Eight bridges connect the San Francisco Bay, so it is an apt name for a gallery platform that brings the Bay Area art world together.
Our mission is to maintain a vibrant gallery scene, despite restrictions on travel, celebrations and other larger gatherings. We want to support our artists by informing and entertaining curators, collectors and critics with potent online exhibitions of their work.
On the first Thursday of every month, we will launch 8 shows of artists relevant to the Bay Area. They may be working in this place, long considered an epicenter of change, or deeply engaged in the conversations the Bay Area holds dear, whether it’s related to technology, the environment, social justice or sexual identity, to name a few. In addition, each month will highlight the crucial work of a Bay Area non-profit arts organization.
Claudia Altman-Siegel, Kelly Huang, Sophia Kinell, Micki Meng, Daphne Palmer, Ratio 3, Sarah Wendell Sherrill, Jessica Silverman, and Elizabeth Sullivan
Sayre Batton & Maja Thomas, Joachim & Nancy Bechtle, Matt Bernstein, Sabrina Buell, Wayee Chu & Ethan Beard, Natasha Boas, Douglas Durkin, Carla Emil, Matt & Jessica Farron, Lauren Ford, Ali Gass, Stanlee Gatti, Brook Hartzell & Tad Freese, Pamela & David Hornik, Katie & Matt Paige, Putter Pence, Becca Prowda & Daniel Lurie, Deborah Rappaport, Komal Shah & Gaurav Garg, Laura Sweeney, The Battery, Robin Wright, Sonya Yu & Zack Lara
Lobus, The Space Program
Pamela Walsh Gallery is pleased to present Emotional Abstractions, featuring paintings by Patricia Rubio and Marna Shopoff. Both artists explore abstractions in their work, but through a distinctly different lens. The dialogue between these visual languages helps us define the myriad ways in which one can express life through abstraction. Emotional Abstractions will be on exhibit in the gallery through April 3rd.
Inspired by the vibrancy of her birth city Madrid and the bright colors of San Francisco, Patricia Rubio’s work focuses on geometrical structures. She is interested in the relationship between shapes and colors as they relate to emotions. She creates geometrical constructions as a way to organize her thoughts and memories into compositions that are articulations of her feelings. Each painting is a meditation on how shapes fit together and the potential for each one to form a new mass. Her work is bright, playful and joyous, much like Patricia herself. She begins each work with an emotion or thought which she associates with a color or shape. Rubio’s work becomes a form of visual storytelling as she explores her memories.
Marna Shopoff, an Indianapolis-based painter, blends both contemporary and traditional methods in creating her superbly executed abstract paintings. Fascinated by Phenomenology, the philosophical study of the structures of experience, her canvases fracture space into a complex mosaic of geometric shapes and pulsing color inspired by personal experiences and memories. Marna’s paintings are elegantly structured. Creating depth, balance and motion in the three-dimensional space of her architectural compositions. Unlike many abstract paintings seen today, hers have a focal point that draws the viewer in, allowing you to visually enjoy the whirl of shape and color throughout the transparent, overlapping layers.
Patricia Rubio
New Beginnings, 2020
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
50 x 50 inches
127 x 127 cm
$8,000
Patricia Rubio
New Beginnings, 2020
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
50 x 50 inches
127 x 127 cm
$8,000
Patricia Rubio
California, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 42 inches
101.6 x 106.68 cm
$6,500
Patricia Rubio
California, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 42 inches
101.6 x 106.68 cm
$6,500
Patricia Rubio
Three Elements, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
34 x 32 inches
86.36 x 81.28 cm
$3,800
Patricia Rubio
Three Elements, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
34 x 32 inches
86.36 x 81.28 cm
$3,800
Patricia Rubio
Split Composition, 2021
Acrylic and oil crayon on canvas
31 x 36 inches
78.74 x 91.44 cm
$3,800
Patricia Rubio
Split Composition, 2021
Acrylic and oil crayon on canvas
31 x 36 inches
78.74 x 91.44 cm
$3,800
Marna Shopoff
141
Oil and ink on canvas
126 x 144 inches
320.04 x 365.76 cm
$28,000
Marna Shopoff
Layers and Planes
Oil and ink on canvas
64 x 64 inches
162.56 x 162.56 cm
$15,000
Marna Shopoff
Layers and Planes
Oil and ink on canvas
64 x 64 inches
162.56 x 162.56 cm
$15,000
Marna Shopoff
Cadmium and Blue
Oil and ink on canvas
60 x 71 inches
152.4 x 180.34 cm
$15,000
Marna Shopoff
Cadmium and Blue
Oil and ink on canvas
60 x 71 inches
152.4 x 180.34 cm
$15,000
Marna Shopoff
Layered Shade
Oil on linen
22 x 22 inches
55.88 x 55.88 cm
$4.500