At Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland What’s In A Name? The title of this show, Beyond the Frame, immediately gets us asking questions. Is the...

Photographer Steve Molnar knows quite a bit about places that most people wouldn't call their usual habitat. But through his pictures,...

By any reasonable measures, Bill Weber is one of the Bay Area’s most established artists, celebrated repeatedly over many years and...

Judson King Smith at Transmission Gallery August 1 through September 14   I got to Judson King Smith’s current show the day before  his...

Gray Loft Gallery, August 2024 (Note: see the terrific thumbnail gallery of artworks in this show at grayloftgallery.com while reading...

Jamie Treacy at Gearbox Gallery April - May 2024 Gearbox Gallery stands street level in a West Oakland building two stories tall. It has...

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...

Scientists are fond of surprising children with the news that nothing in reality is colored, but instead has color when excited by light....

TRACING PASSAGES Until November 11th, Oakland’s Gray Loft Gallery boasts a genre -bending trio of artists whose works erase the presumed...

The demand for creativity as a staple of business operations has never been more broadly intense. So we assume that it is somehow 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...

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...

Today, many people all over the world practice the ancient Japanese art of suiseki. This involves appreciating the natural shape of a...

Because you’re reading this, I’m going to give myself the liberty of presuming that you have seen AND read the Forbes article,...

"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...

Composing spans all media and genres in which a whole is built by arranging selected parts. So, naturally, it can produce things from...

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...

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,...

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,...

February 2023, Oakland Curator: Jan Watten Diaspora is a vivid word. We sense it in two ways. Saying it feels like saying “disperse.” At...