Bay Area art exhibitions and gallery openings

pt.2 Gallery is pleased to present As Cloud As Possible, Jean Nagai’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Within the paintings, repeated marks, saturated color, and broad washes accumulate into dense, layered fields. Nagai’s work is rooted in questions of scale and interconnectedness, layering as a metaphor for time, multidimensional, multiple places as one, moving between the intimate and the vast to consider our place within a larger whole.

pt.2 Gallery is pleased to present Myriad, a new body of paintings by Oakland-based artist Shannon Rogers. Building on his ongoing investigation of geometric abstraction, Rogers turns more directly toward landscape, creating expansive, intricately constructed paintings that move between recognizable space and abstraction. Rather than resolving into a single image, the paintings remain open to multiple readings, allowing different spaces and realities to coexist.

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.

The Postcard Exhibition celebrates the beauty of small-scale artwork, proving that powerful ideas can thrive within just a few inches of space. Artists were invited to create works no larger than a standard postcard, challenging them to distill their vision, technique, and storytelling into an intimate, collectible format.

Water: The Gift of Life is a celebration of water by Palo Alto nature photographer Judy Kramer. Without water, there would be no life on Earth. Traveling along the West Coast of California and also in Idaho, Hawaii, and Greenland, Judy explores the beauty and power of water in its three forms: liquid, frozen, and vaporous.

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.

A family office fund manager by profession, Grace has spent years developing a painting practice she describes as a counterweight to the intensity of the markets — the same instinct for reading cycles, patterns, and rhythm shows up on canvas as it does on-screen.

Día de Muertos is a holiday that is celebrated in Mexico, many Central and South American countries, and within the United States. A joyous remembrance of the lives of family members and loved ones who have died, the holiday is a celebration of the cycle of life with ancient roots. The Museum of Sonoma County is honored to present its 30th Annual Día de Muertos exhibition. To recognize the 30-year milestone, the exhibition will highlight the creations of many past participants and honor the founders of the local Día de Muertos exhibitions and celebrations.

Curated by Bridgètt Rex and Rio Yañez, this year’s theme honors the mothers, mother figures, caregivers, and ancestors who have shaped our lives and communities. In Their Name brings together contemporary installations and traditional altars that explore mothering, care, memory, and resistance. The opening reception and exhibition unveiling features an evening of music, curatorial remarks, and a Día de Los Muertos inspired vendor market with one of a kind artworks and designs.

Hand-drafted architectural plans altered with mixed-media layering. Campen writes: "I’ve long been conflicted my role in a building process that generates enormous waste and does not often have a collaborative relationship with the natural environment—houses demolished before their time, materials cut and discarded because of the standard lengths and shapes they're milled in, trees/forests cleared for material and also land to build on, etc."

A collection of abstract multimedia constructions. Hurwitz writes “I believe all creative expression is autobiographical and is therefore a personal discovery process, a revealed link between the intellectual and the intuitive. I try to keep it simple and most of all fun.

Fine art wood sculptures. Mitchell writes: "Making art is something I absolutely have to do because it fills my life with a delight. What makes that experience so fulfilling for me is exploring the connection between my feelings for the material and the sense of discovery that happens in the making of an object.

Alongside Morgan Booth's solo exhibition, Black Veil Society brings together a haunting collection of contemporary works exploring the darker, more mysterious side of the feminine.

Benerate is Toronto-based Morgan Booth's latest collection of striking blue figures and reimagined sacred imagery.​ Drawing from religious and medieval symbolism and infusing it with contemporary punk aesthetics, Venerate explores self-veneration, inner authority, and the power of defining your own truth. "The characters in this solo collection are inspired by honouring the divine within, and having a deep trust and honour for instinct, intuition and autonomy...with a healthy dose of don't f*ck with me energy."

The Sausalito Center for the Arts is proud to present SCA Open 2026, our annual juried exhibition celebrating the extraordinary depth, range, and vitality of artists from across the Bay Area and beyond. This exhibition fills the galleries with work that speaks to the moment we are living in, while also reminding us of art’s enduring ability to move, challenge, connect, and inspire. Join us for SCA Open 2026 and experience the remarkable artists helping shape the creative future of our region.

yine bir kere (once again) is an ongoing series of blind debossings made by a drawing plotter that continues to work during the exhibition. The machine repeatedly presses images of closed eyes into paper, producing faded images of rest through a continuous process of labor. When each drawing is finished, it is placed in a drawer, where the works gradually accumulate over the course of the exhibition.

Axis Gallery is proud to announce Birds & Bikes, a collaborative art exhibition bringing together regional artists to explore the poetic intersections of avian flight and human motion. The exhibition features a direct partnership with the City of Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture (OAC) Art in Public Places program and North Natomas Jibe. Birds & Bikes serves as an artistic tie-in to the upcoming Birds and Benches project, which will install artist-designed public benches across North Natomas Regional Park.

The Featured Artists Exhibition highlights a select group of contemporary artists through an expanded presentation of their work. With multiple pieces by each artist, the exhibition moves beyond a single introduction, offering a richer view of their ideas, visual language, and evolving body of work.

Beto De Volder begins with geometry, but as Paul Klee observed, where a line leads can often be surprising. De Volder's ink drawings circle, curve, repeat, and turn back on themselves — highly structured from a distance, but revealing irregularity, improvisation, and play when you're up close. The dozen works in Errant Geometries embrace both movement and mistake: to be errant is to wander, but also to err. De Volder's forms follow rules without being governed by them, allowing each deviation to open another possibility and each work to become not a conclusion, but a new path through a recurring set of forms.