Exhibition

March 25–April 10
Jason Adkins and Gaby Wolodarski
Reception: Friday, March 26, 5–7 p.m.
Music by Geoff Baker

Adkins

Jason Adkins was raised in the small northern California town of Hayfork. He received a BA in Spanish from Walla Walla University in 1998 and a BFA in Painting from CSU Chico in 2002. In 2007 he received an MFA in Pictorial Arts from San Jose State University (SJSU) and in fall 2007 joined the faculty at SJSU as a lecturer. Adkins has shown his work in the Bay Area and in 2008 attended an artist residency in printmaking at La Cieba Grafica in Mexico. He maintains an active studio practice in downtown San Jose. He writes, “These paintings are realized through doing and making; thought is informed by action, not the reverse. They tend to be gluttonous, needy and unapologetic; their wisdom is their idiocy and their hunger is their strength; and so they find parallels quite easily.”

 

Wolodarski – Mixed media installation

Gaby Wolodarski is a visual artist working in Oakland, CA, making painting, sculpture, installation, performance, video, and stage sets. She has a B.A. from UC Berkeley and has shown work at the DiRosa Preserve, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Lobot Gallery, Mission 17, RockPaperScissors Collective, Ego Park, and Southern Exposure. Wolodarski will be making an installation questioning how one sees in terms of how one thinks and feels, and vice versa.