Now in the Small Space:

Lynn Beldner, Scholars of Nostalgia, 2023
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Lynn Beldner
​Uncertain Navigation

March 7 - April 20, 2024

Artist's Reception
Saturday, March 23, 1- 4 pm

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Uncertain Navigation

Lynn Beldner, 2023, paper, thread, ink, pencil, watercolor, 30" x 10" x 4"

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A Cut Above

Lynn Beldner, 2023, textile, ink, watercolor, thread, 8" x 8"

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Scholars of Nostalgia

Lynn Beldner, 2022, wood, paint, metal, 12" x 4" x 18

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Doughnut

Lynn Beldner, 2023, watercolor, ink, paper, 5" x 4" (unframed)

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Part Store

Lynn Beldner, 2023, watercolor, ink, paper, 5" x 4" (unframed)

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Onlooker

Lynn Beldner, 2023, watercolor, ink, paper, 5" x 4" (unframed)

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Barely

Lynn Beldner, 2023, watercolor, ink, paper, 5" x 5" (unframed)

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Not Long After

Lynn Beldner, 2023, watercolor, ink, paper, 7" x 7" (unframed)

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Border Crossing

Lynn Beldner, 2023, watercolor, ink, paper, 7" x 7" (unframed)

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Alone and Together

Lynn Beldner, 2023, watercolor, ink, paper, 7" x 7" (unframed)

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Base Ball

Lynn Beldner, 2023, watercolor, ink, paper, 5" x 5" (unframed)

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Lynn Beldner: Uncertain Navigation
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Transmission Gallery presents Uncertain Navigation, a solo exhibition by Lynn Beldner in our small space gallery, March 7 - April 20, 2024. The exhibition features a collection of Beldner’s delicate and sensitive works elevating the modest artifacts of daily life. Encapsulated, isolated, yet placed in conjunction, the careful attention Beldner brings to each element points the way to its meaning and value.

Beldner says of her work:
My work is diaristic and immediate.  I incorporate sewing and drawing often combining textile, paper, and objects.  The discarded, broken, or unnoticed objects are part of my vocabulary. The mundane detritus has new importance.  My work investigates the passing of time, aging, fragility, identity, history, memory, healing, and storytelling.

All are invited to attend the Artist’s Reception, Saturday, March 23rd, 1-4 pm, with light refreshments served on our outdoor deck, weather permitting.
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Beldner has deep ties to the San Francisco Bay Area. After maintaining a studio in Oakland for many years, she relocated to Woodland, CA in 2017 with her husband, Steve Briscoe, also an artist. Her sketchbooks/journals, from the past 36 years were acquired by the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. The Archive of Recorded Sound, at Stanford University has acquired her collection of photographs and negatives.  Through the years her art practice has expanded to cover many different mediums.

Beldner is the recipient of the James Phelan Award, Bemis Art Residency, Public Glass Residency, and Paulson Bott Residency.  Her work is in the collection of Harvard, Crocker Art Museum, Oakland Museum, DeYoung Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California, as well as many other private collections.

Showing concurrently, starting March 21, will be Andrea Bergen: The Last Pit Stop, a featured solo exhibition of Bergen’s cut paper collage focusing on environmental impacts, both humorous and deadly serious. Opening Reception also March 23rd from 1-4pm.
Transmission Gallery Oakland is open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, noon to 5 pm and by appointment.

Beldner comments on some of the work included in the exhibition:
“Uncertain Navigation” paper maps, with textile, drawings, sewn together to form pillows. Concerns:  navigation, borders, history, cartography, ongoing wars, violence. 30”x10”x4"
 
“Scholars of Nostalgia” The knick knack, slang for an art object of a lesser stature, can be an eloquent substrate for manipulation. Not so very well made, not art yet, but not just decorative, these objects have a certain pathos that can be turned to for comfort and even enlightenment. By placing this deceptively simple object in the spotlight, you call attention to it, you cause it to be seen. Allowing the object’s history to be pondered or highlighted, elevates its status as secret keeper and a reliquary of memories. Each piece: 13”x3”x3”, overall: 13”x18”x3”, wood, paint, metal.
 
“Part Memoir” (pillows) began during the pandemic.  Sewing, drawing, and painting on textiles is transformative.  Each piece is independent of the other and at the same time a collaboration occurs by proximity.
 
“Tangerine” wax paper and found documents, writings, lists, a diary, a domestic diary, a journal.  From another time when pen and paper were the only way to keep lists. Remnants from someone else’s life – I assume it was a woman.  Filled with documentation about her purchases.  There is a story here, but I am not privy to it.  It really wasn’t meant to be seen by others.  Did it make her feel better?  There is a repetition of names, things bought (cigarettes, alcohol, food, restaurants).  Tangerines sent to someone in Los Angeles is also a repeated item.  I started by tearing out the pages.  Combining the pages with the receipts.  And then encapsulating them in wax paper. Each piece: 16” x 10”, overall: 54” x 72”
 
What happens to the misc. remnants from your life?  The mundane detritus.  At this moment I cannot remember where I found these notebooks. (small spiral binders filled with lists).  A document, a record, bookkeeping, list making a story, an autobiography.  Why did she keep them?  (money concerns, obsessive list making)
I think of them, placed in a box and unforgotten.

Past exhibition at our one year San Francisco Satellite Space: Lynn Beldner: Expeditions

More about Lynn Beldner
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024  Transmission Gallery, Oakland
2023  Transmission Gallery, San Francisco
2019  Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
2015   35Blumen, Krefeld, Germany
2014 Dover Street Projects, Oakland, CA
2002   Graystone, San Francisco, CA
2000   Graystone, San Francisco, CA
            Muckenthaler Cultural Arts Center, Fullerton, CA
1999   Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998   Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
            Graystone, San Francisco, CA
1997   Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989   Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1981   Freightdoor Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
 
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2020   artspace1616, Sacramento, CA
2011   Pop-Up , Oakland, CA
1996   Four Walls, San Francisco, CA    
1994   WORKS, Sonoma, CA
1993   S.I.T.E., Los Angeles, CA
              deVera, San Francisco, CA
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023   Flesh and Frame, Woodland, CA
2022   Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
             Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
             Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
            Galerie Van Calenberg, Aalst, Belgrium
            Melhop Gallery, South Lake Tahoe, Nevada
            The Barn Gallery, Woodland, CA
2021   St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA
            Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
            Destination Unknown, Digital Exhibition
            GearBox Gallery, Oakland, CA
            Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
2020   35blumen, Krefeld, Germany
            Wild Tangents, Digital Exhibition
            artspace1616, Sacramento, CA
            The Barn Gallery, Woodland, CA
            ACG, Digital Exhibition, “Art in a Capsule”
2019  de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
2018   Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
            Museum of Dubious Navigation, Eastport, ME
            The Basement Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
          35Blumen, Krefeld, Germany
          The Clayground, Winters, CA
2017   Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
             John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2013   505 Montgomery, San Francisco, CA
            The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
            Windows 226, San Francisco, CA
2012   Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2006   Depree Art Center, Holland, Michigan
            DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL
            Central Florida College, Ocala, Florida
2005   McColl Center for Visual Art
            Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, New Jersey
            Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
            Texarkana Regional Arts , Texarkana, Texas
2004   Milton Hershey School Art Museum, Hershey, PA
            Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL
            Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Iowa
2003   SFMOMA Artists Gallery
            Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
            Ellen Noel Art Musuem, Odessa, TX
            Wayne Stark University Center, College Station, TX
2002   Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
            SFMOMA Artists Gallery
            DiRosa Preserve - Napa, CA
            Oakland Airport, Oakland, CA
2001   San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
            California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
            International Print Center, New York
            Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
            Graystone, San Francisco, CA
2000   San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
1999   Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
            Graystone, San Francisco, CA
            San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rental Gallery
1998   Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
            Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
            Transamerica Pyramid Building, San Francisco, CA
1997   Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
            Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
            Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA 
            Graystone, San Francisco, CA
            Terrain, San Francisco, CA 
            Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

1996   Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
            California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
            Graystone, San Francisco, CA
            San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rental Gallery
            Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
            Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1995   Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
            WORKS, Sonoma, CA
            California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
1994   Works, San Jose, CA
1993   Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
            Terrain, San Francisco
1992   San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA
            Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
            Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
            Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA
            Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
1990   SF Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
            Foster Goldstrom, New York, NY
1989   Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1988   Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
            Ohio State University, Newark, Ohio
            Pro Arts Annual, Oakland, CA
            Berkeley Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA
            Humboldt Cultural Center, Eureka, CA
1987   Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
            Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1986   San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
            University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
            Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
            SFMMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
            Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
 
REVIEWS:
Davis Enterprise, October 2022
Kulture in Krefeld, German, 2020
North Coast Journal, 2019
Sacramento Bee, 2019
Woodland Democrat 2020
Orange County Register, 2000
New Art Examiner, September 1999
Artweek, September 1999
Artweek, May 1998
Art Papers, June 1998
LA Weekly, November 6, 1997
Artweek,  June 1996
Bay Guardian, June 5, 1996
Walnut Creek Journal, April 11, 1996
Oakland Tribune, April 1, 1996
San Francisco Examiner, May 24, 1993
Artweek, December 6, 1990
Express, June 23, 1989
Artweek, June 17, 1989
Artweek, April 7, 1988
 
EDUCATION:
SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, B.A. 1984

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Harvard University, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Achenbach Graphic Arts Council (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Oakland Museum of California, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Microsoft, Seattle, WA
St. Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
 
AWARDS:
Public Glass, Artist-in -Residence, San Francisco
Paulson Bott Press, Artist-in-Residence, Berkeley
James Phelan Award, San Francisco Art Institute
Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
 
PUBLICATIONS:
The Six Fifty, Digital magazine, 2021, Palo Alto
Stanford University, Archive of Recorded Sound, Palo Alto
“Tube”, 2021,
“Crocker Kingsley”, 2021, California
“Art in a Capsule”, Digital catalog, ACG Pharmaceuticals, 2020, India
“Catalog”, April 2015
"Interiors", May 2002, Japan
"First Impressions", San Jose Museum of Art
"The Original Print, Guild Publishing
“Inside Out”, San Francisco Art Institute
“Photo Metro”, San Francisco
“Metier”, San Francisco