Gage Opdenbrouw's most recent collection, "Mirror in the Garden," explores what happens inside and outside the garden through the reflective nature of self. At home, when there is very little light, and also, the reflections of ourselves in the dark, as we move between grief and attempts to adapt to an ever changing world. Opdenbrouw invites in moody seasides, dark turns in the estuary, burned out buildings, and the collapsed within our local region and home-scapes of Sonoma County. "Mirror in the Garden" is in conversation not only with impermanence and eco-collapse, but the beauty of it all.
Gage Opdenbrouw is an award winning painter and art educator. He studied at the Academy of Art College San Francisco, receiving his BFA with honors in 2001. His work has been shown nationally in galleries, museums, and educational institutions, and his paintings are within private and public collections internationally. Now, from his perch in Camp Meeker, he teaches advanced online courses for artists from around the globe at Washington Studio School, in Washington DC, and at Winslow Art Center.