These Society of Spectacle photos and artist mug shots were taken during August’s First Friday gallery hop in Oakland. Not all galleries or artists are represented, of course. The warm night brought out large crowds; someone told me that the streets were still buzzing at 1am (what recession?!). By the way, Art Murmur galleries (ArtMurmur.org) recently instituted uniform open hours on Saturday afternoons, producing an immediate increase in foot traffic the next day, though still sedate by Murmur standards.
1. Vendors set up Friday afternoon at 23rd Street and Telegraph, outside Johansson Projects.
2. Gourmet street food.
3. Hipsterburg.
4. Art Murmur’s Tina Dillman, the stylin’ queen of 23rd Street.
5. Amy H. Ho with projection piece (overexposed here to invisibility) at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary. Her ladder-accessible piece with a landscape theme is in the Bedford Center’s Outlandish show.
6. Keira Kotler at Chandra Cerrito.
7. Cathy Cunningham-Little at Chandra Cerrito. Sorry about the flash....
8. Kana Tanaka with glass-bead installation at Chandra Cerrito.
9. Aaron Hodge at Hatch Gallery with paintings about American soldiers in Afghanistan.
10. Browsers at 25th Street Art Collective.
11. 25th Street scene at Mercury 20, Vessel, Photo Gallery. Two new galleries, Roscoe and Manna, show ceramics and painting, respectively.
12. Close-up. Painter Donald Bradford (Andrea Schwartz Gallery, SF) in white jacket.
13. Photo Gallery’s new, larger space. Gallerist/photographer Irene Imfeld at right.
14. Charles Anselmo photos on silk and on paper of decayed architecture in Havana.
15. Artsters.
16. Charles and Gala.
17. Mary Curtis Ratcliff at Mercury 20 with art about Mississippi flooding.
18. Terry Dunn at Mercury 20 with art about Mississippi flooding.
19. Photos of local amateur wrestlers by Paul Mueller at Mercury 20
20. Eric Bohr with new collage works at Mercury 20.
21. Upstairs at Vessel Gallery.
22. Group show of portraits at Vessel Gallery.
23. View from stairs.
24. Upstairs. Art by Cyrus Tilton.
25. Bryson Bost with drawing, Vessel Gallery.
26. Patio.
27. Informal dining.
28. Murmurers.
29. More Murmurers
30. Dusk on 25th Street.
