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the Princess Project: TaVee McAllister Lee

Site specific installation of 246 Sleeping Beauties each downloadedwithin the same 48 hour period in October, 2012. Showing in the Inner Room at GearBox Gallery October 1 – 24, 2015 n researching another project, I entered the Google search terms Sleeping Beauty Dress, Sleeping Beauty Costume, Sleeping Beauty Princess and was amazed at the array of […]

Irréalisme: Kari Brinck and Darrell Hunger

October 1 – 24, 2015FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION:   October 2nd from 6-9 pm________  irréalisme: a type of reality, the other reality, a world of reality that may or may not actually exist  Kari Brinck’s recent paintings reference an easy immersion in cyberspace, a sphere of reality now so pervasive it often assumes a greater sense of presence […]

Jalan Jalan: Work by Jane Fisher

August 27 – September 26, 2015FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION:   September 4th from 6-9 pm________  GearBox Gallery is proud to announce recent work by Jane Fisher in Jalan Jalan, a term that means “street” in Malaysian and “stroll” in Indonesian. Join us for the artist’s reception during Oakland Art Murmur’s First Friday Art Stroll on September 4th, 2015 […]

Ruth Santee: Line Up

August 27 – September 26, 2015 Ruth Santee portrait series in the Inner Room

Terra Infirma: All Things Unsettled

TERRA INFIRMA: All Things Unsettled July 30 – August 22, 2015 Opening Reception, Friday, August 7th from 5-9 pm Juror’s comments at 5 pm, awards presented at 8 pm Artists: Elizabeth Addison, Bren Ahearn, Jeffrey Beauchamp, Karen Gallagher-Iverson, Helen Gaus, Christine Gray, Phillip Hua, Gary Kuroki, Geneviève L’Heureux, Bachrun LoMele, Carina Lomeli, Laura Macky, Beverly […]

Biomorphique: David Fitzgerald and Mimi Abers

June 25 – July 25, 2015FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION:   July 3rd from 6-9 pmSaturday Reception:   July 18th from 2-5 pm________  Sculptures by Mimi Abers and paintings by David Fitzgerald flirt with the interspaces between nature and abstraction, figure and pure form.  AND GearBox Gallery artists Betsy Kluga and Ruth Santee are part of Kurt Fishback’s project, 51 Portraits of […]

Counterpoint: Susan Aulik & Linda S. Fitz Gibbon

May 21- June 20, 2015FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION:   June 5th, 6-9 pm________ Viewing the large scale impasto paintings of Susan Aulik in conjunction with Linda S. Fitz Gibbon’s lyrical ceramic constructions points up the dynamic and differing approaches each artist takes with her medium. 

Screen Shot: Cameron Brian and Ruth Santee

April 16 – May 16, 2015 FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION: May 1st, 6-9 pm Ruth Santee focuses on screen shots of Google image searches as the foundation of her latest paintings. With a sure hand and chunky paint Santee converts digital snapshots of digital images captured on the small screen back into reality as objects, solidified […]

Doppelgängers: Joseph Mele and TaVee McAllister Lee

March 11 – April 12, 2015Artists Reception:   March 28th, 3-5 pmFIRST FRIDAY:   April 3rd, 6-9 pm  Doppelgängers: In fiction and folklore, a doppelgänger or doppelgaenger (in German literally a “double-goer”) is a look-alike or double of a living person, sometimes portrayed as a paranormal phenomenon. The GearBox is open Thursdays and Fridays from […]