100 Years of Creative Visions
2025-09-24 11:00 - 2026-04-26 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mills College Art Museum, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA, 94613, United States
In celebration of the Mills College Art Museum’s centennial, 100 Years of Creative Visions features an intergenerational and cross-cultural selection of major works from the permanent collection that emphasizes creative communities and the importance of artist friendships. Thematic sections throughout the exhibition highlight the strengths of the collection, such as, ceramics, Modernist Photography, California Impressionism, Mexican Modernism, Printmaking from Dürer to the Expressionists, Asian and Asian American art, and more.

THE ART OF WALLY FIELDS
2025-12-17 08:00 - 2026-02-28 17:00 | Art@Archer, 431 13th Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
The art currently on display at Art@Archer is the work of Wally Fields – a good friend, and an interesting and truly unique individual. His art was inspired by the things he loved – science fiction, mid-century modern architecture and design, and modern art (particularly that of a psychedelic bent).
Wally died on November 2, 2025. His final wish to us was that we find homes for his artwork.
Wally’s art is available for sale for a donation to one or more of the following organizations:
American Cancer Society
American Heart Association
Chabot Science Center
East Bay SPCA
The amount of the donation is totally up to you.

Wayne Armstrong - Between Here and There
2026-01-10 - 2026-02-14 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Manna Gallery is excited to present Between Here and There, a new exhibition of paintings by Oakland-based artist Wayne Armstrong. Grounded in a lifelong fascination with the California landscape, these recent works reflect Armstrong’s ongoing exploration of the state’s rich visual possibilities. Using color, pattern, and spatial divisions unique to the region, his paintings move between the memory of a place and the lived reality of a space. Infused with warmth, humor, and imagination, the work reflects Armstrong’s enduring sense of curiosity and gratitude. “How lucky am I,” he writes, “to always find something in these environments to inspire me.”
January 10 – February 14, 2026
Artist Reception: Saturday, January 17, 2-4 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Friday, February 6, 5-8 pm

Vessel, an exploration in clay of form, ritual and story
2026-01-15 12:00 - 2026-02-28 17:00 | Transmission Gallery, 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Artist’s Reception January 17 from 1-4 pm
Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Vessel: An exploration in clay of form, ritual and story, curated by Suzanne M. Long, on view from January 15 – February 28, 2026.
Drawing on her deep roots in the Bay Area ceramics community, Suzanne M. Long brings together a diverse range of ceramic works that interpret the concept of the “vessel” in expansive and unexpected ways—beyond function, into the realms of ritual, narrative, and abstract form. Included in the exhibition are works by James Aarons, Susana Arias, Michelle Gregor, Margaret Keelan, Mattie Leeds, Peggy Loudon, Kris Marubayashi, Lisa Reinertson, Claudia Tarantino, and Laura Van Duren. Through this collection, viewers are invited to consider how vessels can carry not only physical contents, but also cultural meaning, memory, and personal expression.
Vessel noun.
1a: A craft for traveling on water, a watercraft bigger than a rowboat; a ship or boat. An airship.
b: A hollow or concave utensil, a container (such as a cask, bottle, kettle, cup, or bowl) for holding something. A cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.
c: A human that serves as a receptacle for a spiritual entity to manifest, acting as a spokesperson for that deity. A person into whom some quality (such as grace) is infused.
d: A vessel is a hollow tube or canal that circulates body fluids, most commonly referring to blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries) that transport blood, oxygen, and nutrients throughout the body and remove waste. The term can also refer to other tubular structures that transport fluids, such as the xylem vessels in plants that carry water.
Vessel as Metaphor.
The essential vessel, devised in all cultures to antiquity, is the metaphorical container of all that has been and will be. For early cultures the sky was vessel, containing creation spirits and the departed; earth was mother vessel nestling, chiding and providing.
Images: Peggy Loudon, Vessels, up to 15”, Lisa Reinertson, Sentient beings, 74“ x 22” x 22“, Laura Van Duren, Rendering, 20” x 32” x 6”

Sin Contar Cincuenta: Miguel Arzabe Solo Show
2026-01-17 13:00 - 2026-03-21 17:00 | Johansson Projects, 2300 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Johansson Projects is pleased to announce Sin Contar Cincuenta, the third solo exhibition by Oakland-based artist Miguel Arzabe with the gallery. Arriving at a moment of heightened social and cultural reckoning, the exhibition features a dynamic body of new weavings that reflect not only a rich “pluriverse” of influences–interpolated ways of being and expression that span the artist’s personal life, Bolivian heritage, and art historical precedent–but also the urgent need to honor and defend cultural plurality in today’s world.
Sin Contar Cincuenta runs from January 17 – March 21, 2026 with an opening reception and artist talk on January 17, from 3-5pm.
For all inquiries, contact Johansson Projects at 510-444-9140 or info@johanssonprojects.com

Three Girls
2026-01-22 12:00 - 2026-02-28 17:00 | Gearbox Gallery, 770 West Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Three Girls
solo exhibition with new paintings by Christine Ferrouge
GearBox Gallery
770 West Grand Ave.
Oakland, CA 94612
510-290-9660
info@gearboxgallery.com
gearboxgallery.com
Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays noon-5pm; and by appointment
Exhibition Dates: January 22, 2026 – February 28, 2026
Closing Reception: Saturday, February 28, 2026, 3-5pm
California painter, Christine Ferrouge makes paintings about the social and intrapersonal
complexity of girlhood. Inside these paintings, her daughters and their friends have been
growing up before our eyes. Now the girls are older. They are not little girls. They are teenagers. Ferrouge’s teens are not exactly what you might expect. They are not the weak, crazy, second class we often negatively associate with “teens”. They have the strength, dignity, and psychological presence that she has always shown us in her paintings of girls. They are still the “women-to-be” that you could always see simmering below the surface of these determined and confident characters.
These works are a mother’s view of her teens: their lounging around, napping frequently, and the quiet social understanding between the them. You can feel the unique and tight knit bond-especially connecting the girls- and the looks they give you when you catch them in that sacred space. “When you enter the gallery and stand in front of one of these scenes, you are present in their space, but you are not part of their circle.” –Ferrouge
This is a well established thread in Ferrouge’s work. After the Costume Party (2019), Desert Picnic (2020), After the Fires (2021), Watching/Waiting (2023), and Girls in the Mirror (2024) all give the viewer the feeling that you are in their space. The artist first observed exclusivity and girl power in her daughters and their little friends when they were just 5 and 6 years old, which inspired The Huddle (Ferrouge, 2016). To Ferrouge’s surprise, many young men found that painting scary.
“[Ferrouge] portrays complex humans, not cute, one-dimensional beings; her paintings are seriously insightful images…”
Betty Ann Brown, PhD
“…painter Christine Ferrouge, whose ongoing portraiture practice engages a particular thread of art history in which women paint women, girls, and girls on the cusp of womanhood—celebrating their insider’s perspective on subject’s inner lives, and their outsider’s perspective on the culture that surrounds them.”
–
Shana Nys Dambrot, Art Critic
Los Angeles, 2024
In contrast to the seven feet high oil paintings that dominate the room, Ferrouge also has small works that capture the gestural, figurative narratives on an intimate scale. Since beginning to paint and exhibit some small paintings last year, they have become popular and easy to collect.
Please visit the gallery to experience this work in person:
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays noon-5pm
Closing Celebration: Saturday February 28, 2026, 3-5pm
See websites for other events during the exhibition.

California Unseen, Along the Hills of the Central Valley
2026-02-06 - 2026-03-22 | Oakland Photo Workshop, 312 8th St, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
The California Central Valley is more than the giant open fields we cross when driving down from San Francisco to Los Angeles via Interstate 5. It is a place of beauty and complexity, a land of contrast undergoing rapid changes: a housing frenzy, an alternance of droughts and floods, vibrant yet struggling migrant communities, immense fields producing half of the fruits and vegetables of the US, all surrounded by stunning natural beauty. This place has always fascinated artists (from Dorothea Lange to Jack Kerouac, Robert Dawson, and Stephen Johnson) and keeps doing so today. By featuring certain works done in the 1930s by Dorothea Lange and putting them into perspective with today’s works, this show will be an invitation to explore the Central Valley over a century.
This East Bay Photo Collective exhibition, curated by Claire Maen, brings together 6 photographers from the East Bay, Fresno, and Los Angeles (Ryan McIntosh, Stephen Johnson, Noah Gottesman, Michael Behlen, Steve Molnar, and Claire Maen) who explore this land of extremes on film: Polaroid, small, medium and large format. In addition, William Peterson, from Sacramento, will show his 3D ceramics with aerial views of the agricultural landscape. The show will be visible from February to March 2026 at the EBPCO Gallery in Oakland, CA.

Christine Meuris: Wellspring
2026-02-13 12:00 - 2026-03-21 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Using silk thread and simple motifs, Christine Meuris has created a series of semi-transparent weavings that reflect feelings of harmony, joy, flow, and wholeness.
In 2023, Meuris began studying weaving as a way to deepen and ground her creative practice. Working with weaving teacher Travis Meinolf, at the Richmond Art Center and at his eponymous weaving school in Marin County, Meuris was influenced by Meinolf’s judgment-free and open minded approach to weaving, a practice that can otherwise become exacting.
After a period of experimentation, Meuris settled on a simple weaving technique — using plain weave with supplemental weft to construct imagery. In her weavings, Meuris returns to the font of her creativity, the work that steadies her in calm or tumultuous times, repeating simple steps to build something greater than the sum of its parts.
Bio:
Mercury 20 member Christine Meuris lives and works in Berkeley, CA. She has shown her work in solo and group shows locally, notably at the Berkeley Art Center, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and Mercury 20 Gallery, and in group shows around the U.S. She was a resident artist at Kala Institute in 2023 and was the inaugural Digital Artist in Residence at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (SJMQT) in 2020. Her work has appeared in the Surface Design Journal, Fiber Art Now, and the Textile Society of America News, and is included in the collections of the City of Berkeley, SJMQT, Kaiser Permanente, and Four Seasons Residences SF, as well as several private collections.
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, February 21, 3 – 5 pm, artist talks at 4:00 pm
﻿Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, March 6, 5 – 9 pm
Weaving Demonstrations: Saturdays, February 14, March 7, 14, 21 @ 1:30
Image: Christine Meuris, “Return, Poppy, Rain,” 2025, silk, dimensions variable, photo credit: Mark Serr

Dr. KC Rosenberg: Raised by Wolves
2026-02-13 12:00 - 2026-03-21 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Dr. KC Rosenberg creates her work on the floor of her studio, where raw canvas and paper are walked on, soaked, and marked through movement and touch. Her background in printmaking and textiles informs a material-driven approach that values impressions, repetition, and layered surfaces as records of action. Lines and bands of color function as spaces where stories can unfold. In her newest series, Rosenberg introduces narrative fragments into these abstract forms. Images and words appear like passing thoughts or half-remembered moments—sometimes humorous, sometimes dark—forming a personal visual vocabulary. Using collage, she brings together abstraction, text, and imagery to create poetic connections rather than fixed meanings. The work invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and make their own associations. At its core, Rosenberg’s practice explores how memory, language, and the body intersect, transforming process itself into a form of storytelling.
Bio:
Born in Marin County, California, Dr. KC Rosenberg was raised in a bohemian household shaped by intellectual rigor and domestic improvisation; while her mother worked and studied law, Rosenberg and her siblings were cared for by a shifting network of caretakers, an environment whose chaos fostered early strategies of invention through imagined companions, substitute characters, and close observation of animal behavior. In 2021, medical complications during the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a significant shift in her practice toward abstraction, reducing narrative certainty and temporarily setting aside personal history, which later returned as material rather than subject; these formative experiences now register in her work as form and emotional traces rather than representation. Rosenberg has exhibited with Patricia Sweetow Gallery, and her work is held in the collections of the California Arts Council and the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. She holds an Ed.D. and conducts social research on collective mentorship systems among artists.
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, February 21, 3 – 5 pm, artist talks at 4:00 pm
﻿Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, March 6, 5 – 9 pm
Image: KC Rosenberg, “Men Named Merle,” 2025 from Raised By Wolves series, 2026, Acrylic paint and yarn on wood panel, 8″ x 8″, photo courtesy of the artist

Body, Quilt, Animal – Pat Guthrie, Jill McLennan, Sara Lisch
2026-02-13 12:00 - 2026-03-21 17:00 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
This group exhibition in The Backroom at Mercury 20 Gallery brings together a human figure, an abstract quilt, and a series of animal forms. The figure is constructed from layered hand-cut paper, the quilt from fabric and dye, and the animals through collage, drawing, and painting. Each piece is arranged through an intuitive search for balance and rhythm, allowing form and pattern to emerge through the process of making rather than through planning or narrative. Across the works as a whole, pattern, repetition, and process play a central role, shaping how the images are built and experienced. Collage, mixed media, and fabric function as constructive tools, with materials layered, pieced, and assembled over time. Rather than describing specific scenes or narratives, the works emphasize accumulation, surface, and structure as the means through which the images take form.
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, February 21, 3 – 5 pm
﻿Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, March 6, 5 – 9 pm
Images: Left to right, clockwise: Sara Lisch, “Oceanic,” 2026, Layered Paper, 36 x 48 inches; Pat Guthrie,”Rolling Virus,”2026, Textile, 78 x 77 inches; Jill McLennan,”Natures Critters,” 2025, coyote, ink, watercolor, collage on wood panel, 8 x 8 inches, photos courtesy of the artists

The Stories We Tell - Opening Reception at Creative Growth
2026-02-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Creative Growth Art Center, 355 24th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
“The Stories We Tell” features seven Creative Growth artists who translate their lived and imagined experiences into vivid visual narratives. Spanning painting, drawing and collaborative short films, this mixed-media presentation celebrates storytelling as a force that can spark humor and inspire new paradigms. The exhibition features artists currently practicing at Creative Growth: Kristian Cheek, Meyshe Shapiro-Nygren, John Martin, William Tyler, Larry Randolph, and George Wilson. Together, these artists all have a form of storytelling within their individual practices that takes the viewer into worlds both imagined and real.
Creative Growth is a studio and gallery where artists with developmental disabilities create work collected by leading museums and celebrated around the world. Together they constitute one of the most vital avant-gardes working today, challenging dominant narratives of authorship, aesthetics, and artistic agency. Their influence now extends across international biennials, galleries, and cultural institutions, redefining the future of contemporary art.
Opening Reception: Friday, February 13th, 6-8 PM
Exhibition Dates: February 13 – April 25, 2026
(Featured Artwork by John Martin)

Weaving Demonstrations: Christine Meuris
2026-02-14 13:30 - 14:30 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Join Mercury 20 Gallery for weaving demonstrations by artist member Christine Meuris.
Saturdays, February 14, March 7, 14, 21 @ 1:30
Using silk thread and simple motifs, Christine Meuris has created a series of semitransparent weavings that reflect feelings of harmony, joy, flow, and wholeness.
In 2023, Meuris began studying weaving as a way to deepen and ground her creative practice. Working with weaving teacher Travis Meinolf, at the Richmond Art Center and at his eponymous weaving school in Marin County, Meuris was influenced by Meinolf’s judgment-free and open minded approach to weaving, a practice that can otherwise become exacting.
After a period of experimentation, Meuris settled on a simple weaving technique — using plain weave with supplemental weft to construct imagery. In her weavings, Meuris returns to the font of her creativity, the work that steadies her in calm or tumultuous times, repeating simple steps to build something greater than the sum of its parts.
Bio:
Mercury 20 member Christine Meuris lives and works in Berkeley, CA. She has shown her work in solo and group shows locally, notably at the Berkeley Art Center, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and Mercury 20 Gallery, and in group shows around the U.S. She was a resident artist at Kala Institute in 2023 and was the inaugural Digital Artist in Residence at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (SJMQT) in 2020. Her work has appeared in the Surface Design Journal, Fiber Art Now, and the Textile Society of America News, and is included in the collections of the City of Berkeley, SJMQT, Kaiser Permanente, and Four Seasons Residences SF, as well as several private collections.
Image: Christine Meuris, Upwelling II, 2025, commercially and naturally dyed silk, 29 h x 24 w inches, photo credit: Mark Serr

Closing Reception: Wayne Armstrong - Between Here & There
2026-02-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Join Manna Gallery for a Valentine’s Day closing reception celebrating Between Here and There, an exhibition of paintings by beloved Oakland artist Wayne Armstrong. Rooted in a lifelong fascination with the California landscape, Armstrong’s recent works explore the space between memory and lived experience through color, pattern, and spatial rhythms unique to the region. Infused with warmth, humor, and imagination, the paintings reflect an enduring curiosity and deep appreciation for place. As Armstrong notes, “How lucky am I to always find something in these environments to inspire me.” Spend the afternoon surrounded by art, community, and a little Valentine’s Day love.
Between Here and There – Wayne Armstrong
January 10 – February 14, 2026
Closing Reception: Saturday, February 14, 2-4 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Fridays, 5-8 pm

One Thing Leads to Another -- Gina Borg & Patrick Crotty
2026-02-21 - 2026-03-28 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Manna Gallery presents One Thing Leads to Another, a two-person exhibition featuring Oakland-based painter Gina Borg and San Leandro–based artist and designer Patrick Crotty. Bringing together painting and marquetry, the exhibition highlights two distinct practices shaped by close attention to materials, process, and the evolving language of making.
Gina Borg explores how color behaves in relationship, using a limited palette of warm and cool shifts layered through repetitive marks to create subtle tonal changes that generate movement, spatial tension, and optical vibration across the surface.
Patrick Crotty works in traditional marquetry, precisely assembling thin wood veneers to “paint” with natural grain, tone, and texture, transforming a centuries-old craft into detailed contemporary imagery.
Together, their work creates a dialogue between gesture and construction, surface and structure, where each decision leads to the next and the process becomes a visible chain of connections.
February 21 – March 28, 2026
Artist Reception: Saturday, February 28, 2-4 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Friday, March 6, 5-8 pm

Opening Reception and Artist Talk – Dr. KC Rosenberg: Raised by Wolves
2026-02-21 03:00 - 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Dr. KC Rosenberg creates her work on the floor of her studio, where raw canvas and paper are walked on, soaked, and marked through movement and touch. Her background in printmaking and textiles informs a material-driven approach that values impressions, repetition, and layered surfaces as records of action. Lines and bands of color function as spaces where stories can unfold. In her newest series, Rosenberg introduces narrative fragments into these abstract forms. Images and words appear like passing thoughts or half-remembered moments—sometimes humorous, sometimes dark—forming a personal visual vocabulary. Using collage, she brings together abstraction, text, and imagery to create poetic connections rather than fixed meanings. The work invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and make their own associations. At its core, Rosenberg’s practice explores how memory, language, and the body intersect, transforming process itself into a form of storytelling.
Bio:
Born in Marin County, California, Dr. KC Rosenberg was raised in a bohemian household shaped by intellectual rigor and domestic improvisation; while her mother worked and studied law, Rosenberg and her siblings were cared for by a shifting network of caretakers, an environment whose chaos fostered early strategies of invention through imagined companions, substitute characters, and close observation of animal behavior. In 2021, medical complications during the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a significant shift in her practice toward abstraction, reducing narrative certainty and temporarily setting aside personal history, which later returned as material rather than subject; these formative experiences now register in her work as form and emotional traces rather than representation. Rosenberg has exhibited with Patricia Sweetow Gallery, and her work is held in the collections of the California Arts Council and the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. She holds an Ed.D. and conducts social research on collective mentorship systems among artists.
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, February 21, 3 – 5 pm, artist talks at 4:00 pm
﻿Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, March 6, 5 – 9 pm
Image: KC Rosenberg, Backfloat, 2026, from Raised By Wolves Series, Acrylic paint and fabric collage on wooden panel 24” x 36”

Opening Reception and Artist Talk – Christine Meuris: Wellspring
2026-02-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Using silk thread and simple motifs, Christine Meuris has created a series of semitransparent weavings that reflect feelings of harmony, joy, flow, and wholeness. In 2023, Meuris began studying weaving as a way to deepen and ground her creative practice. Working with weaving teacher Travis Meinolf, at the Richmond Art Center and at his eponymous weaving school in Marin County, Meuris was influenced by Meinolf’s judgment-free and open minded approach to weaving, a practice that can otherwise become exacting. After a period of experimentation, Meuris settled on a simple weaving technique — using plain weave with supplemental weft to construct imagery. In her weavings, Meuris returns to the font of her creativity, the work that steadies her in calm or tumultuous times, repeating simple steps to build something greater than the sum of its parts.
Bio:
Mercury 20 member Christine Meuris lives and works in Berkeley, CA. She has shown her work in solo and group shows locally, notably at the Berkeley Art Center, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and Mercury 20 Gallery, and in group shows around the U.S. She was a resident artist at Kala Institute in 2023 and was the inaugural Digital Artist in Residence at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (SJMQT) in 2020. Her work has appeared in the Surface Design Journal, Fiber Art Now, and the Textile Society of America News, and is included in the collections of the City of Berkeley, SJMQT, Kaiser Permanente, and Four Seasons Residences SF, as well as several private collections.
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, February 21, 3 – 5 pm, artist talks at 4:00 pm
﻿Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, March 6, 5 – 9 pm
Weaving Demonstrations: Saturdays, February 14, March 7, 14, 21 @ 1:30
Image: Christine Meuris, Upwelling I, 2025, commercially and naturally dyed silk, 29 h x 24 w inches, photo credit: Mark Serr

Artists' Reception -- Gina Borg & Patrick Crotty
2026-02-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Meet the artists of our current show, One Thing Leads to Another.
Gina Borg is a painter based in Oakland. Her work explores how color behaves in relationship, using a limited palette of warm and cool shifts layered through repetitive marks to create subtle tonal changes that generate movement, spatial tension, and optical vibration across the surface.
Patrick Crotty is an artist with experience bridging fine art and applied design. Raised in Chicago and now based in San Leandro, his practice is informed by a background in product and furniture design. He works in traditional marquetry, precisely assembling thin wood veneers to “paint” with natural grain, tone, and texture, transforming a centuries-old craft into detailed contemporary imagery.
Together, their work creates a dialogue between gesture and construction, surface and structure, where each decision leads to the next and the process becomes a visible chain of connections.
February 21 – March 28, 2026
Artist Reception: Saturday, February 28, 2-4 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Friday, March 6, 5-8 pm

Open First Friday: One Thing Leads to Another -- Gina Borg & Patrick Crotty
2026-03-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Join us for the First Friday art walk in Uptown Oakland! Up now, One Thing Leads to Another, is a two-person exhibition featuring Oakland-based painter Gina Borg and San Leandro–based artist and designer Patrick Crotty. Bringing together painting and marquetry, the exhibition highlights two distinct practices shaped by close attention to materials, process, and the evolving language of making. Together, their work creates a dialogue between gesture and construction, surface and structure, where each decision leads to the next and the process becomes a visible chain of connections.
February 21 – March 28, 2026
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm & First Friday, March 6, 5-8 pm
