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

Friends Indeed
Troy Chew, Sarah Hotchkiss, Colter Jacobsen, Stephanie H. Shih, Mungo Thomson, Zio Ziegler, and Sung Jik Yang
How to Read the World

How to Read the World is a presentation of commissions by Bay Area related artists exploring the potential of visual tableaux through allegory and narrative. The exhibition looks at ways in which artists see the world; specifically those who use new forms of language to interpret the current moment. The codex, in this case, acts as a container for escapism, imagination, knowledge, and passage of time.

ZIO ZIEGLER
Migration of the Soul, 2020
Oil, acrylic, and crayon on linen
96 x 72 inches

SOLD

ZIO ZIEGLER
Migration of the Soul, 2020
Oil, acrylic, and crayon on linen
96 x 72 inches

Zio Ziegler (b. 1988) makes transcendent painting and sculpture that expand contemporary archetypes. The artist lives and works in San Francisco.




From the Artist:



"This painting tackles a few themes: Our changing home (Immediately- California) due to dramatic climate pressures, emerging notions of an afterlife/ Migration of the soul, and a personal heroes journey- yet the goal is that these themes sit together symbiotically, woven into a meta narrative that addresses a world transformed on two ends by both climate and technology. By using self as metaphor, and painting as mandala of meaning, I can leverage my own experiences to frame a universal response to these new pressures. The painting’s composition is built like a linear narrative structure; The portrait is act one, or a call to action."
STEPHANIE H. SHIH
Pandemic Survival Kit, 2020
Ceramic
Capital: 8 x 5.75 x 1 inches; Softsoap: 6.25 x 4 x 1.5 inches; Purell: 4 x 2 x 1 inches; mask 1.75 x 6.25  x 4.75 inches
SOLD
STEPHANIE H. SHIH
Pandemic Survival Kit, 2020
Ceramic
Capital: 8 x 5.75 x 1 inches; Softsoap: 6.25 x 4 x 1.5 inches; Purell: 4 x 2 x 1 inches; mask 1.75 x 6.25  x 4.75 inches
Stephanie H. Shih (b. 1986) is a Taiwanese American artist and activist. Her work has been shown at Perrotin Editions (New York, NY), the American Museum of Ceramic Arts (Pomona, CA), and Wieden+Kennedy (Portland, OR), and featured by NPR, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and The Guardian. She lives in Brooklyn.
MUNGO THOMSON
Inclusion (The Raw Materials), 2015
Lucite embedment, unique
12.25 x 10.375 x 1.5 inches
$6,000
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MUNGO THOMSON
Inclusion (The Raw Materials), 2015
Lucite embedment, unique
12.25 x 10.375 x 1.5 inches
$6,000
Mungo Thomson is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work explores mass culture, cosmology, and reception with economy and wit. He has been described as a perceptual artist who works with language and context rather than light and space. His work addresses the voids that exist within culture—the gaps, pauses, digressions and mistakes that surround material production, institutional space, and everyday life. He has had solo exhibitions, projects and performances at The High Line, New York; SITE Santa Fe; The Times Museum, Guangzhou, China; The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; and GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy, among others.



"Inclusions" is a series of sculptures that are produced by suspending books, book pages and desktop perpetual motion machines in Lucite.
COLTER JACOBSEN
shrubs as high as walls or joy of the eyes or river, 2019
Graphite on manila folder
11 3/4 x 18 3/8 inches
29.8 x 46.7 cm
$7,000
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COLTER JACOBSEN
shrubs as high as walls or joy of the eyes or river, 2019
Graphite on manila folder
11 3/4 x 18 3/8 inches
29.8 x 46.7 cm
$7,000
From the Artist:



I found the folder with ghosts of past documents. I’ve done several drawings on file folders. But this file folder I had for a long time waiting for the right context. Eventually, I’d been wanting to make work about multiple contexts, such as a page from a book along with something outside the frame of the book. Wondering how one might effect the other. (also, one thing of note-- file is an anagram for life).

"The drawing of the woman is from a photograph I took of a woman I saw on the street in NYC. She had some things for sale on the street and I liked how she spent much time just looking at her iphone, and I wondered what she might be reading about.

The text is drawn from a page of the book, "And There Was Light" by Jacques Luseryan, about a blind man that took part in the French Resistance during WW II. One thing that really struck me about this book was how Jacques experienced the slow and gradual occupation of Nazi Germany. It wasn't just one day everything changed but rather a gradual deterioration of freedom and growing fascism. Very haunting and even familiar in these times."

The text on the left side of the page is also meticulously hand drawn.
SARAH HOTCHKISS
Frets and Meanders, 2020
Gouache on canvas over panel
24 x 24 inches
SOLD
SARAH HOTCHKISS
Frets and Meanders, 2020
Gouache on canvas over panel
24 x 24 inches
Sarah Hotchkiss (B.A. Brown University, M.F.A. California College of the Arts) is a San Francisco-based artist and the senior associate editor for KQED Arts & Culture.



From the Artist:

"The image comes from a book, but also from a pre-literate time, when labyrinths were a physical mode of prayer and meditation. I also love that they represent a literal passage—a distance your eyes or body must traverse, and the amount of time it takes to do that."

SUNG JIK YANG
Joanne, 2020
Oil on wood
17 x 19 inches

SOLD

SUNG JIK YANG
Joanne, 2020
Oil on wood
17 x 19 inches

Sung Jik Yang (b. 1989) is interested in creating a prolific visual diary of the time in which he is living through the lens of his subject.



From the Artist:



"Joanne was reading a book by Margaret Kilgallen. Nowadays she can’t go to museums or galleries, instead, she starts to collect lots of books."

MUNGO THOMSON
Inclusion (Newton’s Cradle #2), 2015
Lucite embedment, unique
7.625 x 4.875 x 6 inches
$10,000

 

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MUNGO THOMSON
Inclusion (Newton’s Cradle #2), 2015
Lucite embedment, unique
7.625 x 4.875 x 6 inches
$10,000

 

Mungo Thomson is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work explores mass culture, cosmology, and reception with economy and wit. He has been described as a perceptual artist who works with language and context rather than light and space. His work addresses the voids that exist within culture—the gaps, pauses, digressions and mistakes that surround material production, institutional space, and everyday life. He has had solo exhibitions, projects and performances at The High Line, New York; SITE Santa Fe; The Times Museum, Guangzhou, China; The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; and GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy, among others.



"Inclusions" is a series of sculptures that are produced by suspending books, book pages and desktop perpetual motion machines in Lucite.

TROY CHEW
Brrr!, 2020
Oil on wood
12 x 12 inches

SOLD

TROY CHEW
Brrr!, 2020
Oil on wood
12 x 12 inches

Troy Chew (b. 1992) paints still lifes that deal with the linguistics of urban vernacular while contrasting visual language to that used in Dutch and Flemish still lifes. "Brrr!" is part of his "Slanguage" series, a term referencing colloquial speech rooted in urban areas.
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