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Gallery 16 is pleased to present its second solo exhibition with Bay Area artist Linda Geary. WHAT GIVES includes a new series of large canvases and mixed media collages. In this new body of work, Geary uses collage and other approaches that reference actions of sewing and construction, modes of working that sometimes exist outside of the patriarchal history of painting, and more akin to laying a path of stones or making a quilt.

Geary describes her practice; “My abstract paintings are inspired by material processes of cutting, revision and repair. My work explores the expressive formal …