GearBox Gallery

Have you checked out FIELDS OF VISION?
This engaging show is up through May 25th

Come see the mixed media paintings of .kelch_prints & .elias

GearBox Gallery is open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 12 noon to 5pm

As always…also on view, a new stunning Group Show by the GearBox Gallery Artists
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Artists’ Reception Saturday, April 27, 1-4pm Sandra Kelch & Laurence Elias

Join us this Saturday to see our latest show FIELDS OF VISION with 2023 Juried Show winner Sandra Kelch and guest artist Laurence Elias.

About Sandra Kelch:
Sandra Kelch is an Oakland-based artist and academic. Born in New York, she received her BFA from The Cooper Union, her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Ph.D. in practice-led research in the Arts from the Australian National University. She currently teaches at the University of San Francisco’s Art + Architecture department, and has taught at the California College of the Arts, the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University and the Kala Art Institute. Her artwork has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums both nationally and internationally.

About Laurence Elias:
Laurence Elias is an abstractionist who works in various media including photography, painting, and weaving, into his artwork. Laurence has had a former career as a physician/scientist with extensive experience in medical practice, cancer research and teaching. Art has been a lifelong interest for Laurence, sustained through art practice and study. He was able to take several undergraduate studio classes while a medical student at Stanford University. It is easy to see the influence of his original career on his way of seeing. He received his MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2018 and frequently exhibits his work.
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Gearbox Gallery presents Fields of Vision, featuring the work of Sandra Kelch (Gearbox Juried Show Winner, 2023) and guest artist Laurence Elias.

In this exhibition of mixed media works, Kelch and Elias are in dialogue through their explorations of space, perception and geometric abstraction.

Sandra Kelch creates artworks that are abstractions of urban space. Drawing from both built and imaginary environments, Kelch has developed a visual language of geometric forms, grids and patterns derived from industrial form. Her compositions become metaphors for the city – with their complex layering of textures and voids.

Laurence Elias’s work, too, is formed from a geometric jumping off-point. In this current series, Elias creates work that is characterized by unusual color palettes, and quirky optical distortions of intricate patterns. Creating work that is photographically-based, Elias explores the active nature of perception, as opposed to seeing. These works’ lines, forms and shape present vivid cues of spatiality, which can be difficult to reconcile with their true planar nature.
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Last three days to see ‘s FEATHERING and ‘s CREATURES OF DUALITY up through Saturday, April 20th at 5pm. This spectacular show is a must see!

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ARTIST TALK TODAY!!! Join us on this rainy Saturday at 2pm, for an insightful discussion by these two artists about their current shows. will discuss CREATURES OF DUALITY, his Solo Show up through April 20th. will talk about her installation FEATHERING showing now in the Inner Room Gallery…

GearBox Gallery’s Artist Talks are always a comfortable and safe environment for talking about inspiration, creation and the current art scene! Come check it out!!!

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Opening this Thursday, Jamie Treacy’s solo show Creatures of Duality with special Inner Room Gallery Installation, Feathering by Gillian Garro

Gearbox Gallery presents Creatures of Duality, a solo exhibit of paintings by member artist Jamie Treacy.

In this series on panels and canvas, Treacy approaches the theme of “duality” with contrasting styles and tension between opposing forces.

Treacy draws from his imagination and paints through visuals found in his real life. A lifelong swimmer and new diver, the water represents another completely inhabitable world to create in. The free and open sensations of being in the open water let our imaginations wander—for better or for worse—and Treacy explores this uneasiness often experienced by swimmers in the open ocean, acknowledging its presence and giving it personality.

On exploring new themes and staying curious, Treacy says, “I’m part of a rich lineage of q***r artists that use their hands and minds to forge a space for strange dualities: kindness and treachery; opulence and desiccation; kinship and solitude.” He continues by saying, “Creatures of Duality has an elemental focus and asks the viewer about the dualities that exist within them.”

Gearbox Gallery will also be featuring,
Feathering, a special exhibition in the Inner Room by 2023 Juried Show winner Gillian Garro. In this installation Gillian focuses on safe places– how we find them for ourselves, how we hold each other and how we heal. Gillian assembles dyed and felted wool, twine, fabric, and found materials to create sensual sculptures that speak to her emotional landscape. In the artist’s words: “I am attracted to impermanence, fragility, the way things fall apart and what remains.”

We have loved the enthusiastic response to BRICOLAGE! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Stop by GearBox Gallery today on this beautiful Saturday to see & guest artist ‘s Collages and Assemblage Sculptures.

While you’re at it, say hello to the GearBox Gallery Artists who run this unique space in Oakland.

Always on view, concurrent to the main shows, is an ever changing dynamic group show you don’t want to miss.

We are currently looking for new members! Check our link in the BIO to learn more information and see why our Gallery should be your space to exhibit and be a part of.

First Friday, March 1st: BRICOLAGE is open late until 8pm!

Make GearBox Gallery your first stop on your First Friday gallery walk! We have plenty of FREE parking on Grand Ave in front of the gallery.

If you haven’t checked out the assemblage and collage show BRICOLAGE with & yet, First Friday at GearBox is always a good opportunity to see a show after hours.

While you’re there, please stay for the GearBox Gallery Artists’ Group Show concurrently showing in the back galleries.

Artist’s Reception this Saturday, February 24th from 12 to 4 pm

Artists’ Talk will be during the reception,
from 2 to 3 pm

You’re invited….Gearbox Gallery is pleased to present Bricolage, an exhibit of sculptures and assemblage by guest artist Rose Kelly and collages and drawings by Gearbox member Lani Asher. As the title suggests, these two artists fiddle, tinker, and make creative and resourceful use of whatever materials are at hand. Their work shares a sensibility which layers words and images and is marked by the influences of personal narrative, folk, outsider art, textiles, recycling, and travel.

Opening this Thursday…

Gearbox Gallery presents Bricolage, an exhibit of sculptures and assemblage by guest artist Rose Kelly and collages and drawing by Gearbox member Lani Asher.

As the title suggests, these two artists fiddle, tinker, and make creative and resourceful use of whatever materials are at hand. Their work shares a sensibility which layers words and images and is marked by the influences of personal narrative, folk, outsider art, textiles, recycling, and travel

February 15 - March 16 2024

Artists’ Reception Saturday, February 24
12-4 pm with then Talk at 2 pm

Gearbox Gallery is open
Thursday - Saturday 12-5 pm

Glossy Dream Performance Event:
First Friday, February 2, 2024 5:00pm

Glossy Dream Guest Performance combines poetry and fashion to transport the audience into the realm of a girl’s imagination. In collaboration with the concurrent art exhibition, the performance expands on the hopes and dreams that form a girl’s sense of self and future. Come listen, watch, and experience this unique event.

Tickets are FREE, but space is limited.
Reserve today!

Eventbrite LINK IN BIO
or via christineferrouge.com

About the Fashion Designer

Samantha Ferrouge is a young upcoming fashion designer. Samantha’s costume and fashion sense is inspired by fairytales and novels. In addition to inspirational travel ranging from Minnesota to Madrid, she has always kept a keen watch on the diverse and artistic influences of Oakland and Los Angeles. Samantha Ferrouge currently has a small couture line that she looks toward expanding in the future. Samantha is 13 years old.

About the Poetry

Wendy Ferrouge is a musician and poet. She constantly studies and plays music. Literature, art, and her sisters are all a source of inspiration for Wendy. The Glossy Dream art show is the main influence her poetry in this performance. Wendy has participated in Oakland Art Murmur and various art scenes as a spectator since she was only a few weeks old. This is her second performance with GearBox Gallery events. Wendy is 16 years old.

Please save the date for this special event!

Have you seen Glossy Dream? On view through February 10th.

Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays 12 Noon to 5pm

This exhibition reveals glimpses of the internal fragments of a girl’s imagination. Complicated expectations, history, cultural adornments, and advertising surrounds and influences the optimistic young woman-to-be.

Also on view, GearBox Gallery Artists’ rotating group show.

Glossy Dream features paintings by Christine Ferrouge and torn paper collage by TaVee McAllister Lee.

Beneath Ferrouge’s painted surfaces is a world of imagination and serious introspection. Each female character has an intense psychological presence. TaVee McAllister Lee’s work references modern-day advertising, idealized beauty and luxury, at times juxtaposed ironically to the harsher realities that simultaneously exist in the world.

GLOSSY DREAM: First Friday Guest Performance February 2nd, 5pm

We are excited to present GLOSSY DREAM. Join us for the Artists’ Talk Saturday, January 13th at 2:00 reception to follow

Seen here, TaVee McAllister Lee’s 4EVER and Christine Ferrouge’s Huddle

About the Artists: Ferrouge grew up in Minnesota and fell in love with painting at a young age. She studied art in Florence, Amsterdam, and Spain, and holds a BFA in painting from the University of Evansville, Indiana. Recent honors include the deYoung Museum Open Exhibit, solo show at Gray Loft Gallery, and featured exhibitions at GearBox Gallery. Ferrouge is a teacher, curator, and promoter of the arts, who contributes passionately to her art communities including: GearBox Gallery, Los Angeles Art Association, and Kipaipai Fellows. Ferrouge's studios are in Oakland and Los Angeles.

Lee grew up mostly in Oklahoma, with a stint in Laos as a little girl which impressed upon her both the fragility and tenacity of life along with a keen awareness of the stunning disparities of existence occurring simultaneously around the globe. After earning a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, with a double major in painting and printmaking, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she painted for many years and now explores more esoteric and unconventional work in her art practice.

GLOSSY DREAM features paintings by Christine Ferrouge and torn paper collage by TaVee McAllister Lee. This exhibition reveals glimpses of the internal fragments of a girl's imagination. Complicated expectations, history, cultural adornments, and advertising surround and influence the hopeful young woman-to-be.

Beneath Ferrouge's painted surfaces is a world of imagination and serious introspection. Each female character has an intense psychological presence. TaVee McAllister Lee's work references modern-day advertising, idealized beauty and luxury, at times juxtaposed ironically to the harsher realities that simultaneously exist in the world.

This thought provoking exhibition touches on what lies beneath the gloss and sheen held out as a promising future. An exploration of the American girl psyche, it is simultaneously startling and hopeful.

Karen Seneferu & Malik Seneferu will be at GearBox Gallery this Saturday to discuss PRESS PLAY: REMAIN CREATIVE

GearBox Gallery has been honored to show guest curator Karen Seneferu’s anticipated exhibition, PRESS PLAY: REMAIN CREATIVE featuring the work of Malik Seneferu. This is the last weekend to see this amazing show.

Saturday, January 6th 2:00 You’re invited to hear Guest Curator, Karen Seneferu discuss PRESS PLAY: REMAIN CREATIVE. Along with Ms. Seneferu will be artist Malik Seneferu whose work is highlighted in this show.

About the Curator:
Karen Seneferu is a mixed media artist whose work challenges the idea that beauty exists outside of one’s cultural reality. Her work has been exhibited at the Oakland Museum, The California African American Museum, Yerba Buena Center, Skirball Museum, Tuft’s University Museum, Sonoma Museum of Art, and MOAD. Seneferu is also the founder and Artistic Director of the exhibit The Black Woman Is God, which has changed the artistic and cultural landscape of the country.

First show of the year…GLOSSY DREAM with

Come to the Artist Talk Saturday, January 13th, 2:00 followed by the Artists’ Reception

If you haven’t had the chance yet….Come see Karen Seneferu’s specially curated show PRESS PLAY: REMAIN CREATIVE featuring the work of Malik Seneferu.

Artist and Curator will be at discussing the thought, work and history that went into this show.

ARTIST & CURATOR’S TALK
Saturday, January 6th 2pm

Join us for some lively conversation at GearBox Gallery where we are hosting special guest curator Karen Seneferu and Bay Area artist Malik Seneferu as they discuss their show PRESS PLAY: REMAIN CREATIVE up through January 6th.

As a cultural leader in the Bay Area and beyond, Karen Seneferu promotes work rooting beauty in African esthetics as a means to address the traumatizing experiences that public and private domains often create for the Black body which distort how the individual views the self.

For this project, Seneferu elected to present an exhibition of the work by Bay Area artist Malik Seneferu, emphasizing his series of works titled “From the Hill and Beyond,” produced across the span of his career as a Bay Area artist.

Malik Seneferu’s Mobile Shrine Series at GearBox Gallery.

Join us this weekend for PRESS PLAY: REMAIN CREATIVE, a show curated by local cultural treasure, Karen Seneferu.

For her project, Seneferu elected to present an exhibition of work by Bay Area artist Malik Seneferu, emphasizing his series of works titled “From the Hill and Beyond” produced across a span of Malik’s career as a Bay Area artist, painter and sculptor.

FIRST FRIDAY is TONIGHT!
Start your First Friday Gallery Stroll at GearBox Gallery and see the amazing work of Malik Seneferu.

PRESS PLAY: REMAIN CREATIVE.
Curated by Karen Seneferu
through Jan. 6th 2024

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, Dec. 2nd, 1 to 4:00

As a self-taught artist for over 40 years, Mailik Seneferu has used his art practice to push back against the War on Drugs that became the war on the Black Community. He established numerous series of work that reflect an enormous imagination, rooted in social justice concerns that challenged the idea that Black men would either be dead, in prison, or drug dealing by the age of 25.

Now in his 50s, he continues to tap into the inner child, but with the intention to evoke introspection and healing.

GearBox Gallery is honored to have this show curated by special guest curator, Karen Seneferu. As a cultural leader in the Bay Area and beyond, Seneferu promotes work rooting beauty in African esthetics as a means to address the traumatizing experiences that public and private domains often create for the Black body which distort how the individual views the self.

This is a must see show, open late till 8:00 tonight for First Friday, with the artist’s reception tomorrow, Saturday December 2nd, 1-4:00pm

NEW SHOW! Opening Thursday, November 30th. Malik Seneferu, curated by Karen Seneferu

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 2, 1-4:00

Open late till 8:00pm on First. Friday Dec.1st

GearBox Gallery is pleased to welcome Karen Seneferu as a guest curator. As a cultural leader in the Bay Area and beyond, Seneferu promotes work rooting beauty in African esthetics as a means to address the traumatizing experiences that public and private domains often create for the Black body which distort how the individual views the self.

For her project, Seneferu elected to present an exhibition of work by Bay Area artist Malik Seneferu, emphasizing his series of works titled “From the Hill and Beyond,” produced across the span of his career as a Bay Area artist, painter and sculptor. “In Press Play: Remain Creative, Malik Seneferu taps into his inner child of early art practice, where he was obsessed with creativity. Because he did not have resources to paint or draw on, he used brown paper bags to make his creations. In a Bayview Hunters Point in the 80s where play became the act of violence, Malik in his early 20s strove to unmask the conditions that were shaping his community through large “Raw” canvas narratives. Then, he established museum-like exhibitions inside his mother’s home to create conversation with his neighbors around new ways to live.

As a self-taught artist for over 40 years, he has used his art practice to push back against the War on Drugs that became a War on the Black Community. He established numerous series of work that reflect an enormous imagination, rooted in social justice concerns that challenged the idea that Black men would either be dead, in prison, or drug dealing by the age of 25.

Now, in his 50s, he continues to tap into his inner child, but with the intention to evoke introspection and healing. He uses his paint brush as a weapon of resistance through color, form and design that also suggest that there are ways towards peace if one “remain creative.””

Last Chance to see two great shows: Palmy Paradox and The Weight of the Wall ending this Saturday evening!

We will be OPEN Friday, Nov. 24th and Saturday, Nov 25th from 12-5pm

GearBox Gallery will be CLOSED on Thursday, November 23rd
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Meet the artists: Linda Ellinwood, Diane Williams and Inner room juried show winner Katayoun Bahrami. Saturday, November 18, 2 pm

Linda Ellinwood got her BFA from Western Michigan University in painting. During the next ten years she had transitioned to three-dimensional work and was accepted to California College of Arts and Crafts in both the sculpture and textiles departments. She received her MFA in Textiles from CCAC IN 1981. Since then, she has shown her work in exhibitions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and is a current member of GearBox Gallery.

Diane Williams is known for her intuitive sense of color, confident brushwork, and masterful integration of mediums. Her dynamic juxtaposition of forms and textures, often created on a monumental scale, offer endless journeys of discovery for viewers. She earned a Master of Fine Arts at John F. Kennedy University in Arts and Consciousness studies, where she received the Susan Seddon Boulet Award. Williams is a member artist at GearBox Gallery.

Katayoun Bahrami’s work has produced performances and artist-led participatory projects for venues that include the Clarion Alley Mural Project, the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, and Berkeley Art Practice. Born in Tehran, Bahrami earned her BFA from the University of Science and Culture in Iran. She graduated from Michigan State University in 2017 with an MA in Arts and Cultural Management—Museum Studies. In 2022, she graduated from California College of the Arts with an MFA in Studio Arts. She is currently in the process of earning her master's degree in Visual and Critical Studies at CCA.

Come see Diane Williams’ & Linda Ellinwood’s must see show Palmy Paradox along with Katayoun Bahrami’s installation, The Weight of the Wall. We are open Thursday-Saturday with late hours this Friday for First Friday till 8:00pm. Make us your first stop on your gallery walk!

Join us TODAY 1-4pm for the artists' reception of Palmy Paradox, sculptures by Linda Ellinwood Linda Ellinwood and paintings by Diane Williams , that invite contemplation of the paradoxical nature of beauty, decay, and the hidden complexities within seemingly simple forms. Ellinwood's intricately crafted sculptures invite us to ponder the ever-evolving nature of landscapes, seemingly infinite yet in perpetual transformation. In contrast, Williams' smooth, waxed paintings conceal and reveal hidden processes, delving into the subtle shifts beneath the surface.

Also on view, a special inner room installation: The Weight of the Wall by jury winner Katayoun Bahrami, an Iranian multidisciplinary artist and curator living and working in the Bay Area. Her artistic interest focuses on the interaction between women's bodies as targets/performers, affected by boundaries that act as catalysts between the two.

October 19 – November 25, 2023
Artists’ reception: Saturday, October 28, 1-4 pm
First Friday: November 3, 5-8 pm
Artist talk: Saturday, November 18, 2 pm

GearBox Gallery is looking for a new member!

We are looking for professional artists who are interested in contributing in running the gallery.
Members enjoy in-turn featured shows, and exhibit every month in the backroom and inner gallery.

Applying is free.

See our website for more details and APPLY NOW!