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Holding onto love, through painter Gage Opdenbrouw’s ‘slow, quiet’ color chords

Mary Corbin - October 14, 2020

'I make art for the fact that words are rarely enough,' says Bay Area artist, whose interiors can reflect our current solitude

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With ‘Everglow,’ an artist explores redwood’s phosphorescence

Emily Wilson - October 6, 2020

Artist Victoria Wagner, a former pastry chef and wedding cake-maker , says she’s always been a sculptural thinker. But she didn’t work with wood...

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“Housing Black” muralist Malik Seneferu talks of his next wall and visions of the possible

Maddy Clifford - October 1, 2020

The multimedia creative and incarcerated youth educator on art-borne futures; "You have to know how to create, and you have to get comfortable with the hypothetical."

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In painting, Elena Zolotnitsky lives by ‘beauty will save the world’

Mary Corbin - September 29, 2020

Four decades into her career, the Russian-born, Oakland-based artist devotes her work to mystery, seduction, and life.

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Michelle E. Fillmore paints to connect—and manage pandemic emotions

Mary Corbin - September 20, 2020

The Oakland photorealist's work depicts mystery, transformation, and the identity crisis imposed by our moment.

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Photographer Dorothea Lange’s archive now available online at OMCA

Emily Wilson - September 16, 2020

The collection presents the iconic Lange as the personable creator she was—and a local picturmaker to boot.

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Open Studios offers virtual walk-throughs, glimpses into artists’ lives

Maddy Clifford - September 15, 2020

The 45-year-old tradition is using Instagram and online parties to introduce the latest work of dozens of creators.

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Sirron Norris’ cartooning classes take to internet for COVID summer

Emily Wilson - September 11, 2020

No reason for kids to lay down their pencils in the pandemic, says the iconic Bay Area artist.

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Artist Tim Presley rediscovers spark robbed by addiction in new book

Daniel Bromfield - August 24, 2020

These painted figures that fill the pages of Tim Presley's new book Under the Banner of Concern seem to know your secrets. No matter...

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Visions of Angela Davis: An archivist shares her rare political poster trove

Maddy Clifford - August 17, 2020

Angela Davis’ image is one the most widely recognized in the world. But what generations of activists, especially those born of the Internet era,...

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