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Window Display Project
Over the winter MG Gallery exhibited artwork in its storefront windows for around the clock viewing.
 Aaron Rosenstreich
Ocular Landscape
Ocular Landscape presents an ocular (circular) view of constructed landscapes in the San Francisco Bay Area. I explore the creation and destruction cycles of urbanity, represented by organic organisms, machines, structures, detritus and waste. Images of abandonment and reclamation of urban space represent larger themes of cyclical change. The work is created with an 8x10 inch view camera. A small, 88mm lens is attached to the camera, which creates a distorted, circular image on the film plane. The circular imagery reminds us of the cyclical nature of age, place and time. Aaron Rosenstreich was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1980. He received his BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase, School of Art and Design in 2003 and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. Rosenstreich works almost exclusively with black and white photography in a wide range of historic processes. Using various historic and modern photographic technologies as descriptive tools, Rosenstreich explores themes of age, place, and time. The intersection between these themes is the foundation his images are built upon. His work has been exhibited in California, New York, Spain and Vermont, and most recently at Hatch Gallery in Oakland, and The Lab in San Francisco, CA. Rosenstreich lives and works in San Francisco. Narangkar Glover
"shangri-la girl's school" is a panoramic drawing installation at MG Gallery in Oakland in which Glover has recalled her childhood boarding school from memory, and committed it to charcoal drawings which wrap around the perimeter of the space and measure about 30 feet in total.
Narangkar Glover is a visual artist and curator living and working in Oakland, California. In her work she investigates personal narrative, individualism and private space. For narrative work, Glover treats memories like abstracted representations, and for each there is an appropriate visual dialogue to take advantage of. She deliberately avoids fabricating an alternate reality and rejects symbolism, mysticism or iconography, and focuses on form as her primary visual language. Glover is currently an MFA candidate at the University of California at Berkeley, and the co-owner of Rowan Morrison Gallery in Oakland. Adam Green
For the Window Display Project, I decided to play with the idea of trust and perception. When a viewer looks through a window, they trust that what they see on the other side exists while at the same time are blocked from actually experiencing this space. This leads every viewer to interact with the transparent barrier with a level of faith. When I filled the gallery with balloons I left the audience to wonder how this is possible- and if it is real.
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