Bay Area art exhibitions and gallery openings

Marrow Gallery is pleased to present Myth Makers, a group exhibition of new work by Erin Morrison, Emily Counts, and Edward Holland. Featuring works in various media, including on paper, ceramic sculpture, and painting, the exhibition brings together three artists who build stories and ideologies from materials, memories, and symbols associated with mysticism, devotionals, the cosmos and the passage of time.

Ryan Graff Contemporary presents Somnia, the debut solo exhibition from Larisa Brechun. In Somnia, artist Larisa Brechun lays bare the quiet privacy of the dreaming mind and the fugitive debris of memory, myth, and imagination as it freely floats in the liminal cocoon of sleep, coalescing into mysterious forms that defy daylight logic. Under her gentle hand, soft animal bodies take shape alongside evaporating cosmic beings and primordial symbols of wilderness, all adrift in the penumbra of the dreaming state, suspended in etheric margins between the deep woodland dark and the flirting light of a winking moon.

No Lifeguard on Duty specifically focuses on the ocean, an iconic environment by turns wildly beautiful, serenely nurturing and dangerously volatile. It’s tidal rhythm of ebb and flow is a symbol of transition and adaptation, serving as an apt metaphor for the fluctuations of life.

Schmierer creates intuitively assembled ceramic sculptures dense with pattern, imagery, and detail. Rather than editing down to minimalism, she embraces the intricacy of our visual culture. The themes that weave through this exhibition are the interconnections we share with each other and with our complex environment, the accumulation of moments that shape and connect us, and the complexity and fragility of life.

We’re thrilled to invite you to discover Glimmer, our sixth collaboration exhibition with Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, bringing together more than 100 extraordinary artists from around the world for an exhibition celebrating the small moments that make life feel extraordinary.

Morgann Trumbull Projects is proud to announce our newest exhibition, Return, Return, featuring works by Rebekah Goldstein, Margaux Ogden, and Priyanka Rana. In Return, Return, memory is understood not as a fixed archive of the past, but as a living process shaped by repetition, transformation, and shifting perspectives. Through distinct material languages, these aretists consider how forms are shaped by time, carrying traces of the past into new and evolving contexts.

Join us as we celebrate a remarkable milestone—105 years of nurturing and showcasing artistic talent at the Pacific Art League!

How does a community stay rooted in a region that’s constantly changing? California Current invites you to consider this question and others through its more than 60 works — many on view for the first time — that explore the interplay between Bay Area history, art, and artists over the past century.

500 Capp Street Foundation presents Another Lamp Show, a fundraiser in support of the historic David Ireland House in San Francisco’s Mission District. Co-organized with artist and union electrician Rico Duenas, the fundraiser invites more than 100 artists, including Chelsea Ryoko Wong, StudioAhead, Sahar Khoury, Mike Arcega, Roman de Salvo, Dana Hemenway, and David Horvitz, to reinterpret the lamp as Ireland himself once did: as a vehicle for sculptural invention. Through salvaged materials, experimentation, and playful humor, these artists have made one-of-a-kind functioning lamps that will be for sale in person at 500 Capp Street and online during the fundraiser.

Gallery Wendi Norris is proud to present Fine Tuner, the first solo exhibition of Karla Knight on the West Coast. The exhibition brings together Knight's newest "tapestries"—large works on reclaimed cotton sacks—alongside recent paintings, collages, and works on paper, as well as pages from her Spaceship Notebooks. Nearly all of the works are being shown publicly for the first time.

Nina Zurier studied painting and photography at San Francisco Art Institute, earning a BFA degree. She has exhibited primarily in Iceland over the past decade.

Harman Projects is pleased to announce Chuck Sperry: Archetypes, a solo exhibition by San Francisco-based artist Chuck Sperry.

For almost a decade, RM, of pop royalty BTS, has been collecting the art that moves him. Now, nearly 150 works from his personal collection come together with works from SFMOMA’s collection, revealing unexpected connections across artists, ideas, and cultures — and offering one of the most expansive presentations of Korean modern art in the US.

A career survey from the Bay Area artist that follows her exploration of the numinous and intangible and takes inspiration from a multitude of spiritual and artistic traditions. Educated in the Bay Area, shaped by the 1970’s feminist art movement, Zen Buddhism, and the meditative tradition of 1970’s Bay Area art-making, Bovenzi ‘s work explores our collective sense of the numinous in art that express a deep understanding of nature and the unknown through abstraction.

Bay & Borough is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists whose paintings explore the urban landscape through the distinctive character of San Francisco and New York. Bringing together gallery artists and invited guest artists from the Bay Area and the East Coast, the exhibition presents a range of perspectives on the urban landscape.

Studio Shop Gallery presents Passing Moments, an exhibition of new figurative works by London-based artist Melinda Matyas and California artist Carole Rafferty. Drawing inspiration from the rhythms of everyday life, Matyas and Rafferty capture people in moments both intimate and familiar—resting, reading, gathering, wandering, caring for one another, or lost in thought.

Blunk Space is pleased to announce the third installment of Commune Shows, featuring salvaged wood furniture by LA-based furniture maker Noah Cohen and woven blankets and textile paintings by San Francisco-based weaver Marina Contro. A collaboration between Commune Design and Blunk Space, the exhibition honors the domestic scale and interdisciplinary nature of JB Blunk's work and life.

EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery is pleased to present The Long Way, an artist book and photographs by Susan McLaughlin and Paul d'Orléans. Paul d'Orléans and Susan McLaughlin published their first book of wet-plate photography, The Long Way, with Mexico City art-book publisher La Cooperativa Joplin. The book gathers seventy-five photographs made between 2012 and 2016 while the artists traveled across the United States with their mobile darkroom.