In My Backyard at GearBox Gallery

Two of my photographs are included in the exhibition In My Backyard at GearBox Gallery.

Color photograph of buttercups, rendered in magenta through use of Lomochrome Purple film, with blurred trees and sun rising in the background

Raspberries for breakfast

Black and white landscape photograph in which clouds seem to be reflected in a lake, and dark land masses on left and right join in a point of light

The beginning of hope/The hope of beginning

The show runs from August 18 through September 12, 2022. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, August 20, from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., with a juror’s talk at 2:00. A closing reception is scheduled for Friday, September 2, from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m., during Oakland’s First Friday celebration of the arts.

GearBox Gallery is located at 770 West Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612, and can be reached by phone at 510-271-0822.

You can preview the show here.

The jurors for In My Backyard were Gallery Curator Eric Murphy and owner Joyce Gordon of Joyce Gordon Gallery. Eric Murphy wrote of this exhibition:

The selection process focused on the literal and obvious backyard references first, of course nature and climate change fit in between. Then in the expressed version we often use, “It happened in our own backyard,” as in being close to us in one capacity or another. Next, we moved further out to the social and political experience of what “happens in our own backyard.” Other works are more about abstract interpretations of “In My Backyard” in a virtual sense or a place of mental comfort. Ultimately the selections are eclectic, intended to encompass the various interpretations of the theme.