3rd THURSDAYS ON 25TH STREET, FEBRUARY 16, 6-8 PM

We are excited to celebrate Black History Month and to announce we are dedicating a space in the gallery for rotating artworks that are for contemplation and in response to contemporary social issues. It will be be a place for visitors to view an array of artworks that express artists' perspectives to the social and or political climate of the day. We will provide seating, to encourage reflection. We are dedicating and naming the wall after the inspiring former Ohio Senator Nina Turner. The space will be designated and used for this purpose for an ongoing period. We hope you'll join us!

 Be inspired! Watch Nina Turner's speech at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC. 

ARTIST TALK FOR "FLIGHT, FLOCK, AND HOLLOW": SAT. 2/11, 2PM

ARTIST TALK: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2PM

Nature has been a long-standing source of creative and industrial material and of spiritual and artistic inspiration. How humans relate to and portray nature has always been a reflection of specific historical moments. Join the artists from Flight, Flock, and Hollow on Saturday, February 11 at 2PM as they share how they source nature and the life cycle for their work. 

"FLIGHT, FLOCK, AND HOLLOW" OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, 2/3, 6–9PM

FLIGHT, FLOCK, AND HOLLOW: February 3 – March 25, 2017

Vessel gallery presents FLIGHT, FLOCK, AND HOLLOW, artworks by Barry Ebner, Cyrus Tilton, Gordon Glasgow, Irene Imfeld, Kyong Ae Kim, Christy Kovacs, & Walter James Mansfield. 

OPENING RECEPTION: February 3, during First Friday 6–9PM

LOCATION: Vessel Gallery
                    471 25th Street
                    Oakland, CA 94612

Artist Talk for NOTHING EXTRANEOUS: Sat. 1/14, 2PM

ARTIST TALK: Saturday, January 14, 2PM by Marilyn Bardet, Elizabeth Sher, Becca Smidt, and Cyrus Tilton

From doodles to preparatory drawings and schematics, the artists in Nothing Extraneous have used the act of drawing in its many forms. Explore the exhibit on Saturday, January 14 at 2PM, with artists Elizabeth Sher and Cyrus Tilton, along with William Harsh's widow Marilyn Bardet and Sam Smidt's daughter Becca Smidt, as they share how each artist used drawing in their practice and how, at times, it was a more freeing form of self expression than their usual medium. 

NOTHING EXTRANEOUS: FIRST FRIDAY ART MURMUR CELEBRATION. Jan 6, 6-9PM

VESSEL GALLERY invites you to join First Friday celebration with our current exhibition.

NOTHING EXTRANEOUS

December 15 – January 28, 2016/2017
Drawings by Cyrus Tilton, William Harsh, Sam Smidt, and Elizabeth Sher
Friday, January 6, during Oakland Art Murmur, 6 - 9:00 PM

ARTIST TALK + POETRY READING FOR "SHADOWS OF THE WIND" Saturday, November 12, 2:00 PM

ARTIST TALK + POETRY READING:  Saturday, November 12, 2:00 PM
Artist talk with Barry Ebner & Linn Thygeson
Poetry reading with MK Chavez, Sharon Coleman, Joyce Jenkins, & Indigo Moor
Refreshment will be served.

 

Barry Ebner is an artist primarily working in monotype and drawing.  He started in Southern California as a painter and over the years migrated up the coast to the Bay Area. Over the last 25 years he has had over 20 solo exhibitions, throughout California and the western part of the United States. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas and his Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Printmaking from the California College of the Arts. 

Linn Thygeson spent her childhood on a farm in South Dakota.  She studied art in Minneapolis, Flagstaff, Nebraska, at CCA, and at the Sorbonne in Paris.  She graduated from the University of Nebraska.  She has worked as a photography instructor, a florist, an art teacher, an opera costume designer, and as an award-winning graphic designer for the San Francisco Chronicle.