Press Releases from Johansson Projects (75 total)
Light Echoes | Aili Schmetlz
Radiating energy fields of psychedelic embroidery in Light Echoes, a solo exhibition by Aili Schmeltz
Johansson Projects presents Light Echoes, a solo exhibition by…
Craig Dorety | Continuum
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 2022 Oakland, CA - Continuum is a new body of sculptural light pieces by Oakland-born artist Craig Dorety. Continuum runs…
Alexi Antoniadis + Susie Taylor | Origin Stories
Alexi Antoniadis + Susie Taylor | Origin Stories
August 27 - October 15, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - July 2022 Oakland, CA - Origin Stories is a…
Community Garden, an annual summer show at Johansson Projects
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 2022 Oakland, CA - Jubilant storytelling and vibrant, stylized figuration articulate cultural and emotional experiences that embrace absurdity, joy, and…
Two new exhibitions @ Johansson Projects
Sophie Treppendahl: Homebody
April 30 - June 18, 2022
Nimah Gobir: SPOOLS
April 30 - June 18, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday May 6, 5-8pm
Johansson Projects announces two concurrent solo…
Receiver | Aili Schmeltz + Katy Stone
Aili Schmeltz and Katy Stone: Receiver
March 4 - April 23, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday March 4, 5-8pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - (Oakland, CA February 2022) - Johansson…
High Plains | Rachelle Bussières, Blaise Rosenthal, Andy Vogt
Johansson Projects presents High Plains, a three-person exhibition featuring the work of Rachelle Bussières, Blaise Rosenthal and Andy Vogt. Ranging in mediums from exposures on…
Thinking, Staring & Smoking | Robert Pokorny solo exhibition
Johansson Projects presents Thinking, Staring, & Smoking, Robert Pokorny’s new show opening July 31, 2021.
A response...by Garrett M. Brown
“What a long strange trip it’s been...”…
Miguel Arzabe // Cóndor de Cuatro Cabezas (Four-Headed Condor)
Johansson Projects is pleased to announce a forthcoming solo exhibition of recent works by Oakland-based artist Miguel Arzabe entitled Cóndor de Cuatro Cabezas (Four-Headed Condor),…
Community Garden
At a time when it feels like the light is finally breaking through the darkness, Community Garden — a group exhibition of seven artists —…
The Remnants
Amidst the upheaval of 2020, The Remnants featuring Megan Reed and Micah Wood explores what we leave behind and the agency in making as a…
Within the Distance
Within the Distance offers viewers an opportunity to wander among a selection of new works by eight artists on view at Johansson Projects West, our…
A Terrain of Memory: Monuments from the California Landscape
Ido Yoshimto and Blaise Rosenthal create monolithic tributes to the California landscape at Johansson Projects
The wilderness of Northern California is difficult to describe with…
Pansy Twist: An Incomplete Survey/Mixtape of American Riot Boi Art
Pansy Twist: An Incomplete Survey/Mixtape of American Riot Boi Art is a decidedly un-essential collective convo instigated by Seth Bogart, Jeffrey Cheung, and Brontez Purnell;…
JAY NELSON | MAKING LANDS | JUNE 7 - JULY 20
In Jay Nelson’s prodigious body of built work there is always the dare for the viewer to see from a new perspective. To inhabit what…
Summer Selections
Johansson Projects presents Summer Selections featuring works by our gallery artists.
Johansson Projects is a contemporary art gallery that functions as curatorial laboratory, creating exhibitions that…
ANNA FIDLER + CATHY LU | HER KIND | 5-8PM FRI FEB 1
Cathy Lu and Anna Fidler shape new myths surrounding characters of the past. With bright colors, topographic energy portraits sculpted from layers of paper, and…
Loop Melody
Opening: Friday December 7 2018 | 5pm - 8pm
Here’s one storyline. Here’s another. Here’s an endless number of storylines hovering on the groundless surface.
Kaye’s granular…
Loop Melody | Alexander Kori Girard and Rachel Kaye | 5-8PM FRI NOV 2
Johansson Projects presents Loop Melody featuring the works of Alexander Kori Girard and Rachel Kaye. Here's one storyline. Here's another. Here's an endless number of…
Concrete Utopia
Johansson Projects presents Concrete Utopia where fragments of urban life and daydreams unite the works of Rachelle Bussières and Courtney Sennish.
The works lure you…
Loop Melody | Rachel Kaye and Alexander Kori Girard
With foreground and background largely erased, each artist leaves it to the viewer to choose the topsy-turvy direction. Here's one storyline. Here's another. Here's an…
Concrete Utopia | Rachelle Bussières and Courtney Sennish
Fragments of urban life and daydreams unite the works of Rachelle Bussieres and Courtney Sennish in Concrete Utopia on view at Johansson Projects. The works…
Matthew F Fisher | Into the Blue
Matthew F Fisher's paintings have been exhibited extensively in California, New York, London, and Atlanta, He is a recipient of residencies and awards from…
Matthew Fisher | Into The Blue
Johansson Projects presents Into the Blue, a solo show by Matthew F Fisher. Part moony Florida evenings, part castaway, part neo-pastel, part noir, part performative…
MICHELLE BLADE | PARTNERLOOK
Johansson Projects presents: “Partnerlook”, an exhibition of new paintings and ceramic sculptures by artist Michelle Blade.
“Partnerlook” is a term that stems from the German colloquial…
CLAIRE COLETTE | MONUMENT ETERNAL
Johansson Projects presents, Monument Eternal, featuring Claire Colette’s ethereal brand of geometric abstraction inviting deep, meditative viewing. Borrowing its title from Alice Coltrane’s first book—which…
BLAISE ROSENTHAL | BETWEEN THE LINES | 5-8PM FRI AUG 4
Johansson Projects presents Between the Lines, a solo show with artist Blaise Rosenthal. This is the first exhibition of his “Overpaintings”, a group of small…
Megan Reed + Jennie Ottinger | Rabble-Rousers | May 27
In Rabble-Rousers, Megan Reed’s marching sculptures, watched by the disconcertingly unwholesome crowds in Jennie Ottinger’s paintings, together activate the gallery space into a kind of…
Matt Kleberg + Woody De Othello | Knock-Kneed and Bow-Legged | March 25
In their upcoming show at Johansson Projects, Knock-Kneed and Bow-Legged, Matt Kleberg’s cascading voids and Woody Othello’s anthropomorphized ceramics come together to construct curious alternate…
SOFIE RAMOS | FRI FEB 3
In Sofie Ramos’ January residency at Johansson Projects, vivid playgrounds, fantastical constructions, and vibrantly textural wonderlands will take over the gallery space for her upcoming…
CODY HOYT + ALEXANDER KORI GIRARD | OCTOBER 22
In Cody Hoyt and Alexander Kori Girard’s upcoming show at Johansson Projects, patterned forms and organic geometries come together in an unique exploration of functional…
MICAH WOOD | HEALTHY TEARS | THU SEPT 1 5-8
In his first solo exhibition at Johansson Projects, Micah Wood explores the semiotics of coherent symbols through painting and sculpture by presenting a critical commentary…
Blaise Rosenthal | Mirage | April 1
Mirage
Featuring: Blaise Rosenthal
Show Runs March 26 - May 21, 2016
Reception: Friday, April 1, 5-8pm
In first solo exhibition Blaise Rosenthal's acrylic and charcoal works reveal subtle…
Samantha Bittman | Material Data
Material Data
Featuring: Samantha Bittman
Show Runs May 1 - July 4, 2015
Reception Friday May 1, 5 - 8 PM
In Material Data, Samantha Bittman presents a new…
MIAMI | UNTITLED Art Fair | Johansson Projects Booth D06 | Dec 1-7
Johansson Projects presents works by Craig Dorety featuring a collaboration with Jim Campbell
Craig Dorety’s meditative, time-based light sculptures use vibrant, animated gradients of light to…
JENNIFER + KEVIN MCCOY | ALL EXIT
ALL EXIT
FEATURING JENNIFER + KEVIN MCCOY
Show Runs Through January 3, 2015
Extended hours Friday December 5th, open until 8 pm.
In their second exhibition with Johansson…
Jennifer + Kevin McCoy | All Exit
In their second exhibition with Johansson Projects, entitled All Exit, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy present new works that spin out from the landscape of the…
Fractured Fauna
Fractured Fauna
New works by Misako Inaoka
August 23 – October 18
Artist reception September 5, 5-8pm
Johansson Projects presents Fractured Fauna, a new series by Misako Inaoka, in…
Alicia McCarthy + Jenny Sharaf
Alicia McCarthy + Jenny Sharaf
Show Runs June 21 - August 16
Reception Saturday June 21, 3-5 pm
Johansson Projects presents new works by Alicia McCarthy and Jenny…
Craig Dorety | Division | Johansson Projects
Division
Craig Dorety featuring a collaboration with Jim Campbell
Show Runs April 19 - June 14, 2014
Reception: Friday, May 2, 5-8pm
In a time when technology so often…
Temporal Void featuring Mayumi Hamanka + Brooks Salzwedel
Johansson Projects presents Temporal Void, a two person show featuring new works by Mayumi Hamanaka and Brooks Salzwedel, in which the vulnerability of our environments,…
Temporal Void | Mayumi Hamanaka + Brooks Salzwedel | November 21 – January 16, …
Johansson Projects presents Temporal Void, a two person show featuring new works by Mayumi Hamanaka and Brooks Salzwedel, in which the vulnerability of our environments,…
Formalities featuring Dan Grayber + Steuart Pittman
Johansson Projects presents Formalities, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Dan Grayber and Steuart Pittman, in which familiar structures and seemingly rigorous forms are born…
Michelle Blade and Hillary Wiedemann
Johansson Projects is pleased to present a "A Willing Transfer of Belief", a two person exhibition featuring works of Michelle Blade and Hillary Wiedemann.
The…
Johansson Projects presents Pixilated Drift featuring David O'Brien, Andrew Bens …
Johansson Projects presents Pixilated Drift, in which computer glitches and obsolete technologies float, bump and bleed into one another like continents in motion.
Andrew Benson’s entrancing…
Johansson Projects presents Opal Dust featuring Casey Watson
Opal Dust features Casey Watson depicting the sharp-edged task of portraying a soft exterior. Watson’s meticulous colored pencil and graphite drawings invite the viewer to…
Johansson Projects presents Rachel Kaye
Johansson Projects presents SHEBAM! POW! BLOP! WIZZ! featuring work by Rachel Kaye. Kaye's textile playgrounds channel the eternally dramatic love affair between art and fashion.…
Johansson Projects presents Vampires & Wolf Men featuring Anna Fidler
Age-old folklore renders a vampire's reflection invisible. Anna Fidler suggests that when a post-internet vampire faces the mirror, its simulacrum glitches like a psychedelic computer…
Johansson Projects presents What To Do With Your Orphan: A Manual featuring Jenn …
On Johansson Projects 5th Anniversary we present Jennie Ottinger's "What to Do with Your Orphan: A Manual", in which orphans partake in orphan-like activities. These…
Johansson Projects presents Hymns to the Moon featuring Tadashi Moriyam + Robert …
Johansson Projects presents Hymns to the Moon, where sublime omens haunt everyday spaces, both of the landscape and of the imagination. Robert Minervini and Tadashi…
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