The Compound Studios & Gallery

New Location

Posted on March 2nd, 2010 in News

We just got the keys to our new space and we are getting it ready for our big move.  Make sure you come visit us at our Grand Opening on April 17th for Round Rhythm!

1167 65th Street, Oakland, CA 94608 (Only one block from our current location) Here are some before photos:

We are MOVING!

Posted on February 21st, 2010 in News

We will be moving one block away to a bigger and better location. We will be closed from March 15-April 16 and will reopen in our new space on April 17 with Round Rythm: work by Alissa Goss and Tallulah Terryll.  Our hours will remain the same (Thur-Sun 12-6)

Our new address:

1167 65th st
Oakland, CA 94608

Call for Entries!

Posted on October 8th, 2009 in News

Holidayland is back!
This is the second year we will be joining forces with Blankspace located next door to create a holiday Extravaganza!

This year we are looking to offer more local original artwork, handmade crafty items, accessories, cards, ornaments, tote bags and creative fun stuff.

Holidayland is full of fun, surprises and festive events.  If you or someone you know makes affordable, well crafted items or small affordable artworks and wants to be part of the fun please see the guidelines for submission below.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Send an email to info@thecompoundgallery.com with holidayland submission in the subject line. In the email please include:
1. thumbnail images or links to representative examples of proposed items you wish to sell
2. included proposed retail pricepoints of your items
3. include contact info- first/last name and the best contact email and phone number
4. Please no phone calls for submission, if you have any questions please email at the address listed above.
5. You will be notified by email if your submission has been accepted for inclusion in the sale. Follow-up info will be provided at that time.

PLEASE NOTE: if you are not available during the drop-off or pick-up times and cannot make arrangements for someone in advance to deliver or pick-up, please do not sign up to participate. We cannot store or ship any items, no exceptions.Space is limited so not all inquiries will result in being able to sell at Holidayland.

We will review all submissions to determine if your items/artworks are a good match for our event and audience.

Deadline to submit a proposal to sell in time to have your name included on the card is October 16th.
Deadline for submitting a proposal to be included in the sale (name on website all other collateral materials)is November 1st.

ADDITIONAL INFO:

Sale Dates:
November 27 – December 20th

Drop-off dates:
Thursday, November 12th – Sunday, November 15th, 12-6pm

Pick-up date:
Monday, Dec 21st 4-8pm

Participants do NOT need to be present during the sale, the gallery handles the marketing, sales and installation of items.

ALL ITEMS/ARTWORKS need to RETAIL FOR UNDER $200
Drop-off dates: Thursday, November 12th – Sunday, November 15th, 12-6pm
Pick-up date: Monday, Dec 21st 4-8pm

This Long Road Reviews and Mentions

Posted on September 30th, 2009 in News

Thank you everyone for the lovely mentions!
The East Bay Express review HERE
A blog mention by My Love for you is a stamped of horses HERE
A nice blog with photos by John Casey HERE.

This Long Road now online!

Posted on September 17th, 2009 in News

Check out our current show “This Long Road” by Ben Belknap, Crystal Morey, and Derek Weisberg online HERE.

Closed for Installation

Posted on September 11th, 2009 in News

We are currently closed for installation. We will reopen this Saturday, September 12th at 6pm for the opening reception of This Long Road. If you are an Art in a Box subscriber, you may pick up your box at the opening reception.

Anatomies (San Francisco Chronicle, July 2, 2009)

Posted on July 17th, 2009 in News, Press

The SF Chronicle marked Anatomies as a “Don’t Miss” exhibition!

Thursday, July 2, 2009
By Sarah Han

The Compound Gallery reopens after a month long closure in June with this exhibition, featuring works by Kari Marboe and Adrian Van Allen. Artist and gallery owner (of Oakland’s MG Gallery) Marboe gives us an inside look at her family – literally – with her clay “internal portraits.” She also offers sculptures of organs in glass cubes that re-create stories from friends and from the news. Van Allen also deals with strange biological matters – she creates an evolutionary time line using skeletons, including the skull of the mystical unicorn.

Cutups-East Bay Express

Posted on July 17th, 2009 in News

We had a great review of our current show “Anatomies” in this week’s East Bay Express. Check it out:
Cutups:Anatomically incorrect works merge science and art.
By DeWitt Cheng
July 15, 2009

Kari Marboe and Adrian Van Allen are inspired by bones, flesh, and viscera. This may sound morbid nowadays, but for the nearly four centuries between the Renaissance and Modernism, artists were expected to know the anatomical facts of life and thereby depict the human condition with gravitas — to follow Leonardo, who performed secret dissections (and wrote backward, as if that would have fooled the inquisitors), and Vesalius, who published woodcuts of dissected figures posed like classic statues: scientific versions of the satyr Marsyas, flayed by Apollo over artistic hubris. Marboe’s Medical Narratives are comprised of sculptures accompanied by text. The sealed glass cubes with their alcohol-bathed sheep/cow organs may suggest Damien Hirst’s slice-of-life sensationalism, but here the brain, eye, heart, lungs, kidney, and ovary are intact and isolated, as if for scientific analysis or aesthetic delectation. “Kidney” is indeed quite beautiful and funny, with its submerged bean/potato sprouting a snorkel. The tabloid narratives further emphasize the absurd side of human vulnerability: a psychotic inmate eats his eyes; a man married to the wife of his heart donor shoots himself, as his donor did; a fir tree is found growing in a man’s lung. Also shown are painted ceramic reliefs set on wooden panels, medical retablos, illustrating Aunt Jane’s appendectomy, Marboe’s ovarian cyst, sister Elinor’s leg wound, and cousin Joby’s root canal: with its nerves removed, Joby writes, “We have drifted apart, unable to communicate. It’s just a lodger now. An empty, soulless stranger in my mouth. An enamel gravestone.” Van Allen plays with morphology and taxonomy, constructing “a personal zoo” of biological curiosities from old skeletal diagrams that she reassembles through collage and prints atop Geological Survey map fragments, suggesting paleontological digs and maybe, considering her faux museology, ontological gags, too. The title, Natura Historia (Revised), refers to the encyclopedic amalgam of fact and fiction compiled by the Roman scientist Pliny the Elder (who died studying the erupting Vesuvius in 79 AD), and perhaps to Surrealist Max Ernst’s eponymous book of collage/frottage works. Pliny proposed an early method of classifying animals based on modes of locomotion, with chickens and kiwis (yum) darting and flapping, otters scurrying, and weasels scampering; Van Allen’s hybrids are organized along functional lines as well: a giant Megatherium sloth has the webbed, clawed feet of a mole or penguin; a bison sports a mammoth’s head; a flying Draco lizard gains additional life from a flatfish’s fine ribs; common unicorn and uncommon otter co-exist. Anatomies runs through August 3 at the Compound Gallery (6604 San Pablo Ave., Oakland). TheCompoundGallery.com or 510-655-9019

Golden Gate Gallery District

Posted on July 17th, 2009 in News

The Compound Gallery is located in Oakland’s Golden Gate Gallery District, which the East Bay Express has just named Best New Art Walk 2009! Pick up this weeks issue or read about it here online.

BEST NEW ART WALK
Golden Gate Gallery District
San Pablo Ave., Berkeley

The galleries along San Pablo Avenue that have participated in First Friday for several years have not exactly seceded, Texas-style, from that event; instead, they’ve opened a new front, or art district, named after the traditional moniker for the triangle where Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville converge. Blankspace and the Compound Gallery on San Pablo are already familiar to Generation X and Y boulevardiers; somewhat less so, undeservedly, are the nearby Periscope Cellars, Forthrite Printing, and John F. Kennedy University art gallery. All will be open First Fridays from 6 to 9 p.m. Adding new luster to the area is Kala Institute’s brand-new 2,000-square-foot gallery on the ground floor of the old Heinz factory, just downstairs from JFKU; scheduled events include artist talks and Thank God It’s Thursday wine-and-art nights. Pick up postcards with addresses and hours at any of the participating venues.

Oakland Indie Award Nomination!

Posted on June 29th, 2009 in News

We were nominated for the Oakland Indie Awards

The Compound Gallery on YouTube!

Posted on June 28th, 2009 in News

Now you can watch videos from our events on YouTube! Our user name is TheCompoundGallery. Click here to see video from our apple and orange eating contest and our last experimental music night!

The Compound Gallery Experimental Music Series – Feb. 24th 2009

Posted on June 24th, 2009 in News

The Compound Gallery Experimental Music Series by jimzeen productions and Outsound Presents:

8 pm

– The Lords of Outland – Rent Romus / CJ Borosque / Philip Everett / Ray Schaeffer
9 pm – The Spirit Moves Us” Bob Marsh / Jim Ryan / Spirit

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Oakland Uptown Unveiled Street Fair Thursday, June 18th!

Posted on June 18th, 2009 in News

We will be at the Oakland Uptown Unveiled Street Fair Thursday, June 18th. We will have a table for Art in a Box, so if your around, stop in and say hello! More info here: meetdowntownoak.com

Art in a Box news

Posted on June 16th, 2009 in News

Check out our write up in the Contra Costa Times! CLICK HERE to read it

Art in a Box Launch Party Success!

Posted on June 6th, 2009 in News

Thanks everyone who came out to the Art in a Box Launch Party! We have many new subscribers and we are so excited about the new art subscription service.  

The Compound Gallery is now on Twitter

Posted on June 3rd, 2009 in News

Check us out HERE (Our user name is “CompoundOakland”)

The Thing – Tuesday, April 28 at 8pm

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 in News

The Compound Gallery Experimental Music Series by jimzeen productions and Outsound Presents

8 pm – “THE THING” with Mats Gustafsson (STOCKHOLM) – Reeds / Ingebrigt H. Flaten (OSLO) – Bass / Paal Nilssen-Love (OSLO) – Drums

The stellar free-style improv trio from Norway and Sweden on a rare United States tour.  This is their only Bay Area concert.


tuesday • april 28 • 09  8pm • 2 sets • donation

The Thing was established in  February 2000 when the three musicians met to play several concerts and to record the first CD on Crazy Wisdom, a sub label of Swedish Universal.  The trio was a long-awaited constellation where several musical styles met in a very high energy outlet. All members are influenced by different traditions of free music derived from Germany, England and America, and these influences are to be felt, tho not necessary heard.  The Thing is now signed on the Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound.
Mats Gustafsson is today one of Sweden’s and Europe’s biggest names on the free music scene and has somewhat reinvented the way the saxophone is played.  Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love have become known as Norway`s heaviest rhythm-section.  Their long time collaboration started in 1992.

“The Thing convert’s nouveau punk and vintage garage-rock into a roaring scream-up, but the sheer energy and love of the music keep gimmickery at bay” Uncut
“The sheer power they generate from wood, metal, breath and muscle is stunning” BBC
“Absurdly cool” DJ Magazine

New Hours Beginning May 2nd!

Posted on May 29th, 2009 in News

Beginning May 2nd our new hours will be Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12-6pm.

The Compound Gallery Experimental Music Series – Mar. 24th 2009

Posted on May 24th, 2009 in News

The Compound Gallery Experimental Music Series by jimzeen productions and Outsound Presents:

TBA

ART in a BOX

Posted on May 24th, 2009 in News

ART IN A BOX

Subscribe NOW! First Boxes Start in June!

Subscribe to The Compound Gallery’s Art in a Box! Each month you will receive a new piece of fine art by a different artist.  Give the GIFT of ART for someone special or for yourself. By subscribing, you receive high quality works worth much more than the subscription cost AND you support local artists AND The Compound Gallery!  Our 11 featured artists are talented and creative individuals that create amazing, collectible, marvelous works of art.  All artwork will be accompanied by the artist’s bio and will be contained in an 11” x 17”x3” box.

CLICK HERE To Read More about ART in a BOX and ORDER!

New Experimental Music Series – 4th Tuesdays of the Month

Posted on January 29th, 2009 in News

The Compound Gallery, jimzeen productions and Outsound Presents experimental music every 4th Tuesday of the month. [More ...]

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS – Deadline October 11, 2008

Posted on September 22nd, 2008 in News

The Compound Gallery in Oakland is having an open call for our our December Holiday show. [More ...]

Open Call Opportunity

Posted on August 16th, 2008 in News

OAKLAND ART GALLERY – OPEN CALL – BAY AREA CURRENTS 2008

DEADLINE: September 12th, 2008

More info and guidelines can be found at: http://www.oaklandartgallery.org/BAC2008/

ONLINE APPLICATION: https://db.proartsgallery.org/oag/bac_08.php

Artist of The Month Wall

Posted on May 27th, 2008 in News

We are finishing up the new addition to The Compound and we now have an Artist of The Month wall. Each month will feature an artist who has a studio at The Compound. The rotation will begin on June 6th with Eric Sanchez.

The Compound Gallery and the Oakland Art Murmur

Posted on May 7th, 2008 in News

We are proud to announce that The Compound Gallery is now officially part of the Oakland Art Murmur! We will be open on First Fridays of each month from 7-10pm. Visit Oaklandartmurmur.com to find out more about the murmur.