Coming up soon in the Small Space at Transmission Gallery:

Alternation
​New Work by Kristie Hansen

March 12 - April 18
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​Artists' Reception
concurrent with reception for Frank Cole: The House Inside
Saturday, March 14th from 1-4 pm

Kristie Hansen, Parts of a Whole 303, 2025, suede, glass beads, metal, and nylon thread, 12.5 x 9.5 x 4.5 inches

In Alternation, Kristie Hansen transforms a single, deeply personal object into a series of small sculptural works that explore change over time. The pieces are made from a brown suede jacket once owned by the artist’s mother, passed on during a period marked by downsizing, aging, and the loss of a family home.

Hansen dismantles the jacket and reshapes it into multiple forms, allowing one garment to generate many works. Beads taken from her mother’s jewelry—each different in color—are incorporated throughout the series, introducing variation within repetition. Together, these materials reflect a process of holding on and letting go, of continuity within change.
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Rather than presenting transformation as a single moment, Alternation understands it as gradual and ongoing. The series treats personal history as something that can be reconfigured rather than preserved intact, emphasizing resilience, adaptation, and persistence through change.

More about Kristie Hansen
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San Francisco-based conceptual artist Kristie Hansen creates work that seeks to rekindle a sense of belonging—to the earth and to each other. Drawing on her love of second-hand fashion, Hansen sources discarded garments and accessories to construct layered, intricate sculptures. By reclaiming and transforming these cast-off objects, she resists the logic of disposability and invites viewers to see beauty and potential in what’s been deemed worthless. Her salvaging process becomes an act of healing: a way to honor overlooked narratives and mend fractured relationships between people, place, and planet.

Hansen has been exhibiting her work in traditional and non-traditional art spaces up and down the California coast since 2011, including Don Soker Contemporary Art, Summer School, Queens Nails Projects, MAC and Maison Margiela. Her work has also been included in group shows at Arts Benicia, Sanchez Art Center, Marin MOCA, Bass & Reiner, Ratio 3, 1599fdt, Southern Exposure, Transmission Gallery, and Berkeley Art Center. In 2016, she had a residency with local clothing designers, N.I.C.E. Collective, and in 2024 she participated in the Cycladic Arts Residency in Paros, Greece.