From the OL Editorial Team:

The critically acclaimed Juried Annual presents a survey of the best new work in the Bay Area selected by a juror from the national arts community.

The exhibition features works in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and photography. AlI works were selected through a blind jurying process by Chicago-based curator Hamza Walker. 

Featured Artists include: Mel Davis, Kyle Dunn, Christopher Fullemann, Joseph Halperin, Stephanie Hedberg Cline, Amanda Jordan, Phil King, Egil Knutson, Frances Lerner, Anna Ludwig, Jill McLennan, Barbara Milman, Nanda Palmieri, Erik Parra, Thomas Pringle, Tim Ryan, Vinothini Satchithananthan, Deborah Stenberg-Service, Chris Thorson, Xan Walker, Rachel Weiss, Sharon Wilcox, Mathew Zefeldt and Gina Zupo.

About the juror

Hamza Walker is the Director of Education and Associate Curator for the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Healso is on the faculty of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has written for numerous monographs and magazines, including Parkett and Artforum.

Recent group exhibitions he has curated include "The Age of Aquarius" (2011); "Several Silences" (2009); "Black Is, Black Ain't" (2008); and "Meanwhile, in Baghdad ... " (2007). Walker received the 1999 Norton Curatorial Grant, the 2004 Walter Hopps Award and the 2010 Ordway Prize.

If You Go

Juried Annual 2012
Where: Pro Arts, 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland (at Oakland Art Gallery)

Cost: FREE

Details: (510) 763-4361