Het Beste Women
HET BESTE WOMEN Het Beste Women brings together a diverse group of women artists whose work has been exhibited at b. sakata garo over the years. Working across painting, sculpture, drawing, abstraction, landscape, and a variety of other forms, each artist brings a distinctive vision and individual voice. The exhibition celebrates both the diversity of […]
Jack Ogden
Jack Ogden is an artist whose work reflects a deep engagement with form, material, and visual storytelling. He earned his degrees in art and went on to teach for over 30 years, influencing generations of students. Working across a range of media, Ogden explores both structure and expression, often balancing abstraction with recognizable elements. His […]
Liliana Karavay
Liliana Karavay immigrated with her family from Moldova to California in 2000. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine art from California State University, Sacramento. Working primarily in oil painting, her work draws on figuration and folklore to examine themes of grief, longing, and nostalgia. She lives and works in Sacramento. “brothers,” oil […]
Claudia Tarantino
Claudia Tarantino grew up in San Francisco and received her BA in Art from Dominican College of San Rafael, CA. She has been working in clay ever since, as a production potter for the first 10 years and thereafter as a sculptor, working exclusively in porcelain. A two-time recipient of Marin Arts Council Individual Artist […]
Maryann Steinert-Foley, William Foley
The show is: Ceramic sculpture offering contemporary expressions of mythological, art historical, and political themes. William Foley After receiving Bachelor’s Degrees in Art and Economics from UC Davis in 1972, Bill got an MA in Fine Art from Humboldt State in 1975 and, given economic necessity, stopped making art soon thereafter. But his loving wife […]
Michael Stevens
The Dog & Pony Show is about telling stories using a single board to carry the theme about the human condition. (I started the Board/Bored series at the beginning of the Covid 19 Pandemic in 2020.). It is also about telling stories using the common shelf, as a stage to relate satire by compiling found […]
Jack Ogden, Robert Brady, William Ishmael, Patricia Altschul
Curatorial Overview This exhibition brings together four artists whose practices engage material, abstraction, and lived experience in distinct yet complementary ways. Through painting, sculpture, and installation, each artist explores the relationship between form, perception, and the natural or constructed world. Together, their work reflects b. sakata garo’s commitment to artists who balance rigor with intuition, […]
M Mark Bauer
(top) “Night Droning”, drawing graphite on paper 31″ x 23″ 2021 (bottom) “I’m Your Man”, painting, acrylic on canvas 36″ x 37″ 2025 (top): Night Droning, drawing – graphite on paper 31″ x 23″ 2021 (bottom): I’m Your Man, painting – acrylic on canvas 36″ x 37″ 2025 4 Takes, painting – acrylic on canvas […]
Roger Berry
Artist Bio A California native, Roger Berry has been creating monumental sculpture since 1980. Hissculptures are in private, corporate, and museum collections throughout the country. Majorpieces include ESTRELLA at the Bear Road Roundabout, Kings Beach, California,PERSPECTIVES at Cali Mill Plaza, Cupertino, California, TRIO at the California State AutoAssociation Headquarters in Walnut Creek, California, and EMERGENCE […]
Gail Chadell Nanao
Artist Bio Gail Chadell Nanao was born in New York City in 1941 and earned her B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1962, where she studied with such influential figures as Nathan Oliveira, James Weeks and Frank Lobdell. Over the decades, she has developed a distinctive figurative-expressionist painting practice rooted in the Bay […]