Solo exhibition coming up in the Small Space at Transmission Gallery

Sonia Gill, Lighting the Night, 2026, paper, 20 x 20 inches

Sonia Gill

Memento Vivere
​Remember to Live

April 23 - June 6
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​Artists' Reception
concurrent with reception for Jeff Dikio: This Must Be the Place
Saturday, May 2nd from 1-4 pm
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More about Sonia Gill
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Raised as a middle child in the middle of the country in the middle of the 20th Century, artist Sonia Gill started creating at an early age. There is an abundance of family stories of her creating animals from Kleenex tissues while waiting in the car as mom did shopping (people left their kids in cars at that time). However, by ten she became discouraged from making art both by her family and by her teachers. Her creative stream went underground and didn't surface again until age 30 when she enrolled at CCA in Oakland and majored in painting.
 
Between 10 and 30, Gill tried her best to be a Normal All-American Girl, gearing up for a life of supporting the dreams and endeavors of a mate and offspring. Married at 21, she earned a bachelor’s and two master’s degrees and worked at many different jobs including teaching French at many different institutions. The children never came, the marriage dissolved, and she headed West from the East coast.
 
Landing in San Francisco and connecting to her present husband and constant muse, she brought that creative stream to the surface again entering CCA and earning a BFA in Painting. Her renewed art journey started with a chance connection to the Nabis Vuillard and Bonnard, which was enhanced in Art School by exposure to the Bay Area Figurative movement as exemplified by Park, Weeks, Diebenkorn, and Bischoff. After over 40 years of juried and solo shows, winning awards and drawing followers, these influences are still strong in the work presented here.
 
The artist lives in Northern California maintaining studios and homes in both Berkeley and Yorkville.