OCT
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First Friday Reception — September/October Multi-Artist Show — October 2Nd
Opening Reception: Material as Witness
October 2, 2026 at Oakland Photo Workshop in Oakland, CA
312 8th St, Oakland, CA 94607
Join us for an opening reception for Material as Witness, curated by Rena Tom!
Material as Witness explores the photograph as object, with its own material sensibility and narrative. Objects can trigger powerful emotions and memories, and materials carry their own associations based on tactile properties or cultural significance. The artists in the exhibition engage in image-making, in a truly hands-on sense, to subvert (or amplify) the power attributed to photos as documentary evidence and bearers of truth.
Date:
October 2, 2026
Time:
6:00 PM
9:00 PM
Event type:
Art and Culture
Oakland Photo Workshop is a street-level photography gallery and workspace in the historic Asian Resource Center building in Oakland’s Chinatown. The space is used by the East Bay Photo Collective for rotating exhibitions and public programs, so what is on the walls changes regularly. Recent shows have focused on the work of the collective’s own teaching artists, documentary-style views of people at work around the East Bay, and changing landscapes along the hills of the Central Valley. more...
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