I’m a painter and printmaker based in Oakland, California, where I’ve made my home for more than three decades. However, my roots trace back to an early age where I grew up on the shores of a Minnesota lake. This blend of urban life and a deep connection to nature shapes my artistic journey and…
Pete Villaseñor
Pete Villaseñor moved to the Bay Area from San Antonio Texas 29 years ago. After living in San Francisco for 20 years, he moved with his partner and cat to Oakland, CA, where he had been working as a Senior Librarian with the Oakland Public Library for three decades. After retiring last year, he is…
Sonia Gill
Light is always my subject. Recently I have been exploring the circles and ovals of my cups and bowls using paper as a “painting medium”. These portraits of my favorite dishes are very abstract yet realistic. One can see that these dishes are drying by the side of the sink yet the subject matter is…
Michelle Sweeney-Fillmore
Michelle Sweeney-Fillmore is a photorealistic painter based in the Bay Area. She grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and graduated with a BA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2015. Fillmore’s paintings are autobiographical metaphors. Having grown up with a family member that wrestled with mental illness, her work…
Christopher Peterson
Mr Peterson’s paintings are fundamentally urban landscapes, featuring familiar scenes from the highly mechanized and complex life we all live. Working most of the time (but not always) from photographs, he’s constantly shooting and editing, to find the best combination of light, color and design for his paintings. He works primarily in oil on canvas,…
Dobee Snowber
Dobee Snowber holds a BA in Intellectual History/Feminist Studies from Kirkland/Hamilton College and a BFA in Printmaking /Painting from the Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine. She has participated in several residencies including at the Vermont Studio School and Penland Art Center. She has shown extensively in various venues including museums, galleries, solo exhibitions, group…
Fumiyo Yoshikawa
BIO Fumiyo Yoshikawa is a highly skilled Japanese artist with a rich background in Japanese art and painting. She honed her craft at Kyoto University of Education and trained under the esteemed lineage of the Shijo Maruyama School with Ikeda Yoson. Drawing inspiration from Zen and Shintoism, Yoshikawa’s art seamlessly integrates elements from diverse cultural…
Joe Gegan
My interest is in building paintings from intuition, allowing my hand to work one step faster than I think I can control – always searching, moving, finding as I feverishly edit and re-edit until I achieve completeness. I find painting to be a physical way of thinking, an internal discourse made concrete. Recently, I have…
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…
Janet Lee Smith
As a child in a small, rural New England town, my family exposure to art was color-books and crayons. I feel I was guided by the Universe when I became friends in high school with a young woman who came from a family of artists. After attending the Philadelphia College of Art, I spent 18…
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,…
Dave Kwinter
After years of painting with acrylics and digital art software, I have discovered the delights of assemblage. Working in three dimensions is much more fun than being confined to two. The components of my sculptures come from thrift stores, flea markets, and eBay. More than once, something I picked up from the sidewalk has ended…
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…
Fernando Reyes
Will NOT be open Saturday June 8th Bio Fernando’s early career was defined by an academic style of painting, heavily dedicated to figuration and landscapes. In 2014, Reyes’ work shifted profoundly after seeing a Matisse exhibition called “The Cut-Outs” at MoMA. Reconsidering the painted compositions he had spent his career refining, he began to explore…
Sara Frucht
Sara Frucht is an artist, programmer and mathematician who has been working in a variety of media for many years. She has always had a fascination for geometry, and when she was in high school, she won a regional award for a presentation on visualizing in four dimensions. She started making generative art in the…
Deborah Sibony
The relationship between architecture and nature is a central theme which informs my work. I am interested how our landscapes reveal history and sense of place and how it affects the human condition. From industrial sites which have been abandoned and are in the process of being dismantled to transitional landscapes which are in constant…
Matthew Felix Sun
Matthew Felix Sun grew up in Manchuria (northeast China), and has been perfecting his craft since childhood, when a visit to an exhibition of Italian Renaissance art cemented his passion for painting. After an education and brief career in the sciences, which enabled him to escape his repressive native country and relocate to the US,…
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…