Meaning of Home

Artists’ Narratives: Their History and Identity

The Belvedere Tiburon Library Art Gallery invited artists to share their personal stories through art.   We are proud to present the works of these talented artists.   Learn more about them and their artwork on our Participating Artists page.   Featured works are available for sale (pick up or shipping at the end of the exhibition).   Please contact us for information on purchasing art.

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"What Home Holds"
"What Home Holds"
MARSHA GUGGENHEIM
$450.00


Dimensions: 18 x 22
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 18" x 22"
Artist Statement: Home is not a fixed place, but a shifting landscape shaped by memory, distance, and return. This photograph holds fragments of home that have formed me—some still recognizable, others altered by time and perception. II am not searching for what was, but for what remains: a feeling, a trace, a quiet recognition. Home exists somewhere between the seen and the remembered, where past and present briefly align.
Home on the Range-Where the Buffalo Roam
Home on the Range-Where the Buffalo Roam
Tom Minczeski
$295.00


Dimensions: 9.3 x 14 x 0.0125
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 14" x 18"
Artist Statement: Of all the iconic imagery of the American West embodying the spirit of Manifest Destiny that prevailed throughout the US in the 19th century, there is none so powerful as American Bison roaming freely in the open range. Sadly, it is that same sense of entitlement that nearly led to the extinction of the species through wholesale slaughter. The survivors descendants prove that wild places deserve to be respected as home to species other than our own.
Nora and Henrietta
Nora and Henrietta
Mima Cataldo
$500.00


Dimensions: 15 x 11
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 22" x 18"
Artist Statement: Nora and Henrietta are mother and daughter whose homes were state institutions for people with developmental disabilities. For most of their lives, they lived in separate institutions, but in the 1990’s when Nora was 47 years old they were reunited and lived together at the Syracuse Development Center.
A Teacup Full of Light
A Teacup Full of Light
Becky Jaffe
$375.00


Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 1
Artist Statement: Home is the place where I pour myself a steaming teacup of quiet light.
Breakfast Time
Breakfast Time
Gary Topper
$275.00


Dimensions: 12 x 16
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 17" x 22"
Artist Statement: My passion for photography is to be a story teller through the lens. Primarily an iPhone photographer, capturing the world, whether through people, places or the mundane, I want the viewer to contemplate and dialogue with the photograph.
Hale Manu
Hale Manu
Keith Criss
$900.00


Dimensions: 11 x 17.25 x 0.1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 19" x 25"
Artist Statement: Walking through the Tuscan village of Montechiello, I came across a grouping of bird nests carefully placed on the ledge of a centuries old stone home. Each nest was uniquely formed by its winged maker with intricate design abilities endowed by their Maker. These woven “hale”(dwelling) were created who knows how long ago to keep the eggs and young birds of these "makers" a safe home...now alongside a home created to keep safe the young and old human families within.
Winter at McNears Beach
Winter at McNears Beach
Gary Topper
$275.00


Dimensions: 12 x 16
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 17" x 22"
Artist Statement: My passion for photography is to be a story teller through the lens. Primarily an iPhone photographer, capturing the world, whether through people, places or the mundane, I want the viewer to contemplate and dialogue with the photograph.
Harvest @ Home
Harvest @ Home
Elizabeth Needham
$500.00


Dimensions: 16 x 24 x 1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 18.5 x 26.5
Artist Statement: Neither dog, nor the incarcerated can choose their home. In the filtered light of a crumbling room, a dog named Harvest eagerly awaits his caretaker, an inmate in Marin Humane’s San Quentin’s PenPals Program. The black and white tones highlight the stark differential between the dog’s joy and the room’s decay. Tenderness exists in unlikely surroundings, and even here, affection and trust manage to take root.
Lounging
Lounging
Hines
$500.00


Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 11" x 14"
Artist Statement: My photographic epiphany came when I realized that there were images that I wanted to photograph as references for my paintings, and others that were absolutely beautiful solely as photographs. At that moment I understand the dynamic potential of photography as another tool for myself expression.
Nesting Nest Egg
Nesting Nest Egg
Tom Minczeski
$185.00


Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 0.0125
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 14" x 11"
Artist Statement: This image is about discovery and thinking about relationships in new ways. In this instance, finding a house finch nest with an unhatched egg long after the parents had abandoned it and placing it atop a nest of another sort, a pile of leaves.
Ancient Abode
Ancient Abode
Elise Odom
$250.00


Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 4
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 16" x 13"
Artist Statement: I am interested and aware of my surroundings and observe how people and animals live.
Third Floor Window
Third Floor Window
William R. Glass
$500.00


Dimensions: 8 x 10
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 16" x 20"
Artist Statement: I observe the world with a photographer’s eye and seek compositions that might become the basis for paintings. I photograph and paint the ordinary world around us - you can find commentary in the work if you wish. I am less concerned that the observer seeks meaning in the work than that one might imagine oneself in that space.
Walking the Dog
Walking the Dog
Sara Silver
$195.00


Dimensions: 11 x 14
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 16" x 20"
Artist Statement: Through my work, I aim to turn a solitary moment in nature into a shared experience, reminding us that home is wherever we find a sense of belonging in the wild.
Status: Sold
Rousseau's Shoes
Rousseau's Shoes
William Johnston, Jr.
$250.00


Dimensions: 16 x 16
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 20" x 20"
Artist Statement: I am an amateur photographer. My friends keep reminding me of this non-professional status. I don’t mind. It frees me of ambition and of annoying vanity. I do what I want and spit in their eye.. “He’s only an amateur — forgive him for he knows not what he does.” If something I photograph turns a head, a note of amazement is struck.“Why, he’s only an amateur. Praise the Lord.” It means, too, that I’m not stuck in a box of someone else’s making. I can create my own boxes.
Unmade bed
Unmade bed
William Johnston, Jr.
$250.00


Dimensions: 11 x 19 x 1.5
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 14 x 21
Artist Statement: I am an amateur photographer. My friends keep reminding me of this non-professional status. I don’t mind. It frees me of ambition and of annoying vanity. I do what I want and spit in their eye.. “He’s only an amateur — forgive him for he knows not what he does.” If something I photograph turns a head, a note of amazement is struck.“Why, he’s only an amateur. Praise the Lord.” It means, too, that I’m not stuck in a box of someone else’s making. I can create my own boxes.
Our beautiful heirloom tablecloth with wine glasses
Our beautiful heirloom tablecloth with wine glasses
Don Melandry
$300.00


Dimensions: 16 x 20
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 16" x 20"
Artist Statement: I wanted to capture the intricate handiwork of this heirloom stable cloth. Something my aunts would have made. It reminds me of our family get-togethers over a delicious dinner followed by fine wines.
Robe
Robe
Gale O'Brien
$325.00


Dimensions: 16 x 24
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 19" x 27"
Artist Statement: Sometimes home is a cozy bathrobe. In this photo, I intended to show how the lighting entered through the windows in different degrees, highlighting the robe. This is a black and white composition.
Old House and Orchard from Fading Memories Series
Old House and Orchard from Fading Memories Series
Sonia Melnikova-Raich
$425.00


Dimensions: 12 x 16
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 18" x 22"
Artist Statement: I draw inspiration from the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, with its reverence for the subtle beauty of aged things and their fleeting, transient nature. I am particularly captivated by the poetry and mystique of abandoned houses—their melancholic beauty and the memories that linger within them. Overgrown yards, dusty or broken windows, and the remnants left behind stand as silent witnesses to past lives, carrying their haunting presence and a quiet longing for life to return.
The Jasper Houses
The Jasper Houses
Mima Cataldo
$600.00


Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 26" x 20"
Artist Statement: The Jasper Houses located behind the picket fence grabbed my attention as I walked past them, noting the balance between structures.
Home Has No Walls
Home Has No Walls
Elizabeth Needham
$500.00


Dimensions: 16 x 24 x 1
Art Framed dimensions (H" x W"): 18.5 x 26.5"
Artist Statement: This is what home feels like to me–motion, connection, independence, and the shared rhythm of belonging. In a burst of spontaneous expression of joy, my daughter flings her arms and a leg in the air during a sunset walk in an open space near our home. Raylan and my husband, continue up the hill beside her, unaware of and unaffected by her exultation. The photograph holds a kind of unstudied grace, sunlight on skin, wind through grass, laughter carried on air.

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