2 Close 2 the Sun
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingssubtitle: Art Obsessions. A popup podcast from Mercury 20 Gallery in Oakland, CA's arts district. We are an artist run gallery for over 2 decades with 21 members from the Bay Area. Each podcast will feature a different topic with gallery artists and outside experts, curators and influencers.
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Episodes
Art Collaborations - Why and How
April 24, 2023 15:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBEver wondered about collaborating? Getting started? What makes a successful collaboration? Listen for the inside scoop from the experts! 2 Close 2 the Sun: Art Obsessions from Mercury 20 Gallery in Oakland's Art District features artists, curators and influencers bring compelling content about art and artists. In this episode, Art Collaborations - Why and How, gallery artists Jessica Cadkin, Dr. K. C. Rosenberg, and public artist and former gallery member Johanna Poethig share their insigh...
Art & Community - A Mutual Enhancement
September 09, 2022 17:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBThree Mercury 20 Gallery artists: Tara Esparanza, Raymond L. Haywood and Jill Mclennan and Oakland Art Murmur executive director Jean Marie Durant share insights about how art enhances community and community enhances art. They share stories from their own experiences and art practice and tips on how to get involved with your own or Oakland's vibrant arts community. links: www.tarasorganic.com, www.taraesperanza.com, https://www.facebook.com/ raymond.l.haywood, www.ivstudios.com, www.jillm...
Unraveled -a conversation with fiber artists
June 07, 2022 04:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBThree fiber artists from Mercury Twenty Gallery and acclaimed textile artist Lia Cook share their philosophies, motivations, pitfalls and techniques as well as their inspirations and challenges of marketing fiber art. More information and link at Mercurytwenty.com
Art Entanglements: a conversation w visual and performance artist Johanna Poethig and Chris Brown composer and musician
February 16, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBEpisode 4 from 2 Close 2 the Sun: art obsessions presents Art Entanglements: a conversation with Johanna Poethig a visual, public and performance artist and Chris Brown, a musician, composer. and professor emeritus at Mills College. They will talk about their collaborations, their separate creative practices and their life together over the past 4 decades with a focus on their work together for Johanna’s Upcoming solo show Hideouts, Escape Hatches and a submarine. It opens at Mercury 20 on...
Is A Photograph Still Worth 1000 Words?
October 20, 2021 22:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBThree photographers from Mercury Twenty Gallery and Jan Watten Director of Gray Loft Gallery present a lively discussion of their philosophies and processes and how they keep their passion for the photograph in our images saturated world. Featuring Brooks Fletdher, Neo Serafimidis and Jan Wattan moderated by Chris Komater
Then and Now
August 16, 2021 17:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBIn this episode founding member Kathleen King gives a brief history of Mercury 20 Gallery, this year's 15th anniversary plans and best of all explains her own artwork evolving from abstract expressionist painting to constructions, installations and collages transforming society's discards which she finds on the streets of Oakland into aesthetic and profound works of art.
What's in a Name?
June 12, 2021 20:00 - 10 minutes - 7.23 MBBecause Mercury 20 Gallery (in Oakland, CA) is an artist run gallery, all members have a say in everything we do. In tonights "trial" episode 8 members "duke" it out to decide on a name. Spoiler alert - we got one!