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Judson King Smith at Transmission Gallery August 1 through September 14 I got to Judson King Smith’s current show the day before his...
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Malcolm Ryder
Aug 145 min read
I Love My Tree; My Tree Loves Me
Gray Loft Gallery, August 2024 (Note: see the terrific thumbnail gallery of artworks in this show at grayloftgallery.com while reading...
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Malcolm Ryder
Apr 183 min read
INNER SPACE
Jamie Treacy at Gearbox Gallery April - May 2024 Gearbox Gallery stands street level in a West Oakland building two stories tall. It has...
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Malcolm Ryder
Mar 154 min read
Art of the African Diaspora: 2024
Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland March - April 2024 In a part of the U.S. where diversity is one of the most prominent social features, the...
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Malcolm Ryder
Feb 13 min read
Think Pink: Pretty in Pink at Gray Loft Gallery
Scientists are fond of surprising children with the news that nothing in reality is colored, but instead has color when excited by light....
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Malcolm Ryder
Nov 1, 20232 min read
Physical Abstraction - at Gray Loft Gallery
TRACING PASSAGES Until November 11th, Oakland’s Gray Loft Gallery boasts a genre -bending trio of artists whose works erase the presumed...
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Malcolm Ryder
Sep 12, 20232 min read
Speaking of Creativity
The demand for creativity as a staple of business operations has never been more broadly intense. So we assume that it is somehow in...
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Malcolm Ryder
Sep 12, 20236 min read
OUTSIDE IN
Why does someone make art, and why do they make it the way they do? Even though we want the answers, that question is too big and...
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Malcolm Ryder
Aug 16, 202319 min read
Art and the Stream of Consciousness
Nine Notes on how Kehinde Wiley makes Black Lives Matter 1. More is More August, 2023 – As of this writing, there is plenty of time left...
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Malcolm Ryder
Jun 19, 202321 min read
The Machine of a New Soul
Today, many people all over the world practice the ancient Japanese art of suiseki. This involves appreciating the natural shape of a...
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Malcolm Ryder
May 29, 20233 min read
Let’s Not Be Stupid About AI and Copyrights
Because you’re reading this, I’m going to give myself the liberty of presuming that you have seen AND read the Forbes article,...
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Malcolm Ryder
May 19, 20235 min read
COPYING RIGHTS: Warhol v. Goldsmith
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it. -- Yogi Berra May 18 - Reading through today's news about the Supreme Court ruling on Andy...
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Malcolm Ryder
Apr 26, 20231 min read
Composition and Decomposition
Composing spans all media and genres in which a whole is built by arranging selected parts. So, naturally, it can produce things from...
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Malcolm Ryder
Apr 17, 20235 min read
The DEPICTIONS Show: Portraits at the GRAY LOFT GALLERY
Oakland, CA April 1 through May 6, 2023 The word “portrait” can apply to many different things, such as a place, a time, a culture, or a...
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Malcolm Ryder
Mar 11, 20233 min read
Explaining AI and Creativity? Down the Slippery Slope with Noam Chomsky
As relayed to me by a colleague, there was a guest essay in the Opinion section of the New York Times , March 8, 2023, by Noam Chomsky,...
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Malcolm Ryder
Mar 3, 20236 min read
X-Rated at UMA Gallery
Wired up with Diane Komater Feb-Mar 2023 By Malcolm Ryder Are we over-exposed? Not in the highly sex-positive Bay Area of California,...
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Malcolm Ryder
Feb 18, 20236 min read
Art of the African Diaspora: Gray Loft Gallery
February 2023, Oakland Curator: Jan Watten Diaspora is a vivid word. We sense it in two ways. Saying it feels like saying “disperse.” At...
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Malcolm Ryder
Jan 15, 20234 min read
THE INTELLIGENCE OF ARTIFICE
Results, Automagically We can be surprised only so much to find out that encyclopedias of everything seem now to be available. Our common...
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Malcolm Ryder
Dec 24, 20222 min read
The Not Male Show
Project overview Critiquing a specific legacy archetype of maleness, the Not Male Show extends beyond feminism to a more inclusive...
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Malcolm Ryder
Dec 21, 20229 min read
Shades of Gray: Photography at the Gray Loft Gallery, Dec. 2022
Arriving After turning twice up the narrow stairway, a type exactly halfway between rustic and industrial chic, one enters the Gray Loft...
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