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FOUNDERS: (Left to right) Alan Rorie, nemo Gould, Christopher T. Palmer, and Jeremy Mayer.

The SMART GALLERY

Written by Goli Mohammadi Photography by Gregory Hayes

HOW THE ARTISTS OF OAKLAND’S LOST AND FOUNDRY ARE PAVING THEIR OWN PATH AWAY FROM CONVENTION.

At the end of the 300 block of Center Street in Oakland, Calif., otherwise sparsely lined with drab residential houses, sits the shell of the old Lehnus iron foundry. Once alive with production, times changed and the building sat uninhabited for years. Today, behind the industrial roll-up steel doors and wrought iron fencing lays the unexpected: the beginnings of a powerful paradigm shift ...

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