We've made it a year now, and we're taking a moment to invite back a few artists from past shows that we feel have excelled as emerging artists in the bay area. This exhibition is a retrospective look at some of these artists.
Artists: Kevin Slagle, Scott Hove, Nate Crane, Jake Longstreth, Mark Taylor, Kristin Wanek, Nat Russell, Rob Streff, Clint Imboden, Whitney Hubbs, Matt Hart, CP37, Cyrus Tilbon, Zach Houston, Lucrecia Troncoso, Alika Cooper, Tara Daley, and Casey Jex Smith.
Labyrinth is designed to change social behavior. Interactions, movement, environment are subject to the viewers abilities within the labyrinth as it changes through the worlds of eight different visual artists. Performances will be held every 20-30 minutes in opposite areas of the labyrinth, requiring visitors to search and resultantly recall the topography of the installation(s). Visitors in the gallery will not be provided Art on the walls to leisurely view as is traditional, but instead will have to experience an adventure to find the art and sound.
Opening Performers: Bran(...)Pos, Rubber O Cement, Tralphaz, Sixes, Monster Dudes, Pod Blotz, Tarantism, Core of the Coal Man, Living Breathing Music
March 19th - April 2nd / 2005: Shadowbox - Art to be viewed by its own light.
Shadowbox works to challange the beholders senses as well as to inspire wonder by eliminating all expected and natural sources of light. Confronting traditional exhibition practices, Shadowbox effectively transforms the gallery in to a matte black space wherein everything you see is a product of art as each piece has been selected according to it's artistic and luminescent qualities. This cast-off light inspires one to question the nature of vision, representation and reflection for what you see is because of the art, without it there would be no sight.
Art By: Clint Imboden, Elise Irving, Susan Kuchinskas, Andrew Eyman, Miriam Dema, Jessica Miller, Stephanie Pau and Gibson Cuyler
6 Humans in cages for 7 days
Art by: Matt Hart, Al Farrow, Gabe Castellanos, Nat Russell, Deth P. Sun, David Morritt, Scott Hove, Josh Keyes, Rob Streff, Kristin Wanek, David Muller and More
Art by: Laurenn McCubbin, Liz Harris, Jenna Feldman, Janae Growden, Pat Sprugen, Nicole Neditch, Paul Panamarenko, Emma Spertus, Greg Edwards , Jessamyn Harris, and More!
December 4th - December 18th / 2004: Kitchen Sink Magazine 2 Year Anniversary Benefit
Art by: Sean Macfarland, Chris Duncan, Alena Rudolph, Justin Artifice, Tucker Nichols, Kamau Patton, Liz Harris, Laurenn McCubbin, Jessamyn Lovell, Matt Volla, Kevin Slagle, Trillium Press, Nicole Neditch, Nathaniel Russell, Jesse Reklaw, Mark Haven Britt & Emma Spertus
November 12th - November 20th / 2005: Touch Me, Feel Me
Tactile Art and Installation
Art By: Amy Friebertshauser - Kristen Wanek - Amy Morrell - Adam Hatch - Erik Groff - Jamie Nelson - Johnny Schroeder - Emma Spertus
October 29th - November 7th / 2004: CP-37
A solo exhibition by CP-37.
October 9th - October 20th / 2004: Trust Communism
Art by:
Mary Snowden, Al Farrow, Mark Taylor, Bill Dunlap, Micheal Hunt, Josh Miner
August 26, 2004 - September 30th / 2004 :: Premier Show - LoBot Gallery Opening
Art by:
Andrzej Karwacki, Cyrus Tilton, Matt Volla, Liz Harris, Kevin Slagle, Tim Brown, Justin Artifice, Scott Hove, Nate Crane, Alika Cooper
November 23rd - December 2nd / 2005: 6X6
Six Years - Six Pieces
Clint Imboden : Solo Exhibition
May 28th - June 16th / 2005:
Mutha Print : Unusually Large Prints
works by: Becky Alprin, Miriam Ewers, Helene Poulshock, Nathaniel Russell, Emma Spertus, and Ann Tartsinis
March 17th - April 8th
LASSO (Collective)
GABE CASTELLANOS,JESSIE-WRIGHT JACKSON, PAUL WINGERT, BRENDAN NAKAHARA, DAVE SINGLEY, PERRY LUBIN
// LASSO is kind of like a jazz session that has many parts, we don't share a loft space and listen to folk music and have painting time, that would be pretty rad though. most of us work shit jobs except gabe, i think he is nocturnal. we all have really generic american names except for perry, and the only girl in the group miss jessie jackson. we are just like you except we are in this loose ensemble called lasso and you aren't and that's not an elitist thing, i don't know what it is. everything is just real loose, otherwise it would be like work that doesn't pay. it's got to be free. we are more nature than street and we are fascinated by everyone. we do this so we don't get bored.
January 7th - February 10th / 2006
There is Nothing to See - a sound-based group show that explores the outer limits of sonic experience.
Running the gamut from the unsettling (Joe Colley?s sculpted mouths that emit animal distress calls) to the sublime (Peter Regli?s broken glass symphony), There Is Nothing To See is an aural train wreck of colliding techniques and processes.
Angel Sanchez-Borges resurrects Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix for a virtual jam session. Sarah Filley translates EEG readouts of a brain in the throes of a seizure for her composition, Cerebral Score. Jorge Boehringer?s record (fashioned from a felled redwood tree stump) grinds endlessly through the locked grooves of the tree?s growth rings. Tom Grimley?s exquisitely handcrafted instruments play themselves, as do Albert Ortega?s Wal Wart(s). For a more intimate experience, stick your head inside Sandy De Lissovoy?s audio cone or crawl inside Jacqueline Gordon?s sound-gathering geodesic dome. Betty Jo Costanzo?s tin can phones provide the lo-fi/no-tech counterpoint to the entire (dis)array.
FREE PARKING
A selection of 17 photographers individually arranging their own photo exhibitions.
Selected Artists:
Suzy Poling, Whitney Hubbs, Tiffany Black, Tabitha Soren, Paul Shiek, Sofie Maher, Styrous, Kyle M. Garner, Gwen Meyer, Giedre Nakutyte, Garrett McClean, David King, Molly McDonnell, Joshua Simpson, Matthew Reamer, Cayetano Ferrer
NEW CARTOGRAPHY - an exhibition of various uses, strategies and interpretations of visual mapping and diagramming. These practices as an art form are becoming increasingly popular as a way of exploring complex relations, conveying large amounts of information or even exposing everyday occurances that we may take for granted or are not even aware of.
Opening 6 - 10pm Saturday - September 2nd
Docent tours available by appt.
Selected Artists:
Adelheid Mers, Michael Ryan, Matt Volla, Bruce Busby, Zach Houston, Elizabeth Cook, Lily Cox-Richard, Elin O'Hara Slavick, Rebecca Grady, Casey Droege, Ann Tartsinis, Sarah Hirneisen, Benjamin Meyer
April 7th - April 28th
fashion show - art show - performance
A spectacle of a group show dedicated to the dynamic, eclectic bay area we all live and work in. Through installation, painting, video, printmaking, sculpture, fashion, live performance, and more, we are tracing the influences of Funk, Figurative, and Mission School artists and celebrating the opulent variety of work emerging right now on both sides of the Bay Bridge.
The opening party includes a continuum of musical performances from traditional to electronic, fashions by local designers, and surprising social interventions.
All proceeds from the event goes to Visible Voice.
art by:
Nathan Ross Davis, Nat Russell, Ryan Junell, Ross G. Campbell, Sangyon Joo, Renee Gertler, David Wilson, Lana Porcello, Abigail Glogower, Amy Lee, Lucrecia Troncoso, Manny Silva, Jesse Schlesinger, John Abduljaami, Stephani Martinez, Lana Porcello and Evan Holm
SHAPE
February 22nd – March 16th 2008
Opening Friday February 22nd 6-10PM
California Dreamin - Opening
Saturday March 22nd 7pm-11pm
THOMAS CALLAHAN is an artist from Brooklyn NY whose work explores cultural iconography. On view in our main gallery are a number of media based works that incorporate video and structure to create aspects of the California experience. His installations are results of an interest in the conceptual content of video, what it represents, and its ability to preserve people and re-create space; as well as driven by the artist’s other fascination with materials and structural engineering. Callahan’s hope is to push the usage of video further in his practice as he explores its nature of containment, preservation and cultural commentary. He has shown extensively both in the United States and in Italy
Opening: May 23, 2008 7-11pm
DECOY
Decoy, a group exhibition of sculpture, painting, video, and works on
paper, engages the political and psychological aspects of deception,
perception, cognition and abstraction at the Lobot Gallery in Oakland,
CA. The exhibition will feature recent works by Patrick Blaeser,
Robert Burden, Ross Campbell, Diane Derr, Robert Jackson Harrington,
Claire Jackel, Whitney Lynn, Jana Rumberger and Brian Stinemetz. The
Tea Set and other musical guests TBA.
Objects and animals in the natural world often take on environmental
elements to conceal or emphasize form and shape. Similarly, humans
mimic surfaces and forms to convey contrary information, as with
counterfeit objects or misleading advertising. The artists in this
exhibition create 'decoys' that reference actual forms, but bring
attention to the way(s) that surfaces often convey contrary
information, and how art objects often stand-in for what is already
out in the world.
Admission is free and open to the public
CURATED BY
NATHANIEL RUSSELL
This show is the result of releasing a constructed virus into Oakland.
The action of this virus is simple:::: It infects only Oakland artists and causes them to infect other Oakland artists.
The virus is initially within 6 people, each of these people will infect 6 more people, this process will happen 4 times resulting in 1554 artists being infected.
The PURPOSE of this virus is more complex than it seems, this is not only a show of quantity, it is about making connections. As Oakland rapidly develops new groups form and old groups dissapate. And while Oakland is composed of many communities it is also one community. This show is an attempt to remove control from individuals and give it to the community, the result will be the bringing together of a group no one person could form, but is entirely Oakland. The movement of the virus will be tracked, and presented visually, so at the end we will be able to discern how this group of artists has formed, and how we are all connected.
-The Lineup
ryan graber
vincent perea
matt pugh
carl detorres
justin gabbard
lane brookshire
tammy stellanova
chris lane
