THE COMPOUND GALLERY & STUDIOS

New Interdisciplinary Art Residency Program

the compound — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:35:25 +0000

We are pleased to announce a new Interdisciplinary Art Residency Program at The Compound Gallery & Studios!

We are offering six month residencies with complete access to all our facilities! Our goal is to provide artists with the opportunity to expand his/her art practice by providing access to a variety of equipment in an inspiring and creative environment. Click here to find out more.

Closed for the Holidays!

the compound — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:09:20 +0000

The Compound Gallery is Closed for the Holidays! We are taking a break and enjoying our time off. May you all have a peaceful and relaxing Holiday Season! See you in Feb 2012!

The Art of Letterpress (February 11th-March 25th, 2012)

the compound — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:00:54 +0000

The Art of LetterPress

(February 11th-March 25th, 2012)

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 11th, 6-9pm
Closing Tea: Sunday, March 25th, 3-6pm

Featuring work by: Lisa Berman, Matt Chase, Tim Fite, Rachel Foster, Claire Kessler-Bradner, Brian Kring, Mary Laird, Studio Lorzig, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Rebecca Peters, Lisa Rappaport, Two Fine Chaps, and more.

Co-curated with Rebecca Peters

The Compound Gallery in Oakland, CA is pleased to present The Art of Letterpress, an exhibition celebrating the bygone era of letterpress printing. A visual panegyric in honor of this distinctive form of artistry, The Art of Letterpress features some of the finest letterpress artists in the Bay Area and beyond. Today, we text, email, and print at the touch of a button, making it easy to forget how labor intensive it was to simply make a sentence and reproduce it multiple times. In an increasing digital age, people long for something that is tangible and tactile—analog. The characteristic texture, ink, and surface of letterpressed text declares it an antiquated champion of typography.

Typography was once used to express both language and visual imagery, and the process involved in producing prints involved both craft and artistry. This exhibition features the work of artists who work in letterpress using both traditional type setting and modern polymer and magnesium plates, and was co-curated with exceptional Bay Area letterpress artist, Rebecca Peters. Although the Bay Area is home to a lively, active scene, which promotes the revival of letterpress printing, letterpress printing is often overlooked as a form of fine art.

Renowned letterpress artist Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. lives and works in Alabama and is known for his bold, boundry pushing prints. Kennedy has been commissioned by CB2 to create a series of limited edition letterpress prints for Gay Pride Month, and he is the feature of a recent documentary titled Proceed and Be Bold! Lisa Rappoport is a Bay Area artist who publishes poetry broadsides and artists’ books and has produced a series of broadsides by the poets who teach at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers; she has also printed poetry broadsides for Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books, Lyric Poetry Review, and many others. Tim Fite is a Brooklyn artist best known for his original music. Esquire Magazine called him, “one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most subversive renaissance men,” but he is also an amazing visual artist. His letterpress printed linocuts are playful, telling images of love and strife. In addition to a display of various letterpress prints, bins of small prints, books, and broadsides, this exhibition will feature timeworn letterpress paraphernalia, ephemera, equipment, and more.

LETTERPRESS WORKSHOP!

Our first workshop sold out. New workshop scheduled for March 11th, 1-5pm. Learn basic letterpress skills on our 1925 Chandler and Price letterpress. Taught by Rebecca Peters. Special Rate in celebration of our Art of Letterpress show! Price of workshop INCLUDES material fee. Class size is limited to 7, so please register early to get a spot. Each student will also be able to take home 10 letterpress cards made in class. Delicious Numi Tea and light snacks will be provided. Click the link below to purchase tickets.

TYPEFACE the Movie Screening

Free Screening for our Art Movie Night on Thursday, February 23rd, 2012, 9pm

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Print

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Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Print

Typeface

the compound — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:41:45 +0000

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23TH, 2012
TYPEFACE

Theme: Letterpress/Printmaking

8:30pm Doors open
9:00pm Typeface

In celebration of printmaking held in conjunction with our Art of Letterpress show, we are showing the fascinating film Typeface. You can buy your own copy of Typeface HERE.
In rural Wisconsin, a lone employee waits in a cavernous old museum for visitors to come. A few individuals straggle in every few days and then, come Friday, the museum fills with life. Machines hum, presses print, artists buzz about. One weekend each month, the quiet of Two Rivers is interrupted as carloads of artisans drive in from across the Midwest. The place comes alive as printmaking workshops led by, and filled with, some of the nation’s top design talent descend on the sleepy enclave.

In a time when people can carry computers in their pockets and watch TV while walking down the street, Typeface dares to explore the twilight of an analog craft that is freshly inspiring artists in a digital age. The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At Hamilton, international artisans meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique. But the Museum’s days are numbered. What is the responsibility of artists and historians to preserve a dying craft? How can rural towns survive in a shifting industrial marketplace where big-box retailers are king

For more info, see our Art Movie Night Page.

The Art in a Box Campaign!

the compound — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:34:33 +0000

The Art in a Box Great Trans-American Art Campaign has begun! Our new campaign to get a subscriber in every state of the USA is going strong. Check out our campaign page HERE. Art in a Box makes the perfect holiday gift! We also have some fun giveaways and prizes to be included in December and January boxes. Be on the lookout for our promotional items and posters, posters, stickers, etc.!

Letterpress Workshop with Rebecca Peters

the compound — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:14:35 +0000

LETTERPRESS WORKSHOP! Our first workshop sold out. New workshop scheduled for March 11th, 1-5pm. Learn basic letterpress skills on our 1925 Chandler and Price letterpress. Taught by Rebecca Peters. Special Rate in celebration of our Art of Letterpress show! Price of workshop INCLUDES material fee. Class size is limited to 7, so please register early to get a spot. Each student will also be able to take home 10 letterpress cards made in class. Delicious Numi Tea and light snacks will be provided. Click the link below to purchase tickets.

He-Charmers: by Katherine Sherwood (October 15th-December 4th, 2011)

the compound — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:00:41 +0000

He-Charmers: Katherine Sherwood

(October 15-December 4, 2011)

Closing Tea & Artist Talk: Sunday, December 4, 2011, 3-6pm
(Talk starts at 5pm)

Katherine Sherwood continues the series Healers from the Yelling Clinic with the introduction of new multi-paneled, mixed- media paintings at the Compound Gallery. Brain imagery from neuro-anatomy from the 16^th. Century to the 21^st. make up these figures. Hats, faces, jewelry and breasts are constructed from the illustrations of Vesalius to Ramon y Cajal to today’s MRI’s. Unlike previous healers, these clinicians are decidedly male.

The Yelling Clinic is an art and disability collective co-founded by Sherwood. Their aim is to further global disability studies by researching military pollution and its affect on the disabled population. In December she will work with disabled artisans in Hue, Vietnam. Her artistic contribution to the Yelling Clinic is her series of healers.

Katherine Sherwood’s acclaimed mixed-media paintings gracefully investigate the point at which the essential aspects of art, medicine, and disability intersect. Her works juxtapose abstracted medical images, such as cerebral angiograms of the artist’s brain, with fluid renderings of ancient patterns; the paintings thus explore and reveal, with a most unusual palette, the strange nature of our time and current visual culture. In addition to showing regularly throughout the United States, she co-curated the exhibition “Blind at the Museum” at the Berkeley Art Museum, and organized an accompanying conference at UC Berkeley. Sherwood was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship 2005-2006 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant 2006-2007. Her work was included in the Smithsonian Museum’s “Revealing Culture” and at a solo show at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco in 2010. Katherine is a professor at UC Berkeley in the Art Department and the Disability Studies Program. She is the artist-in-residence at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the co-founder of the art and disability collective- The Yelling Clinic.

Martin Webb in the Special Collection & Print Lounge

the compound — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:56:10 +0000

Just in….Travel with Martin Webb to far away lands at the Compound Gallery’s Special Collection & Print Lounge. Goats, domiciles, paper airplanes, and small wooden boats adorn the walls. Martin is an avid traveler. Stop by and share in his travels.

Holiday Special-FREE Shipping through 2011

the compound — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:28:09 +0000

We are offering FREE shipping on all orders in our online Art Shoppe through the end of the year!

Just enter code HOHOHO at checkout! New items are updated frequently.

He-Charmers in the East Bay Express

the compound — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:23:18 +0000

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