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East Bay Open Studios (Spring 2023) – Day 4

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I cordially invite you to join me on two weekends in May:

  1. May 13, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  2. May 14, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
  3. May 20, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  4. May 21, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

Address:

Makers WorkSpace, Studio 37
1150 6th Street @ Harrison St, Berkeley CA 94710

Cross street is Harrison, same block as Fieldwork Brewing Co & across the street from Urban Adamah Farm. Street parking is usually available on 6th. There are more than 40 studios in the modern building!

East Bay Open Studios are free self-guided tours of artist studios and exhibition spaces throughout the East Bay (Alameda County and Contra Costa County) in over 12 different cities. Artists pay a registration fee to participate and the event is free for the public to enjoy.

East Bay Open Studios (Spring 2023) – Day 3

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I cordially invite you to join me on two weekends in May:

  1. May 13, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  2. May 14, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
  3. May 20, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  4. May 21, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

Address:

Makers WorkSpace, Studio 37
1150 6th Street @ Harrison St, Berkeley CA 94710

Cross street is Harrison, same block as Fieldwork Brewing Co & across the street from Urban Adamah Farm. Street parking is usually available on 6th. There are more than 40 studios in the modern building!

East Bay Open Studios are free self-guided tours of artist studios and exhibition spaces throughout the East Bay (Alameda County and Contra Costa County) in over 12 different cities. Artists pay a registration fee to participate and the event is free for the public to enjoy.

East Bay Open Studios (Spring 2023) – Day 2

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I cordially invite you to join me on two weekends in May:

  1. May 13, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  2. May 14, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
  3. May 20, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  4. May 21, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

Address:

Makers WorkSpace, Studio 37
1150 6th Street @ Harrison St, Berkeley CA 94710

Cross street is Harrison, same block as Fieldwork Brewing Co & across the street from Urban Adamah Farm. Street parking is usually available on 6th. There are more than 40 studios in the modern building!

East Bay Open Studios are free self-guided tours of artist studios and exhibition spaces throughout the East Bay (Alameda County and Contra Costa County) in over 12 different cities. Artists pay a registration fee to participate and the event is free for the public to enjoy.

East Bay Open Studios (Spring 2023) – Day 1

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I cordially invite you to join me on two weekends in May:

  1. May 13, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  2. May 14, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
  3. May 20, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  4. May 21, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

Address:

Makers WorkSpace, Studio 37
1150 6th Street @ Harrison St, Berkeley CA 94710

Cross street is Harrison, same block as Fieldwork Brewing Co & across the street from Urban Adamah Farm. Street parking is usually available on 6th. There are more than 40 studios in the modern building!

East Bay Open Studios are free self-guided tours of artist studios and exhibition spaces throughout the East Bay (Alameda County and Contra Costa County) in over 12 different cities. Artists pay a registration fee to participate and the event is free for the public to enjoy.

East Bay Open Studios 2022 (Nov 13)

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I cordially invite you to join me on two weekends in November:

  1. November 5, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  2. November 6, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
  3. November 12, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  4. November 13, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

Address:

Makers WorkSpace, Studio 37
1150 6th Street @ Harrison St Berkeley, CA 94710

Cross street is Harrison, same block as Fieldwork Brewing Co & across the street from Urban Adamah Farm. Street parking is usually available on 6th. There are more than 40 studios in the modern building!

East Bay Open Studios are free self-guided tours of artist studios and exhibition spaces throughout the East Bay (Alameda County and Contra Costa County) in over 12 different cities. Artists pay a registration fee to participate and the event is free for the public to enjoy.

East Bay Open Studios 2022 (Nov 12)

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I cordially invite you to join me on two weekends in November:

  1. November 5, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  2. November 6, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
  3. November 12, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  4. November 13, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

Address:

Makers WorkSpace, Studio 37
1150 6th Street @ Harrison St, Berkeley CA 94710

Cross street is Harrison, same block as Fieldwork Brewing Co & across the street from Urban Adamah Farm. Street parking is usually available on 6th. There are more than 40 studios in the modern building!

East Bay Open Studios are free self-guided tours of artist studios and exhibition spaces throughout the East Bay (Alameda County and Contra Costa County) in over 12 different cities. Artists pay a registration fee to participate and the event is free for the public to enjoy.

East Bay Open Studios 2022 (Nov 6)

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I cordially invite you to join me on two weekends in November:

  1. November 5, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  2. November 6, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
  3. November 12, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  4. November 13, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

Address:

Makers WorkSpace, Studio 37
1150 6th Street @ Harrison St, Berkeley CA 94710

Cross street is Harrison, same block as Fieldwork Brewing Co & across the street from Urban Adamah Farm. Street parking is usually available on 6th. There are more than 40 studios in the modern building!

East Bay Open Studios are free self-guided tours of artist studios and exhibition spaces throughout the East Bay (Alameda County and Contra Costa County) in over 12 different cities. Artists pay a registration fee to participate and the event is free for the public to enjoy.

East Bay Open Studios 2022 (Nov 5)

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I cordially invite you to join me on two weekends in November:

  1. November 5, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  2. November 6, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
  3. November 12, Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm
  4. November 13, Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

Address:

Makers WorkSpace, Studio 37
1150 6th Street @ Harrison St, Berkeley CA 94710

Cross street is Harrison, same block as Fieldwork Brewing Co & across the street from Urban Adamah Farm. Street parking is usually available on 6th. There are more than 40 studios in the modern building!

East Bay Open Studios are free self-guided tours of artist studios and exhibition spaces throughout the East Bay (Alameda County and Contra Costa County) in over 12 different cities. Artists pay a registration fee to participate and the event is free for the public to enjoy.

Featured Painting – One Fine Day

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My 2007 oil painting One Fine Day soon will conclude its five-month long exhibition at at McGuire Real Estate Gallery in Elmwood District, Berkeley. This painting, in somewhat sickly moon light tone (pale Prussian blue), depicted a school of agitated and thrashing fish, tightly packed in confining space, bulging eyes telegraphing anguish, straining to escape of a deadly trap they had unfortunately fallen into.

The ironic title I chose, perhaps ought to be ascribed to some lucky fishermen. And that spoke the volume of the relationship of mankind and the unfortunate nature.

One Fine Day / 美好的一天 / Ein schöner Tag
One Fine Day
Oil on Canvas
22″ x 28″
Completed in 2007

Featured Painting – Birches

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Nurtured by many Russian novels while growing up, I developed a special feeling towards the omnipresent birches, which not only aptly set the scenes and evoke the particular melancholy especially associated with Russia and Russian people, and finally, I made effort in 2006 to try to capture such feelings with a painting titled Birches, which is currently showing at the McGuire Real Estate gallery in Berkeley as part of the “Crowded by Beauty” exhibit.

I love the slender shapes of the trees, the softness of the finely-layered birch barks and their eerie silver color, and above all, the eye-shaped knobs imprinted on the trunks from bottom to top, as if birches were meant to be the chosen observers from silent world, so as to judge humankind.

Birches / 樺樹 / Birken
Birches
Oil on Canvas
22″ x 28″
Completed in 2006

That painting is also a play of optical illusion – amongst the eyes on the trunks, there was a singular eye floating in the space, unattached, between two indifferent birches. Inundated by so many eyes, this oddity was not immediately obvious; once detected, one might ask, if this is a most determined birch eye, the eye of an invisible human, or just a wandering independent eye belong to nothing and no one.