Sunshine & Noir

From a sculptural, crafts and textile context, Sunshine & Noir introduces Gertrud Parker's flat work - rich monoprints and large digital prints on canvas. A nationally and internationally exhibited artist, Parker's prints are abstracted textures, sometimes with overlays, evoking a dark and vulnerable spirit - windows into a personal other world.

Gertrud Parker was born in Vienna in 1930. Having successfully fled Austria with her family prior to the Nazi invasion, she settled in San Francisco, eventually to grow her interest and skills in the fiber arts, organic sculptural apparel and large gut skin wrapped armatures. She is also founder of the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum.

Attracted to primarily organic materials across all media, Parker creates directly from her informed instinct. ...when you make art, you have to continually ask questions. People who have a 'direction' are often constrained in their work by the demands of commercial success and fashion. I work by inspiration and am satisfied to let that take me where and when it may.


Born in Sweden, Pernilla Persson's abstract large format color photographs begin with natural organic images, captured and processed technically to expose a slow subjective revealing of the relationship between the observer and the art. Sunshine & Noir exhibits selected photographs from Persson's series, Through Tears - where movement and light spring into essences of color and play.

The fire that motivates me, burns to expand and search for new paths. I’m looking for the undiscovered and the hidden, creating from what I am seeing and experiencing.