Pua Logan Paintings

At a dinner party recently I couldn’t take my eyes off of a large painting by Pua Logan, a former local who now paints in Hawaii. Not to fear–her lifelike oil painting depicting individuals (and with collection names like “Abstract Renderings” and “Nomadic Daydreams”) have graced the walls of Valencia Street’s Culture Skate of late. Logan says she’s learned more from the birds outside her window than art school and tries to capture “magic within everything.” You can make it yours at the Old Crow Gallery on Oakland’s Grand Street, where the work will be showing through November 17.