Mary Mocas paintings accepted into “Bluets: to fall under a spell” at Gearbox Gallery in Oakland
Mary Mocas has had two paintings accepted into Bluets: to fall under a spell, a group show juried by Jack Fischer, at Gearbox Gallery in Oakland. http://www.gearboxgallery.com
Juror Jack Fischer
Opening Reception:
Friday, August 4th from 6-9 pm
The works in BLUETS explore the theme inspired by the writer Maggie Nelson, who has written that to love the color blue was to fall “under a spell, a spell I fought to stay under and get out from under, in turns.” Blue is commonly associated with harmony, faithfulness, confidence, distance, infinity, the imagination, cold, and sometimes with sadness. References to the color include blue chip, blue collar, the wild blue yonder, having the blues, singing the blues, out of the blue, once in a blue moon. The color blue has been said to physically calm and sedate, cool, and aid intuition. “There is no blue without yellow and without orange”— Vincent Van Gogh.
Bluets was juried by Jack Fischer, principal of Jack Fischer Gallery. Currently at 311 Potrero Avenue and 1275 Minnesota Street in San Francisco, Jack Fischer is devoted to the work of outsider, self-taught, intuitive artists and continues to exhibit work he characterizes as “from the heart and the gut.”
GearBox Gallery’s special call for entries exhibitions are open to artists over the age of 18 and living or working in Northern California.
This year we will announce two awards. The winner of the Juror’s Award will have the opportunity to be featured as a guest artist in a future GearBox Gallery exhibit. The GearBox Gallery Award winner will have the opportunity to exhibit in the Inner Room at GearBox Gallery in 2018.
The 2015 Juror’s Award winner, Spencer Pittenger, was featured in Essential Elements and Other Mysteries of the Universeat GearBox Gallery, February 18 – March 19, 2016
The 2016 Juror’s Award winner, Leslie Smith, was featured in Biographies at GearBox Gallery, April 27 – May 27, 2017
The 2016 GearBox Gallery Award winner, Tamera Avery, will be featured in the Inner Room at GearBox Gallery, August 31 – Sept 23, 2017