Game Room

GearBox Gallery celebrates its 10th anniversary on the Oakland Art Scene with Into the Woods, featuring work by member artists Jules Campbell, Harry Clewans, Mittie Cuetara, Linda Ellinwood, Christine Ferrouge, TaVee McAllister Lee, Eileen Starr Moderbacher, Joni Marie Theodorsen and Jamie Treacy, along with Game Room, a special installation of work by Rachel Major in the Inner Room of the gallery. 

On view in the intimate Inner Room at GearBox, this Game Room brings together a series of pieces Major developed while examining the conflict between will and appetite through the lens of western ideas of feminine beauty and the disordered eating that might come with trying to attain them. Focusing on gender roles and complex relationships with food, her work in this series juxtaposes images of meat, often associated with the power and mythology of the masculine as hunters and providers, with techniques of the feminine, such as domestic sewing and needle work, quite literally resulting in stuffed fabric cuts of meats, as we might be stuffed into various versions of the meat bodies we inhabit.