STEVE LOMPREY / NEW PAINTINGS NOV.7TH - DEC.3RD

Steve Lomprey's Newest Work is EXTENDED thru Feb. 3rd at the WALL GALLERY starting this first friday tomorrow Jan.2nd - Feb. 3rd! The City of Oakland called off the last first friday in December so they are staying up for an additional month...come on down and see us tomorrow this first friday Jan 2nd at 473 25th street in Oakland, between Broadway and Telegraph... the doors are at 5pm it goes till 9pm....

FLOWER STAR 48"x 48" Mixed Media and Silver Leaf on wood panel

NICK COLEY / PAINTINGS / OCT. 3RD - NOV. 5TH

Once again Nick Coley brings his Neo-Impressionistic Technicolor paintings to the Wall Gallery. And yes the amazing Vanagon series will be there, this time replete with accompanying roadways of travel. This is a fun show....come on down and see us this first friday October 3rd at 473 25th street in Oakland, between Broadway and Telegraph... the doors are at 5pm it goes till 9pm....

CLAIRE PASQUIER / PAINTINGS SEPT. 5TH - 30TH

CLAIRE PASQUIER "The first of my two styles focused on cinema and my aesthetic experience of it as a child. With a palette knife I reproduced scenes from VHS tapes that had affected me and questioned my relationship with them. It was both a study in these iconic moments that now overlapped into my new geography and an artistic meditation on what the screen actually looked like. Computers had already accustomed us to flat, high definition virtual worlds but the truth is that these scenes were filled with static and  imperfections. My work has pushed me to analyze the power of these memory images, how I see them in relationship to my current life and memories, and to question the overlap of the television screen and the world around me. Recently these questions have lead me to apply the moiré effect found in old television screens to reproduced images from my personal life and Californian culture."
    "The second of my styles turned to the concept of the screen as a portal to our identity in the age of internet. I spent eighteen months in residence at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery painting over 180 portraits of people who contacted me through Facebook. I wanted to find a way to bridge my training as a portraitist with the concept of visual identity in a world that was becoming rapidly digital. In a day of excessive personal sharing and over exposure it was fascinating to realize how few of us actually consider our image as something outside of the digital screen space."
    "As I continue to explore the concept of the screen and its implications on space and identity, I hope to expand my practice and discover new meaning in an increasingly virtual world through both traditional and modern painting techniques."

"you might have seen this French woman....what you didn't know is that she's an artist...she did a portrait project as the resident artist at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery in 2012. Currently she is exploring the moire effect as a new way to look at paintings in the age of smartphones and mobile photography". 

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STEVE LOMPREY / SCI-FI SERIES JULY 4TH – AUG. 15TH

Steve Lomprey brings his Sci-Fi series to the wall gallery this month. As is often the case, what started out as a small scale experiment turned into a series of paintings. Lomprey has been circling around the intergalactic and imagined space themes recently. Now it's expressing itself in a confluence of surfaces that suggest the emergence of elemental forms, or perhaps the birthplace of the manifested within a field of chaos. 

Come on down this first friday June 6th from 5:30-9:00. Hope to see you! Otherwise, you can come by anytime from 1-5pm thursdays thru saturdays, the doors will be open. Don't miss the Saturday Stroll either!! Much less crowded but just as fun...every Saturday from 1-5pm. Click on picture to see it larger.

IRENE NELSON / MIXED MEDIA MONOPRINTS JUNE 6TH THRU JULY 2ND

Irene Nelson will be exhibiting her beautiful Mixed Media Monoprints this month. On her work Nelson says, "These recent prints evoke "internal" landscapes I draw up from within without external referents. Using black ink on a plate I employ a subtractive wiping method using tartalan cloths, sharp tools, dry brushes, etc. to brush ink away. Finally, I use collaging techniques to add back color selectively. Often, I use materials I've made myself (hand made paper, etc.) The results of these layerings are dark brooding unspecific black and white landscapes, with interior "windows" that open onto other, similar receding landscapes of color and light."

Come on down this first friday June 6th from 5:30-9:00. Hope to see you! Otherwise, you can come by anytime from 1-5pm thursdays thru saturdays, the doors will be open. Don't miss the Saturday Stroll either!! Much less crowded but just as fun...every Saturday from 1-5pm. Click on picture to see it larger.

TOSHI ANDERS HOO / PHOTOGRAPHS & VIDEO / PASSAGES: MOVING THROUGH WORLDS / MAY 2ND - JUNE 4TH

Toshi Anders Hoo is an award winning media producer, designer and artist. For this exhibition we selected an intimate video installation and vibrant abstract color photographs from Toshi's series PASSAGES: Moving Through Worlds. In the Passages series Toshi connects the divergent and intersecting realms of nations, peoples, and their landscapes - his abstractions offering contemplations of our physical, social and metaphysical spaces. The sites photographed range the globe from Turkey, Israel, Brazil, France and areas throughout the United States. 

Come on down this first friday May 2nd from 5:30 - 9:00. Hope to see you there! Otherwise, you can come by anytime from 1- 5 pm Thursdays thru Saturdays, the doors will be open. Don't miss the Saturday Stroll either!! Less crowded but just as fun..every Saturday from 1- 5pm. Click on picture to see larger.

GEISHA GUTTER 30"x 30" DIGITAL PHOTO PRINT

BRIAN CONERY / REMOVAL / SCULPTURE & PHOTOGRAPHS / EXTENDED!!!!!! TO APRIL 19TH!!!

Brian Conery will be showing "Removal", a mixed media installation. Configured as 3 distinct groupings interweaving the observed and the symbolic including altered photos, wall based sculpture and drawing. It all starts with the demolition of a university science building quickly transcending any formal exploration to signify stripping away and the exposing of many layers, being broken down, laid bare. Architecture becomes organic form and the forms become architecture.

EXTENDED!!!!! Come on down again this first friday on April 4th from 5:30 - 9:00. Hope to see you there! Otherwise, you can come by anytime from 1- 5 pm Thursdays thru Saturdays, the doors will be open. Don't miss the Saturday Stroll either!! Less crowded but just as fun..every Saturday from 1- 5pm. Click on picture to see larger.

HOWARD HERSH / PAINTINGS FEB 7TH - MAR 5TH

Howard Hersh will be showing his "Dispositions of Structure" series through March 5th. Hersh's beautiful encaustic paintings are a real marvel, at once otherworldly and intimately tactile. They are a delicious intimation of worlds beyond the known. 

Hersh on his own work: "My interests and my work continue to explore inter-relationships and connectivity in the universe, both macro and micro." 

Come on down for the next first friday on February 7th from 5:30 - 9:00. Hope to see you there! Otherwise, you can come by anytime from 1- 5 pm Thursdays thru Saturdays, the doors will be open. Don't miss the Saturday Stroll either!! Less crowded but just as fun..every Saturday from 1- 5pm. Click on picture to see larger.

‘Dispositions of Structure 24"× 24" encaustic/panel

ANTHONY MAY / PAINTINGS JAN.3 - FEB. 7

ANTHONY MAY and his beautifully rich and textured paintings will be at THE WALL GALLERY now through February 7th. Come down to Art Murmur's first friday this January 3rd from 5:30 - 9:00. Hope to see you there! Otherwise, you can come by anytime from 1- 5 pm Thursdays thru Saturdays, the doors will be open. Don't miss the Saturday Stroll either!! Less crowded but just as fun..every Saturday from 1-5pm. Click on picture to see larger.