2024 Bay Legends Exhibition 
Gertrud Parker: The Possible
Main Gallery
January 13 - March 31, 2024
Opening reception January 13 | 2-4pm

Gertrud Parker: The Possible celebrates the life and career of visionary artist Gertrud Parker (1924-2021) who made radical experimentation with craft and materials the wellspring of her extraordinary, decades-long practice. Offering an unprecedented view into the artists exploratory and resourceful approach to art-making, the exhibition features sculpture, paintings, watercolors, and textiles composed from an astounding array of media. Also on view are works from the artist's personal collection of key European and Mexican Surrealist women artists such as Alice Rahon and Leonora Carrington and Dynaton artists such as Wolfgang Paalen, Luchita Hurtado, and Gordon Onslow Ford whose work and friendship influenced the artist. 

With artist commission by Lauren D'Amato.

Co-curated by Natasha Boas & Jennifer McCabe with special thanks to Caitlin McCaffrey & Asha McGee.

Exhibition made possible with generous support from Bob and Colette Battaglia, Maureen Bennett, Daniel and Susan Daniloff, Kristie Hansen, Anthony Meier, Wendi Norris, the Parker family and Lauren and Thomas Ryan.

Gertrud Parker (b. Vienna, Austria 1924- d. Tiburon, CA. 2021) Select solo exhibitions include Keith J. Varadi, Gertrud Parker Künstlerroman 2019, Et.Al. Gallery San Francisco; Gertrud Parker Recent Works in Encaustic, Parker Gallery Los Angeles, 2018; Gertrud Parker: Watercolors and Prints, Godwin-Turnbach Museum, Queens College, NY, 2015; Gertrud Parker, Artist and Collector, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA, 2011; Dominican University, San Rafael, CA, 2009-10; Gediegen, Haaaauch, Klagenfurt, Austria; Verfremdung (2008), Galerie Haasner, Wiesbasden, Germany, 2006; The Visceral Sculpture of Gertrud Parker, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 2002; Drahkt Object, Galerie Haasner, Wiesbasden, Germany; Vernissage & Kolloqium, (2001) Bundesinstitut, St. Wolfgang, Austria, 2001; Scheinbar Vertraut, Haaaauch, Klagenfurt, Austria, 2001; and Gertrud Parker: A Lightness in Being, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, 1993. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Oakland Museum and the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive.

Drs. Natasha Boas and Jennifer McCabe are both contemporary art curators and scholars who have collaborated for over two decades. At the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art from 2007 - 2012, the curatorial duo produced critically acclaimed and Warhol Foundation-sponsored exhibitions with contemporary artists who engaged in a very broad definition of craft and folk art. At the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art since 2018, the curators have been dedicated to activating transnational, Indigenous and diverse critical contemporary dialogues and creating visibility for otherwise overlooked artists.

Docent Tours
Regularly Scheduled Sunday tours at 2pm:

January 13 - March 30, 2024

January 21: with docent Julia Geist

January 28 : with docent Jean O'Korn

February 4: with docent The Artist Hines

February 11: with docent Julia Giest

February 18: with docent Jean O'Korn

February 25: with docent Janet Bogardus

March 3: with docent The Artist Hines

March 9: with docent Jean O'Korn

March 17: with docent Janet Bogardus

March 24: with docent The Artist Hines
  

Image credit: Untitled, 2017. Encaustic on panel, 18 x 14 in. Courtesy Parker Gallery