For information on past exhibitions click here.

Current Exhibition

Closing Show: all artist's work is presented salon style. A great opportunity to purchase artwork for yourself or as a gift.

Art makes a great gift for birthdays, weddings, housewarmings and holidays.

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Complete Exhibition Listing

2001

Kurt Ernest Steger, Wood Sculpture

Grand Opening

Jacquline Hurlbert, Degrees of Emergence

Robert Jean Ray, Rip and Burn

Patty Neal, Fragmented Unity

2002

Gloria Sanchez Jackson, Dreams and Labyrinths

Group Invitational, At the Heart of Red

Annie Meyer, Recent Work

Richard Downs, Linda Katzdorn, Barbara Leventhal-Stern, Nicole Rawlins:

Perspectives on Printmaking

Group Show, Approaches to the Art of Ceramics

Dick Hotchkiss, The Six Chamber Kiln, slide lecture

Roberta Loach, In the Swim

Jan Cheney, Kim NewDelman, Ambri Zeboski, Daniel Stuelpnagel, July Four

David Limrite, Linda Welch, Solitary Spirits

Group Show, Summertime in Sacramento

Terry Miura, Metropolis, & Bud Gordon, Building Pictures

Alf Wilenius, New Work, & Pamela Lethbridge, Ceramic Figures

Group Show, Conceal/Reveal, the art of the book and box

2003

Lea Painna, Jan Freeman Long & Gale Hart

Group Show, An Affinity for the Cup

Jean Gallagher, Patty Neal, New Work

Clarence Major, Nina Else, Richard Downs, Festival of Figures

Chris Botta, Benjie Heu, Taking Liberties

Jacquline Hurlbert, Beneath the Surface & Taylor Felt, Saturnalia

Group Show, Inside Out & Jacqueline Krayna, Photography

Jack Alvarez, New Work

ReBecca Gozion, Wife in Exile & Tim Foss, New Work

Gale Hart, Small, Medium & Large

Sunday Arts & Crafts Fairs

Patrick Marasso, John Lennertz, Yoked

Group Show, Cups & Gwyn Stramler, The Delta

Group Show, Mixed Media

2004

Group Show, By Land or By Sea & Mail Art Show

Pete Eckert, Shannon Richardson, L4, Naive Perception

L4, Video Installation & Pete Eckert, Artist Talk

Terry Miura, Arcadia & Sam Tublio, Ceramic Sculpture

Group Show, Excellence in Ceramics

David Limrite, The Ones Within & Larry McLaughlin, Sculpture

Marlene Parillo, Nicole Rawlins, Barbara Leventhal-Stern, If Only They Could Talk

Group Show, Four 2 Eight Legs

Group Show, Figuratively Speaking

The Picture Mechanics

Mary Street, Craig Martinez, Farrar Wilson Numan Huseinbegovic, Inya Laskowski:

Degrees of Abstraction, Five Voices

Group Show, The Artful Table

Group Show, Multiples

2005

Group Show, The Geometry of Space

Paul Brigham, Gwyn Stramler, Peace Within the Noise

Gale Hart, Why Not Eat Your Pet?

Annie Meyer, Hiroshi Fuchigami, Jean Hearst, Three Voices

Mick Sheldon, Fast Food Vixens & Benjie Heu, Gut Feeling

Group Show, The Cardboard Show

Group Show, The Shape of Words

Group Show, Art of the Bicycle

Maija Peeples-Bright, Woof's Heroes

Terry Miura, 30 Days in Umbria & Karen Massaro, Real and Implied Space

Patrick Marasso, Ebay Paintings & John Lennertz, New Bronzes

Group Show, Multiples 2

2006

Jack Alvarez, Georgia Hodges, Diane Richey-Ward, Andrei Wilenius, Draw

Lucy Ruth Wright Rivers, John W. Wood, Charles Sherman

Group Show, Affinity for the Cup 2

Chris Botta, Nina Else, Susan Timm

Rebekah Bogard, Jose Arenas

Summer Fashion Show with Five Figs Couture

Jacquline Hurlbert, David Limrite, Linda Welch

Group Show, The Urban Landscape

Art Swap and Sale

Jocelyn Audette, Diana Boyd, Celeste Welch, The Landscape

5 Year Anniversary Exhibition

Cameron Crawford, Michael Murphy, Katherin Venturelli, Deanna Wood, Architectural Forms

Deborah Barr, Robert Jean Ray, John Yoyogi Fortes

Group Show, Box it Up

2007

Dylan Tellesen, Andy Steele, Rick Carpenter

Ingrid Ellison, Gwyn Stramler, Audrey Welch, Christa Assad, Rae Dun, Mary Mar Keenan:

3 Painters, 3 Potters

Craig Smith, Numan Huseinbegovic

Terry Miura, Crystal Haueter, Daniel Buttler

Group Show, On the Wing

Mieke Blees, Joel Michael Smith, Linda Welch, Emily Wilson

Closing Exhibition

Holes in the Head

with present their final installation

July 14, 2007, from 6-9 pm

A video presentation may be viewed in the gallery of past installations.

Patrick Marasso, Greg Marasso and John Lennertz

Video, Sound, Performance and Installation

     Holes in the Head is a collaborative effort of video, performance, sound and installation art.  The work can be viewed through three, equally spaced, 10" holes across the gallery floor.

     Creative organizers of these works are Patrick Marasso, Greg Marasso, and John Lennertz.

To view Holes in the Head, Robot Video, click here.

To View Holes in the Head, Trouble in Toyland Video, click here.

For information on past exhibitions click here.

About us-

In 2001, Exploding Head Gallery opened their doors to share innovative contemporary art, ceramics, and the creative spirit of artists with collectors and the general public. 

Owners Jodi deVries (BA-Art History) and Linda Welch (BFA-Ceramics; MFA-Textile Design) opened the gallery in dynamic downtown Sacramento. Hosting 12 new and diverse exhibitions per year, with at least four of those focusing on sculptural ceramics, the gallery also carries a wonderful selection of paintings, drawings, and prints, as well as functional and nonfunctional ceramic work. Works on paper are a unique part of the gallery inventory. Well-stocked flat files with original prints, along with paintings, and works on paper provide clients and designers with a beautiful array of works from which to choose.

If you're looking for that perfect gift, the gallery offers a wide variety of original functional ceramic work from many well known Northern California, Northern Pacific Coast and ceramic artists from around the United States.   

Exploding Head Gallery is committed to providing awareness, discernment and appreciation of a vast array of contemporary styles, media and expressions. Our mission is to develop an appreciation of and subsequent acquisition of contemporary art.  We strive to assist our patrons in acquiring art reflective of their own creative dimensions. 

The gallery offers a comfortable, informative and inviting atmosphere to not only new and experienced art collectors, but also students and general art appreciators.

 "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." 

                                                      - Emily Dickenson