Exhibition Dates: September 22 – October 23, 2025
Reception: Thursday, October 9, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Royal Nebeker Gallery, Clatsop Community College, 1799 Lexington Ave, Astoria, OR
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Weekends & holidays: By appointment
The Royal Nebeker Gallery at Clatsop Community College is proud to present Objects, Figures, Histories, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Sherrie Wolf and Dan Gluibizzi. Together, their work engages the themes of history, gesture, and everyday experience, revealing how objects and figures alike continue to shape our understanding of contemporary art.
Objects, Figures, Histories is on view from September 22 through October 23, 2025, at the Royal Nebeker Gallery. A public reception with the artists will take place on Thursday, October 9, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. All are welcome.
About the Artists
Sherrie Wolf’s artistic practice reflects a deep and sustained engagement with art history. Her new series, In the Museum, is a collection of watercolors on paper that record, render, and distill the experience of viewing art in public spaces. These works celebrate the architecture of museums, the art on display, and—perhaps most intriguingly—the visitors themselves, whose presence and posture become part of the composition. Wolf’s paintings invite us to reflect on how we look at art, and how art, in turn, looks back at us.
“I have a longstanding habit of visiting art exhibitions. This has fostered a desire to create a series that records, renders, and distills the art-viewing experience, for myself and for other viewers. I’m eternally grateful to the public museums and galleries that I have been able to freely visit, and to the curators and directors who manage them. Also to the visitors, who are sometimes as interesting as the art itself.” – Sherrie Wolf
Wolf is widely known for her large-scale oil paintings that intertwine historical references with contemporary arrangements. Across both still life and figure-based work, she creates theatrical compositions that bridge past and present, drawing attention to the cyclical nature of human experience. Her work is held in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, and Tacoma Art Museum, among others; she has exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including a 2022 retrospective presented by the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation; and she is represented by Russo Lee Gallery in Portland.
Dan Gluibizzi works primarily in large-scale paintings on paper, collapsing the boundaries between the digital and the domestic, the ordinary and the mythic. Drawing on found imagery—ranging from vintage photographs to fragments of digital clip art—he reassembles figures and objects into vignettes that act as both intimate portraits and archetypal symbols. His figures, often arranged in rhythmic sequences, form what he calls “an archive of gesture,” where posture and movement become meditations on connection, intimacy, and meaning. Gluibizzi’s artwork has appeared in Vogue and Juxtapoz and he has also been featured in The New York Times. Hehas recently exhibited his work in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Portland, and Tokyo and is a 2025 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He is represented by Russo Lee Gallery in Portland.
“I build sprawling constellations and carefully staged tableaux that blur the line between the ordinary and the mythic, where stylized flowers, figures, and humble objects mingle in spaces that hover between dream and inventory.” – Dan Gluibizzi
Together, Wolf and Gluibizzi’s works form a rich dialogue—between object and figure, intimacy and universality, the act of looking, and the experience of being seen.
The CCC Royal Nebeker Gallery is dedicated to enriching the cultural life of the campus, the local community, and the North Coast region. Please join CCC in its mission to sustain and promote contemporary art and visual culture through professional exhibitions and programming. For more information, please contact Kristin Shauck by phone (503-338-2472) or e-mail kshauck@clatsopcc.edu.
