brush & shutter
Patricia Sonnino + Gina Gaiser
June 1 - July 1, 2023
First Friday: June 2, 5-8pm
Artists’ reception: Saturday, June 3, 1-4pm
Artist talk: Saturday, June 17, 2pm
GearBox Gallery, 770 West Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94612
Hours: Thursday to Saturday 12 to 5pm
Left: Patricia Sonnino, Willapa Bay, oil on canvas, 60” x 70”, 2023
Right: Gina Gaiser, Freeway Arrangements, digital photograph, variable sizes, 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. Gaiser photographs Oakland on a daily basis, isolating moments of visual significance in the forgotten and ordinary, sometimes following a captured image into a rhyming sequence or pattern. Sonnino maps estuaries and woods looking for underlying patterns and forms in the flicker of constant movement and change.