ART GALLERY
The CCW Bar and Restaurant gallery displays bi-monthly exhibits featuring local artists. Our goal is to provide an innovative forum for contemporary art, presenting work by largely unseen young artists who live in Oakland and the Bay Area, whose work has been rarely or never exhibited. Our museum-esque space has hosted all forms ranging from sculpture, to paintings, to large scale installations and performance art.
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CURRENT EXHIBITION
Mutual Friends
Curated by Jocelyn Tsaih
Feb 7-March 1, 2020
Opening Reception: February 7, 6-10pm
Drink & Dance & Draw: February 22nd, 6-10pm
Open Hours: Wed-Thurs 5-10pm, Fri 5pm-12am, Sat 11am-12am
Mutual Friends, a group installation curated by Jocelyn Tsaih at CCW Bar and Restaurant, is a celebration of both the loose and tight-knit friendships that make an art scene possible, powerful and lasting.
Eight artists from Oakland and L.A. will collectively adorn the walls with prints, murals and paintings on the theme of friendship and reciprocity for the month of February. Whether it’s at the opening party on February 7th during Oakland Art Murmur & Oakland First Fridays, or the Drink & Draw & Dance closing party on February 22nd, make some new (mutual) friends
About the artists:
Sarah Bowser is an artist working with paper and sculpture. She makes work that is playful with color and pattern and addresses matters of balance, tradition and nature. LINK
Jocelyn Tsaih is a visual artist who’s work is a reflection on human nature and the intangible aspects of life. Her work features an amorphous figure meant to embody the spirit of beings as a whole. LINK
Andy Busc is a Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artist who works in illustration, art direction, and graphic design. He creates diverse characters in a black and white world that focuses on personal identity and individuality with a playful twist. His works have been exhibited in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris and Berlin. LINK
JT is an illustrator based in Oakland, creating work across many dimensions that hopefully makes you feel something good. LINK
Meg Fransee is an Oakland-based artist, social worker, and ½ of Floss Editions. Her mural for Mutual Friends is an interpretation of the connections between friends and community as conveyed by a figure as one organism containing multiple forms. LINK
Alice Lee is an SF-based illustrator who specializes in murals. Her latest large-scale installations can be found all around the SF Bay Area, from the Asian Art Museum, to Philz Coffee (Transbay Terminal), to tech offices like Slack and Webflow. Born and raised in the SF Bay Area, when not painting in the studio, Alice is likely to be off somewhere in nature, exploring with her adventurous miniature pinscher Mochi or driving along the coast. LINK
Hana Ward is a painter and ceramicist from Los Angeles, California. She likes drawing figures with things on their mind— endearing yet undeniably melancholy beings. Her work has been described as, “sometimes sad, sometimes funny but always intriguingly equivocal” by ArtNews. Hana is the co-founder and creator of Uno+Ichi, a brand specializing in handmade ceramicware that add charm and sass to your daily rituals. LINK
Paul Windle, Born 1987 Fort Worth, Texas, Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. LINK
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