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.
Founding Committee
Claudia Altman-Siegel, Kelly Huang, Sophia Kinell, Micki Meng, Daphne Palmer, Ratio 3, Sarah Wendell Sherrill, Jessica Silverman, and Elizabeth Sullivan
Ambassador Committee
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
Sponsors
Lobus, The Space Program
Hesse Flatow is pleased to present a series of work by Tammy Nguyen. The series entitled O, is an address, an utterance emerging from the body, passing the threshold of the throat and mouth then thrust out into the open. It’s a circle, the return of what has been presented as finished, done or stuck in the past, back into the present and the material world – it records the previously unrecorded or inserts it back into the archive. The work participates in the update of the collective archive – a living organism made of intimate stories and macro-narratives that power dynamics usually shape. It examines the past, official and unofficial histories, myths, and personal stories which accumulate and seep into the present through the physicality of the exhibited work. Nguyen’s series of paintings on paper, stretched over wood panels, allude to Plato’s Divided Line and the threshold between the visible and the intelligible, and reflect on the sound of the letter “O” in the aftermath of war and trauma. Nguyen uses the circle and fragments of circles in the composition, often through the representation of natural environments including swarms of bats and butterflies.
the exit hole showed its bright light, as if to say “come here.”, 2021
Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood panels
36 x 36 inches
$7,000
the exit hole showed its bright light, as if to say “come here.”, 2021
Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood panels
36 x 36 inches
$7,000
Realm of nous, 2021
Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, and metal leaf on paper
stretched over wood panels
36 x 54 inches
$9,000
Realm of nous, 2021
Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, and metal leaf on paper
stretched over wood panels
36 x 54 inches
$9,000
even more succumbed to environmental hazards, 2021
Watercolor, vinyl paint, and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood panels
30 x 24 inches
$6,500
even more succumbed to environmental hazards, 2021
Watercolor, vinyl paint, and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood panels
30 x 24 inches
$6,500
The organisms around us had been dead for millions of years, 2020
Watercolor, vinyl paint, and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood panels
16 x 20 inches
$3,500
The organisms around us had been dead for millions of years, 2020
Watercolor, vinyl paint, and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood panels
16 x 20 inches
$3,500