CURRENT EXHIBITS [142]

Irene Hernandez-Feiks founded Chillin’ Productions in 1998, with the purpose of discovering and aiding Bay Area fashion designers, painters, photographers, filmmakers, DJ’s, musicians, and performers. In her tenure as a promoter, Irene made a point of never taking commissions or charging designers to sell their work. In short, all of the money made by the artist goes to the artist. Chillin’...   [more]

Opening: May 3rd   5:00 PM - 10:00 PM

SAN FRANCISCO, CA- 1AM is pleased to present, “Designing Outside The Lines”, opening April 26th, from 6:30-9:30pm, featuring custom works that explore and reinvent the classic Lego platform. Expect to see customizations of Lego pieces, the Lego Torch lamp and Lego Men, digital prints, original paintings and more. The exhibition will feature 1920s silent movie characters, lit Lego Men, mini mec...   [more]

Opening: April 26th   6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

We are delighted to introduce to California Canadian artist Gordon Halloran, well known to world audiences as the creator of Paintings Below Zero, ambitious monumental public art installations in Canada, the US and Europe, inspired by glacial walls and exploding with pure pigments interacting with the crystal structure of the ice. For this double exhibition -- Ice Break in the gallery space and ...   [more]

Opening: May 5th   2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

We are delighted to introduce to California Canadian artist Gordon Halloran, well known to world audiences as the creator of Paintings Below Zero, ambitious monumental public art installations in Canada, the US and Europe, inspired by glacial walls and exploding with pure pigments interacting with the crystal structure of the ice. For this double exhibition -- Ice Break in the gallery space and B...   [more]

Opening: May 5th   12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Everything Must GoToday's class 3-Deifying:Godgrass, godtrees, godroad.A sheet of geese bisects the rainstorm. The water tower is ten storms full.We practice drawing cubes-That's the house squared away& the incubator with Baby.The dead are in their grid.O the sleeping bag containsthe body but not the dreaming head.- Matthea Harvey Alice Channer (b. 1977, Oxford, UK) lives and works in London. Ch...   [more]

Opening: April 18th   5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Albert Dicruttalo is drawn to the toughness of metal, and prefers the challenge of forming and forging this medium.  In this new series, Dicruttalo, interested in object over image, creates sculptures of interpenetrating hemispheres. The resulting sculptures are completely formal, comprised of compound curves that create complex intersections and compelling linear and volumetric elements. “My scul...   [more]

Opening: May 1st   5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

In this new body of work, Mitch Jones draws inspiration from the block shapes of windows and doors, the patterns of ethnic and contemporary textiles, and the rhythm and melodies of music.  The blocked shapes and open fields of color are complemented by collage pieces from vintage books, newspapers, and old accounting ledgers that the artist uses to enhance the painting’s narrative. Andrea Schwa...   [more]

Opening: May 1st   5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Art of Zines 2013 featuring hundreds of zines from basements, bedrooms and midnight copy shops from throughout the US and abroad. Come check out these diy, cut-and-paste, copied-on-the-cheap, hand-folded, self-distributed gems that continue to surface because someone, somewhere feels the need to express themselves.Several zine makers will be on site with their latest issues for sale:Tiny Splendor...   [more]

Opening: May 3rd   7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Anthony Meier Fine Arts is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by British artist Nicholas Byrne.  Exhibiting in the gallery for the first time, Byrne’s intricately layered surfaces combine abstract pattern and form with geometric structure and fluid figuration.   The title of the exhibition, Spring, means a new beginning and frames a period of time; attesting that the paintings, in sp...   [more]

Opening: April 25th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Opening: May 10th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Suzanne's images begin as digital photographs of motifs, structures, hightlights, and shadows that appeal to her in tehir shapes, composition, and dynamic movement. Using image manipulation software, she combines two or more simiar shots, reducing removing and/or repeating elements and flattening areas tocreate a new design. Suzanne has focused on her digital medium since 2002.    [more]

Opening: May 10th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Imperial leader. Fearsome tyrant. Military genius. Avid anti-intellectual. Obsessive star-gazer. Enduring mystery.   The First Emperor, Qin Shihuang (259-210 BCE) was all these things and more. His storied legacy is rich with enduring achievements, including the unification of China under centralized imperial rule, brilliant military systems and advanced engineering and assembly production. He is al...   [more]

Opening: February 21st   7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Some of the Bay Area’s most exciting contemporary artists respond to the question: what is Asia?   Asian influences are pervasive in U.S. culture, perhaps nowhere more so than in the Bay Area. But we each encounter Asia differently—some have the intimacy of lineage, while others might have little awareness. In Proximities, a three-part exhibition, a multiplicity of perspectives comes together at the mu...   [more]

Opening: May 24th   10:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Berkeley Art Center debuts its new Sculpture Patio, featuring the work of seminal Bay Area ceramic sculptors: Harold Paris, Peter Voulkos and Stephen De Staebler. Come view three exceptional works that mark a historic transformation in the medium of clay. This exhibition is on-going and admission is free, donations appreciated. For more information and details on membership please visit www.berke...   [more]

Co-curated by Suzanne Tan and Ann Weber, this exhibition explores the primal and evolutionary impulses of shape, form, and figure as expressed through distinct works from an accomplished and diverse group of sculptors. The work selected for this exhibition hovers between figuration and  abstraction and explores the limits of that ambiguous territory.   [more]

Opening: April 6th   5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that bo...   [more]

Opening: January 15th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM