Transmission Gallery: Contemporary Art in Oakland

Transmission Gallery

Contemporary Art in Oakland
Open during exhibitions Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 12 - 5 pm, or by appointment

Now at Transmission Gallery, concurrent solo shows with more to see in the gallery showroom.

Featured solo exhibition in the North Gallery at Transmission:

Cate White: World Raw

Painting of four wild horses galloping over a fantastical landscape with people watching, falling and hiding while waves rise up from the bottom and hands reach down from the sky

Cate White, 4 Horsemen, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 49 x 71

June 18 - August 1, 2026
(closed July 4th)

Artist's Reception
Saturday, June 27th from 1-4 pm

Artist's Talk
Saturday, July 11th, starting at 4 pm

More about World Raw

Solo exhibition in the Small Space at Transmission Gallery:

Painting of crawling fish made of wood, centaur with a hat, improbable creatures fantastically stacked, one with a paint palette in hand,

M. Mark Bauer, Artist Just Thinking, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 28

M. Mark Bauer

THE, THE

June 11 - July 25, 2026
(closed July 4th)

Artist's Reception
Saturday, June 27th from 1-4 pm

Artist's Talk
Saturday, July 18th, starting at 1 pm

48Hills Interview
with Mary Corbin
July 2026

More about THE, THE

More to see in the Transmission Gallery Artists' Showroom:

cartoonish sculpture of a child-like creature with a snout/nose and pink animal-like ears with a toy fighter jet arcing overhead

cartoonish perky dog sculpture with a long pink tongue hanging out of it's mouth

Andrea Bergen, Snout at the Heavens, 2025, hand cut paper and gel medium on wood panel, 48" x 48"

There’s more art to see in the Artists’ Gallery Showroom including ten new pieces by Ruth Santee and new neon assemblage, the Carpe Diem clock, by Roger Daniells. While you’re in the gallery be sure to step into the Office to see recent work by Jenny Hacker, with more than 25 pieces on view, as well as more neon art, paintings, and artists’ catalogs.

Also don't miss Andrea Bergen's 48 x 48 inch cut paper collage, Snout at the Heavens, showcased in its own private room!

More about the Showroom

Coming up next in our Small Space:

Daniel McClain: Lost and Found

painting of the cover of paperback book, The Psychology of Perception, with a replicated child's letter to their dad, chalkboard with lines, illustration of Pinocchio with an extra long nose, tracing of VanGogh's Starry Night and a page depicting how to draw a butterfly

Daniel McClain, Stowaway, 2025, acrylic, graphite pencil on canvas, 36 x 48

July 30 - September 12, 2026

Artist's Reception
Saturday, August 15th from 2-5 pm

Looking ahead, solo exhibition in our video installation space, coming up soon:

photo montage of the old and new San Francisco Bay Bridge with silhouetted trees along the lower edge

Peter d'Agostino

World Wide Walks / SFBay

July 30 - September 19, 2026

More about World Wide Walks / SF Bay

Coming up next in our North Gallery:

drawing of a woman's hands with two rings, a bracelet, black nail polish and holding a pair of black framed glasses

Donald (Aldo) Farnsworth
Hands of the Maker;
A Show of Hands

August 6 - September 19, 2026

Artist's Reception
Saturday, August 15th from 2-5 pm

Artist's Talk
Saturday, September 12th, starting at 2 pm

New Work by William Rhodes

September 17 – October 31, 2026

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

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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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