Inner Workings

Inner Workings

Birth Mother

Randy Gaul

$400

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Bot 1

Randy Gaul

$3,850

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Company Picnic

Randy Gaul

$14,750 – $16,000Price range: $14,750 through $16,000

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Disneytopia

Randy Gaul

$7,500

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Disneytopia Study

Randy Gaul

$900 – $1,200Price range: $900 through $1,200

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DNA

Randy Gaul

$600

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Earth Walker

Randy Gaul

$5,750 – $6,250Price range: $5,750 through $6,250

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Eye Am

Randy Gaul

$950 – $1,400Price range: $950 through $1,400

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Father Time

Randy Gaul

$16,500

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Father Time Study

Randy Gaul

$6,000 – $7,500Price range: $6,000 through $7,500

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First Hangover

Randy Gaul

$385

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Goddess of Life

Randy Gaul

$10,000 – $11,500Price range: $10,000 through $11,500

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Holiday House

Randy Gaul

$6,500

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Inner Workings

Randy Gaul

$10,000 – $11,500Price range: $10,000 through $11,500

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Joy

Randy Gaul

$12,500

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Landscape 1

Randy Gaul

$900

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Landscape 2

Randy Gaul

$900

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Landscape 3

Randy Gaul

$900

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Landscape 4

Randy Gaul

$900

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Landscape 5

Randy Gaul

$900

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Landscape 6

Randy Gaul

$900

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Landscape 7

Randy Gaul

$900

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Landscape 8

Randy Gaul

$900

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Loma Lemur

Randy Gaul

$3,000 – $3,950Price range: $3,000 through $3,950

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Loobie’s Garden

Randy Gaul

$375 – $750Price range: $375 through $750

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Loobie’s Garden Study

Randy Gaul

$350 – $750Price range: $350 through $750

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Mantis Lamp

Randy Gaul

$1,250

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Mermaid

Randy Gaul

$2,000

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Nina 1

Randy Gaul

$375 – $450Price range: $375 through $450

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Om

Randy Gaul

$5,280

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Queen’s Hive

Randy Gaul

$8,750 – $9,500Price range: $8,750 through $9,500

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Radiance

Randy Gaul

$9,750

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Realms Shaman

Randy Gaul

$1,800 – $2,250Price range: $1,800 through $2,250

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Return from Exile Print

Randy Gaul

$650

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Return from Exile Study

Randy Gaul

$600 – $800Price range: $600 through $800

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Shuffles

Randy Gaul

$1,200 – $1,500Price range: $1,200 through $1,500

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Spirit Realm

Randy Gaul

$7,850

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The Awakener

Randy Gaul

$4,000 – $4,500Price range: $4,000 through $4,500

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The Blind Leading the Blind

Randy Gaul

$15,000 – $16,500Price range: $15,000 through $16,500

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The Fisherman

Randy Gaul

$6,500 – $7,750Price range: $6,500 through $7,750

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The Gnat

Randy Gaul

$900 – $1,200Price range: $900 through $1,200

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The Pollinator

Randy Gaul

$3,850 – $4,250Price range: $3,850 through $4,250

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The Skater

Randy Gaul

$1,250 – $1,850Price range: $1,250 through $1,850

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The Thistler

Randy Gaul

$3,000 – $3,850Price range: $3,000 through $3,850

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Time Table

Randy Gaul

$8,000

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Timeless Flare

Randy Gaul

$1,800

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Treading Water

Randy Gaul

$13,500

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Valley Trolls

Randy Gaul

$4,850 – $5,500Price range: $4,850 through $5,500

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Visceral Fire

Randy Gaul

$1,850

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Weeping Dome

Randy Gaul

$1,600

The artist behind Inner Workings

Meet Randy Gaul

From cinematic worlds to works of his own.

Randy Gaul has contributed artwork to more than 100 films. His career spans Industrial Light & Magic and visual development for The Polar Express, Monster House, War of the Worlds and Beowulf, helping filmmakers imagine creatures, characters and the worlds they inhabit.

At 111 Minna Gallery, Inner Workings brings you closer to the imagination behind that career. Elaborate drawings, strange landscapes and sculptural objects reveal an artist drawn to hidden systems, unexpected materials and stories that begin with a closer look.

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A closer look

Look beneath the surface.

Gaul describes the exhibition’s title piece as a meditation on what the naked eye cannot see. Eyes, membranes and passages of light invite you into an anatomy that could just as easily be a landscape.

Before an imaginary world reaches the screen, someone has to envision its inhabitants, its landscapes, and the details that make it believable. Randy Gaul’s career has taken him into that creative process, including years at Industrial Light & Magic and work on films such as A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Despicable Me, and Rio. Inner Workings brings that imagination into a more personal setting, inviting visitors to encounter the worlds he creates for himself.

Across mixed media works, archival prints, and sculpture, Gaul blurs the boundaries between anatomy, machinery, and the natural world. Branching structures suggest both roots and nerves. Strange figures carry recognizable personalities. Vast imagined landscapes offer places to wander, while small studies reward a closer look.

These worlds also hold ideas drawn from life beyond the studio. Corporate absurdity, belief, fear, memory, and humanity’s origins find their way into the work, sometimes through humor and sometimes through unsettling beauty. Several pieces connect to Gaul’s developing film project Realms. Others begin closer to home, with familiar places, salvaged materials, or the character of a particular person.

Gaul’s experience as a maker gives these imagined forms a physical presence. His background in woodworking and fabrication informs an attention to structure, texture, and how things fit together. Even his most unfamiliar creations can feel as though they might breathe, move, or inhabit a world just beyond our own.

At 111 Minna Gallery, Inner Workings offers an opportunity to spend time with the personal vision of an artist whose professional life has helped bring cinematic worlds to life. Follow a detail, linger with a character, and discover where his imagination takes you.

Passion Projects SF: The Artist Behind the Effect opens concurrently and is also on display at 111 Minna Gallery, offering another perspective on the personal work of artists connected to film and visual effects.