LOCAL>> Artists' Exchange – Becca Barolli and Gina Telcocci

The Artists’ Exchange is a group created by and for artists to share new work, ideas, resources, and opportunities – over lunch.

Bring your lunch, and let’s talk about art! Share your questions, challenges, successes and tips for others.

Each month the host, Pamela Blotner, invites 2 artists to share their work and their ideas and processes. The group will then be invited to give feedback and ask questions.

This month, she welcomes artists Becca Barolli and Gina Telcocci.

Becca Barolli was born in 1988 and raised in North Granby, Connecticut. She received a BFA in photography from the University of Connecticut in 2010 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2016. As a graduate student she received a Cadogan scholarship from The San Francisco Foundation and SOMArts Cultural Center in 2015 and a year later was awarded the Ella King Torrey Award at graduation for creative innovation in her studio practice.

Becca currently lives and works in Hayward, California. She has completed a residency at The Studios at Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA and was the 2019 Senior Fellow at Gallery Route One in Point Reyes Station, CA. She has exhibited work at the de Young Museum and Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco, CA, Miranda Kuo Gallery in New York, NY and Last Projects in Los Angeles, CA. Her work is collected internationally.

Gina Telcocci’s sculpture & installation work has been exhibited widely across the US, Mexico, and in South Korea. Public commissions include Walnut Creek Library, Walnut Creek, CA, the University of New Mexico/Los Alamos, and the renovated Potrero Hill Library, in San Francisco, CA. Telcocci has created temporary installations for public and private sites such as First Plaza, Albuquerque, NM; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Pojoaque Pueblo and San Jose Canyon, NM; and for the City of Oakland’s Cultural Art Dept. programs.

She has received numerous grants and awards, from, among others, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and the City Of Oakland. Gina is part of a collaborative group, Stone Soup Project, which recently exhibited at GearBox Gallery, Oakland, CA, and at Gulf Coast State University in Panama City, FL Gina lives and works in West Oakland, and spends part of the year on the Pecos River in Northern New Mexico.

Join us and bring a friend! GRO Artist Members, friends, and all interested community members welcome!

This event is FREE, suggested donation: $20

Find the Zoom link here or on the Homepage of the gallery website on the day of the event.