A place for meetings, readings, showings, and other creative doings.
1601 Paru St., Alameda, CA 94501 • 510 523-6957
Current Exhibition
A Juried, Photo-Based, Multimedia Competition
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April 4 - May 31
Reception: Saturday, April 12 • 3 – 5 pm
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Alameda on Camera is an annual, juried event conducted throughout the City of Alameda. For 48 hours, beginning 9:00 pm Friday and ending 9:00 pm Sunday, 48 photo-based adult artists and our youth artists roam the City of Alameda and capture images of neighborhood, favorite places, secret hideaways and, if they choose, spotlight families, friends and famous (and infamous!) town characters.
Fire Escape Oasis by Jeff Shelby, 2025 Marketing Award
The new group show at the local art center consists of works intended to show artists’ ideas not about the past or future but right now, in this very moment, in the here and now where the wise men tell us to stay to
avoid suffering.
In a precise moment of time, Chase Martin saw the orb of a setting sun, carefully obscured by a leaning tree. In the moments that followed, the sun would sink below the horizon but in this moment,the whole world seems sweet, golden and romantic.
Clouds move all the time. Look away to check your phone and their configuration will have changed. Jeff Hyman and his camera were looking up and recording cloudscapes in moments of dramatic display. scudding, streaming, roiling. In a black and white photo however, blue color appears as shades of gray value and we get to discover cloud watching anew.
Maryann Mock shows a curious watercolor collage,”Chaos,” that evokes a patchwork quilt which slid off the dock and is slowly disintegrating under the water. In visual contrast are the hard and shiny surfaces showcasing the glamor and opulence of Rodeo Drive. In the photos by Laura Joy Sonido, shoppers are caught in mid-stride, mid sentence.Reflections and refractions jitter across glossy surfaces stilled only in the moment of this photo.
“Transitory Temptation” is an oil painting of delectable strawberry shortcake by Carol Squicci. It could be an illustration for “a moment on the lips, forever on the hips.”
Over the desk is a retro-looking collage of “The City” by BZ Meyers. It shows buildings punctured with windows, about 34 windows but, each one is different. Lights go on and off, figures enter and pass out of our field of vision. time passes, moments into hours, as the mini-dramas of humans living their lives are played out in the windows.