​ \nIncorporating fragments of familial writing\, traditional textiles\, imbedded text and Japanese imagery\, Bepp’s work reflects on the xenophobia\, racial slurs and casual taunts aimed at Asian Americans as well as the pain and despair of the camps. Beyond the fear and loss\, emerges the powerful story of resilience and perseverance that sustained detainees through their experience and in resuming their place as autonomous citizens. A thoughtful examination of the work\, standing with the elemental history of the objects and absorbing the words\, honors that journey. \nAll are welcome to join us for Ellen Bepp’s Artist’s Talk\, Saturday\, October 31st starting at 2 pm. \nWhile you’re in the gallery check out the concurrent solo exhibition with more art to see in our the gallery showroom.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/ellen-bepp-the-ghosts-we-carry/
LOCATION:Transmission Gallery\, 770 West Grand Ave.\, Suite A\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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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/
LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:GearBox Gallery Presents: Tilt Toward Joy\, Jenny Hacker and Maricris Briones Hansen
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Hacker and Maricris Briones Hansen\nNovember 5 – December 19\, 2026\nOpening Reception\nGearBox Gallery is pleased to present\, the winners of our Bay Area Open\, Jenny Hacker and Maricris Briones Hansen in their two person exhibition\, Tilt Toward Joy. November 5th through December 19th. With a special exhibition in the Inner Room Gallery\, Second Sight: views of the natural world\, photographic imagery by Joy Every \nReception for the Artists: Saturday\, November 7th at 1:00pm\nArtists’ Talks: Saturday\, December 12\, 2pm \nMore about Tilt Toward Joy: Both artists share a love of color and a playful approach to form\, Hacker with her free form sculptures and Briones-Hansen with her collage like paintings.  These two artists’ unique shapes appear to be in conversation with one another and lend an almost anthropomorphic quality to their abstract sculptures and paintings. Their work will be displayed together in the Main Gallery to create a colorful and joyous atmosphere —something we could all use right now.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/gearbox-gallery-presents-tilt-toward-joy-jenny-hacker-and-maricris-briones-hansen/
LOCATION:Gearbox Gallery\, 770 West Grand Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Paul Thompson’s “West Wild: American Culture” RECEPTION
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second reception of Paul Thompson’s latest drawings/paintings in his show entitled “West Wild: American Culture.”\n*One free beer for anyone who attends wearing a cowboy hat! \nFor October/November FM Oakland is excited to host the recent works by local Berkeley native Paul Thompson. Thompson’s work focuses on the romance and excitement of the wild west as he plays with paint\, line\, brushwork\, and composition to depict various scenes and portraits. His imagery highlights a range of cowboy life\, as it shows the somber loneliness of ranching\, to the rowdy and rough “fight or die” culture of bar fights and shootouts. Within that range one underlying aspect remains: his love for the wild west. \nPaul Thompson: Life of a Cowboy\n“I always played cowboys and indians with my brother as a kid \, and our father loved westerns. He would often play with us and eventually lived in the middle of the Nevada desert. We fantasized being cowboys and when we went to Nevada\, I enjoyed meeting real cowboys. It is still romantic and engaging to visit old western towns and imagine living as one. As an adult\, I took a tour of old western towns dressed as a cowboy. My mother used to draw with us and encouraged us to draw things that we imagined\, so I have been drawing and painting western themes ever since. I don’t make art for money. It is my therapy and as my mother says\, we share a healthy addiction.”  \nOctober 2nd – November 28th\, 2026\nArt Murmur Receptions:\nFirst Friday\, November 6th\, 5-10pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/paul-thompsons-west-wild-american-culture/
LOCATION:FM Gallery\, 483 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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