Marrow Gallery presents Petrichor, a group exhibition featuring Deborah Brown, Travis Collinson, Dana Sherwood, and Amber Jean Young.

The exhibition brings together a group of artists working across genres that ask us to consider our varied physical responses to nature’s sights, sounds, smells and feelings. Petrichor presents a dichotomy of work; the mythical and the mystical, the everyday and the unusual, destruction/decay, rebuilding, and envisioning, and the impractical and the standard.

The earth after it rains. The inspiration that is found in routine. A daily walk that shifts our vision so we never see the same sight twice. A fantasy world of fables and stories that ground us in the world around us and give us history; without which we have no meaning. A representation of beauty and what it was or is; and how that evolves and changes our ideals and understanding. All of these, are tied to the smell of the earth after it rains. All of these ideas are represented in the varied works in the show, each artist offering a different perspective of the earth we are all grounded to.

Deborah Brown is originally from California and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She has shown extensively worldwide, including at the Journal Gallery, NYC, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL and Los Angeles, CA. She has shown at Art Basel Miami, Art Basel Hong Kong and Bonhams Hong Kong. Her work is in public collections including; the ICA Miami, JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, City of New York, Health and Hospitals Corporation, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Laura and John Arnold Foundation, New York and Houston, United States Dept. of State, U.S. Embassy, Bogota, Colombia, Tudor Investments, Greenwich, Connecticut, ExxonMobil, Houston, Texas, Fidelity Investments, Boston, Indianapolis Museum of Art, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, The Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina. This is her first time showing in San Francisco.

Travis Collinson received his BFA from CA University, Fullerton. He has shown extensively throughout the country and his work can be found in major institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Berkeley Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, FL. His work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Orange County Register and various national art publications.

Dana Sherwood has exhibited throughout The Americas, Europe and Australia ever since graduating from the University of Maine in 2004, including solo exhibitions at Nagle-Draxler Reiseburogalerie (Cologne), Denny Gallery (New York) and Kepler Art-Conseil (Paris). Her work has also been shown at Storm King (New York), The Jack Shainman School, The Fellbach Sculpture Triennial (Germany), Pink Summer Gallery (Italy), Kunsthal Aarhus, The Palais des Beaux Arts Paris, Marian Boesky Gallery, Socrates Sculpture Park, Flux Factory, The Biennial of Western New York, Prospect 2: New Orleans, Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche (Toronto), dOCUMENTA 13, and many other venues worldwide. Her solo exhibition, "Dana Sherwood: Animal Appetites and Other Encounters in Wildness" opened at the Florence Griswold Museum in 2022.

Amber Jean Young (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist residing in Berkeley California. Young’s work explores ideas about place, grief, and resilience across mediums, creating vibrant patterns and plant imagery in her compositions. She has exhibited nationally including Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary, and Marrow Gallery in San Francisco, Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley, Monte Vista Projects and Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles, the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs. She is a 2012 Djerassi Resident Artist Program fellow. Her work has been published the San Francisco Chronicle, Palo Alto Weekly and in catalogs including The MediaMath Collection: Selected Acquisitions 2012 - 2016, A Celebration of 50 Years of Women Artists At Kenyon College, MusiCares 2010 catalog. Her art has been used on the covers and inside jackets of multiple Neil Young and Pegi Young albums and is included in the MediaMath and Fidelity Investments corporate art collections.