BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-// - ECPv6.6.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260306T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T180000 DTSTAMP:20260420T100918 CREATED:20260213T014005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T014008Z UID:10004198-1772791200-1777140000@oaklandartmurmur.org SUMMARY:Multi-Artist Exhibition -- March-April\, 2026 DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming these wonderful Bay Area artists to our first show of 2026. Varied styles. Varied mediums. Enjoy their artistry!\n Arie Dallas\n Ken Knudsen\n Nina Krebs\n MacArthur Nelson\n Shu\n Diane Wang URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/multi-artist-exhibition-march-april-2026/ LOCATION:Art@Archer\, 431 13th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Mar-Apr-Exhibition-Card-front-3.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Art@Archer":MAILTO:greg@archerbike.com GEO:37.804829;-122.272476 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Art@Archer 431 13th Street Oakland CA 94607 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=431 13th Street:geo:-122.272476,37.804829 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T170000 DTSTAMP:20260420T100918 CREATED:20260311T045200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260311T045308Z UID:10004230-1773316800-1777136400@oaklandartmurmur.org SUMMARY:Frank D. Cole: The House Inside DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours: Thursdays\, Fridays and Saturdays\, 12 – 5 pm\, and by appointment\nOpening Reception: Saturday March 14th\, 1-4 pm\nArtist’s Talk: April 18\, starting at 2 pm \nTransmission Gallery is pleased to present The House Inside\, recent paintings by East Bay painter\, Frank D. Cole. \nWorking from his West Oakland studio\, Frank Cole paints from a distance\, both geographic and temporal. His large-scale works emerge from reflections on his childhood in Mississippi\, with landscape\, weather\, and architecture forming an enduring visual vocabulary. In this work\, Mississippi becomes less a fixed geography than a felt condition\, a stand-in for memory and connection\, suspended between clarity and dream. \nFramed by porches\, window casings\, and thresholds\, Cole’s paintings position the viewer in an interior space\, looking outward. Beams\, panes\, and floorboards divide and measure the picture plane acting as armatures for recollection\, holding in place fleeting impressions of light on water\, wind through tall grass\, or rain dissolving a stand of trees. The result is both architectural and narrative\, emerging as quiet meditations on place and time\, imbued with reverie and longing. \nThe paintings carry a subtle tension between shelter and exposure\, presence and absence. No figures occupy these interiors; instead\, the viewer becomes the inhabitant. The threshold functions as a metaphor for memory–a point where the past remains visible yet inaccessible. \nAccompanying the larger canvases\, small preparatory studies reveal the evolution of each composition. In these pieces\, Cole tests structure\, color temperature\, and atmosphere. The studies function as concentrated meditations—intimate works where gesture and light are first explored before expanding into the larger paintings. \nWhile rooted in a specific place\, these recollections resonate beyond their origin\, becoming a point of departure for a broader exploration of early embodied experience – how light filled a certain room\, the rhythm of rain on a roof\, the view framed by a familiar window. Through carefully constructed interiors and expansive vistas\, Frank Cole transforms personal memory into a contemplative space others can inhabit. URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/frank-d-cole-the-house-inside/ LOCATION:Transmission Gallery\, 770 West Grand Ave.\, Suite A\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Cole_PondHouse_web-1.jpg GEO:37.804829;-122.272476 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Transmission Gallery 770 West Grand Ave. Suite A Oakland CA 94612 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=770 West Grand Ave.\, Suite A:geo:-122.272476,37.804829 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260403T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260530T170000 DTSTAMP:20260420T100918 CREATED:20260221T012115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260221T012115Z UID:10004210-1775221200-1780160400@oaklandartmurmur.org SUMMARY:Deconstructing the Gaze: 'Forgotten Eyes': Contemporary Surrealism and Cubist Visions Challenge Perceptions of Reality DESCRIPTION:Johansson Projects presents Forgotten Eyes an exhibition of painting by Pablo Benzo and sculpture by Soojin Choi. Known for their emotional and undulating compositions\, Benzo and Choi exploit the unstable boundaries between interior and exterior worlds. Their representations of life are warped\, distended\, burnished\, and ultimately engaged in a reality that is elastic rather than fixed\, shaped by memory\, intuition\, and shifting sensorial conditions. \nOperating at the formal and conceptual nexus of Surrealism and Cubism\, Benzo’s paintings reinterpret early 20th-century modernism for the contemporary moment. Grounded in conventions of still life and portraiture\, his pastel-hued interiors are rendered as sites of mystery and multiplicity. In Benzo’s painted world flowers float as they wilt and the joints of furniture crease like flesh. Blending the quotidian with the otherworldly\, Benzo eschews realism for a dream-like plane of being\, offering a comfortable familiarity that always necessitates a double-take. \nChoi’s ceramic sculptures similarly forgo conventional modes of representation in favor of more circuitous structures. Often figurative\, her work treats the human body as a plastic form. Limbs and faces emerge from painted underglaze applied to hand-built planes of flattened clay that twist and twine around each other. Choi’s figures never engage in a moment of recognition\, instead looking outward with ambivalent expressions. Their contorted anatomy foregrounds their alterity\, evoking the complexity of human connection\, individuation\, and the construction of the other. \nForgotten Eyes will run Friday\, April 3 to Saturday\, May 30\, 2026. An opening reception will be held Friday\, April 3 from 5-8 pm. URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/deconstructing-the-gaze-forgotten-eyes-contemporary-surrealism-and-cubist-visions-challenge-perceptions-of-reality/ LOCATION:Johansson Projects\, 2300 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions,Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/portraits-pablo-soojin-artcloud-banner.png ORGANIZER;CN="Johansson Projects":MAILTO:info@johanssonprojects.com GEO:37.804829;-122.272476 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Johansson Projects 2300 Telegraph Ave Oakland CA 94612 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2300 Telegraph Ave:geo:-122.272476,37.804829 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260523T170000 DTSTAMP:20260420T100918 CREATED:20260407T151744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T152800Z UID:10004767-1776340800-1779555600@oaklandartmurmur.org SUMMARY:Edges of Attention DESCRIPTION:GearBox Gallery presents paintings by the 2025 Juried Show winner Javier Arizmendi-Kalb\, and ceramic sculptures from guest artist Susana Arias\, in Edges of Attention\, April 16th through May 23rd. Artists’ Reception is Saturday\, April 25\, 1 – 4pm. \n“Edges of Attention” brings together the work of Javier Arizmendi-Kalb and Susana Arias in a shared exploration of structure\, gesture\, and the threshold between control and intuition. Across painting and sculpture\, the exhibition engages in a spatial dialogue where perception shifts—where what is seen directly is only part of what is felt. \nArizmendi-Kalb’s large-scale paintings\, each rising to six feet in height\, operate as immersive environments rather than images\, occupying space with both physical authority and emotional immediacy. Suggesting refracted light and architectural spaces\, planes of color\, linear scaffolding\, and gestural marks collide and cohere\, hovering between construction and improvisation. \nIn conversation with these expansive canvases\, ceramic sculptures from Susana Arias’ Tree Series rise from four to over six feet tall. These works do not depict trees; they extract their presence. Minimal yet grounded\, they quietly shape and divide the surrounding space while rings\, joints\, and variations in surface suggest time embedded within the material\, evoking cycles of growth without literal narrative. \nGearBox Gallery: 770 West Grand Ave\, Oakland.\nGallery hours: Noon to 5pm Thursdays\, Fridays and Saturdays URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/edges-of-attention/ LOCATION:Gearbox Gallery\, 770 West Grand Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG_2508-1.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Gearbox Gallery":MAILTO:info@gearboxgallery.com GEO:37.804829;-122.272476 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Gearbox Gallery 770 West Grand Avenue Oakland CA 94612 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=770 West Grand Avenue:geo:-122.272476,37.804829 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260522T160000 DTSTAMP:20260420T100918 CREATED:20260325T182634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T012913Z UID:10004250-1777111200-1779465600@oaklandartmurmur.org SUMMARY:Wandering Stars: Young Artists’ Portrait Show DESCRIPTION:An exhibition showcasing OUSD High School students’ artwork. There are four schools represented in this show\, which are: Fremont High\, Skyline High\, Oakland High\, Oakland International\, and Madison Park Academy.\nIdentity\, home\, and the power of unapologetic presence run through this youth portrait exhibition. OUSD artists worked in photography\, digital media\, collage\, and painting—using symbols\, brush strokes\, color\, texture\, and imagination to portray what it means to be Oakland.\nThe evidence is in the details: facial expressions that don’t perform for anyone\, the way they hold their loved ones\, the specific choices that make each portrait theirs.\nRepresentation matters here. These young artists are about to graduate\, about to enter a world outside high school. But first\, they’re making visible what they know about themselves—their beauty\, their identity\, the fact of who they are.\nWandering Stars is a celebration of beauty\, selfhood\, and identity. These artists don’t wait to be seen. They make themselves visible. URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/wondering-stars-young-artists-portrait-show/2026-04-25/ LOCATION:East Bay Creative Lab\, 558 Bellevue Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States CATEGORIES:Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Postcard-V1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T180000 DTSTAMP:20260420T100918 CREATED:20260325T182634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T012913Z UID:10004251-1777219200-1777226400@oaklandartmurmur.org SUMMARY:Wandering Stars: Young Artists’ Portrait Show DESCRIPTION:An exhibition showcasing OUSD High School students’ artwork. There are four schools represented in this show\, which are: Fremont High\, Skyline High\, Oakland High\, Oakland International\, and Madison Park Academy.\nIdentity\, home\, and the power of unapologetic presence run through this youth portrait exhibition. OUSD artists worked in photography\, digital media\, collage\, and painting—using symbols\, brush strokes\, color\, texture\, and imagination to portray what it means to be Oakland.\nThe evidence is in the details: facial expressions that don’t perform for anyone\, the way they hold their loved ones\, the specific choices that make each portrait theirs.\nRepresentation matters here. These young artists are about to graduate\, about to enter a world outside high school. But first\, they’re making visible what they know about themselves—their beauty\, their identity\, the fact of who they are.\nWandering Stars is a celebration of beauty\, selfhood\, and identity. These artists don’t wait to be seen. They make themselves visible. URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/wondering-stars-young-artists-portrait-show/2026-04-26/ LOCATION:East Bay Creative Lab\, 558 Bellevue Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States CATEGORIES:Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Postcard-V1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260829T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260829T170000 DTSTAMP:20260420T100918 CREATED:20260401T170150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T170150Z UID:10004752-1787990400-1788022800@oaklandartmurmur.org SUMMARY:Exploring the Art of Collage: A Workshop Series with Raha DESCRIPTION:Join local multi-media artist Raha for an immersive\, hands-on journey into the world of collage. Whether you are a complete beginner or an artist looking to refine your creative process\, this workshop is designed to help you explore new stylistic constraints and stretch your imagination. \nDate & Time: Saturday\, August 29 \nMorning Session\n10:00 AM – 1:00 PM \nAfternoon Session\n2:00 PM – 5:00 PM URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/exploring-the-art-of-collage-a-workshop-series-with-raha/2026-08-29/1/ LOCATION:Dictée Art & Exhibitions\, 2117 11th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94606\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/The-Windsor-Workshop-That-Paper-Joint-Collage-002copy.jpg-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260829T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260829T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T100918 CREATED:20260401T170150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T170150Z UID:10004753-1787997600-1788008400@oaklandartmurmur.org SUMMARY:Exploring the Art of Collage: A Workshop Series with Raha DESCRIPTION:Join local multi-media artist Raha for an immersive\, hands-on journey into the world of collage. Whether you are a complete beginner or an artist looking to refine your creative process\, this workshop is designed to help you explore new stylistic constraints and stretch your imagination. \nDate & Time: Saturday\, August 29 \nMorning Session\n10:00 AM – 1:00 PM \nAfternoon Session\n2:00 PM – 5:00 PM URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/exploring-the-art-of-collage-a-workshop-series-with-raha/2026-08-29/2/ LOCATION:Dictée Art & Exhibitions\, 2117 11th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94606\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/The-Windsor-Workshop-That-Paper-Joint-Collage-002copy.jpg-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260829T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260829T170000 DTSTAMP:20260420T100918 CREATED:20260401T170150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T170150Z UID:10004754-1788012000-1788022800@oaklandartmurmur.org SUMMARY:Exploring the Art of Collage: A Workshop Series with Raha DESCRIPTION:Join local multi-media artist Raha for an immersive\, hands-on journey into the world of collage. Whether you are a complete beginner or an artist looking to refine your creative process\, this workshop is designed to help you explore new stylistic constraints and stretch your imagination. \nDate & Time: Saturday\, August 29 \nMorning Session\n10:00 AM – 1:00 PM \nAfternoon Session\n2:00 PM – 5:00 PM URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/exploring-the-art-of-collage-a-workshop-series-with-raha/2026-08-29/3/ LOCATION:Dictée Art & Exhibitions\, 2117 11th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94606\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/The-Windsor-Workshop-That-Paper-Joint-Collage-002copy.jpg-1.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR