As the holidays rev up each year, you can count on Oakland's outstanding Gray Loft Gallery to launch a new color-themed show. This year, to celebrate the gallery's 10th anniversary, the theme is, appropriately, Shades of Gray.
Jurors Ann Jastrab, executive director of the Center for Photographic Art, and Jan Wattan, founder of Gray Loft, promise "cool neutrals, sophisticated deep charcoal gray images, glimmers of gray in a color landscape and the beautiful mid-tones of perfect gelatin silver prints." The photo at left, titled "Three Fish," fits somewhere in that spectrum, and I'm honored for it to be included.
The opening reception will be held Saturday, December 10, from 4 to 6:30 pm. A few fans may note that's right after the holiday performance of the Bernal Jazz Quartet, with husband Michael Gold on sax, at the Bernal Heights Library. Why not make it a day of art and music and join us on both sides of the bay?
The show ends with a closing reception on Saturday, January 21, 2023.
Gray Loft, voted "Best Art Gallery" of 2021 by Oakland Magazine readers, is located on the third floor of 2889 Ford Street in the hip Jingletown arts section of Oakland, which is worth a visit as well.