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BayVAN has begun exhibiting in the pristine lobby gallery of a new downtown apartment building. Its current show features John Vias’ elegant night photographs depicting silent, deserted EastBay locales.  read more….

OAKLAND SWEE(t)ART interviews Steven Barich

After a presenting a successful new approach to his popular “Logic Stone” style, one which involves color,  at a  last year’s auction at SoEx, Kerri Johnson approached Steven Barich about a solo show at Branch Gallery…………. read more...

Steven Barich: Zen with a Kickstand is a weekly pick in the EastBay Express

Photography is, by definition, a recording of light. It’s no wonder then that photographers Aimee Friberg and Tabitha Soren are so captivated by the ways natural and man-made lights illuminate the world. In their joint exhibition, Dreamtime, Friberg and Soren present surreal, beautiful, and, yes, dream-like images that tell a story of both light and darkness.”

Bonnie Chan, Flavorpill

It’s all about home in an era of mobility and constant change.  read more….

Gina Tuzzi and Tyler Bewley ponder Americans’ predilections for motorized cocooning and domestic bliss on the road in Habitual Homesteaders, a two-person show curated by the aptly named BayVAN.  read more….

Ripple Effect Award  read more..

Repeated simple geometric forms can exercise a hypnotic pull on viewers willing to take a slow, meditative look, as demonstrated by the works ofAd Reinhardt and Agnes Martin (who is well represented in the Fisher Collection now on display at SFMOMA). So do the paintings of Pablo Manga and Hadley Williams…. read more…

Major credit goes to the artists’ grit and determination, but the City of Oakland has helped.  read more…..

Contusions would seem unlikely subjects to paint, especially in the seductive medium of encaustic paint, but the malleable and translucent wax medium, yielding to touch and warmth, readily suggests human flesh….read more…..