Something Blue... at Gray Loft Gallery

Show dates: February 16 - March 23, 2019

Opening Reception, Saturday, February 16, 4:00 - 6:30 pm
2nd Friday Jingletown Reception: March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Closing Reception, Saturday, March 23, 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 1:00 - 5:00 pm

Ann M. Jastrab, independent curator, photography consultant, editor, writer; and Jan Watten, founder of Gray Loft Gallery. On display will be blue inspired images from a wide array of traditional and alternative photographic processes - including pinhole photography, images made with plastic cameras, cyanotypes, collage, and other photo-based works by Bay Area photographers.

Participating Artists:
Jan Alderton, Francis Baker, Roy Berkowitz, Parmalee Cover, Susan Brady, Giselle Brewton, Becky Calandri, Jessica Chen, Sara Chieco, Marna Clarke, Sas Colby, Norma Cordova, Eric Davidove, Larry Davidson, Ellen Davis, Sam Deaner, Adrienne Defendi, Hedi Desuyo, Lisa Erdberg, Diane Fenster, Julie Nelson-Gal, Rhianna Gallagher, David Gardner, Ingeborg Gerdes, Steve Goldband & Ellen Konar, J.M. Golding, Lisa Goodman, Tim Goodman, Sarah Grew, Marsha Guggenheim, Charlotta Maria Hauksdottir, Edie Hoffman, Ann Holsberry, Josephine Iselin, Candice Jacobus, Laura Kiernan, Martin Klimek, Anne Kohler, Lisa J Levine, Michael Martin, Erik Mathy, Rocky McCorkle, Zach Miners, Charlotte Niel, Laura Epstein-Norris, Deborah O'Grady, Jamie Pillers, Eben Ostby, Charles Reilly, Pete Rosos, Philip Sager, Jenny Sampson, Ronald Saunders, Cromwell Schubarth, Susan Scott, Neo Serafimidis, Douglas G Stinson, Styrous, Ed Summerfield, Michael Teresko, George Tomberlin, Susan West, Jeff Weston, Stephanie Williamson, Nicholas Winkworth, Bijan Yashar, Mitsu Yoshikawa, Yelena Zhavoronkova

Stinson Sam Deaner

About Gray Loft Gallery:
Gray Loft Gallery - founded in 2012 - was voted Best Art Gallery in 2016 and 2017 in the Oakland Magazine Readers' Choice Awards, and has been referred to as a hidden gem in Jingletown. The mission of the gallery is to provide exhibition opportunities for artists in a setting that is an alternative to the traditional gallery model. We hope to inspire, engage and celebrate artists in our community and beyond. We acknowledge the achievements of emerging, mid-career and established artists - with an emphasis on those who live and work in the Bay Area. The gallery is a member of the San Francisco Art Dealers Association, Oakland Art Murmur, Oakland Grown and Jingletown Arts, Business and Community.

Michael Joseph: Lost & Found

By Michael Joseph

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 144 pages

Lost & Found documents a contemporary American subculture of young Travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These Travelers abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. Along their personal journey driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends.

The high of freedom, however, does not come without consequence. The black and white portraits are made in public, on the street, using natural light. Individual stories, as a collection, form a greater narrative. Over ten years in the making, Joseph’s portraits reveal the human condition. They capture courage, tenderness, and determination in his subjects that have been largely ignored and unseen.

An incredible book that we highly recommend! All About Photo

All About Michael Joseph

Nick Brandt: Sink / Rise, The Day May Break: Chapter Three

By Nick Brandt

Publisher : Hatje Cantz

2024 | 120 pages

Through his widely acclaimed work, English photographer Nick Brandt (1964) addresses pressing environmental issues, consistently highlighting mankind’s impact upon the natural world. His work is truly a fusion of artistry and activism, and he is best known for capturing the majestic landscapes of Africa as well as intimate portraits of its wildlife. Sink / Rise is the third chapter of The Day May Break, an ongoing global series portraying ecological degradation and destruction. This chapter adopts a slightly different approach than its predecessors: taking humans, rather than animals or landscapes, as his subjects. Sink / Rise focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by rising oceans from climate change. The people in these photos, photographed underwater in the ocean off the coast of the Fijian islands, are local representatives of the many people whose homes, land and livelihoods will be lost in the coming decades as the water rises. In Brandt’s images, the Islanders sit down at tables, stand on chairs and embrace―all the while, their pinched expressions reveal the desperation of their asphyxiating condition.

All About Nick Brandt

Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch

By Lisa McCord:

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 204 pages

Rotan Switch is the first monograph by Lisa McCord, documenting life on her grandparents’ cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan. It takes its name from the community’s central landmark—the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it hasn’t been used in years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of race and injustice. Collected over the last forty-four years, these images and stories are a reflection on the people and places that have taught McCord the meaning of the word home. It is also a self-exploration into her inherently complicated role in this community as both the photographer and the granddaughter of the farm owner.
This publication is a long-term project, constructed from McCord's analog photographs, family snapshots and ephemera. Including, monochrome photographs, color polaroids, and recipes.

Christer Strömholm

By Christer Strömholm

Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing

2024 | 296 pages

Christer Strömholm is recognised as one of the major figures of 20th century European photography. Strömholm captured his surroundings in black‐and‐white images that display his integrity, understated humour and a highly personal aesthetic. With an unmistakable sensitivity to human suffering, based on his personal experience, he took photography in a new direction. Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian, has described him “as the father of Swedish photography both for his abiding influence and for his role as a teacher.”

Something Blue... at Gray Loft Gallery

Show dates: February 16 - March 23, 2019

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