Jánaka

My creative work takes shape through different media, watercolors, drawings, photography and mixed media. Janaka is my artistic-spiritual name. I was born and raised in Mexico City but I have been living in the US for the last 35 years. Now I am based in Oakland, California.

Shelley Gardner

I moved to Oakland in 1976 to attend the graduate program in sculpture at California College of Arts and Crafts. I have had solo exhibits at Stanislaus State University, SFMOMA cafe, Blue Line Arts in Roseville, Michael Warren Gallery in Denver, Morris Graves Museum in Eureka, Merced College, The Lesher Center for the Arts in

Wilma Wyss

Bio Wilma began creating abstract sculptures in concrete and mosaic in 2007. Her art practice takes her in two complementary directions: fine art mosaics and commissions for public and private spaces. Wilma’s award-winning mosaic sculptures and wall hung work have been shown nationally. Site specific mosaic artwork has been commissioned by Kaiser Hospital in Oakland,

Jill McLennan

McLennan’s new body of work explores nature as it is altered through human impact, migration and climate change. Her paintings, drawings and linoleum block prints in this exhibition represent stories of human and animal migration, the houseless in Oakland. In her work, she explores the cycles of the natural world through narratives of nature’s reckoning

Sarah McAllister

Artist Statement Connect with every wing, every bud, every breath of wind, the light and the dark to feel absolutely alive. My paintings are a way to reconnect through nature, like a deep breath, that for a moment nothing else matters than the tingling of our senses, absorbing the shifting color of a single petal,

Ryan LaLonde

Ryan is an illustrator, artist and designer. Having worked as a commercial creative design director for two decades, Ryan has refocused his unique vision in fine art creations that revolve around color, whimsy, juxtaposition and storytelling. Ryan’s work used to only reflect found paper and objects to create beautiful pieces that range from natural landscapes,

Meghan Shimek

Based in Oakland, California, fiber artist Meghan Shimek creates large scale woven wall hangings and sculptures. Her engaging work is ethereal, whimsical and delicate, but rooted in the warm, earthy materials she uses. Exploring organic movement, Shimek’s weaving style allows the fibers to fall into an indeterminate pattern that reveals the beauty and vulnerability of

Najee Strickland

Najee Strickland is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Memphis, TN, and now resides in Oakland, CA. Visual art and clothing design are Najee’s primary practices, also used as dominant instruments for expanding into various formats such as interdisciplinary events like cinema and fashion presentations, art installations, group workshops, lectures and creative directory. In

Dan McGarrah

BIO Dan McGarrah grew up near Philadelphia. At age 25 he came out to Brooks Institute Of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. Subsequent to graduating from Brooks, he had a career in advertising photography. Transitioning past that career, he decided that he would create abstract art using his own methodology. Starting with photos he takes

Andrew Brown

I’m here only once in this beautiful, messy world and I’m astonished to find myself—of all things—a full time easel painter in Oakland! I paint because I have to. My only art training is a lifelong obsession with Goya, and thirty years of constantly evolving, expressive, live model drawing. And painting. Lots of painting. I

Joey Rose

Joey Rose was born in the East Bay and raised in a small town: Latrobe, CA. He found his passion for public art upon moving back to Oakland as a student at California College of the Arts, graduating with a BFA in Illustration in 2017. His practice is focused primarily on painting site-specific murals, many

Filma Collective

Filma Collective is a group of artists who work together to large scale dynamic creative experiences. While each experience is unique, Filma Collective tends to focus their artistic design around four core principles: Immersion, Interaction, Discovery, and Consent. Each art piece is designed specifically to be responsive to the environment and people within the environment,

Brittany Maxson

Artist statement: In my photography, I seek to capture the relationship between gender, sexuality and overall queerness. I am drawn to the diversity of queer bodies and want to highlight the beauty within queer folks, despite what the larger society may think or feel, we are beautiful. I truly hope that this work touches the

Janet Brugos

Though born in Chicago, Brugos has lived in Calirornia, Colorado, Hawaii and France. She now resides in Oakland, California. Her art training was at DePauw University, Greencastle, IN with studio classes at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Chicago Art Institute. Brugos is a mixed media artist She uses paint, fabric, found objects, suminagashi and

Mary Coffield

As an oil painter I produce both abstract and figurative work. My paintings invite the viewer to immerse themselves in the natural world. I paint my emotional response to what I see. I use a variety of implements to apply paint to the canvas. The results are often accidental. I look for beauty in the

Karol Hilker

Karol Hilker’s paint is built up in layers of color to create an environment for the figures. She likes to show the despair, hope, tension, love, and passion that we all experience through her images. Her paintings show the chaos and balance we can create in our lives. Karol has had the joy of being

Barry Ebner

Barry Ebner is a printmaker specializing in monoprint and etching. The majority of his work is abstract, embracing texture and markmaking to create visual spaces that echo mapmaking and ways which we define borders. His most recent exhibitions were with Vessel Gallery in Oakland CA and at Taller 99 in Santiago, Chile. He has taught

Malcolm Ryder

As a landscape photographer, I have explored how I can portray my maligned home city of Oakland California, through an original new view. The way I make my pictures pursues an awareness of the cityscape as being an invention and an evolution, a way of seeing how we change our town on our own terms,