Levende is pleased to announce that it will now be hosting First Friday art receptions to begin at nine o’clock. Levende, already the host of the successful Live Art Wednesdays, is opening up its walls to a roster of national artists.
The place to go at the end of your First Friday Tour of Oakland Art Murmur. We are offering a full bar and Happy Hour prices after nine o’clock. Levende will be... [read more]

Levende is pleased to announce that it will now be hosting First Friday art receptions to begin at nine o’clock. Levende, already the host of the successful Live Art Wednesdays, is opening up its walls to a roster of national artists.
The place to go at the end of your First Friday Tour of Oakland Art Murmur. We are offering a full bar and Happy Hour prices after nine o’clock. Levende will be rotating art works every four weeks throughout 2011.

The first artist in the line-up is also the co-coordinator of arts events at Levende, Obi Kaufmann. Along with August Varlack of Bay Area August Promotions, Kaufmann has been running Live Art Wednesdays. Before that, Kaufmann was the curator of the Swee(t)Art Drawing Gallery and the Visual Arts Editor of the Berkeley Times.

Obi Kaufmann now brings his large scale paintings to Levende in a show called “ANGELDRIVER”. Obi’s provocative figurative paintings are a stylized hybrid of cave painting and street painting, where mythological forces wrestle with issues such as sex, violence, beauty and power.
“If anything, his paintings were primal and pure…so raw and so pure, begging the question, Does it get any more real?” (Berkeley Times)