A 40-year Vision - Comes to Fruition.
Founder, curator and resident artist, Brian Geraths.
Studio B Photography & Gallery
Studio B began as a portrait studio and became something more.
Since 1986, Brian Geraths has worked as a photographer in the Pacific Northwest - first as a scenic photographer, then as a portrait artist, and eventually as a gallery owner and curator. His work is grounded in a single pursuit: finding the beauty that most people walk past.
The gallery grew out of a pandemic-era collaboration with author and painter Graham Salisbury - Brian's longtime studiomate and friend. What started as an act of support became a model: represent artists with serious talent who haven't yet found the audience they deserve, split commissions fairly, and build something real.
WOW - Wednesday Originals & Wine is the gallery's monthly event series, held on the third Wednesday of selected months. Each event features a guest artist, benefits a local nonprofit, and is designed with buyers - not just attendees - in mind.
The space is intimate. The wine is outside when weather allows. The work is the point.
Represented Artists
Brian Geraths - Fine Art Photography
Lynn Hennigan
de’Camille
Jackie Maxwell - Fine Art Photography
Graham Salisbury
I grew up in the shadow of one of Hawaii’s most talented plein air and studio painters, William Twigg-Smith (1883-1950), whose art filled our home and the homes of my aunts, uncles, and cousins. I have five-year-old memories of being in the luxuriously mysterious hideaway under his house where he framed and stored his art. He once stuck a nickel in my ear and pulled it out the other side. Never did figure out how he did that. One of my aunts and several of my cousins were, and are, accomplished artists as well — painters, multi-media craftsmen, filmmakers, photographers and sculptors. My artistic contribution as a young person was the oh-so-uninformed yearbook caricature rendering of each of my fellow students in my graduating high school class. Art — most prominently my grandfather’s oil paintings — was a huge part of my growing years.
Today, after a lifetime of literature and music, visual art has arisen inside me once again. I wrote Blue Skin of the Sea to memorialize the easygoing, stunningly beautiful life and times of my teenage years in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
I reveled in composing feel-good songs, then called sunshine pop, to release the love of life that has always existed within me. In oil, I paint to celebrate the multitude of emotional connections I find in the physical world around me. I guess one could say I have lived a life of art. Wow. How great is that?
When my turn comes to head on off to the next world, I plan to reach out and shake hands with God. “Thank you,” I will say. “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”