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
- 2 min
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
- 6 min
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
- 19 min
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
- 21 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 5 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 5 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 6 min
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
- 6 min
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
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 9 min
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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Malcolm Ryder
- Dec 17, 2022
- 5 min
Fake Deep - The Age of Intelligent Artifice
Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., rages on in the world of visual art, it’s current ability to automatically compose being the new apex...
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Malcolm Ryder
- Dec 15, 2022
- 5 min
DESTRUCTIVE CREATION: ADELINE GRAFFITI PALACE
Ghost Busters The experience of time’s passage takes place only due to the perception of change, and if the noticeable events don’t...
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Malcolm Ryder
- Nov 2, 2022
- 11 min
PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY: The End Of Genres
One of the more bizarre things that occurred in the past but that still persists is the phrase “art and photography”. For simplicity’s...
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Malcolm Ryder
- Oct 17, 2022
- 4 min
IMAGES MATTER
Oakland, CA – The Black Lives Matter movement brought Oakland back into the political foreground in a way not felt since the Women’s...
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Malcolm Ryder
- Jul 7, 2022
- 15 min
LOOKING AT PICTURES: THE EYE'S MIND
Contents: READING THE IMAGE. THE WORK DONE IN THE IMAGE. THE WORK DONE BY THE IMAGE. DESIGNING THE IMAGE. THE VIEWER AT WORK. THE WORK OF...
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