Manna Gallery presents

Manna Gallery presents One Thing Leads to Another, a two-person exhibition featuring Oakland-based painter Gina Borg and San Leandro–based artist and designer Patrick Crotty. Bringing together painting and marquetry, the exhibition highlights two distinct practices shaped by close attention to materials, process, and the evolving language of making.

Gina Borg explores how color behaves in relationship, using a limited palette of warm and cool shifts layered through repetitive marks to create subtle tonal changes that generate movement, spatial tension, and optical vibration across the surface.

Patrick Crotty works in traditional marquetry, precisely assembling thin wood veneers to “paint” with natural grain, tone, and texture, transforming a centuries-old craft into detailed contemporary imagery.

Together, their work creates a dialogue between gesture and construction, surface and structure, where each decision leads to the next and the process becomes a visible chain of connections.

Gina Borg is a painter based in Oakland, California. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Jancar Gallery (Los Angeles), Jancar Jones Gallery and K. Imperial Fine Art (San Francisco), and Ohlone College (Fremont). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions at venues including Headlands Center for the Arts, NIAD Art Center, the David Brower Center, and Park Place Gallery in Brooklyn. Her work is held in the collections of the Alameda County Arts Commission, UCSF, and private collectors. In addition to her studio practice, Borg produces the artist interview podcast Art Talks Again. She earned her MFA in Painting from Boston University and a BA in Fine Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

www.ginaborg.com | IG @gina_borg

Patrick Crotty is a furniture designer and artist with more than three decades of experience bridging fine art and applied design. Raised in the Chicago metropolitan area and now based in San Leandro, California, his practice is informed by a background in product and furniture design, with studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and San Diego State University. Alongside his studio work, Crotty has spent the past 25 years working as an art preparator, installer, and fabricator, bringing a deep understanding of materials, structure, and presentation to his creative process. His work has been exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, San Diego, and Chicago, reflecting a career rooted in both craftsmanship and thoughtful design.

www.patrickcrottyfurniture.com | IG @artpacker1