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LOST IN THINGS: Kathleen King

LOST IN THINGS Kathleen King October 17 – November 30, 2024 Artists’ reception: Saturday, October 19, 1 to 4 pm Artist talk: Saturday, November 16, 2pm Lost in Things, wall assemblage, 2024, installation view “An object is not an object; it is a witness to a relationship.” –Cecilia Vicuña Gearbox Gallery is pleased to present […]

ELEGY: Carol Elkovich

Elegy Carol Elkovich December 1, 2022 – January 7, 2023 Artists’ reception: Saturday, December 10, 1-4 pm First Friday: December 2 and January 6, 5-8 pm Artists’ talk: Saturday, January 7, 2pm RSVP for Artist Talk Here Also on view in the main gallery: The Kids are Alright Carol Elkovich, Elegy, Installation, 2022   GearBox […]

SHAPES and SPACES – Sheila Ghidini and Irene Nelson

April 30 – June 5, 2021 Artists make things, sometimes the work matters, sometimes it doesn’t.  The ideas that set the work into motion, that bring the materials into relation are what matters.  They are the catalyst for a balancing act that sustains the mind, body and soul of each maker of things. Shapes and […]

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 […]

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 […]

blank slate: joseph mele

October 29 – November 28, 2015 This room was like a blank slate. It was like starting over and it was really very calming after a year of a lot of anxiety and a lot of new things and changes that sometimes felt like I was really falling apart but I wasn’t and I didn’t […]

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 […]