Transmission Gallery Oakland
Past Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
Exhibition in the Small Space:
William Rhodes, Black Times Angela Davis Quilt, paint, ink and thread on fabric, 60 in x 72 in x .5 in
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William Rhodes
TRIBUTESeptember 19 - November 9, 2024 As a boy, William Rhodes was one day enlisted by his father to ready the house for an important visitor. That evening it was Angela Davis who posed in their living room in front of the American flag while holding her Communist Party registration, a powerful and iconic photo first published in Rhodes' father's magazine, The Black Times. In this piece, Rhodes has recreated the image in the center panel of a quilt that pays tribute to his father, Angela Davis and the magazine that presented antiracist activists and leaders most often minimized or ignored by main stream publications in the 60's and 70's. Other works in the show pay tribute to those who have inspired him across the decades, including Black Panther's Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas, and other leaders a well as community members and family.
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2024 Art + Style Event
Strickland's will be unveiling Blue Gold, a new collection of designs crafted from recycled denim. This collection aims to highlight the issue of overconsumption in fast fashion and the environmental impact reflected in the mountains of clothing found on the shores and in the oceans of Accra, the capital of Ghana.
In the Small Space:
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Judson King Smith
The House of Miraculous RecoverySpecial Installation in the Small Space
August 1 – September 14, 2024 Malcolm Ryder Review Parts: Judson King Smith at Transmission Gallery |
33 Selected Parts by Danny Rosales
Danny Rosales, part #1001, part #66, and part #18 in concrete, steel and glass
Rosales continues to explore balance and relationship through the combination of concrete, glass and steel in this new work, fabricated with exacting detail while allowing for chance interactions. Take a moment to step into the Transmission Gallery office to see 33 Selected Parts along with pieces by several other artists, including neon, paintings and one of a kind jewelry.
Featured Exhibition:
Left, Cooper Salmon, Polish and Pride no. 2 (feat. Beans, the Dog), 36x48, acrylic, right, Selby Sohn, !, archival inkjet print, var sizes
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Featured Solo Exhibition:
Toru Sugita: ACROSS
Toru Sugita, Transient Monument(s)
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December 7, 2023 - January 27, 2024
Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Across, a featured solo exhibition of work by printmaker, Toru Sugita, reflecting on the two worlds he inhabits, his boyhood home in Japan and the Bay Area locations that inform and anchor so much of his work today.
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Featured Solo Exhibition:
Dana DeKalb: A Day Like Never
Dana DeKalb, Utopia, acrylic on canvas 30” x 30"
October 26 – December 2, 2023
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Enigmatic and trancelike, DeKalb's paintings reflect on an unlikely perfected world, one we can only imagine, a day like never. Many-layered colored glazes imbue a softly glowing quality to mysterious landscapes and dreamy scenes. Figures captured in inexplicable moments appear unfazed by their circumstances. Titles such as Utopia, Somnambulist, Escape Room, and Celestial Event indicate the course we're on stepping into this exhibition of DeKalb’s recent narrative works comprised of several larger scale paintings along with nine smaller pieces.
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Solo Exhibition in the Small Space
TaVee McAllister Lee, The Great Dream of the Future 5, 2022, torn paper installation
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TaVee McAllister Lee: White Wash
October 5 - November 25, 2023
Free form torn paper collage by TaVee McAllister Lee; detergent, diamond, and pharmaceutical advertisements frame news of catastrophe, devastation, and the abandonment of principles, alongside motivational stories, and aspirational messaging in a constant white noise of information. Together they collide here in free form arrangements of paper fragments, pinned to the wall in relationship to each other exactly so, a poem sparingly written. Over time, the presence of delicately colored shadows may become evident.
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Featured Solo Exhibition:
Dave Yoas, Same As It Ever Was, detailcut tin collage, 30” x 30
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Dave Yoas: PLAY TIME
September 7 - October 21, 2023
Dave Yoas brings new work to Transmission Gallery in Play Time, a solo exhibition of the latest of his cut tin extravaganzas.
At first glance wildly riotous fun abounds: aliens, cowgirls (and boys), shooting galleries, tin toys, pop culture, and nostalgia capture attention. Ultimately a more complex situation emerges as one takes in the details. |
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Special Installation in the Small Space
MICHAEL NINEOHSEVEN THOSE WE CHOOSE 
Michael Nineohseven, 1965 Ford Galaxy Custom 500, 2023, mixed media on panel, 9.25" x 17.5"
August 17 - September 30, 2023
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Transmission Gallery welcomes Michael Nineohseven's installation, Those We Choose, comprised of well over a hundred intimate and colorful portraits on panel.
Presented in freeform array, provocative characters vie with more conventionally dressed regular folks. Dogs sneak in, a snake, birds, kids. Intense and direct or with oblique gaze we meet these people, commanding, shy, pensive, off-guard, anxious, mischievous, theatrical, all so human, all chosen for this time and place. |
Featured Solo Exhibition:
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Julie Clements: TETHERED
Julie Clements, American idiot, 2023, ceramic, metal wire, luster, 17"Wx10"Tx9"D
July 20 - September 2, 2023
Artist's Reception, Saturday, July 22nd, 1- 4 pm |
Well recognized for her ceramic work combining fascination with the wild diversity of the animal kingdom, extremes of human behavior and a skeptically humorous approach, Julie Clements brings new work to view in Tethered at Transmission Gallery in Oakland.
With toylike trappings, Clements' delightfully whimsical exotic birds and unusual creatures come freighted with commentary. Engaging and earnest, they slyly poke at a culture tethered to Social Media, and careening toward the future like lemmings following the crowd. The work is a lot of fun, we can recognize oh so much about Us (or Them), but this is serious business! Scroll down to read Julie Clements' comments about the work. Contact the gallery for more information about any of the pieces on view below. |
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Rachel Kalman: Black Swans
Rachel Kalman, Deepwater, 2021, oil on canvas, 26 x 30
June 29 - August 12, 2023
Artist's Reception, Saturday, July 22nd, 1- 4 pm |
Kalman assembles still lifes with care, selecting flowers, fabrics, fruits, other objects and photos or images that together present richly constructed tableaus reflecting on dramatically pivotal events of relatively recent modern history, so called Black Swans. Underpinning the narrative of each painting, the recognition of each Catastrophe presents an opportunity to reflect on the questionable impact we collectively have on the environment and each other. Painted in intriguing detail and with phenomenal precision, the symbolism and implication of each element is considered, creating both oblique and direct commentary, while composition and color lend a captivating beauty to the work.
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Featured Solo Exhibition:
House of Ibeji, 2018, reclaimed wood, pencil, pen, paint, thread and neon glass, 26 in x 30 in x 6 in
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William Rhodes
Threads of Consciousness June 1 - July 15, 2023
Tying together imagery and text through neon, found materials, wood carving, drawing, and thread, Rhodes' work comments on the connections created by conflict, trauma, longing, and hope carried through the generations.
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Solo exhibition in the Small Space gallery:
Livia Stein: Forward and Back
May 11 - June 24, 2023
Artist's Reception, Saturday, June 3rd, 1- 4 pm Recent mixed media works by Livia Stein: Bridging an early interest in photography with a decades long painting practice, Stein's smaller-scale framed pieces vibrate with delicious color, expressive paint and evocative imagery overlaying archival photo prints.
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Livia Stein, Little lady in high heels, 2023, 14” x 11", gouache and acrylic on archival photograph
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Solo exhibition in the Small Space gallery:
Jessica Eastburn, Eye in the Sky, watercolor, 10 x 14
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Jess Eastburn: Seesaw
March 30 - May 6, 2023
Transmission Gallery presents recent watercolors by Jess Eastburn in our Small Space gallery. Undulating with color, pattern and imagery, Eastburn's mysteriously whimsical works communicate surprise, alarm even, mashed up with brightness and hope.
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Chris Miles, Archetypes III, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48
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Featured Solo Exhibition
Chris Miles
Anything Can Happen
February 23 - April 8, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 25th, 1-4pm Oakland Art Murmur First Friday Art Walk: March 3rd, 5 to 8 pm Artist's Talk: Saturday, March 18th, 2 pm Transmission Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by Chris Miles exploring fantastical moments. Frida Kahlo plays cards with Death and a cop, cows launch into thunderstorms, cat and mouse reach heaven together... Anything Can Happen.
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Featured Exhibition at Transmission Gallery Oakland:
Danny Rosales, Recent Compositions in Concrete, Steel and Glass, photo: Luz Marina Ruiz
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Danny Rosales
Recent Compositions in
Concrete, Steel and Glass January 5 - February 18, 2023
Rosales' installation pieces and wall mounted works explore balance and relationship through the combination of three basic construction materials. Fabricated with exacting detail, while allowing for chance interactions, the work speaks to structure and a fundamental appreciation of the elegance and strength inherent in concrete, steel and glass.
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Jon Kerpel: Earth Gems
The Conversation, 2022, mixed media, 39" x 35.5" x 5"
November 10 - January 7, 2022 |
Transmission Gallery presents Jon Kerpel 's Earth Gems in our small space gallery.
All are welcome to join us for the Artists' Talk, Saturday, December 10th starting at 3 pm. Hear from the artists about their work on view at Transmission Gallery in a causal walk-through artist's talk. Enjoy the light refreshments out on our deck (weather permitting). The event is free and open to the public with free street parking nearby. |
Featured Exhibition Transmission Gallery Oakland:
Robin L. Bernstein, The White Rose, string and wax on wood, 42" x 33"
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Robin L. Bernstein
Beauty and Terror, Part 2
September 22 - November 5 Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Beauty and Terror, Part 2, comprised of the most recent work in Bernstein's 18 piece series inviting us to recognize and consider little known events of the Holocaust. Part 1 of the series showed at Transmission Gallery in 2019 and will be on view at the Vargas Gallery at Mission College in Santa Clara from October 3rd through November 8th, concurrent with the Transmission Gallery exhibition of Part 2.
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Transmission Gallery Oakland Featured Solo Exhibition :
A lot has happened since Karl X Hauser's last solo show at Transmission Gallery, a combination of catastrophic events almost impossible to have imagined back then in 2019. Aptly titled, Hauser's, Fever Dream, introduces gritty figurative sculpture created during these bewildering and chaotic few years. Horrified and horrific, stupefied, but still gamely carrying on, hopeful even, Hauser's characters and personages resonate with the complexity and range of human responses. A tactile use of common materials contributes to the immediacy and sensate experience of his work in this show while a pervading sense of dark humor elicits a jolt of recognition and connection.
Transmission Gallery Oakland Small Space Solo Exhibition:
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Lori Murphy
TRANSFORMING the CANON
July 28 - September 10 Opening Reception Saturday, August 6th, 1-4 pm Lori Murphy continues her series of work based on the deconstruction and reconstruction of John Canaday's Metropolitan Seminars in Art, a classic series of instructive books about art and art making. Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Murphy's recent pieces from this project.
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Lori Murphy, Liberty Redacted, art history book pages, staples, graphite, wax and gesso, 14.5 x 11 "
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Ruth Santee, Talking Without Talking, 2022, mixed media, 22" x 20" x 9"
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in the small space gallery at Transmission Gallery Oakland
Ruth Santee Waste Flower Selections from a post-consumer garden April 28 - June 11, 2022 Artist’s Reception Saturday, April 30th, 1-4 pm Themes of identity, feminism, strength in the face of the current social climate, as well as environmental concerns, course through Ruth Santee's surreal anthropomorphic floral characters in Waste Flower; Selections from a post-consumer garden. Incorporating a variety of recycled materials emboldened with vibrant color, the work elaborates on flowers as a metaphor for the human condition.
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Livia Stein in Two Parts:
Livia Stein, Magic Power, 2021, oil on canvas, 72 x 60
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Part One: Glow of Opera
March 24 - April 23, 2022 Artist’s Reception Saturday, March 26th, 1-4 pm Featuring Recent Large Scale Paintings Glow of Opera is Part One of our two part exhibition of Livia Stein's work produced over the past two years of the Pandemic era. Featuring Stein's recent large scale paintings, Glow of Opera responds to the drama, pageantry and passion of Opera as a vehicle for joy and meaning in the face of pervasive uncertainty and vulnerability. Stein's paintings exude a fierce life force, archetypical characters and an expansive freedom with paint.
Scroll on down to read Livia Stein's statement and see more images from Glow of Opera. |
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Livia Stein in Two Parts: Part Two
During and After the Deluge April 28 - June 4, 2022 Artist’s Reception Saturday, April 30th, 1-4 pm During and After the Deluge, Part Two of Livia Stein in Two Parts, focuses primarily on monotypes and mixed media works on paper developed in the past two pandemic years during which Stein was sustained by the pageantry and beauty of the Opera through the Metropolitan Opera’s free online streaming encore performances. |
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Steve Briscoe
Processors, Barriers and Implements December 2, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Opening Reception Saturday, December 4th, 1-4 pm |
Button Pusher, 2021, wood, metal, plastic, 12" x 18.5" x 5"
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Goblin Market Series by Shenny Cruces
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in the small space gallery at Transmission
Shenny Cruces
RECENT WORK , 202
September 23 - December 31, 2021 |
IMPRINTED
Selections from Myrtle Press curated by Ruth Santee, Dixie Laws and TaVee Lee April 2nd - May 22nd, 2021 |
FRANK COLE: A Different Past
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JEREMIAH JENKINS
the world as we know it December 4, 2020 - February 11, 2021
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Peter d’Agostino: A-bombs / Climate walks Gallery exhibition: October 1 - November 21, 2020 |
ALMOST HUMAN: Livia Stein February - March, 2020.
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Monsters + Friends |
Two exhibitions featuring exquisite detailed work with deeper content showed concurrently, October 4 - November 23, 2019:
Shenny Cruces, Eve of St. Agnes
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Jennifer Brazelton, Islands of Resilience
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Above: Conversation with a Manuscript, acrylic and metallic paint on panel with framed etching, 48 x 96'
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Jennifer Brazelton & Shenny Cruces
October 4 - November 23 |
Golbanaou Moghaddas
October 4 - November 23 |
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Two exhibitions featuring Art, Humor and Activism showed concurrently
at Transmission Gallery, August 7 - September 21, 2019: |
Challenging Work for Challenging Times, these two exhibitions showed concurrently at Transmission Gallery: June 2 - July 20, 2019
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August 7 - September 21, 2019
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MAC MECHEM
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Robin L. Bernstein
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JOEY YANG
Make America Colorful Again coloring book and coloring sessions with Joey Yang Oct - Nov, 2016 |
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Livia Stein:
New Work Feb 5 - Mar 19, 2016 |
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Dec 4 - Jan 23, 2016
Erik Richard Parra: each devil his own Oct 2 - Nov 14, 2015 Variations on Abstraction: 2010-2014 Curated by Robert-Jean Ray Aug 7 - Sept 19, 2015 Liz Robb: New Work June 5 - July 18, 2015 Kurt Fishback: 51 Portraits of Women Artists Curated by Ruth Santee and Cameron Brian April 3 - May 16, 2015 Inspirations from Meckel Way: Pam Dixon & Tony Natsoulas curated by Ruth Santee and Cameron Brian February 6 - March 14, 2015 Joshua Band: False Nature curated by Ruth Santee and Cameron Brian October 3 - November 15, 2014 Chasing History: Observations / Explorations curated by Ruth Santee and Cameron Brian Artist: Robert Ray August 1 - September 13, 2014 Amalgams & Hybrids curated by Ruth Santee and Cameron Brian Artist: Livia Stein June 6 - July 19, 2014 Disconnect curated by Kelly Hammargen Select artists from the Northern California Women's Caucus for Art April 4 - May 17, 2014 Transformed Landscape curated by Erin Hall Artists: Joshua Band, Lonnie Graham and Noah Wilson |
February 7 - March 15, 2014
Just Look curated by Ruth Santee Artist: Eva Bovenzi December 6 - January 18, 2014 Connections curated by Cameron Brian and Ruth Santee Artist: Richard Downs October 4 - November 16, 2013 Indisputable Still Life curated by Cameron Brian Artists: David Kimball Anderson, Joshua Band, Ruth Santee, Richard Shaw and John Waters August 2 - September 14, 2013 Armed Medium : The Military Tank As Subject Artists: Joe Mariscal, Tony Tank, Amber Aguirre, Karl Edwards, Lynne Todaro and Tom Wegrzynowski April 5 - May 18, 2013 A TRAPPED IN YOUR MIND FEELING organized by Lucy Puls, essay by Heidi de Vries and in conjunction with Aggregate Space Gallery February 1 - March 16, 2013 Layers guest curator Robert Ray December 7 - January 19, 2013 Cautionary Tales Artists: Livia Stein and Elisabeth Higgins O'Connor Panel Discussion on Cautionary Tales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s4U8FvKtc4 October 5 - November 17, 2012 Unrestricted; Politics and Art August 3 - September 15, 2012 "Open" Inaugural exhibition; Grand Opening of Gallery |
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TRANSMISSION GALLERY
OAKLAND 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA 94612 Open Thurs-Sat, 12 to 5 pm till 8 pm on the first Friday of the month and by appointment Accessibility: This a 2nd floor art gallery, accessible by stairs. |
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