Jingletown Arts and Business Community

The Love Show

Gray Loft Gallery

2889 Ford Street, Jingletown, Oakland

Show dates: February 10 – 25, 2012

Reception: Friday, February 10, 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Saturday, Feb. 11 and Sunday, Feb. 12, noon to 5:00 pm

Remaining Saturdays noon to 5:00 and by appointment

 

Announcing Oakland’s newest alternative art venue located in one of the oldest artist warehouse lofts in the area which now houses the Gray Loft Gallery.  The space was conceived by Jan Alderton, who saw potential in the beautiful 3rd floor space when the studio became available recently.

The gallery will be an alternative to traditional gallery spaces and will show work by emerging as well as established artists who want to show their work in a more unconventional venue.

The inaugural show will feature work by more than 25 artists. On display will be photographs, paintings, monoprints and sculptures which reflect love, passion, lust, hope, romance, imagination, true love, self love. This is not a Hallmark Valentine show, but rather a visual dialogue about love in its many incarnations and interpretations.  The gallery will also have handmade purses, hats, jewelry, cards and textiles that reflect the theme of love.

Opening reception: Friday, February 10, 6:00 to 9:00 pm

As part of the Estuary Art Attack gallery walk in Alameda and Oakland

Saturday and Sunday, February 11 & 12, noon to 5:00

On Saturday, February 11, Tessier Winery will be having a tasting of their incredible wine from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. Bring your sweetheart for a delightful afternoon in Jingletown.

Contact Jan Alderton

GrayLoftGallery@gmail.com

510-499-3445

Garden Tool Sharpening & Repair

At the Pilgrim Soul Forge, Alameda, CA
101 West Tower Avenue
Alameda, CA 94501
(On the old Navy Base)

I can sharpen and repair the following tools:

Shears, hatchets, axes, machetes shovels, garden
forks, knives (and many more)

Times are tough….Don’t throw that fine old tool away – FIX IT!

Grant R Marcoux – Artist Blacksmith
510-918-6840
www.grantsforge.com
Custom metalwork also available!

Our own Jan Watten will be exhibiting in the Plastic Camera Show
RayKo Photo Center
428 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

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And here’s a bit that the SFWEEKLY wrote about the show to entice you to get a cheap plastic camera and work some magic:
Most of our smartphones contain digital cameras that rival the best that money could buy less than a decade ago. We often pay hundreds of dollars for these devices. And what do we do with them? Filter our 8-megapixel masterpieces through apps such as Hipstamatic and Instagram, to lend that elusive “shitty camera” sheen of yesteryear’s cheap point-and-click models. It makes a persuasive case for Devo’s grand theory of devolution — as a race, we’re going backward. But whether the trend toward faux-distressed photos with blown-out colors is mindless fun or the worst kind of kitsch, the results definitely lack the authentic charm of photos taken with a real, bottom-shelf, analog camera. Said cameras are becoming harder to find, but RayKo gallery director Ann Jastrab must have a secret stash, which she dispatched for “the International Juried Plastic Camera Show,” an exhibition of “the best images from the worst cameras.” From a slew of entries, RayKo curated 100 photos taken by professionals such as Robert Holmgren, proving that a talented photographer can capture an indelible image using any lens, and that no sophisticated image-processing algorithm can match the warm, serendipitous imperfection of analog.
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