Sandro Gebert

Swiss-American Artist

Sandro Gebert is a Swiss American painter and sculptor whose work explores perception, the distance between what we see and what we believe. Using bold graphic forms, altered figures, and familiar symbols, he creates images that resist complete recognition. Figures are obscured, simplified, and remade until they become less like fixed characters and more like archetypes, leaving space for the viewer to complete the image through memory, association, and interpretation.

Working primarily in acrylic on wood panel, Gebert builds his paintings through addition and subtraction. Paint is applied, pulled across the surface, scraped back, concealed, and reconsidered, leaving behind drips, scratches, and traces of earlier decisions. The surface becomes a record of what has been added, lost, and revised. A predominantly black and white palette, interrupted by deliberate bursts of color, keeps the imagery direct while allowing the surface to remain complex.

His powder coated steel sculptures carry these ideas into physical space. Reduced to silhouettes and essential forms, they change as the viewer moves around them, creating relationships between object, negative space, and shadow. The sculptures ask not only to be interpreted, but encountered.

Across both mediums, Gebert is interested in the way symbols communicate before language and how their meaning shifts from one viewer to another. His work resists a single interpretation, remaining familiar enough to enter and strange enough to stay with you.

Gebert holds a BA from Loyola Marymount University, where he studied filmmaking and painting. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Cape Cod Museum of Art and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and was awarded the Denis Diderot Artist Grant for his residency at Château d’Orquevaux in France.