OUTSIDE OF TIME – Chuck Potter and Diane Williams
March 19 – April 24, 2021 Making art is a solitary activity, but fully engaged with forces outside of time. Athletes know this place as the “zone”. This is the place where we are most powerful and creative. Time literally collapses as our experience creates a hyper focused state. When in the zone, or outside […]
EQUILIBRIUM – Jules Campbell and Linda Ellinwood
January 29 – March 13, 2021 Campbell’s work largely emerges from experiences living in and navigating urban environments, from London to San Francisco, with side trips to the reservoirs, wooded trails and marinas. In this recent body of work, precision counterbalances process, as she further explores the interplay between fabricated materials and structure and inevitable […]
Lori Murphy | CANADAY REDACTED
Special Exhibition in the Inner Room at Gearbox Gallery January 29 – March 13, 2021 LORI MURPHY “Three years ago, I began dismantling and reassembling a volume set of “Metropolitan Seminars in Art” by John Canaday. I was interested in altering his narrative, writing new stories over the old. Part of my process is the […]
In the Studio with Marsha Balian
In the Studio with Marsha Balian Marsha and I first met each other over ten years ago in an exhibition at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley. Since then, I have followed her artistic journey in collage and mixed media with great interest. Her aesthetic is unmistakable. Muted tones, an antique patina and those mysterious faces! […]
In the Studio with Katie McCann
Katie’s upcoming show Strange Menagerie includes intricate hybrid creatures sourced from her collection of antique illustrated books. From these magical tomes she incises and extracts with the precision of a surgeon; creating beings that are fragmented and reattached in new configurations. Her studio space is part creative stage and part laboratory. The re-born creature slightly hovers on its […]
Strange Menagerie: Katie McCann and Suzanne Long
September 12 – October 12, 2019 Artist’s Reception: Friday, October 4th, 6-9pm Gallery hours: Thursdays and Fridays, 12 noon to 6 pm; Saturdays, 11 am to 5 pm Katie McCann “‘I have known such a creature‘ (Charles Altamont Doyle) is how I start my collages. As a child, I lived in a wonder world of […]
Traces: An Holsberry / TaVee McAllister Lee
May 30 – June 29, 2019 Artist’s Reception: Friday, June 7th from 6-9 pm with Irene Nelson Special Installation in the Inner Room Special Event: Artist’s Process Lecture and Discussion The Explorer’s Journey: Ann Holsberry and TaVee McAllister Lee Saturday, June 22nd, 2019 TRACES features work by two artists who work primarily with paper to […]
By Implication: Marsha Balian and Joy Broom
June 28 – July 28, 2018 First Friday Opening Reception: July 6, 2018 Saturday Artists’ Reception: July 14, 2018 Marsha Balian and Joy Broom use ephemera and found objects to create evocative artworks suggesting narratives and personal histories. Juxtapositions of imagery and objects are guided by intuition and improvisation. The resulting works hint at stories […]