R. A. W. ART GALLERY EXHIBIT 08.06.10

Carly Ivan Garcia is creating a buzz around California . His shows have become unique and large scale and have become know as a gallery exhibit worth checking out. The show on August 06 will be in conjunction with the Oakland Art Murmur. The work ranges from high-end contemporary paintings and photographs to prolific graffiti art. From 6PM-9PM at The Uptown located at 1951 Telegraph Avenue (on the corner of 20th St. and Telegraph Ave)
The 500 square feet gallery space hosted by The Uptown will feature Oakland Based artist Keba Armand Konte:

For a man who is paving the way for a new generation of artistic visionaries, the celebrated Bay Area based photomontage craftsman Keba Armand Konte relishes in creating signature timeless pieces with the technical skill of an assemblage artist and the narrator elegance of a griot. His photographic works of art consist of an amalgam of protests and portraits, street moments and political movements, dignitaries and ditch diggers, hip-hop heads and mothers, continents and cultures as well as freaks, friends and family members. Konte’s artistry is about remembrance – collective, personal, and community. He layers memory and metaphor as he inscribes social conditions, emphasizing love, vulnerability, decay and loss. This vision allows viewers to share the honesty and fearlessness he has found in his subjects trekking the world (Japan, Africa, Cuba, Jamaica and Europe) and within his own community in Northern California.

As well, nine inspiring contemporary artists will be exhibiting….

When he was 21, Brett Amory moved to San Francisco to study motion pictures at the Academy of Arts. Soon after enrolling in school, Amory took his first drawing class and was introduced to his passion for the arts. Around the time Amory turned 24 he tried his hand in painting. In 2002 Amory switched his major to fine art and started his first body of work called “Waiting” a series of paintings about the anticipation of the next moment. Amory gathers his source material by taking pictures on the street of people waiting. He gravitates towards visible quirks and, by his own admission, a lot of his subjects are older. Amory graduated from the Academy of Arts in 2005 and has shown his work all over the country. In 2006 Brett along with five other artists published a book called “Convergence” and had book signings in New York, Los Angeles, and at the SFMOMA in San Francisco. Amory currently works as a graphic designer at an environmental company in San Francisco and continues to show his work in galleries across the country.

Agne Correll, “My work is from “emotion”. I don’t try to paint or draw what I see. I paint what I feel. It is important for me to work with the figuritive form. It’s easy to relate to the shapes, lines, poses and the life of the image I am working with.
You could say they all are my auto portraits, a diary of my thoughts and feelings. I paint almost every day. It is helpful in my capturing certain feelings. It is also a way for me to go deeper into an emotion. I sketch often. There are times my vision is clear and it allows me to jump right in. And other times it is a more contemplative process.
Some of my paintings can take as long as six years or more in completion and others I can create in a weekend.
Most recently I have been working on very simple design in oil drawings. I work very large 64X56, 36X48 and others are as small as 10X16.” Agne is also owner of the Room Interior Art Gallery, Marin CA.

Ali Garca.works on paper. 2010. ♥

ARMO A pioneer and leader in the new Alta Modern genre. The art of ARMO, a style known as “Alta-Modern”, abrasively erodes away at the line between two significantly widespread methods of communication: he takes styles from graffiti and digital typography to amplify the features of both. ARMO will challenge the viewer’s comfort zones by augmenting direction and variety to their limits, making colorful displays harshly intriguing. Upon first impression, one may think that they have seen things like it before, but this demands its own type of attention, as it is an advance upon what was the cutting edge in urban art. It is almost as if ARMOs work is an explosion of chaotic color and expression, a sort of unity between machine and humanity not unlike electronic music. ARMO delivers an outburst of vision: the mashing of cultures his mixing board.

Emily Johnson’s eye for photography originally developed on the east coast. With a visual communication’s background her abilities are meant to be seen. Emily now resides in Oakland CA, where she creates cinema, film and editing projects.Her multilayered skills transfer into beautiful photographs. .Emily will be premiering new work at the August RAW show.

Amanda Lynn, “I love to paint. Those four words are probably the best description of why I do what I do. Since I was very young, I have been surrounded and inspired by several different artists. A very prolific and enchanting teacher, Robin Grass, opened my eyes to the realm of fantasy. He also taught me the technique of acrylic painting that I still use today. Throughout the vast changes in my life, I have become very aware of the spiritual beauty and strength I have found in the women who surround me. My admiration for these women has inspired me to want to paint them in the character in which I veiw them. I started out by studying and admiring other artists whom I also felt understood the hidden magic of the female spirit, such as Brian Froud and Olivia. After moving to the west coast and studying at the Academy of Art, I became more aware of the details of the human figure that I wished to portray.

Dawood Marion graduated with a degree in Visual Communications. Soon after began studying Concept development and Production design at Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood. Since then Dawood has worked as a conceptual illustrator and colorist at companies such as Magnadyne Electronics, Parero Design Group, Code of arms, Mack Vision Entertainment, Seven dollar Productions, and Legacy Interactive.
Dawood has taught life drawing, character design, and production design at C.L.A.S (Culture and Language Academy of Success), Sharon Art Studios, AHC Oakland, Los Angeles Academy of Fine Arts and Gnomon School of Visual Effects.

Michael Orange explores photography in a series of images that contradict the urban environment in which he promotes unstoppable creative outreach. His photographic process that reveals images of iconic subjects that range from different contexts and reflect across cultures and humanity.

It is an honor for Aoi Yamaguchi’s Calligraphy with poetry to grace the walls of the RAWll Gallery. As Aoi has said, “The Japanese form is really unique, based on traditional culture. I use special brushes and papers. Like if I was just to draw the alphabet, it’s very simple lines, while there’s a lot of curves and three different styles of characters [in Japan], hiragana, katakana and kanji. Kanji is the most complicated one and consists of bunch of strokes. It’s really hard to write, but that’s what really makes me want to do it and learn it because it’s hard. If it’s easy, I can be more creative, it takes time to learn it but we need patience to develop the skill.”

Guest Dj Satva (skateclik)
Dj Sonny Phono (burn it down sounds)
Complimentary Libations

After – Party: 2022 Bar and Lounge