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
Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present Figural Effects, 8 works by 8 Artists. Long engaged with figurative traditions, the Gallery looks at representation and portraiture through the lens of authorship, authenticity, and history. Each of these artists approaches storytelling in their own way, and on their own terms. T.J. Dedeaux-Norris uses various personas, performances and materials in a multi-iterative process. Dawoud Bey and Hung Liu have had decades long careers with their chosen mediums and a commitment to representing the present through communion with the past. Oliver Lee Jackson and Sydney Cain use spirituality, ancestry, and other worldly realms, while Calm turns the focus on himself and tracing the path of the Green Book. Vik Muniz recreates then photographs iconic images using (in this case) postcards, looking at collective memory, perception, and ephemera. Lewis Watts has found an interstitial concentration between street photography and formal portraiture – celebrating the moment with the subjects of his photographs.
All of these works are the artists’ singular representations of a deep investigation into racial, spiritual, and societal systems; the sheer creative force is the telling of the story.
Vik Muniz
Postcards from Nowhere: Mount Rushmore, 2015
Digital C-print
71 x 109 3/4 inches
180.3 x 278.8 cm
(also available in smaller size)
Edition 3/6
$45,000
Vik Muniz
Postcards from Nowhere: Mount Rushmore, 2015
Digital C-print
71 x 109 3/4 inches
180.3 x 278.8 cm
(also available in smaller size)
Edition 3/6
$45,000
T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
Untitled, Self-Portrait, Tameka Jenean Norris, Yale School of Yale, 2012, 2020
Backlit film print in LED frame, fabric, wood
Dimensions variable
[Courtesy the Estate of Tameka Jenean Norris]
$11,890
T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
Untitled, Self-Portrait, Tameka Jenean Norris, Yale School of Yale, 2012, 2020
Backlit film print in LED frame, fabric, wood
Dimensions variable
[Courtesy the Estate of Tameka Jenean Norris]
$11,890
Jonathan Calm
Green Book (Crater Lake Lodge 1), 2020
Archival pigment print
20 x 24 inches
50.8 x 61 cm
Edition 2/6
$4,000
Jonathan Calm
Green Book (Crater Lake Lodge 1), 2020
Archival pigment print
20 x 24 inches
50.8 x 61 cm
Edition 2/6
$4,000
Sydney Cain
Blue Bottles #1, 2020
Mixed media on paper
17 x 11 inches
43.18 x 28 cm
$1,800
Sydney Cain
Blue Bottles #1, 2020
Mixed media on paper
17 x 11 inches
43.18 x 28 cm
$1,800
Hung Liu
Hand to Mouth 2, 2020
Oil and UV acrylic on aluminum, wood and canvas
80 x 80 x 2 inches
203.2 x 203.2 x 5.1 cm
$60,000
Hung Liu
Hand to Mouth 2, 2020
Oil and UV acrylic on aluminum, wood and canvas
80 x 80 x 2 inches
203.2 x 203.2 x 5.1 cm
$60,000
Lewis Watts
Angela Davis on 14th Street, Oakland, 2020
Archival pigment print
36 x 24 inches
91.5 x 61 cm
Edition of 10
$3,400
Lewis Watts
Angela Davis on 14th Street, Oakland, 2020
Archival pigment print
36 x 24 inches
91.5 x 61 cm
Edition of 10
$3,400
Oliver Lee Jackson
Painting (4.24.11), 2011
Watercolor, acrylic paint, silver and gold spray enamel on gessoed canvas
96 x 96 inches
243.84 x 243.84 cm
$95,000
Oliver Lee Jackson
Painting (4.24.11), 2011
Watercolor, acrylic paint, silver and gold spray enamel on gessoed canvas
96 x 96 inches
243.84 x 243.84 cm
$95,000
Dawoud Bey
The Birmingham Project: Don Sledge and Moses Austin, 2012
Archival pigment prints mounted to dibond
40 x 64 inches
101.6 x 162.6 cm
Edition 5/6
$45,000
Dawoud Bey
The Birmingham Project: Don Sledge and Moses Austin, 2012
Archival pigment prints mounted to dibond
40 x 64 inches
101.6 x 162.6 cm
Edition 5/6
$45,000