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Press Release: group-art exhibit

Protoform

Drawings by Sculptors

Artists in show

Carrissa Bowman

Brük Dunbar

Crystal Morey

Lucien Shapiro

Curator, Obi Kaufmann

The SWEE(t)ART Drawing Gallery

1167 65^th Street

Oakland, California

Show Runs April 17^th -May 23^rd, 2010

Opening Reception Saturday, April 17^th, 6-9pm

First Friday Reception Friday May 7^nd 7-10pm

Tea (Last Sunday of Show) Sunday April 16^th 3-6pm

www.oaklandsweetart.info

Swee(t)Art Drawing Gallery has moved and this is the opening show of 2010!

This show is based around sculptors and ceramicists’ drawn work as art in and of itself. The gathered roster includes emerging and established artists from a regional and national level who have built their careers on exploring their voice in three dimensions. This show explores their never before seen works at their creative genesis, as drawings. How does the sculptor relate to only two dimensions? Is their a tactile element that is maintained? How much of form is simply illusion.

Oakland curator Obi Kaufmann and artists/gallery owners Matt and Lena Reynoso continue their partnership with the side-project of the Compound Gallery, The Swee(t)Art Drawing Gallery. Now in its new location around the corner from its old spot, the Compound Gallery opens once again in April and is proud to host this unique Bay Area gallery.

Mission

The Drawing Gallery operates philosophically from a place near the origin of visual art. As a force in the world, Drawing separates humanity from all other terrestrial life-forms with its mysterious ability to transmit rudimentary information about beauty, mortality and emotive trans-generational divinations. Modern Art has subdivided itself into a million nodes of fashion and commodity and still there remains this mark-making impulse that ties us to the beginning of all art which begat then language: writing, theater, the visual arts, et al. The Drawing…the first beautiful word of the hand, the first dance, where the mind meets the eye and the creative spark is kindled and kept.

Swee(t)Art? Yes. It used to be a magazine,and then a website…now a gallery. Mixing both the Sweet and the Tart, Swee(t)Art has always been about the many flavors of contemporary Oakland. Although the gallery is committed to showcase regional and national art and the focus is on the local community, the scope of the work is not provincial and the themes, craftsmanship and presentation of all the high-concept shows at Swee(t)Art are of the highest aspiration in both presentation (of the individual) and cohesiveness (of the group).

CONTACT

OBI KAUFMANN

Phone 925-951-7501

Email: obikaufmann@msn.com

 

We Have been working really hard in the studio and the collaborations are almost  finished! Here are a few pictures in the process.

DEREK WEISBERG * CRYSTAL MOREY * BEN BELKNAP
(September 9-October 11, 2009)

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12, 6-9pm

Afternoon Tea: Sunday, September 20, 3-6pm
Closing Reception: Friday, October 2, 7-10