Current Exhibition
Welcome to FM Oakland!
For November 2024 - January 2025, FM Oakland is proud to host the latest work by numerous members of the infamous Hive Gallery in downtown Los Angeles; Alex Schaefer, Jesse Jacobellis, Nathan Cartwright, The Real Chief 13, Starskee, Yanis Zambeis, Zenbunnystudios, and many more!
Founded in Spring of 2005, The Hive Gallery and Studios is a truly unique and vibrant gallery/studio experience. It is a virtual think-tank, buzzing with 5 featured artists a month, two full galleries, 25 working artists, and an artist-made item store. One of the longest standing galleries on the Downtown Art Walk, the Hive is on the forefront of establishing the Los Angeles Metro area as a world-wide art mecca. In addition, the gallery serves as an arts community hub, holding various fundraising events, and gallery programs such as yoga, figure drawing, private movie screenings, and more.
“The Hive Art Swarm”
November 1st, 2024 – February 1st, 2025
Art Murmur Receptions:
Friday November 1st 2024, 5-9pm
Friday December 6th 2024, 5-9pm
& Friday January 3rd, 2025, 5-9pm
Alex Schaefer:
Alex Schaefer was born in Los Angeles, California in 1969 and is an active fixture in world of contemporary art. Alex Schaefer studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Upon graduation he spent 8 years as an artist in the video game industry. After the digital world he went on to teach foundation Painting, Drawing and Composition at the Art Center for 12 years. His oeuvre is wide ranging from traditional landscapes, cityscapes and street scenes to figurative nudes, portraits and abstract and imagination paintings. In 2011 Schaefer gained international recognition for his art with a series of banks on fire in protest of financial crimes. His main influences are the painterly “old masters”, the early French Impressionists and the San Francisco Bay area figurative and abstract artists of the 1950’s and the London School. Find links to see more art online at www.paintwithalex.com Instagram@paintwithalex
Jesse Jacobellis:
Born in Hartford CT in 1990, Jesse Jacobellis grew up in a colonial home in the small town of Windsor CT. Jesse’s mother had a love of historic motifs and folk art. His childhood home was filled with folk art and historical relics and replicas from colonial America. Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s Jesse drew a huge influence from the historic environment in which he lived along with the radical pop culture of the time. Folk art lending a handmade charm and muted color pallets, mixed with electric color pallets of 90s and 2000s cartoons.
His mother’s love of small nick nacks that littered his childhood home influence his obsession with filling every space on his canvas and corrupting his characters with life forms and structural pieces meant to mimic and reimagine systems and life within ourselves.
Jesse has been an exhibiting artist for over 16 years having exhibitions all over the US and an international show in Japan. He is a painter illustrator, game designer, cartoonist and music producer. Looking forward Jesse hopes to one day direct movies and work on movie soundtracks. You can follow Jesse Jacobellis on Instagram @JesseJArt to stay up to date with his latest exhibitions and artistic endeavors.
The Real Chief 13:
“My journey as an immigrant as shaped my art. Coming from a community that kept native art alive by the use of color and patterns in garments and pottery in Guanajuato México. Been fortunate to have experienced living in Tijuana a border town and currently residing in Los Angeles. Opened a new world of street art, graffiti pop art and lowriders which have shaped my art style. Not only do I incorporate my indigenous roots in my work. I use my work to bring awareness and spark dialogue within my community.”
Starskee:
Starskee Suavé is a mixed media sculptor who likes to work in wood, metal, clay, found objects/detritus, paper, light, and sound. He often makes objects that suggest a narrative, or things that play with perception, or just chew on interesting concepts. He is manager of the half bee/half human hybrid DJ entity known as ~super bee~, as well as the lounge singer Phony Cloftin and the mysterious character Fancy Shadow.
Yanis Zambeis:
"My name is Yanis Mario Zambeis, A.K.A. YaMZ, I am a surrealist illustrator working primarily in pen and ink. With a unique stream-of-consciousness approach, I invite audiences to explore the delightful chaos of my imaginative world of the subconscious."
Zenbunnystudios:
“Fire is in my life. I discovered pyrogravure in the hi-desert of Pioneertown, CA. It’s a natural segue from my experiences with fire. I love the charred element it brings and the burnt marks it gives to my pieces. I work with repurposed wood and embellish with metalwork, copper & baubles. I like to explore mythology, astrology + fable and then bastardize it.”