Inside Edition celebrates the one year mark of B.G.O. opening it's doors. The show features new works by it's three founders/directors:

 

Erik Groff

 

Erik Groff is an artist that creates site specific paintings and sculptures using discarded materials. Often dismissed by the casual onlooker as overtly whimsical, his early Guerilla installations helped to bridge the once expansive void between ‘respectable’ gallery art and elements of the underground urban art scene usually referred to as ‘street’ or ‘graffiti art’, while simultaneously venturing to further the cause of art through the use of discarded materials. 

 

 

Erica Sheets

 

RA former resident of both Oakland, CA and Brooklyn, NY, Erica Groff currently works out of Southwest Florida. She still creates within the boundaries of her unique aesthetic using various materials to make two dimensional, three dimensional and installation pieces.

 

 

Anja Ulfeldt

 

Anja Ulfeldt is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with installation, sound, and performance. The daughter of a painter and an engineer, Anja grew up in Berkeley, CA, and earned her BFA from California College of the Arts in 2001 and her MFA from Stanford University in 2014. Her recent installations have become know as “performable objects” and are physical scenarios in which the participant becomes an impromptu performer. Ulfeldt says: “I see my work with sound as a sort of research dealing with subconscious reaction, emotion and memory. My process is experimental and I am always the first test subject.”

 

Anja is the Co-Founder and Director of Basement Gallery Oakland (slated to reopen in early 2015) as well as the artist coordinator for the “Artstead Boat Project” a floating venue for art and performance built from a converted potato barge. She is a recipient of the Visions from the New California Award in 2010, TSFF & SOMArts Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award in 2013 and The AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts in 2014 resulting in a three-week fellowship at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria.