Featured in our Alcove is Mocktails, an exhibition of inventive oil paintings by Tom Giesler from Berkeley, California.  A master at depth and reflection combined with edgy subject matter, he playfully celebrates imagined cocktails and their accompaniments in this series, from the refreshing to the delectable to the improbable.  

Giesler originally worked as a patent illustrator and moved to a long career illustrating products for Silicon Valley companies in the high-tech and medical fields. He is self-taught as a painter and credits his illustration work as giving him an eye for detail. Giesler is drawn to unconventional subject matter and first became known for his large paintings of imaginary machines with organic elements over twenty years ago. His artwork is collected worldwide, and he is the author of Unventional, an illustrated volume of humorous, fake patent drawings.