Sandro Gebert

Swiss-American Artist

Sandro Gebert is a Swiss-American painter and sculptor whose work explores curiosity, perception, and the stories we use to make sense of the world. Combining bold graphic forms with layered, weathered surfaces, his work occupies a space between abstraction, symbolism, and playful surrealism. Exaggerated and slightly strange figures appear as archetypes rather than fixed characters, leaving their narratives deliberately open to interpretation.

Working primarily in acrylic on wood panel, Gebert builds his paintings through repeated layers of construction, disruption, and revision. Vintage text, scrapes, drips, and traces of earlier layers remain embedded in the surface, creating a visual history beneath simple graphic forms. His powder-coated steel sculptures extend this language into physical space, distilling figures and symbols into bold silhouettes. Across both mediums, a predominantly black-and-white palette punctuated by restrained bursts of color creates tension between clarity and imperfection.

Influenced by printmaking, street art, literature, and storytelling, Gebert is interested in the relationship between simplicity of form and complexity of meaning. His work invites viewers to bring their own memories, associations, and narratives to what they see. Curiosity functions as both subject and method, a way of approaching uncertainty, symbolism, and possibility without insisting on an answer. 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.