Window Installation by Paul Hayes + Chris Loomis at Uptown Unveiled

Presented across from the Fox Theater on Telegraph in Oakland (between 18th & 19th) Courtesy of Johansson Projects, Swarm Gallery and Very Public Art Projects. Lighting Design by Theodore Dawson

Paul Hayes' abstract ecosystem titled "Stream of Consciousness," constructed from folded-paper-and-wire, will sprout from the ceiling while Chris Loomis' piece - aptly titled "Conversation II" - engages in a nomadic interplay from the floor presented in the Marquee Lofts window on Telegraph (between 18th & 19th Streets)

Johansson Projects will also be open from 5-10pm that evening presenting:

The Echo Fields
Featuring:
Val Britton + Mike Meyers

In the Project Space:
Show Me
Featuring:
Jennifer + Kevin McCoy

Review SFMOMA Open Space
by Anu Vikram "…gallery on the corner of 23rd and Telegraph that would be as much at home in San Francisco or New York, but which keeps a certain East Bay DIY spirit deep inside. Johansson’s sensibilities range from delicate works on paper to kinetic, mechanical and electronic art, all of which is on display this month…"

Review by DeWitt Cheng
"…While Britton explores the poetics of landscape, Meyers satirizes technological culture with his impeccably fabricated impossible machines and models…The McCoys question technologically mediated knowledge. The VCR in "Video Inversion," programmed to load a never-delivered videocassette, is an abject protagonist and an object lesson worthy of Ionesco or Beckett…"