The Compound Gallery: A World of Its Own A look at the decidedly unstuffy North Oakland galleries and studios. By Obi Kaufmann (Photo by Obi Kaufmann) Click HERE to go to the online article The Compound Gallery & Studios (1167 65th St., Oakland) has long been a noble outpost on the northern frontier of the …
“The Art of Letterpress” showcases the beauty of print By: Monica Cruz-Rosas | February 23, 2012 – 8:38 am The silhouettes of hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters are encased in the belly of an angry matryoshka doll. The outline of the Russian figurine is printed with burnt-red oil ink on beige cardboard. Above and below …
Must See! The Art of Letterpress Opens in Oakland By Stephanie Orma / 02/09/12 CLICK HERE TO GO TO CA HOME AND DESIGN If ink pressed to paper sets your heart aflutter, kick-start your Valentine’s Day celebrations with a little letterpress love this weekend. Opening Feb. 11, Oakland’s The Compound Gallery presents The Art of …
Oakland gallery showcases modern use of antiquated letterpress By Jessica Pena | Staff Last Updated Feb. 2, 2012 The Compound Gallery & Studios in Oakland is a comforting place. They have an affable staff, a rich display of chandelier lighting and a pleasant soundtrack of 1920s jazz. It was strange then, on Saturday evening, to …
‘He-Charmers,’ through Dec. 5 November 03, 2011|Mary Eisenhart “Green Jeans,” a mixed-media painting by Bay Area artist Katherine Sherwood. Credit: Compound Gallery As part of her ongoing work at the Yelling Clinic – a collective that explores the area where art, medicine and disability intersect – Katherine Sherwood combines ancient painting techniques with medical images, …
Artist merges brain scans and paintings for He-Charmers exhibit at The Compound Gallery Katherine Sherwood’s new collection He-Charmers opened last week at the Compound Gallery in Oakland. Her newest work features mixed media paintings that incorporate brain imagery from her personal medical history. By: Megan Molteni | October 24, 2011 – 11:59 am A pair of eyes, the …
Looking in All the Right Places Adrian Van Allen and Elizabeth Williams find their muses in the museum and on the street. By DeWitt Cheng The idea of the Wunderkammer, or cabinet of marvels, has haunted installation art in recent years for good reason: A number of disparate objects presented as relics from some imaginary museum …
‘Making the Road by Walking,’ through Aug. 21 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Travel underlies the work of two painters in this exhibition. Recently returned from coastal towns in Senegal, Martin Webb is fascinated with themes of the need for work, the need to move from place to place, the appeal of water, and the people …
East Bay Express August 10-16, 2011
Staff Pick American Vinyl Through June 5 Jeanne Lorenz’s installation American Vinyl imagines the record store as a museum of faux LPs and 45s (i.e., print and painting simulacra) reminiscent, in their frontality, painterly nuance, deadpan ambiguity, and discontinuous compositions, of Jasper Johns’ greatest hits. Ironic metaphysics aside, pieces like “Survival Evasion and Escape” and …
Far From the Maddening Crowds Art Murmur keeps expanding beyond its original borders. By DeWitt Cheng Matt and Lena Reynoso’s rehabbed The Compound Gallery (1167 65th St., 510-601-1702, TheCompoundGallery.com), an 8,000-square-foot space that blends Minimalism and old-school industrial tech nicely, with clerestory windows illuminating the communal work areas and private studios in the rear. Work by emerging local …
April 3, 2010 Online photo HERE
Don’t miss: ‘Habitual Homesteaders’ Mary Eisenhart San Francisco Chronicle September 9, 2010 04:00 AM Copyright San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Thursday, September 9, 2010 Tyler Bewley’s “Fog Bank” is part of the Habitual Homesteaders exhibition. View Larger Image It’s all about home in an …
Containment Vessels at the Compound Artists Gina Tuzzi and Tyler Bewley go mobile. By DeWitt Cheng Detail of Tyler Bewley’s “Fragility.” Gina Tuzzi and Tyler Bewley ponder Americans’ predilections for motorized cocooning and domestic bliss on the road in Habitual Homesteaders, a two-person show curated by the aptly named BayVAN. Tuzzi’s drawings, paintings, and sculptures …
The Compound’s Workers’ Paradise Resident artists of the Oakland gallery put on a show. By DeWitt Cheng Detail of Alison Offill-Klein’s “The Sickness.” In a group show entitled Compounding, the artists sharing private and communal studio facilities at the newly expanded Compound Gallery exhibit paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and mixed-media works. These elude thematic categorization, …
Don’t miss: ‘Junk Pirate’ May 27, 2010|By Mary Eisenhart “Cassettes” is one of the found-object pieces in Pete Glover’s exhibition “Junk Pirate.” Credit: Compound Gallery Artist Pete Glover’s other career (as a thrift store employee) has served him well in his quest for the creme de la creme of cultural detritus – as evidenced by …
Microcosmos at the Compound Gallery Two artists explore geometry in nature. By DeWitt Cheng Alissa Goss’ “Survey: Topographical Study.” The Compound Gallery inaugurates its new, expanded quarters with work by two artist-residents, Alissa Goss and Tallulah Terryll, in a show aptly entitled Round Rhythm. Goss’ rounded, biomorphic ceramics are covered with nodules, suggesting animal skins …
Staff Pick Lo-Lustre When: Through March 14 Lo-Lustre latex enamel paints are used for high-abuse areas, so the title fits the work of Oakland recyclers/recontextualizersBarbara Holmes and Marie Reich. Holmes has a fondness for absurd consumer goods (like an LP of grindhouse music replete with a bonus G-string) and the magic of nomenclature: In her …
Artful Bodger Sculptor Christopher Romer reclaims woodworking. By DeWitt Cheng Link to Online Article November 11, 2009 Christopher Romer’s “Night Radiant. Anyone who went gaga over Martin Puryear’s eclectic historicism, stunning craftsmanship, and visual wit at SFMOMA last year should check out Christopher Romer‘s small but impressive show, 3AM: Under the Full Moon. An East …
Triangulation: Three sculptors take aim at the human condition. By DeWitt Cheng September 29, 2009 (CLICK HERE TO GO TO ONLINE ARTICLE) Artistic collaborations have become increasingly common in recent years as the idea of art as the distilled, hard-won aesthetic honey of suffering worker-bee geniuses has been replaced by a cooler (and possibly more …
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 …
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 …
Selling subscriptions to art that surprises By Laura Casey/Photos by Jane Tyska Contra Costa Times 06/17/2009 Stephen Russell likes surprises. He’s a subscriber to a community-supported agriculture service and a variety of fresh produce from a local farm shows up at his house every week.”I think it’s pretty nice,” he says of the delivery. “You …
CRITIC’S CHOICE Yelling Clinic While terror-stampeded Americans have nearly forgotten our proxy Cold War in Vietnam, theart-and-disability collective Yelling Clinic has not. In a show curated by Katherine Sherwood at the Compound Gallery, Chau Thuy Huynh , Sunaura Taylor , and Ehren Tool examine the war’s environmental and psychological legacies both here and there. Huynh, …
CRITIC’S CHOICE Rooted (in the Bay Area) The Cubists and Futurists believed the automobile had accelerated human consciousness; that was nothing compared to what TV, the computer, and e-progeny like the iPod have wrought. The paintings of Mikhael Banut at the Compound Gallery comment on and reflect our contemporary free-floating, fractured consciousness while seeking some …
CRITIC’S CHOICE Life is a Pigsty In 1975, Susan Rothenberg started painting horses. In that adamantly conceptual era, she was viewed as an aesthetic apostate — until others followed suit. Today we have a freer, less dogmatic attitude, and Jason Byers chooses, playfully, to paint isolated objects against closely hued hard-edged vertical stripes: in the …
CRITIC’S CHOICE Communication Gap Anyone who has experienced e-mail sender’s remorse (“Oh, no!”) knows the peril of depersonalized, disembodied instant communication: responding quickly and automatically, we can be easily misunderstood — or, perhaps worse, too well understood. Angie Brown, Crystal Morey, Jake Gabel, Nancy Bach, Patrick Renner, and Amanda Jayne Kennedy explore modern interpersonal (and …