GALLERY 107, 1275 Minnesota Street, #107, SF, CA 94107
May 3 - June 21, 2025
Gallery hours: Tue-Sat, 11-5 (or by appt.)


Architecture of
Light + Color







AN EXHIBITION OF WORK BY
Patricia Buse  &  Stephen Singer



Organized by Ivan Iannoli
For inquiries: hello@gallery107.art


Exhibition Images


May 3 - June 21, 2025
Opening reception, May 3, 5-7pm
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-5, or by appointment.

 Gallery 107 @ Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street Project, SF CA 94107

Gallery 107 at Minnesota Street Project is pleased to announce “Architecture of Light and Color”, a 2-person exhibition by artists Patricia Buse and Stephen Singer. Their works represent shared passions, but differing approaches, and in this exhibition each artist presents explorations of an intricate play between light, perception, color and other elemental components of our visual experience. Through complementary practices, both artists share an abiding interest in how visual phenomena within the natural world shape our perceptions. 

Working under her brand, pale blaze, Patricia Buse’s sculptures emerge from a scientific and architectural approach to art-making. Utilizing translucent acrylic resin to explore the dynamics of light, each piece functions as an optical phenomenon when interacting with the elements, in particular refracting color in ways that challenge conventional perception. The pale blaze work does not merely exist in space; it interacts with its environment, creating shifting visual narratives that encourage contemplation and awareness of materiality and light.

Stephen Singer’s art practice is in a long-standing conversation with painting’s history. Singer’s work is organized around the concept of the frame as an elemental tool for achieving a formalized understanding of our surroundings and pictorial representation. By focusing on the boundaries that define space and facilitate illusion — be they windows, canvases, or screens — Singer prompts viewers to consider how even simple delineations of shape and color can dramatically enhance our sense of space and experience. His layered inquiry into mark-making and color selection reinforces the idea that each creative choice carries weight within the larger conversation about vision and perceptual interpretation.

Together, Buse’s pale blaze pieces and Singer’s paintings present a dialogue between material, illusion, and vision, one that emphasizes sensation over resolution, and underscores the significance of not only light or form, but also of play and curiosity in shaping our aesthetic interactions. This exhibition provides an opportunity to reconsider, or reaffirm, our relationship to visual phenomena in art.

Patricia Buse is a German-born scientist and artist. She received her BA in Biology from Kenyon College, which included a year at NYU. Buse earned a Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from UC Berkeley and an MBA in International Management from Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Her work included IBM Germany, Fuji Xerox, Japan and Genencor, South San Francisco. She lives and works in Sonoma, San Francisco and Rome. She developed pale blaze as her artistic brand. 

Stephen Singer is a wine and olive oil grower based in Sebastopol, CA. He has been an active painter for over 50 years. Singer earned a BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and completed a BA in Modern Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. He was born in Oklahoma.

This is Buse and Singer’s first joint exhibition.

For inquiries and availability, please email hello@gallery107.art.

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