NY2CA Gallery

10/14/2026

SEE THE EXHIBITION
Experience Show & Tell in person at NY2CA Gallery.
On view through November 15
Thursday–Sunday • 12–5 PM
617 First Street, Benicia
Come see what they have to show us.

10/07/2026

10/01/2026

This is the final weekend to experience Lisa Reinertson: Of Water & Earth at NY2CA Gallery.
The exhibition brings together new and earlier work, from intimate shoreline drawings to powerful figurative ceramic sculpture, all connected by water, earth, memory, the body, and our relationship to the living world.

If you have been meaning to come, this is the weekend to do it.
There is a physical presence to Lisa’s work that photographs simply cannot capture. The scale, texture, gesture, and quiet emotional force of these pieces need to be experienced in person.
And while you are here, take the short walk down First Street to the waterfront to see Lisa’s beloved Neptune’s Daughter in its public setting, overlooking the bay.

Closing Sunday, October 4
NY2CA Gallery
617 First Street, Benicia
Open: Thurs-Sun 12pm to 5pm

Come spend some time with the work before it leaves the gallery.

10/01/2026

This is the final weekend to experience Lisa Reinertson: Of Water & Earth at NY2CA Gallery.

Come see the work in person, from intimate shoreline drawings to powerful figurative ceramic sculpture, and spend time with an exhibition shaped by water, memory, the body, and the living world.

There is something different about standing in front of this work. The scale, texture, gesture, and quiet emotional force simply do not translate the same way on a screen.

If you have been meaning to come, this is the weekend.

Closing Sunday, October 4
NY2CA Gallery
617 First Street, Benicia

Come for the art. Stay for the shoreline. See Neptune’s Daughter just down First Street while you are here.

09/24/2026

Meet the artist behind the work.

Lisa Reinertson’s sculptures carry stories of humanity, nature, vulnerability, strength, and our connection to the living world.

This Sunday, Lisa joins us at NY2CA Gallery for A Sculptor’s Journey, an intimate afternoon of images, stories, and conversation about the experiences and ideas that have shaped her remarkable career.

For those who have been drawn to Lisa’s work in Of Water & Earth, this is a special opportunity to hear directly from the artist and spend time with the sculptures currently on view.

Sunday, September 27 | 3:00–4:30 PM
NY2CA Gallery
617 First Street, Benicia

Of Water & Earth continues through October 4.

All work in the exhibition is available for purchase through NY2CA Gallery. Collector inquiries are welcome.

09/24/2026

09/16/2026

There’s something special about hearing an artist talk about the work in their own words.

Lisa Reinertson takes us inside the ideas, observations, and process behind her work — alongside glimpses of the drawings and sculpture that make up Of Water & Earth.

See the work in person at NY2CA Gallery.

LISA REINERTSON: OF WATER & EARTH
Through October 4, 2026
NY2CA Gallery • 617 First Street, Benicia
Thurs–Sun • 12–5 PM

06/18/2026

HOPE DRESS : series Songs of a little bird
Performance and Video : Akiko Suzuki
Music : Kuniyoshi Yamada
Filming location : palazzo Ferrari in Parabita Italy with GAP Art residency in May 2026

We write hope on the feathers cut from the yellow dress and sew them back onto the dress. We share this moment of speaking of hope to the future.

黄色いドレスから切り取られた羽根に希望の言葉を書き入れ、またドレスに縫い付け、希望を語る瞬間を未来へと共有します。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljDy4BqKX9g

Akiko has her first solo exhibition in the gallery during July 2026.
NY2CA GALLERY / July 16 - August 23

Opening Reception / July 18th Sat / 5-7pm

Songs of a Little Bird presents the richly layered textile and mixed-media works of Akiko Suzuki, an internationally recognized fiber artist whose practice bridges contemporary art quilting, poetry, and intuitive mark-making.

Suzuki’s works emerge from an interior landscape—where sensation precedes language and emotion arrives before thought. Through paint, collage, stitching, and fiber, she gives form to the invisible: fleeting thoughts, skin memory, eros, love, and the quiet presentiments that hover just beneath consciousness. These works feel less constructed than discovered, unfolding like verses written directly onto cloth.

Words play a central role in Suzuki’s process. Poetry often arises organically from the flood of imagery in her studio practice, and these intuitive phrases sometimes become the titles of her pieces—guiding viewers toward an emotional rather than literal reading. Her affinity for film and video further informs her work, allowing feeling and narrative to move fluidly across media.

Born in Osaka, Japan, Suzuki studied Visual Design at Kyoto Art College, where she explored photography, video, and three-dimensional creation before turning to quilt making in 1990. She has since become a pioneering voice in contemporary quilt practice, earning numerous awards in Japan and internationally, and exhibiting in both private and public collections worldwide.
Since 2014, Suzuki has been a founding member of the Global Art Project, an international mixed-media collaborative co-operative produced by Carl Heyward. Through this work, she has participated in exhibitions, workshops, and collaborative studio environments across Italy, the United States, Mexico, and Senegal.

Songs of a Little Bird invites viewers to slow down, listen closely, and enter a space where material becomes language—and where poetry finds its voice in cloth.

Songs of a Little Bird — Akiko Suzuki

Poetry visualized in works as abstractions through paint, collage, sewing and fiber.

Akiko Suzuki Solo Show
July 16 - August 23, 2026

Opening Reception
Sat July 18th, 2026
5-7pm

617 First Street, Benicia, CA, 94510
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05/22/2026

Some works ask to be seen slowly.

Jane Ingram Allen’s The Work of Earth & Hand brings together handmade paper, natural fibers, seeds, branches, and the quiet intelligence of the living world.

Delicate, grounded, and deeply intentional, her work speaks to nature, impermanence, memory, climate, and time.

For collectors and true appreciators of contemporary art, this is an exhibition to experience in person.

Artist’s Reception
Saturday, May 16
5:00–7:00 PM

NY2CA Gallery
617 First Street
Benicia, CA

Private viewings and collector inquiries are welcome.

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