LAND & SEA
John McCormick and David Eisenhour

April 2 - May 2, 2026
Artists’ Reception: First Thursday, April 2, 6-8 PM

John McCormick is a Northern California painter whose luminous oil landscapes evoke the vast, meditative expanses of wetlands, rolling hills, valleys, and the sea. Rooted in a deep reverence for the natural world, his paintings convey a quiet sense of the sublime—spaces where atmosphere, light, and land converge in contemplative harmony. McCormick’s work emerges from a sustained investigation into the formal elements of painting: composition, color, value, and their orchestration in creating space and form. For the artist, the landscape itself is a byproduct of a more essential pursuit—the study of light.

Pacific Northwest sculptor David Eisenhour interprets the organic, magnifying plant and animal forms with his free-standing and wall-mounted bronzes. Through his artistic processes Eisenhour tells stories of natural history and human experience. Sculpted kelp and seaweed forms anchor themselves to found objects, such as rocks, an old gas pump, a keyhole, an antique multiwrench, a horseshoe, and other castoffs. Their fusion reminds us of the impacts of human activity on the natural world. These bronze and found-object works are accompanied by a multitude of bronze barnacles and limpets. Their larger-than-life size makes for a fascinating and slightly surreal visual exploration of their protective shells. Eisenhour’s artistic vision reflects his lifelong inquiries and documentation of the forms and beauty in nature, as well as issues related to the environment.

Worlds Seen and Unseen:
Paintings by Gary Faigin

February 5 - 28, 2026
Opening Reception at Harris Harvey Gallery: First Thursday, February 5, 5-8 PM
After Party at ArtLove Salon, 7-10 PM, 110 Union St., 5th Floor
Virtual Tour of Worlds Seen and Unseen

Worlds Seen and Unseen: Paintings by Gary Faigin celebrates the work of the late artist, educator, and co-founder of Gage Academy of Art, Gary Faigin (1950–2025). This exhibition brings together paintings spanning Faigin’s career, illuminating his lifelong exploration of the border between the observed and the imagined. Gary’s final series will be featured along with selections from other series spanning Faigin’s career.

At the heart of the exhibition is Faigin’s final and most provocative series, Colony—a wry and visually stunning satire on humanity’s impulse to export its familiar lifestyles to alien worlds. In these paintings, of space colonization scenes of 1950s suburban bungalows, complete with manicured lawns and pastel facades, are improbably set against the barren, airless terrains of distant planets. “My recent paintings are satires on the idea of colonizing other planets,” Faigin wrote. “What could be more inappropriate than suburban houses from the 50s, complete with ridiculous green lawns and banal designs, plopped down on the gnarly, airless, uninhabitable landscapes of outer space?” Playful and unsettling in equal measure, the Colony series captures Faigin’s characteristic blend of humor, imagination, and social critique. Through his deft handling of light, perspective, and composition, he transforms scenes of absurdity into haunting meditations on human ambition and folly.

Also featured are selections from many of the artist's series from the 1990s onwards, with paintings from the Moving Pictures, Billboard, Concentrated, Tower, Compression Fittings, and Smoke & Mirrors series. This collection of works show the artist's ongoing investigation into aspects of still life, landscape, urban scenery and even steam engines. Even as Gary worked in traditional genres, he enjoyed subverting the expectations common to them.