Transmission Gallery

Contemporary Art in Oakland
Open Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 12 - 5 pm, the First Friday of the month till 8 pm, and by appointment

​Concurrent exhibitions now on view at Transmission Gallery!

Featured  Solo Exhibition:

Daniel McClain
​Do Over

April 24 – June 5, 2025​

Artist's Reception
Saturday, April 26th from 1-4 pm​

Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Do Over, a solo exhibition of exquisitely precise hand-rendered replications in graphite, watercolor and acrylic works by Daniel McClain. McClain’s intensive focus on thoughtfully selected imagery elevates simple objects, illustrations and images to a place of contemplative resonance.

More about Do Over

Daniel McClain, Dusk, 2024, acrylic on canvas,  14 x 16

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Now on view in the  Small Space at Transmission Gallery 

Suzanne M. Long
​Get A Head

April 17 – May 31, 2025​

Artist's Reception
Saturday, April 26th from 1-4 pm
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Featured in our Small Space is Get A Head, a selection of 34 functional and not so functional small ceramic heads, jars, vases and cups by Suzanne M. Long, accompanied by 7 larger pieces. Topped as if by objects from the subconscious, an apple, the moon, a bird or a simple wire twist, the heads convey a range of subtle emotions cued by slight casts of the eye or tilt of lips, aloof, observant perhaps but aware and chagrined, indifferent or hopeful.
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More about Get A Head

Suzanne M. Long, Jars and Cups,  ceramic, glaze, wire, various sizes

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In the Transmission Gallery Artists' Showroom:

Check out more artwork in the Artists' Showroom at Transmission Gallery, including Dave Yoas' recent cut tin collage piece, Clown On Clown Violence. Also on view, reduction woodcuts by Toru Sugita, and Pietro Bonomi's super small scale paintings, just 2 x 2 inches, ​along with so much more. 

While you're in the gallery be sure to step into the Office to see new additions to Ruth Santee's wildly colorful menagerie of playful sculpture, The Goo Goo Zoo.

detail, Dave Yoas' cut tin collage, Clown on Clown Violence,  in the Laundry Room at Transmission Gallery.

More about the Showroom

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Opportunities for Artists

The Transmission Gallery team discusses Pint Size 3, in this YouTube podcast.

PINT SIZE 3: Small Scale Artwork

National Call for Entries

Entry Deadline: Sunday July 27th

Show your small-scale artwork in Oakland, California! This is our third national call for entries for small scale artworks in any medium. Last time we showed work by well over a hundred artists with even more space allotted this year to Pint Size 3. Submit your artwork in any medium for a chance to be part of this wide ranging and well attended exhibition!
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Transmission Gallery invites submission of small-scale artworks for exhibition in Oakland, California, September 18 – November 1, 2025.  Artists may submit up to 4 artworks. 3D artwork may be up to 7 inches wide x 7 inches deep x 8 inches high. Wall mounted pieces may be up to 7 inches high x 7 inches wide, including the frame, if framed. 

  Submit to Pint Size 3  

More about Pint Size 3

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Upcoming Featured  Solo Exhibition:

William Rhodes
Saints and Heroes

June 12 – July 26, 2025
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Opening Reception
Saturday, June 14th from 3-5 pm

Artist's Talk
Saturday, June 28th starting at 4 pm
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William Rhodes, Damballa, carved wood, photo on fabric, paint, needle and thread, 24in x 18in x 5in

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About Transmission Gallery

Established in 2012, Transmission Gallery presents contemporary art, showing primarily regional and national figurative artists with an emphasis on work emerging from the California Funk Art Movement, Abstracted Figuration, Neo-Funk, Expressionism and Socially Engaged Art.  

As artists and art educators themselves, gallery owner/directors Ruth Santee and Cameron Brian have a passion for art and its various forms of expression, often showing unconventional work with a  point of view.
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