Harrington Gallery

The Firehouse Arts Center is excited to present the solo exhibition of Jen Huber, Winged Companions. Featuring 16 works by the artist, this exhibition highlights serendipitous interactions between humans and birds. Drawing inspiration from Huber’s walks, bike rides, and paddling adventures, each scene depicts thought-provoking moments shared between her human subjects and their avian counterparts. Huber imagines the delicate moment a bird graces our world by choosing to share our personal space. Her paintings are inspired by personal experience, such as flocks of sandpipers brushing past her kayak, swallows engulfing her bike, or a still and silent egret on a hike. She created this series while exploring the balance of birds and humans with a whimsical and fantastical realism. The artist captures figures, landscapes, and animals in various mediums, such as pen and ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and oil painting.

Jen Huber

Making art is a learning process with sometimes aesthetically pleasing results. Some of her triumphs have earned her Best in Show for Joyous Canvas 2024 & 2023, Third place for Oil Paintings in LAA Spring Art Show 2024, Merit Award for Dublin Paint Out 2023, Best in Show for Dublin Plein Air 2022, Honorable Mention for Livermore Plein Air in 2025, 2024 & 2022, and Honorable Mention for Pleasanton Plein Air 2021. Her paintings, “Bareback” and “Sirens” won best Acrylic Painting by the City of Livermore in 2024 and 2021, respectively. Active in the community, Jen helped start the Casual Dublin Plein Air meetup. She has also painted five utility boxes in Dublin, CA, as well as the windows for the Bankhead Theater and other various public art projects. She has a Bachelors of Fine Arts from University of California, Santa Cruz.