Coming up, featured solo exhibition in the North Gallery at Transmission

Jeff Dikio, Mission Street Victorian (yellow), 2026, paint chip collage, 14 x 20

This Must Be the Place

New Work by Jeff Dikio

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April 30 - June 13, 2026 

Artists' Reception
concurrent with reception for Sonia Gill: Memento Vivere/Remember to Live
Saturday, May 2nd from 1-4 pm

In This Must Be the Place, Jeff Dikio reflects on the quiet spaces where memory, environment, and emotion intersect. Borrowing its title from the Talking Heads song, the exhibition considers “place” not as a fixed location, but as a feeling—something recognized in passing, in fragments, in moments of stillness.

Using paint chips in his collages, Dikio reconstructs familiar “every day” scenes  into compositions that feel both grounded and unsettled. What emerges is a visual language of belonging, where home is less about geography and more about resonance.”

More About Jeff Dikio

Jeff Dikio is a Bay Area artist born in 1975 on Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. Raised within a transient military culture, he found early grounding in drawing and observation, developing a lifelong sensitivity to place, movement, and change.

In his recent collages, Dikio tries to capture the colorful and quirky architecture and scenes found in his immediate surroundings that are distinctive of the surrounding Bay Area.

He received his BA in Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1997, and has since worked across figurative, landscape, and mixed-media practices.