There are two wonderful shows closing up next weekend at The Compound Gallery and Studios!

“Scouting Oakland” “is a celebration of our unparalleled local surroundings.  Explore Oakland through the eyes of 20+ local artists who have captured an element of Oakland from their point of view.  Make sure you bring your smart phone and load it up with a QR reader because you will be able to take a tour of the works via QR codes on the walls! Learn about each piece and what inspired the artist to create the works.” The Compound Gallery

“The artists included in Scouting Oakland, a juried exhibition now on view at Compound Gallery, all seem to be keenly tuned in to, even obsessed with, this aspect of Oakland’s surface identity. Participants were asked to capture part of the spirit of Oakland, but it is not the ghost so much as the shell that we see here. Even when artists make mention of things like rapidly shifting demographics and hipster influx in accompanying descriptions, their images tend to take on an air of stillness and contemplation — almost an aesthetic of stability.” Alex Bigman, East Bay Express

“Return to the Art of Craft” curated by Compound artist Toni Gentilli shows fresh art from the studios. “The Compound and its community of artists is like a modern-day creative guild, a truly unique space of production and collaboration reminiscent of the late Nineteenth- and early Twentieth-century Arts & Crafts Movement.”

I have one piece on each from my [I Am] Series: [I Am] There and [I Am] Transforming, Strong.  You are invited to a Closing Tea on Sunday,  September 15th, from 3-6pm. Hope you can make it!

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East Bay Express Review
Oakland Art Enthusiast 
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