Featured solo exhibition in the North Gallery at Transmission

Jeff Dikio, Daly City Doelger (yellow on yellow) 2026, paint chip collage, 12 x 12  (framed 13 x 13)

This Must Be the Place

New Work by Jeff Dikio

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April 30 - June 13, 2026 

Left to right: Jeff Dikio, The Sunset (chartreuse), Daly City Doelger (yellow & pink), Daly City Doelger (pink), 12 x 12 inch paint sample collages (framed 13 x 13 inches)

Collect individual Jeff Dikio artworks online or scroll down to see images from the exhibition:

Daly City Doelger (orange)

$650.00

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Daly City Doelger (beige & green)

$650.00

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Stinson Beach Sentinel #3

$1,600.00

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Daly City Doelger (gold & teal)

$650.00

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The Sunset (chartreuse)

$650.00

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Daly City Doelger (blue 2)

$650.00

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Daly City Doelger (teal)

$650.00

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Daly City Doelger (yellow & pink)

$650.00

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Daly City Doelger (yellow on yellow)

$650.00

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Stowe Lake #3

$1,400.00

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Mission Victorian (yellow)

$1,250.00

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Daly City Doelger (yellow and orange)

$725.00

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Transmission Gallery is pleased to present work by Jeff Dikio in This Must Be the Place, a solo exhibition of recent collage work that explores the idiosyncratic architecture and local environs of the Bay Area. From Doelger homes to Victorian facades and even an RV, Dikio’s compositions distill neighborhoods spanning the Sunset, Daly City, Richmond, and the beaches of Santa Cruz into essential shapes, colors, and rhythms.

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, and in moments of stillness. Dikio’s work lingers in these in-between spaces, where memory and perception overlap.

Working with repurposed paint chips, Dikio constructs his collages with a tactile sensitivity to color and structure creating compositions both grounded and unsettled. Angled planes, exaggerated perspectives, and prismatic skies create scenes that feel at once embedded in real neighborhoods yet slightly unmoored from them. What emerges is a visual language of belonging, where home is less about geography and more about resonance.

​Born in 1975 on Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, Dikio’s early life within a transient military culture informs his sensitivity to movement, impermanence, and the search for grounding. Drawing became a way to anchor his experience, a practice that continues to shape his approach today—observing, reconstructing, and ultimately reimagining the places we think we know.

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.

With a BA in Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Dikio has worked across figurative, landscape, and mixed-media practices over the past 25 years.