KNEASS + GNORSKI brings together two Northern California artists whose shared commitment to wood carving produces strikingly different results. Ruth Charlotte Kneass presents three monumental mobiles from her Giants series—towering 9- to 14-foot kinetic sculptures that respond to air currents with the fluid grace of engineered poetry, drawing on her family's century-long boatbuilding tradition. John Gnorski shows intimate woodblock prints that deliberately embrace what he calls "the accidental and crude," creating "birds made of trees" and other forms that hover between representation and abstraction. What makes this pairing compelling is how each artist's approach illuminates the other's choices: Kneass pursues engineered transcendence while Gnorski courts controlled accidents, yet both understand wood as collaborator rather than mere material.

Exhibition Dates: 09/04/2025-10/18/2025