Upcoming Exhibitions
Live the moment light: Solée Darrell, Terri Friedman, Corita Kent, Angelica Trimble-Yanu
September 19-December 13, 2026
Left to right: Soleé Darrell, Men carried to their destiny by stars, 2024, Dye on silk velvet, 68 x 50 in., Courtesy of pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, CA, Terri Friedman, Sometimes OK is good enough, 2022, wool, cotton, acrylic, hemp, metallic, chenille fibers, 84 x 70 in., Courtesy of the artist, Angelica Trimble-Yanu, Iyeska & Returning, Badlands III, 2024, archival digital print on canvas, 18 x 12 in., Courtesy of the artist
Live the moment light brings together the work of Soleé Darrell, Terri Friedman, Corita Kent, and Angelica Trimble-Yanu, exploring the enduring influence of Corita Kent across generations of contemporary artists. While each artist has a distinct visual language, all four share a belief in art's ability to transform lived experience into something generous, hopeful, and deeply human. Spanning more than six decades, the exhibition reveals unexpected conversations between works that invite viewers to slow down, look closely, and discover meaning through color, material, and process. At its heart, Live the moment light is an invitation to embrace change, remain present, and find beauty in moments of transition. Guest curated by Christine Koppes.
Big Feelings
January 23-April 11, 2027
Nathan Oliveira, Profile, 2010, oil on canvas, 66 x 50 in., Courtesy of Oliveira Art LLC
Nathan Oliveira, one of the central figures of the Bay Area Figurative movement and an integral member of the Palo Alto artistic community, is best known for his singular abstracted and attenuated figures placed in ambiguous void-like spaces, isolated and solitary. Big Feelings explores the intentionality and impact of Oliveira’s use and treatment of figuration as an expression of his state of mind and mental health. In dark periods of his life, Oliveira embraced the expressionistic power of darkness, his figures emerging from shadow, while in times of joy, he utilized warm, rich color palettes and exultant poses that lift and embrace his subjects.
Placing works by Bay Area contemporaries and successors from the 1960s through today in dialogue with Oliveira’s deep bodies of work across media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, Big Feelings seeks to excavate Bay Area art’ expressionistic history, looking at artists’ emotional and psychological well-being as a driving motivator behind their artmaking. Through a close examination of Oliveira’s work from the 1960s through 2010, including his extensive work in lithography, monotype, and etching, variously paired and in conversation with works by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Koak, and Gregory Rick, the exhibition provides avenues of exploration into amplified emotion. While addressing complex feelings of solitude, aloneness, unhappiness, and existential contemplation, the exhibition also delves into moments of elation, joy, and the ecstatic, looking carefully at the artists’ formal and expressionistic decisions as sources of communication. This exhibition is guest curated by Morgann Trumbull.