Nexus 2026: Full Schedule

Join us for our annual San Francisco/ Bay Area Black Art week from Wednesday September 30th - Sunday October 4th, 2026!

1:00pm PDT

Thursday October 1, 2026 1:00pm - 5:00pm PDT

Johansson Projects @ 2300 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612, USA

Johansson Projects presents a selection of work by Barbados-based artist Sheena Rose, and Oakland-based artist Nimah Gobir.

Roses's multi-disciplinary practice includes painting, drawing, performance, new media, and public intervention. Her heroic figures explore representations of personal power, referencing symbols of leisure and place.

Nimah Gobir is an artist and educator whose work traces the complexity and nuance of Black identity through the rich tapestry of her family history. Sourced from photographs and shared memories, her mix of embroidery, oil paint, and textile honor the specificity of her Nigerian-America upbringing while appealing to an essential humanity.

The exhibition open in our Project Space for Oakland Art Murmur on October 2 from 1:00 - 8:00 PM.

Artists

Nimah Gobir

Artist

Nimah Gobir is an artist and educator based in Oakland, California. Nimah Gobir makes paintings about family, memory, and Black identity. She works from stories she’s heard and photos her family has kept, layering them with household textiles, embroidery, and expressive brushwo... Read More →

Sheena Rose

Artist

Sheena Rose is a visual artist who works in Bridgetown, Barbados. Her multi-disciplinary practice includes painting, drawing, performance, new media, public art, and mixed media. Her heroic figures explore accessibility of personal power, referencing symbols of affluence and place... Read More →

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Thursday October 1, 2026 1:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Johansson Projects

Exhibition

1:00pm PDT

Gregory Rick: Exhibition

Friday October 2, 2026 1:00pm - 8:00pm PDT

Johansson Projects @ 2300 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612, USA

Johansson Projects presents a solo exhibition of paintings by Oakland-based artist, Gregory Rick. Rick makes powerful paintings that delve into archetypal explorations of human nature. Rick’s cathartic mark-making process collapses history while confronting personal trauma. His works reflect episodes of individual experience while in dialogue with the wider world, touching deeply on the political nature of oppressive systems. Inspired by a youth fascination with graffiti, Rick’s blatant narratives convey symbolism and cryptic language that capture the recklessness and hysteria of present-day America. He paints on a shaky historical line cemented in humility and conviction, and populates his pictures with “characters who serve as archetypes,” in conjunction with memory and self-exploration.

This exhibition will be on view at Johansson Projects during Oakland Art Murmur, October 2, 1-8pm.

Artists

Gregory Rick

Artist

Gregory Rick

Developing a historical imagination and fondness for drawing stories, Gregory Rick’s cathartic mark-making process collapses history while confronting personal trauma. His works reflect episodes of individual experience while in dialogue with the wider world, touching deeply on... Read More →

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Friday October 2, 2026 1:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Johansson Projects

Exhibition