RANDOM PARTS is pleased to present
JETSONORAMA - Door to Door with COLLEEN FLAHERTY
and
KATHY SLOANE - Gardens, Garages and Garbage Cans
Aldo Walking Away, JETSONORAMA
Physician by day and artist by night, JETSONORAMA will create a location-specific artwork in collaboration/ assistance with Random Parts' artist, Colleen Flaherty in the East Lake neighborhood of Oakland, California. His intervention will be installed on a wall facing the Random Parts gallery and will become a permanent public artwork on the corner of 13th Avenue and East 12th St. in Oakland.
Repair Shop and Plants, Kathy Sloane
In Gardens, Garages and Garbage Cans, Sloane extends the traditional notion of portraiture to make a different kind of picture in her own neighborhood. She photographs gardens in makeshift pots and containers in front of old Victorian buildings and small apartment houses as well as inside auto body garages that proliferate in an area just east of Lake Merritt; a locale known for its vibrant diversity of immigrants and bustling small businesses. Its a neighborhood that on the surface appears shabby, but Sloane with this series of photographs, captures the beauty and spirit of a community. She gives the viewer a glimpse into a world that at first glance is a gritty concrete jungle but whose inhabitants see beauty in the unexpected and banal. In the words of the artist, these are photographs of gardens that proclaim “someone lives here, works there, who loves life and values beauty.”
JETSONORAMA
DOOR TO DOOR with COLLEEN FLAHERTY
May 17, 2014 - Ongoing
Opening reception: Saturday, May 17 12:00 - 6:00pm
artist talk from 1-2 pm
KATHY SLOANE
GARDENS, GARAGES AND GARBAGE CANS
May 17 - June 8, 2014
Opening reception: Saturday, May 17 12:00 - 6:00pm
artist talk from 1-2 pm
*On Saturday, May 17 from 11am-6pm is the 14th annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival at San Antonio Park, Oakland, CA (5 blocks away from Random Parts)
Random Parts
1206 13th Avenue
Oakland, California 94606
Hours: By appointment only and 11am-5pm during the weekend of June 7 and 8th for the 2014 East Bay Open Studios.
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