GearBox Gallery

Congratulations to Linda Ellinwood & Joy Every for Field Notes and Stan Chan for his installation, The Hidden Treasures of Stan Chan. Both shows garnered a lot of attention at GearBox Gallery on Saturday at the artists’ reception as well as the GearBox Gallery Artists for their Group Show in the Back Galleries. All three shows are up through July 3rd. Open Thursday through Saturday from noon to 5pm.

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Meet the 2026 Inner Room Gallery winner Stan Chan at the artist’s reception on Saturday, May 30th at 1pm. Running concurrently with The Hidden Treasures of Stan Chan is Linda Ellinwood and Joy Every’s, Field Notes, exhibited in the Main Gallery. Artists’ reception for Field Notes will also be on May 30th at 1pm. Join us for both openings.

Chan’s installation of artifacts, writings and drawings creates an immersive experience that delves into a personal story of remembrance from his childhood in Oakland. This visual reading of objects and colorful bits gives the viewer a glimpse into our local past through the art of Stan Chan.

Chan says, “Growing up in East Oakland my immigrant parents were able to buy a house in the 1950s. It was a Victorian house and it was my shelter from the outside world. When I was a kid, I dug holes in the walls and in my mattress where I hid my treasures and through the years things accumulated in the nooks and crannies of the house.” It is from these memories that Chan’s installation of treasure boxes and colorful collages emerge.

Stan Chan, is an artist living in San Francisco with deep roots in Oakland. Receiving his MA from CCAC, Chan has shown in many solo and group shows locally and nationally including the Oakland Asian Cultural Center.

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Artists’ reception, Saturday, May 30th at 1pm for Linda Ellinwood and Joy Every to celebrate Field Notes. Also, we will be featuring our Inner Room Gallery winner, Stan Chan, for The Hidden Treasures of Stan Chan: an installation about memory, history and growing up in Oakland in the 50’s in a Chinese immigrant family. On view through July 3rd.

About Field Notes: Field Notes is an exhibition of new work by Oakland-based artists, sculptor Linda Ellinwood and mixed-media artist Joy Every on view from May28 through July3, 2026. The title Field Notes reflects Ellinwood and Every’s approach to art making: attentive, provisional, and deeply rooted in looking. Like notes taken in the field, the works operate as records of experience other than conclusions. Familiar forms dissolve into abstraction as images are altered by time, perception, and the artists’ hands allowing space for ambiguity and personal reflection.

Also on view will be the GearBox Gallery artists’ Group Show in the back galleries. While you are there, check out Transmission Gallery upstairs. Always a lot to see at the Art Building on Grand and always plenty of parking.

GearBox Gallery
770 West Grand Ave
Oakland, CA 94612
Thursday - Saturday, noon to 5pm
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