Under 600, a group exhibition featuring small works by local artists Wayne Armstrong, Kim Cardoso, Patrick Crotty, Gina Gaiser, Rachel Major, Elaine Maute, and Sandra Wong Orloff.
November 1 - December 14, 2024
25th St Galleries Holiday Party: Saturday, December 14, 2-4 pm (all are welcome)
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Fridays, 5-8 pm
In April, I moved my studio to Norton Factory in East Oakland. There are 28 artist studios in this location. We will have an open house in conjunction with the East Bay Open Studio (EBOS) event the weekend of December 7 & 8, 11 am - 5 pm, 3094 E. 10th Street, Oakland, California 94601. It is free and open to the public. I hope you will stop by and say hi!
Revisiting Oakland, a post-pandemic photographic survey of urban landscapes by Gina Gaiser. Drawing from her Bay Area roots, Gaiser's work focuses on the evolving dynamic between human activity and the environment, especially in areas experiencing change. Using digital techniques reminiscent of comic strips or film frames, Gaiser constructs visual stories that prompt reflection on our interactions with our surroundings. She explores the intricate relationship between daily routines and our deeper identities, uncovering the hidden beauty within ordinary city scenes.
Read MoreI’m excited to be included in this juried show at Mercury 20 Gallery and invite you to join me on Saturday, January 13th or First Friday, February 2, 2024.
It’s a sign, Digital Photograph, 2022, 16”x20” framed
METAMORPHOSIS: A JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION
JANUARY 12 - FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Artists' Reception: Saturday, January 13, 3-5 pm
Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: February 2, 5-9 pm
Open Hours: Fridays and Saturdays: 12-5 pm
MERCURY 20 CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, 475 25th STREET, OAKLAND, CA 94612
Metamorphosis dwells in the place of change, growth, and evolution. It represents the profound transformation that occurs within and around us, be it physical, emotional, or spiritual. In addition, the pandemic caused many people to dramatically reassess and change their lives and experience a variety of metamorphoses. What takes us, alchemically, from one state of being to another? Mercury 20 is delighted to present its first juried exhibition in its more than 15-year history as an artist-run space. The theme responds to the 3-year pandemic and how artists metamorphosed through that time of isolation and uncertainty. More than 200 artists submitted over 700 pieces for consideration.
Juror, Elena Gross (she/they) is the Co-Executive Director of the Berkeley Art Center and an independent writer and culture critic living in Oakland, CA. She chose 44 artworks from 40 artists working in a wide range of media that express the theme of metamorphosis.
View the exhibition online here
Check out this article, Meet Gina Gaiser on CanvasRebel, Stories and Insights, October 19, 2023
GearBox Gallery presents brush & shutter featuring paintings by Patricia Sonnino and photographs by Gina Gaiser. Searching for broader views, Sonnino and Gaiser explore environments natural and manmade for hidden structural threads in submerged grids of oyster farms, labyrinthian patterns of branching trees, or implied geometries of mundane urban environments and elevated roadways.
Read More2022 Member's Show: Where Would I Be Without You?
Nov 11, 2022 – Jan 8, 2023
What does family mean to you? Is it the people who raised you? The friends you’ve made? Members of your church, your fellow sports-fans, your kids, your neighbors, your pets? Are you a family of one, a member of the family of humanity?
There are many ways to define the meaning of family; Oakland Photo Workshop’s final exhibition of 2022 is a photographic interpretation of family, by our family at the East Bay Photo Collective.
Exhibiting Artists
Alan Krakauer - Amanda R. Bensel - Bob Shonkoff - Chris Gibbons - DeAnna Tibbs - Douglas Stinson - Eric Weiss - Evan Kartheiser - Fairlight de Michele - Gene Dominique - Gina Gaiser - Guy Sussman - Hannah Rohret - J. M. Golding - Jackie Chou - Jessica Chen - Julianne Clark - Jyoti Liggin - Kendra Luck - Lucas Yan - Maria Budner - Matthew Krupoff - Najee Tobin - Ngân Vũ - Paige Le - Philip Krayna - Senny Mau - Susan Harding
2022 Member's Show Closing Reception
Join us on Friday, January 6th for the closing reception for our 2022 Member Exhibition, "Where Would I Be Without You?" - we've loved having this wonderful collection of our members' work on our walls for the past couple months, and we're looking forward to celebrating everyone involved. There will be snacks, beverages, music, and good company!
When: First Friday, January 6th, 5pm-8pm
Where: Oakland Photo Workshop, 312 8th St., Oakland.
May 5 – June 4, 2022
Image left: Sarah Newton, New Chicago Marsh, (elev. 3 ft), Brown & blue ink, gouache, chalk on tan paper, 20”x30”, 2019
Image right: Gina Gaiser, Los Altos Park, Albuquerque, cut out photograph, 16”x20”, 2022
GearBox Gallery, 770 W Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94612, Open Th-Fr-Sa 12-5 pm & First Friday 5-8 pm
I’m so proud of this exhibition of new work with Sarah M. Newton. We both are inspired by the landscape and curiously document transitional places, and the effect of humans and climate on the environment.
“The locations feel vacant of human life, but full of its infrastructure.” -Matthew Harrison Tedford, Article: An Artist Features the Bay’s “Transitional” Spaces, Bay Nature Magazine. 2019
Gaiser’s aerial photographs, taken from a plane window looking down on metropolitan and suburban places, allow us to see the fabricated landscapes from above. She wondered what the photos would look like without the houses, so she cut them out. The white space is what’s missing, mostly the housing developments and retail establishments, referencing the inaccessibility for many people to own a home and be a part of that community.
“Planned and unplanned landscapes, the way in which we build structures, occupy space, and travel from place to place: the things that Gaiser documents move, are temporary.” -Mary Corbin, Article: Smoky air, social distancing: Gina Gaiser chronicles subtle moments of our now, 48hills, Feb 16, 2022
Newton’s drawings are an exploration of the proposed San Francisco Bay Trail, following the shoreline along the map of the planned 500-mile path that currently exists in discontinuous pieces. She finds these endpoints where the trail hits the zones of construction, industry and restricted areas which prevent the trail sections from being connected. Maps can tell one story of the future of the shoreline, but there is another understanding to be found in intimate familiarity with the changing margin of the land and the water that surrounds us.
"Newton studies the ‘shifting … marginal zone’ between the bay and adjacent developed land. Her meticulously detailed ink drawings and gouache/chalk/ink paintings reveal and revel in the beauty of the peripheral and overlooked." -DeWitt Cheng, review of "Sea Change" at the Brower Center, 2019
Recording of Artist Talk: Gina Gaiser & Sarah Newton, May 21, 2022
I’m excited to collaborate on a fashion shoot with my BFF since childhood, Jenny Fong of Modern Shibori. She designs and hand-dyes sustainable clothing that transcends trends and time. Click here to read the full article she wrote about us working together.
Photo: Gina Gaiser
I’m honored and excited about this article about me and my art by Mary Corbin in the 48hills online independent news + culture journal. Read the article here.
I am excited to announce that I have several photographs published in two art books curated by Gallerist Jen Tough of Jen Tough Gallery. They are now available for purchase on Blurb. Please click on the title below to go to the corresponding page. You may peruse the preview to see all of the work included in this ambitious project.
Artists of the Bay Area, Vol 1 - The best contemporary artists living in and around the Bay Area of California.
Wild Lands - A collection of profiles of North American artists addressing the theme of our wild lands.
Aurelia Gallery, 414 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501
October 21, 2021 - January 17, 2022
Drama, a forever studied topic in art, has been upfront and central globally since spring 2019 and continues to haunt us, whether through health, politics, war, climate change, etc. We asked artists to submit their own depictions of what the last few years of drama meant to them through 2D art. We are excited to present our selections.
Two of my photographs were selected for this exhibition. I went to Santa Fe to visit with the gallerist Marius Muresanu and see the show. https://www.aureliagallery.com/shop
Ocean Baptism, Digital Photograph archival artist print, 18”x24” framed - $400
Virtual Audience, Digital Photograph archival artist print, 18”x24” framed - $400
I was honored to have two photographs included in the Time Capsule juried exhibition at the Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) in Seattle, Washington. My daughter and I went to the closing reception in August.
(L) Socially Distant Musical Theater Rehearsal, Digital Photograph archival artist print 18”x24”
(R) Ocean Baptism, Digital Photograph archival artist print 18”x24” - $400 each
As humanity continues to face historical reckonings in politics, science, race, class, and the arts amidst a pandemic, photography plays a critical role in our processing and understanding. Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) asked artists to submit work that reflects this time. We received over 1600 still and moving images, from 251 artists from all over the world. Submissions came from 34 US states and international artists submitted from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Latvia, Lebanon, Spain, Turkey, and Ukraine. Juror Shamim M. Momin chose 59 works from 42 individuals to be included in the exhibition.
https://pcnw.org/24th-juried-photography-exhibition/
These photographs are featured in Art in the Time of Corona - a 3 year-long global project that includes an ongoing online exhibition, a full-color publication of all selected works, a multi-gallery international exhibition, and a documentary film on the first year of the project.
Socially Distant Musical Theatre Rehearsal, Orinda, California 2020
This photo was taken at an in-person summer camp. The performers are lined up for the first scene of their dress rehearsal of Annie. The audience is watching via Zoom on the laptop in the center. Masking and social distant protocols were required during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Patio Dining Now Available, Denny’s , San Lorenzo, California 2020
This work is in response to the lack of affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area and seeks to answer the following questions: What happens to people and their belongings when they aren’t housed? What does it look like to live on the streets? How do the architecture and landscape change with a growing unsheltered population?
