STEVE LOMPREY / VERNACULAR SERIES / MARCH 3RD

The Wall Gallery will have a solo show of Steve Lomprey's Vernacular series starting this first friday March 3rd. These are post-analog paintings, created by the interaction of the human hand and the robot. They are echoes of the tactile realm deconstructed through digital distortion....or incomplete transmissions from distant galaxies. see them!..5-9pm at the Wall Gallery 473 25th street, Oakland, between Broadway and Telegraph..would love to see you!

NICK COLEY / NEW WORK / EXTENDED / FEB 3RD – 14TH

NICK COLEY is EXTENDED at the WALL GALLERY with stunning new work from Feb 3rd through Feb 14th. Post-Impressionism may be an unworthy designation for a painter that brings such a freshness to the landscape with such perspicacity. Pushed color is everywhere and delicious to look at, sometimes thick and luscious, sometimes diaphanous. The deft paint handling must be seen up close to be believed. Come see them this first friday, tomorrow January 6th 5-9pm 472 25th street between Telegraph and Broadway in Oakland, CA.

MICHAEL CUTLIP / MIXED MEDIA ON WOOD / EXTENDED FRI DEC. 2ND – TUES JAN. 3RD

Michael Cutlip / EXTENDED! Friday December 2nd through January 3rd. The Wall Gallery is showing the amazing mixed media work of Michael Cutlip. Using layers of found materials Michael constructs a rich archaeology of color and image. His uncanny ability to make the right choices has as much to do with courage as it has to do with a sensitive eye. Excavation becomes drawing and compositional elements are sometimes obliterated or covered in order to allow for a resolution in the form of pictorial elegance. These must be seen in person for full effect! Starts first friday December 2nd from 6-9pm 473 25th street between Broadway and Telegraph in Oakland. 

JEFF SNELL / PAINTINGS / OCT. 7TH – NOV. 1ST

JEFF SNELL is up at the Wall Gallery and is being Co-Presented with Slate Gallery this first friday October 7th- November 1st. Jeff's super cool work employs automatic gestures, found imagery, and is rich in urban texture and excavated color. A must see live.. October 7th 5-9pm. 473 25th street, Oakland CA.

JOHN HERSEY / PAINTINGS & MORE / JULY 1ST – AUGUST 3RD

First friday is tomorrow July 1st and the brilliant John Hersey is at the Wall Gallery with a grouping of works themed "Moods of John Hersey". There will be a variety of works in a variety of mediums. Come see the creative and amazing ways that John expresses his deep talent and idiosyncratic way of seeing. Tomorrow July 1st between 6-9pm! 473 25th street in Oakland...between Brodaway and Telegraph.

ADAM CARDELLO / NEW PAINTINGS / JUNE 3RD - 28TH

We have Adam Cardello's New Paintings up at the Wall Gallery with their beautiful combination of gestural and hard edged shapes defining exotic future spaces that are uniquely his own...We would love to see you!!! 473 25th street in Oakland...between Brodaway and Telegraph

DEBORAH SALOMON / COLLAGE / MAY 6TH – 31ST

This month's first friday we will be showing Deborah Salomon's collage's on paper and on wood panels. Her lyrically rigorous collages are beautiful, interesting and have the uncanny ability to delight both hemispheres of the brain at the same time! We would love to see you this first friday May 6th between 6-9pm! 473 25th street in Oakland...between Brodaway and Telegraph

GROUP SHOW NUMBER 3 WITH SLATE GALLERY

This month we have another sweet group show with artists at SLATE CONTEMPORARY.. Subtle, beautiful, and nuanced paintings of all media that are having a great conversation with each other! We would love to see you!!! 473 25th street in Oakland...between Brodaway and Telegraph

GROUP SHOW NUMBER 2 WITH SLATE GALLERY

COME ON DOWN TODAY FIRST FRIDAY the 4TH!!! for another group show in collaboration with the great folks at SLATE GALLERY....Come down and have some fun with us! 473 25th street in Oakland from 6-9pm...between Broadway and Telegraph...We would love to see you!!!

GROUP SHOW with SLATE CONTEMPORARY

This month the Wall Gallery is presenting a group show in collaboration with Slate Contemporary! We have seven great artists this first friday all in one show: Carol Inez Charney, Raul de la Torre, Lola, Patricia Thomas, Carol Lefkowitz, Brenda Zappitell and Steve Lomprey. We would love to see you!!! this first friday the 5th! It's from 6-9pm at 473 25th street in Oakland between Broadway and Telegraph.

NICK COLEY / JANUARY 1ST - JANUARY 15TH

NICK COLEY HAS BEEN EXTENDED THRU mid-January!! at The Wall Gallery this first friday the 1st!!. His Neo-Impressionist style shines with subjects classical (Landscapes) and not so classical (Winnebagos). A fresh hand and eye creating beautiful paintings with great skill and wit. January 1st- January 15th. Doors open from 5-9pm. 473 25th street, Oakland, CA... between Telegraph & Broadway. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 

HEATHER DAY / NEW PAINTINGS / NOV. 6TH - NOV. 30TH

HEATHER DAY is coming back to the Wall Gallery this coming first friday Nov. 6th!! We are showing her newest, beautiful, vibrant, large canvas works inspired by Heather's travels this year. Doors open from 5-9pm. 473 25th street, Oakland, CA... between Telegraph & Broadway.

BRIAN CONERY / MIXED MEDIA PANELS / OCTOBER 2 - 31

Brian Conery returns to the Wall Gallery with 9 brand new mixed media pieces. Multi-panel mash-ups utilizing previous work and images reconfigured in an exploration of the abstract. Images of his sculptures are almost entirely destroyed in the process only to be remade into a celebration of surface, shape and tone. Drawings have been introduced into the mix exploring mundane containers, barges and spent space capsules. Come by Oct. 2 during FIRST FRIDAY from 5 - 9 pm. The show runs through Oct. 31st at: 473 25th street in Oakland, between Broadway and Telegraph.

JENNIE OPPENHEIMER / PAINTINGS / SEPTEMBER 4TH – SEPTEMBER 28TH

The Wall Gallery will be extending Jennie Oppenheimer's show through the month of September. There is a very now quality to Jennie's abstractions. In a moment where so much abstract painting seems derivative or backward looking, Jennie brings such a fresh, personal, and unique language to her work. Her paintings exude both lightness and gravitas. The show is this FIRST FRIDAY September 4th - September 28th. Come on down and see them on September 4th at: 473 25th street in Oakland, between Broadway and Telegraph from 5-9pm.

NICK COLEY / NEW PAINTINGS JULY 3RD – AUG. 4TH

The Wall Gallery once again welcomes Nick Coley. This is a great show of new paintings, beautiful landscapes, deliciously painted parked cars, camper vans, and school buses. It's a recontextualization of time-honored painterly rigor seen through a thoroughly modern eye and hand.  The show is from tomorrow FIRST FRIDAY July 3rd - August 4th. Come on down and see us tomorrow at 473 25th street in Oakland, between Broadway and Telegraph from 5-9pm.

SELECTIONS FROM THE NELSON / WALSH COLLECTION JUNE 5TH–JULY 3RD

The Wall Gallery is honored to host the amazing collection of Dan Nelson and Lexa Walsh. Over seventy artworks will be on view from their wonderfully eclectic personal collection as well as their own works. The show is from tomorrow FIRST FRIDAY June 5th - July 3rd. Come on down and see us at 473 25th street in Oakland, between Broadway and Telegraph 5-9pm.

140 Ways to Make a Cassette Unlistenable by Dan Nelson

CORRESPONDENCES / Krista Svalbonas / Howard Hersh EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 13TH

Correspondences is a collaboration between Howard Hersh and Krista Svalbonas. This is a beautiful combination of complimentary sensibilities. Suggestions of synaptic pathways and architectural form creates the sensation of a diffuse matrix of latent allusions that remain satisfyingly undefined. The show is EXTENDED from today FIRST FRIDAY May 1st - May 13th.Come on down and see us at 473 25th street in Oakland, between Broadway and Telegraph 5-9pm.

ADAM WOLPERT / NEW PAINTINGS MAR.6TH-APR.1ST

Adam Wolpert's newest work is extended at the Wall Gallery to March 6th Through April 1st! His beautiful small scale series paintings are visual poetry. Each image series arranged in groupings selected by the artist, reveals the evocative beauty of the natural world. What may seem random at first glance quickly begins to exude implied meanings that speak directly to the heart rather than the discursive mind. His varied imagery explores the themes of cycles, relationships and balance, and investigates the subtle distinction between the representational and the abstract. Come on down and see us on the next Oakland Art Murmur first friday March 6th at 473 25th street in Oakland, between Broadway and Telegraph... open 5-9pm

MYTH OF DELIVERANCE     OIL ON BOARD

SIX POINTS OF DEPARTURE     OIL ON BOARD

STORY OF A CHILDS DREAMS     OIL ON BOARD

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.

HEATHER DAY NOV.1st - NOV. 27th

The Wall Gallery presents HEATHER DAY. Heather Day was born in Ewa Beach, Hawaii and spent most of her younger years living in the Washington DC area. She received her BFA in painting and art history from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore MD. While studying at MICA, Day began showing her paintings in Washington DC, Chicago and other select cities. Day creates work that involves a process of layering paint, fibers and various energetic marks. She's interested in the relationship between decay and upkeep that relies heavily on human interaction. These paintings are never planned. Each piece is a product of an experience, leaving behind documentation of how an event transpired. The paintings often act as pages in a book requiring several in a series to tell a story. Day currently lives and works in Oakland, CA. 

This new show will coincide with the Oakland Art Murmur's first friday November 1st from 6:00 - 9:00. The show will continue now through to the 27th of November. Hope to see you there! Otherwise, you can come by anytime from Fridays to Saturdays 12- 6 pm , the doors will be open. Click on the picture to see it larger.