Dolby Chadwick Gallery is pleased to announce Nothing Comes From Nothing, an exhibition of new ink on mylar drawings by San Francisco Bay Area artist Katina Huston. Huston’s primary subject over the past decade has been shadows cast by objects—from bicycle wheels to musical instruments, glassware, and now, skeletons—hung from the studio ceiling. By casting light through these objects and drawing from their projection, Huston channels energy from a zipping bicycle, ascending scales, sparkling crystal, and the weightiness of bone “without actually naming that experience.” Her handling compels the viewer into familiar objects stretched and distended out of visual recognition.… read more

Dolby Chadwick Gallery is pleased to present Spaces in Between, an exhibition of new work by Bernadette Jiyong Frank. The lyrical geometry undergirding Frank’s paintings is a means for expressing the Japanese concept of ma, or the space between objects and events that is both empty and yet full of meaning. Ma maintains a constant presence throughout Japanese culture; it can be found, for example, in the meaningful pause at the bottom of a bow or the resonant silences between musical notes.… read more

It may be surprising to learn that, as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, Terry St. John studied sociology, not the fine arts. By the time he fell in love with painting, he was a college senior and deep into the throes of his social science degree. But that didn’t stop him from pursuing art. He took lessons from a friend who was studying under Richard Diebenkorn at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now called the California College of the Arts) and immersed himself in an artistic social circle. St. John recalls how “above all else, I just wanted to paint paintings.… read more

New work by Kai Samuels-Davis… read more

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New work by Udo Noger… read more

New work by Sherie' Franssen… read more