THE WORLD SAVING DEVICE
General Release 05.28.12
GROUP ART SHOW
The World Saving Device: Oakland Art, 250 Years From Now
The Hive Gallery
301 Jefferson St. Oakland, CA 94607
Show Dates: August 3rd (08.03.12) – August 31st (08.31.12), 2012
Reception: First Friday, August 3rd (08.03.12), in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur
The Hive Gallery, curator Obi Kaufmann, and designer Jason Kulp are pleased to present The World Saving Device – Oakland Art, 250 Years from Now. Ten Oakland painters and illustrators come together in this wildly imaginative show to explore the metaphor of a world that needs saving. The gallery will be transformed to resemble a cave, a proto-cathedral, or some sort of intergalactic womb.
By positing some kind of deep future, what happens – especially here on the island that is California – is a reaching into our distant past. The device that ultimately saves the world becomes the ritual of the art-making process and its ability to convey compassion and a sense of some new, universal ecology.
Participating Artists –
Jon Carling – www.JonCarling.com
John Casey – www.Bunnywax.com
Ernest Doty – www.ErnestDotyArt.com
Thomas Christopher Haag – www.ThomasChristopherHaag.com
Obi Kaufmann – www.ObiKaufmann.com
Lauren Napolitano – www.EllephantParade.com
Nathaniel Parsons – www.NathanielParsons.com
David Polka – www.DavidPolka.com
David Seiler – www.VictorianRat.Squarespace.com
Gina Tuzzi – www.GinaTuzzi.com
The gallery show will be supplemented by a collaborative website to be launched in early July.
The gallery will be open on the following dates during these appointed hours:
08.03.12 – Friday – Opening Reception, 6pm to 9pm
08.04.12 – Saturday – 12pm to 4pm
08.09.12, 08.16.12, 08.23.12, 08.30.12 – Thursdays – 6pm to 8pm
08.31.12 – Friday – Closing Reception, 6pm to 9pm
Press Contact
Obi Kaufmann, curator
Phone 925-951-7501
www.OaklandSweetart.Wordpress.com
Visual Arts Writer
WSD graphic by David Polka
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