For the birds A benefit for Palomacy, Pigeon & Dove Adoptions Float Gallery & Rock Paper Scissors Collective Collaborative Art exhibit

Art Opening Party April 14th, 6 to 9pm

Music by Memes

Live pigeon in pants will be at the event!

June 9th Closing party with raffle!!!

About Palomacy

Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions saves the lives of domestic (unreleasable) birds that would otherwise be killed by finding them care & homes. We provide guidance, referrals, education, long-term foster care, avian vet treatment and adoption services. Palomacy is a volunteer-powered, donation-supported project of Community Initiatives. Thanks to the support of our volunteers, we have saved the lives of more than 850 birds since we began in 2007 and helped countless others. Palomacy- it's pigeon diplomacy! Please visit us at: Facebook.com/PigeonDiplomacy, or PigeonRescue.org

Artists

Ernest Doty

Prolific and passionate street artist Ernest Doty equates justice and vision in his pursuit for more wall space. At once a mystic and a social activist, Ernest seems to want to drag the rest of the contempoary world into an age of neo-enlightenment, kicking and screaming. His ancient characters, with their multiple. sad eyes have a message for us: their message is silence, compassion and social justice. instagram: @ernestdoty

Pancho Pescador

Born in Santiago Chile, Pancho Pescador is a visual artist, muralist, music lover and a self-taught visual activist. He has combined these disciplines to stir the henhouse and trigger critical and imaginative thinking. Pancho resides in Oakland, where he developes and exposes his visual guerillas. He is also a part of the mural and street art collective CRP Bay Area (Community Rejuvenation Project). instagram: @panchopescador

Nite Owl

Based out of Oakland, Nite Owl is a self employed designer, photographer, artist and has been doing it on his own for over a decade now. While his work may be creative, the end product isn’t necessarily for him, so being on the streets is his own personal creative outlet. Nite Owl's biggest influence hands down has been Dr. Suess. “The creativity of this guy and his working in the “fantastic” world have really been a source for me to draw from later on down the road.” instagram: @naito_uro

Yvette Buigues

Lives and works in Oakland, California. Her work is considered to be an exploration of the emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of everyday life. Through bold images she speaks to relationships between people and animals, nature and the human condition. HeavyBlackLine.com, Instagram: @heavyblackline

Liz Mamorsky

Is Owner/Artist of Lizland Studio/Gallery of Functional & Dysfunctional Art. lizland.com/ Instagram @lizland_studio

Susan Tuttle

"I strive to capture beauty, humor, depth, and emotion in my photographs, collages, mixed media pieces, and jewelry designs. All of my artwork is created without digital manipulation, other than color correction for my photographs. I become easily immersed in the wonderful world behind the lens!"

FLOAT Gallery

We will have art from our private collection in the gallery, 20% of sales go to Palomacy. Buy bird art, support the birds! Instagram: @float-floatation-center-art-gallery

Andrea Barros

Hailing from Colombia, but grew up in the bayous of Houston, Texas, Andrea has always had a connection with nature. She has a background in photography, mixed media and mural art, as well as wood working and metal smithing. Now a long time resident of Oakland, she is and has been inspired by her surroundings from the West to the East. By capturing Oakland through her lens. instagram: @sans_andreas_fault

Kristi Holohan

Kristi is an artist, organizer, and facilitator/educator based in Oakland, California. Her work in visual Arts focuses on community relationships, nature, healing, resource-sharing, and advocacy for an equitable society through alternative incorporative strategies. In addition to her personal practice she works as an Arts facilitator/educator from a curricula lens of oppression/liberation with Restorative Practices.

Leon Kennedy

A native of Houston, Texas; Mr. Kennedy has lived and worked in Oakland, California for over 25 years. If you are out, about, and alert, you may just run into him on an Oakland street – where he is busy capturing the people and scenes of bay area life-on canvas. Kennedy paints on “everything”. Some of his most impressive works have been captured on bed sheets he has found on the streets. Yes, they are huge. And the precision and multiplicity of detail is astonishing. Works on wood, tables and chairs, glass, and metal (even hubcaps) have been known to grace a thorough Kennedy collection. Leon is rated one of the top 100 self-taught artists in the country and has work in the Smithsonian.

Karl X Hauser

Was born in Michigan City, on a small farm in northwest Indiana. He played in the dirt under the family's trailer home, drew pictures, and learned to swim in Lake Michigan. His mother, a self taught artist who invented and painted "blue roses", encouraged him to draw as it didn't have the messy potential of paint. Transmission Gallery is representing Karl. https://hauspains.blogspot.com/, Instagram: @karlxhauser

Nancy Chiu

Is an artist living and working in Orange County. She doodles constantly and is passionate about breakfast food. Her work is inspired by her observation and love of nature. She also finds great pleasure in painting birds. Website: www.nancychiu.com

Bud Snow

Is a Mural Painter, Public Artist, and Photographer from Vancouver BC, head quartered in Oakland California. doyouknowbudsnow.net, Instagram @bud_snow

Cheryll May

May you experience a healing memory, feeling, thought, sensation through and within the images before you. All this is love. In rEVOLution - Cheryll www.coloursoutsidelines.com, Instagram @Cheryllmay_

Mournsky

Mournsky, the artist, takes his name from a magic sword whose black blade twinkles like the night sky; with a hilt made from death knight bones. Horns tipped with violet gems branch from a demonic face, an open maw, a dark hallow. The pommel Runes spell in golden script a single word: Mourn. He also designs video games.

Lily Black

Alien abductee; Raised by wolves; Village witch. I render and draw for mixed purposes, and set things where they want or need to be. Good taste is the tool of demons. I like to smite. Eat veggies. I hear we have a new president or government or something. I also like dogs.

Liliana Herrera

Was born in Sonora, Mexico on June 3, 1993, but grew up in Oakland. She received her BA in Studio Art in Summer 2017 at Cal State East Bay. Herrera will apply for the teaching credential single subject program in the of summer 2018, She also plans to teach art for High school students. Herrera currently works as an after-school Art teacher at a dual-emerging elementary school. Instagram @lilysarte

Melissa del Carmen Jimenez

Melissa Jimenez was born and raised in East Oakland, and is currently a high school student, soon to pursue a medical career. She hopes to soon start a tattooing and art business with her brother and self publish a poetry book. Most of Melissa’s art is inspired by her daily experiences with a mixture of her spiritual experiences as an individual. She paints and draws her emotional phases and spiritual growth and both physical, emotional, environmental and spiritual struggles.

Cynthia large

I am a San Francisco based artist, working in watercolor, egg tempers, oil paint, marquetry, and woodworking. I find inspiration in religious history and the natural world. Instagram: @cynthiabardoukalarge

About Rock Paper Scissors Collective :

Rock Paper Scissors Collective is a volunteer-run organization that fosters creativity and collaboration in order to strengthen local communities and encourage sustainable practices and alternative models. We promote the sharing of ideas, skills, and resources through the celebration of art, craft, education, and performance. rpscollective.com

Youth Art Show

A Rock Paper Scissors Collective Collaborative Group Art exhibit.
Come join us on Saturday, February 10th for fun, art, & music!
Bay Area group art show
Art Opening Party Saturday Feb 10th, 6 to 9pm
Music
Show runs February 7th through April
Local Artists Include:

Oscar Almaguer

Islah Zareef-Mustafa

Francisco Aguilar

and more!

Schools include:

Arise High School

Our mission at ARISE is to empower our students with the knowledge, skills, and agency to be leaders in Oakland. We provide a small school environment where we pride ourselves in every student having at least one adult who knows them well and supports them on their educational journey. At ARISE, education is not just about how well you do on a test. We are a small school that emphasizes knowledge of self, society, and history within a highly personalized supportive environment. ARISE is committed to building and maintaining healthy communities by providing families, many of which are first generation college bound, access to college and careers in Education, Community Social Services, Community Justice, Public Health, and Public Policy. At ARISE we nurture, train, and discipline our school community to engage in a continuous practice of developing mind, heart, and body towards a VISION where we actively rise up. Agency and self-determination drive our struggle to improve our own material and social conditions towards a more healthy, equitable, and just society. ARISE High School has been honored to serve the Oakland community for nearly 11 years and looks forward to continuing this service during our next charter term. Our founders, just as our staff today, believe that all children deserve a quality education that doesn’t replicate inequitable and oppressive institutions. Instead, we’ve developed a rigorous, high engagement, and authentic learning experience for our students. ARISE High School currently serves approximately 286 students in grades 9-12, and prepares students from low-income families to be the first to attend college. Currently 86% of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch, 89% speak English as a Second Language, and 86% are first-generation college-bound. We are incredibly proud of our students’ successes. Each year, we have had at least 85% of our graduates matriculate into 2- and 4- year colleges and universities. In addition, we believe our alumni will be the future change-makers of Oakland. As more and more of them graduate from college we look forward to welcoming back into our community.
MetWest High School

MetWest High School prepares young adults to recognize and take advantage of all resources for their personal well-being. Our graduates will have the skills, habits, knowledge and community to overcome obstacles to their success, access 4-year colleges and contribute positively to our world. “Young adults” as opposed to “students” grants them greater personhood / subjecthood “All resources” is intended to highlight our unique focus on developing students’ recognition of and skill accessing institutions and adults in the urban community as resources for themselves, while not denying the importance of teachers and books as important resources as well. “Well-being” as opposed to “success” as we feel it refers less narrowly to financial wealth and more easily encompasses the notion of our graduates knowing how to be healthy, happy, etc. We believe these four are all needed for our aims. Most radical among the four is the inclusion of “community” as an asset that we want students to leave MetWest possessing. This is done in recognition of the fact that our students will continue to need, and still be able to access the tremendous array of adult connections and close peer connection they make here, even after graduation. “Overcome obstacles” is added in recognition of the fact that most of our students will be confronting systemic obstacles to their success throughout their lives (racism, classism, sexism, homophobia) and that we want students to have what they need to overcome those, over and over and over again. “Four-year colleges” is stated explicitly because without that articulation in our core vision statement, it would be far too easy to let this not happen for too many of our students (as it is so difficult to make happen) – and we also know that this is a core value for many of our parents. “Contribute” because we feel it is important that we be developing citizens, not just self-interested individuals . “Positively” as opposed to “productively” to avoid prioritizing material production over intellectual and service work. “World” as opposed to “community” or “communities” so as not to imply that our graduates remain part of any particular communities. “our world” as opposed to “their world” so as not to imply that students live in a different world than the adults in this school community live. (arguable).
About Rock Paper Scissors Collective :

Rock Paper Scissors Collective is a volunteer-run organization that fosters creativity and collaboration in order to strengthen local communities and encourage sustainable practices and alternative models. We promote the sharing of ideas, skills, and resources through the celebration of art, craft, education, and performance. rpscollective.com

Winter Art Show $50 and under A Rock Paper Scissors Collective Collaborative Group Art exhibit.

Come join us on Saturday, December 9th for fun, art, crafts, zines & music!

Bay Area group art show

Art Opening Party Saturday Dec 9th, 6 to 9pm

Tunes by DJ Loser

Show runs December 3rd through February 3nd 2018

Local Artists Include:

Endless Canvas

Rafael Tapia III

Girl on Bus

Dead Eyes

Dan Fontes

Hannah Knight

Darla Arellano

Jon Carling

Alex Sodari

Safety First

Eduardo Valadez Arenas

Nina Wright

Allison King

Kristi Holohan

Edrielle Belisario

Herlinda Lozano

Hector Jimenez

Liliana Herrera

Merrit Ceramics

And more!

Flyer by our awesome art friend Nina Wright

About Rock Paper Scissors Collective :

Rock Paper Scissors Collective is a volunteer-run organization that fosters creativity and collaboration in order to strengthen local communities and encourage sustainable practices and alternative models. We promote the sharing of ideas, skills, and resources through the celebration of art, craft, education, and performance. rpscollective.com

ACID & ROBOTS

Float Gallery & Rock Paper Scissors Collective Collaborative Art exhibit.
Please join us for a fun event of robotic art, kinetic art, mixed media and acid paintings.

Bay Area group art show
Art Closing Party December 2nd, 6 to 9pm
Live body painting with Liliana Herrera

Show runs October 9th December 2nd 2017

Artists:

Aaron MacIntyre – Painting

“I came here to make a mess and have fun.” Aaron describes himself as a conceptual creative whose favorite mediums are space, time and lots of colorful drugs on the mind. Whether his hands effort comes out as Art or not, practiced peace of mind goes into them. And for Aaron, Peace is the point. 1upxp

Besarion Khidesheli - Painting

Is a 25-year old self-taught artist from Tbilisi, Georgia, currently based in Oakland, CA. He has been moving from place to place every two years since he was 15 years old. He spent his late teens and early adulthood in Georgia (the one in Europe), different parts of California, Mali, and Spain. The people that he has met throughout his journey inspire him the most. Besarion specializes in mixed-media art. His pieces can be described as dreamy, spacey, and psychedelic. besartion.com

Bud Snow - Painting

"If you clean your room when you're uninspired, you will lose all your shit. Inspiration conjures genius beyond ourselves. It's a psychic, primal, natural thing. We are creators."

Bud Snow is a Mural Painter, Public Artist, and Photographer from Vancouver BC, head quartered in Oakland California. doyouknowbudsnow.net

Liz Mamorsky - Painting & Mixed Media

Since graduation from Bennington College, I have exhibited my unique reclaimed materials sculpture, studio furniture, and visionary paintings and drawings nationally and internationally, starting with The International Young Artists Exhibition in Osaka, Japan. My work resides in numerous public and private collections including: Tonellerie Taransaud, Cognac; The Spertus Museum, Chicago; The Oakland Museum of California, Sony Corporation, First National Bank of Arizona, Francois Freres, St. Romain, France, and Paramount Pictures for the set of Star Trek: Voyager. lizland.com

Mark Galt- Kinetic Art

While machines have become essential expressions of our utilitarian and industrial impulses, my design sensibilities find language in the machinery of automata, toys, and amusement. For me, machinery becomes the central metaphor of figurative sculpture, to the extent that machine elements are not only expressive, but voluptuous. My vision in all of this is an apparatus that emerges somewhere between tin toy and laboratory instrument: an attempt to utilize the cold syntax of the machine to create work that expresses organic motion, feeling, and humor. markoapparatus.com
Rasterstache Bots - Robot art & Painting

Rasterstache is a contemporary pop artist creating large paintings and sculptures, with an influence in the realm of robots. Rasterstache’s work can be found in a myriad of public and private art collections both in the United States and abroad, and has been seen in numerous galleries in North America. Currently living in San Francisco and working in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. rasterstache.com
Yuri Hyun - Painting

Yuri was born and grew up in South Korea. She graduated with a Communication Design BFA degree from Hong Ik University in Korea and she had pursued Illustration MFA degree in Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2016. Since then, she has been working as an artist based in San Francisco Bay Area and has been joining many art shows and exhibitions throughout The States. She loves drawing with her own perspective and unique way. She has developed a whimsical aesthetic primarily employing ink pen in her graphic and sometimes abstract illustrations. Especially many of her drawings are very detailed pen art inspired by her imagination which is like surrealism world. drawingflow.com
Liliana Herrera - painting & body painting:

Liliana Herrera was born in Sonora, Mexico on June 3, 1993, but grew up in Oakland. She received her BA in Studio Art in Summer 2017 at Cal State East Bay. Herrera will apply for the teaching credential single subject program in the of summer 2018, She also plans to teach art for High school students. Herrera currently works as an after-school Art teacher at a dual-emerging elementary school.lilysarte.weebly.com
About Rock Paper Scissors Collective :

Rock Paper Scissors Collective is a volunteer-run organization that fosters creativity and collaboration in order to strengthen local communities and encourage sustainable practices and alternative models. We promote the sharing of ideas, skills, and resources through the celebration of art, craft, education, and performance.rpscollective.org/

What stood Before

 An artist’s view of the Bay Area’s demolished past

Art Opening party October 8, 6 to 9pm

Show runs September 23rd 2016, through November 13th

It was a simple time – when we always packed a camera, and always had black and white film at the ready. Every artist photographer did, yes, maybe not. What stood before is the work of four Bay Area artists who accidentally documented the San Francisco Bay Area’s demolished past while having fun. Jumping over fences with latte in hand, trying not to drop the camera in order to capture to an interesting image, or even balancing on an inflatable raft in the bay, to find that different perspective. The work includes, long gone freeways, bits of the Bay Area’s industrial past, now lofts and condos, abandoned Muni buses, and old San Francisco skylines, work shot between the mid 1980’s to 2000’s.

Artists:

Jan Watten

Jan Watten spent the mid-80’s wandering areas of Oakland and San Francisco photographing the quiet streets and warehouses that were devoid of people, an absence weighted with meaning - an elegy for places that used to be thriving working communities. Equipped with a medium-format camera with black and white film, she captured the scenes by walking the streets and documenting what she encountered in the moment. Attracted by the simplicity and elegance of the urban landscape of East Oakland and South of Market, these photographs are also a reminder that we cannot halt gentrification, but merely record it. Her images are captured with film and are archival traditional darkroom prints. Image above: “Bay Two” photograph by Jan Watten. janwatten.com

Janeyce Ouellette

Janeyce Ouellette will often hear feedback about the noticeable absence of people in her work. Their very absence, however, notes, like negative space, their presence. Implied, anthropomorphized, or subject matter touched by human hands, now long gone, individuals are indeed present, spiritually, if not physically.

Craig Riedel

San Francisco based professional photographer, showing his hand processed black and white photography.

Allison Allison

Native San Francisco Bay Area artist and activist, showing hand processed black and white Images of San Francisco between the late 1900’s and 2000.

"Burst", Art by Ange McLane

Art Opening Karaoke Party Friday August 26th, 6 to 9pm

Show runs through September 17Th, 2016

noun

an instance of breaking or splitting as a result of internal pressure or puncturing; an explosion

inspiration: Magic Realism

baseline: the mundane

uniting factor: explosive color

Ange McLane

Born in Mexico City to a Mexican mother and an American father, Ange spent her early adulthood in Texas, and relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006. She started photographing a myriad of subjects when she was eight years old, and has been painting, drawing, and writing poetry and short stories ever since. Ange studied Liberal Arts at the University of Saint Thomas, Human Resources Management at Rice University, Fine Art Photography at the MFAH Glassell School of Art, and Digital Photo-Montage as well as Experimental Film at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has participated in multiple photo exhibits, and directed short film projects. Ange is currently collaborating with Dimitri Moore in multiple short film projects and a web docuseries. Ange’s mission in life is to remain incorrigibly curious and never stop expanding her knowledge base, to encourage and inspire others to be the best version of themselves, and to promote compassion, kindness, and understanding in order to create a better world. casiopeanin.tumblr.com, instagram.com/casiopeanin

Reflections of a Beast

Yvette M. Buigues & Karl Hauser, Drawings and Sculpture

A Benefit for Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter (FAAS) 

We raised over $900 for the shelter!!!!!!!!!!!!

Artist Opening Party Saturday May 21st, 6 to 9pm

Closing exhibit Party Saturday July 30th, 6 to 9pm

Show runs from May 6th, through July 30, 2016

What's in a scribble, where does it come from, and why are we drawn to draw? Come explore the work of two brilliant Bay Area artists who challenge you to look at what we find under the bed. Don't fear the cheeky beastie.
This exhibit is a benefit for FAAS, FLOAT Gallery will be donating the galleries sales percentage of art sales to the shelter:
Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter (FAAS) shelters and finds new homes for more than 1,200 homeless Alameda animals a year. It relies greatly on donations from the public to help ensure that each adoptable animal gets a second chance in a new loving home. Find a new best friend at
www.alamedaanimalshelter.org

Yvette M. Buigues

Yvette M. Buigues lives and works in Oakland, California. Her inspiration comes from no one place in particular; in her work one can see and feel her exploration of the emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of everyday life. Through bold images she speaks to relationships between people, the state of the world, the human condition. The multiple layers of color and detail often times contain subtle observations and a darker sense of humor. Buigues works most often with acrylic paint. She finds great pleasure and touches base with whimsy in her pen and ink drawings, and experiments in seriography. About the drawings: I have always kept a journal of drawings. Until recently they mostly stayed there, not meant for others to see. At the suggestion of a friend, I began posting them on Instagram and Facebook, the response was inspiring, so here they are. Whimsical yet possessing plenty symbolism and emotion, I find these entertaining with a life of their own. heavyblackline.com, buigues.tumblr.com

Karl X. Hauser

Karl X. Hauser lives and works in San Mateo. He attended the Herron School of Art (BFA) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA) and has been a practicing artist since 1981. In addition to drawings/prints, he has worked in sculpture (ceramic, neon), video, and performance art, and continues to work in cast glass, cast metal, and ceramic sculpture in addition to drawing, painting, and digital collage. His mother, a self-taught artist who invented blue roses, taught him to draw at an early age so he would not make a mess with her paints. the Architecture of Agony, Facebook.

Karl X Hauser... will be showing his Beast series

"the beasts are the movers in my head, re-arranging the furniture of my thoughts. the beasts give rise to inexplicable motivations and desires, tempting me with unconscious hopes, and convincing me my thoughts are my own. when finally confronted, the beasts are revealed as nothing - and nothingness is the source of not only freedom but also existential horror and emotional anguish " - Karl X. Hauser