Tamera Avery : Wayfinders

Name: Tamera Avery : Wayfinders
Start: 2026-02-07T15:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-02-07T17:00:00-08:00
Location: Cabrillo Gallery

Schedule

Sat Feb 07 2026 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Cabrillo Gallery | Soquel, CA

Please join us Saturday, February 7 for Tamera Avery : Wayfinders reception, open to the public.
Tamera Avery: Wayfinders opens for viewing on January 26th and continues through Friday, February 27th, 2026. The public is invited to a free reception for the exhibition at Cabrillo Gallery on Saturday February 7, from 3:00-5:00 pm. Avery will talk about her work in a casual walk-through during the reception at 3:30 pm.
Cabrillo Gallery is excited to present Tamera Avery: Wayfinders as the first exhibition of our spring schedule. Avery’s monumental paintings draw us into deeply compelling scenarios – enigmatic, surreal situations peopled with young, often absurdly costumed, protagonists. Her subjects are portrayed with an empathetic eye for the plight of youth today, who are coming of age in a time of environmental, social, political and economic crises. They are faced with a world and a future full of uncertainty and daunting challenges. Avery juxtaposes their vulnerability with their power, recognizing them as searchers,
dreamers, stewards and warriors… unsure of what’s ahead, but trying to find their way.
Avery constructs the scenes in her paintings with images drawn from the internet, social media, personal photographs and found materials, then collages these fragments together for the preliminary studies for her paintings. The artist bases her protagonists on her children and their peers, who collaborate in costuming and choreography, transforming ordinary things – plastic gloves, an upturned handbag, abandoned toys – into extraordinary armor for vulnerable selfhood.