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Transmission Gallery A contemporary art gallery featuring primarily figurative and socially engaged art

Transmission Gallery promotes primarily regional and national figurative artists with an emphasis on Expressionism, California Funk and Socially Engaged Art.

We're proud to be part of Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week! Stop by Transmission Gallery to see Fear Not, recent work b...
10/03/2026

We're proud to be part of Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week!

Stop by Transmission Gallery to see Fear Not, recent work by William Rhodes with the gallery open 12 - 5 pm Saturday, Oct 3rd, and with William's Artist's Talk starting at 2 pm. Special guests, the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center Choir, will also be performing.

If you can't make it to the Artist's Talk, come on in later in the afternoon to see the work.

While you're in the building extend your celebration of Black art and artists by checking out Caleb Dowdell's piece Our Prism of Dreams installed at Gearbox Gallery, just downstairs from Transmission with Caleb's 15 minute musical performance starting at 1:30 pm.

William Rhodes' work seen here:

Fear Not, carved wood, found objects, neon, 48 x 22 x18

Chosen, carved wood, found objects, gold leaf, neon, 37 x 16 x 23.5

Boxers, carved wood, found objects, gold leaf and photo image on archival board, 36 x 16.75 x 4

More about William Rhodes on our website.

See William's work through October 31st. Concurrent solo show, Ellen Bepp: The Ghosts We Carry, also in the gallery.








We are excited to welcome you to a special event during Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week! Please join us at Transmissio...
10/01/2026

We are excited to welcome you to a special event during Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week!

Please join us at Transmission Gallery in Oakland for William Rhodes' Artist's Talk with guest Gospel Choir Performance, Saturday, October 3rd, starting at 2 pm!

William will be joined by the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center Choir, lead by conductor Kenneth Little after he discusses his work on view in Fear Not, his solo exhibition at Transmission Gallery.

Stay after the talk to meet William, enjoy the light refreshments and check out the gallery. Free and open to the public with free street parking nearby along West Grand Ave. and in the neighborhood south of West Grand.

To extend your afternoon right here in the ART building at 700 West Grand Ave. arrive early to catch Caleb Dowdell's musical performance ( about 15 minutes) at GearBox Gallery, just downstairs from Transmission, starting at 1:30 pm.

For more on this year's festival celebrating Black art across the Bay Area check out the Nexus SF Bay site online and instagram, .

Can't make it to the Artist's Talk? Stop in to see William's work during this NEXUS week and through October 31st, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 12 - 5pm.






Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Ellen Bepp's Resistance Series works in The Ghosts We Carry, on view through...
09/25/2026

Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Ellen Bepp's Resistance Series works in The Ghosts We Carry, on view through November 7th in our North gallery.

Opening Reception: Sat, Sept 26th, 1-4 pm

Artist's Talk: Sat, Oct 31st, starting at 2 pm

The Ghosts We Carry is one of two concurrent solo shows at Transmission Gallery. Also on view, recent work by William Rhodes in Fear Not.

Please join us for the Opening Reception! All are welcome to stop by Saturday, Sept 26th, 1-4 pm to greet the artists and enjoy the light refreshments on our lovely outdoor deck with more art to see in our gallery showroom.

Addressing ideas of identity, cultural preservation and social justice, Ellen Bepp’s mixed media work in The Ghosts We Carry reflects on the experience and legacy of a difficult period in our American history, WWII incarceration camps and their aftermath.

Can't make the events? See the work Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 12 - 5 pm through Nov 7th.

Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Fear Not, recent work by William Rhodes: Please join us for the Artist's Rece...
09/23/2026

Transmission Gallery is pleased to present Fear Not, recent work by William Rhodes:

Please join us for the Artist's Reception!
Saturday, September 26th, 1-4 pm

and mark your calendar for the Artist's Talk with special performance by the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center Choir!
Saturday, October 3rd, starting at 2 pm

William Rhodes: Fear Not is one of two concurrent solo exhibitions at the gallery plus more to see in our gallery showroom with gallery hours Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 12-5 pm.

There's still time to see Daniel McClain's cryptic and meditative work in Lost and Found at Transmission Gallery. Come i...
09/05/2026

There's still time to see Daniel McClain's cryptic and meditative work in Lost and Found at Transmission Gallery.

Come in to see in person the full experience of the exquisite detail in the acrylic and graphite paintings and framed drawings on view through Sept 12th with the gallery open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 1-5 pm.

What looks like collage, is replicated by hand, down to the tape and graph paper in paintings balancing along the edges of hyper-realism and the abstract interplay of their evocative components.

Also at Transmission, concurrent solo show, Hands of the Maker, drawings by Aldo Farnsworth, and in our video exhibition space Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks SFBay, a 6 minute video walk about the Bay.

Be sure to step into the Office to see more art including one more piece by Dan McClain with Little Dorothy and Toto.

Clicking through here:
McClain's piece, Gift, 40 x 60, acrylic and graphite pencil on canvas ( this is the one referencing Frank Stella, Black Paintings)

Nardis, 40 x 33, acrylic and graphite pencil on canvas (this one with the beautiful re-creation of an Alice through the Looking Glass illustration and the Carl Andres In His Time book cover - note, minimalist sculptor Carl Andres was recognized for arranging unjoined mass produced materials in ordered and grid format sculpture)

Followed by Winter, 13 x 25, acrylic and graphite pencil on canvas ( note the gridded drawing of a snowman and replication of a well worn copy of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. There is a relationship between snowmen and Snyder's challenge to authoritarianism. Plus, maybe it's time to (re)read this book).

Congrats to Transmission Gallery Owner/Director and artist, Ruth Santee!Santee's work is featured in Arthropods, a Giant...
09/04/2026

Congrats to Transmission Gallery Owner/Director and artist, Ruth Santee!

Santee's work is featured in Arthropods, a Giant Insect Mutlimedia Group Exhibition at Felix Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz!

Receptions Friday, Sept 4th, 5-8pm
and Friday, Oct 2nd, 5-8pm

Check out Arthropods at

Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm St.
Santa Cruz, CA

Thursdays - Sundays through October 30, 2026



Congrats to Peter d'Agostino whose work was recently placed at the Oakland Museum. In conjunction with his work at OMCA,...
09/04/2026

Congrats to Peter d'Agostino whose work was recently placed at the Oakland Museum.

In conjunction with his work at OMCA, Transmission Gallery is pleased to present his 6+ minute video piece, World-Wide-Walks / SFBay, in our video installation space through September 19th.

See his work Coming & Going: San Francisco (BART), Collecting a Moment, Gallery of California Art at the Oakland Museum of California, Aug 2026-2027

Come in to see Daniel McClain's work in Lost and Found if you can.One of two concurrent solo shows at Transmission, it'...
08/29/2026

Come in to see Daniel McClain's work in Lost and Found if you can.
One of two concurrent solo shows at Transmission, it's well worth seeing in person.

The exquisite technical process at play in McClain’s paintings is elusive at first. With their striking imagery, bold planes and graphic color, they initially suggest collages assembled from found images, fragments, and printed material. Only after spending time with them does it become clear that every element has been re-created by hand. What appears to be a collage is, in fact, a meticulous replication of one. A strip of masking tape turns out to be paint. A penciled note is drawn in graphite. A battered corner is painted. Printed text is hand-drawn graphite as well.

Yes, every piece and detail is acrylic or graphite pencil on canvas, or in the case of the book cover drawings, graphite pencil on found papers.

Here's just a glimpse:

- McClain with Wanderer, 2026, acrylic and graphite pencil on canvas, 30x30
- Garden, 2025, acrylic and graphite on canvas, 60x40
- de Kooning, 2026, graphite pencil on found paper, 7.75x11
- McClain with framed drawings Herzog and Duchamp
- Herzog (Dedicated to Marc Lesueur), 2026, graphite pencil on found paper, 10.5x8.5

See the work Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 12- 5pm, through Sept 12th.

Congrats to Aldo Farnsworth on his solo exhibition of drawings, Hands of the Maker: A Show of Hands. Gallery Hours: Thu...
08/28/2026

Congrats to Aldo Farnsworth on his solo exhibition of drawings, Hands of the Maker: A Show of Hands.

Gallery Hours: Thurs - Sat, 12-5 pm

The works focus on the hands of makers captured with close attention to intimate details: the nuance of gesture, the particular way they hold a pencil or object, often with glasses at hand, and drawn on paper handmade by Farnsworth.

While these drawings portray the particular hands of artists and makers well known in the Bay Area, with the full list on our website, they also stand in for something more universal and personal at the same time: a sense of our own hands making, touching holding, and engaging with the world.

Pictured here:
- Aldo Farnsworth with painter Squeak Carnwath with "Hands of SC"
- Detail, "Hands of SC"
- Aldo Farnsworth with "Hands of MH" and "Hands of MW"
- "Hands of MH"
- "Hands of PK"
- Gallery view, "Hands of AW" and "Hands of GD"
- detail, "Hands of KS"

With special thanks to Magnolia Editions!

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770 W Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA
94612

Opening Hours

Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Friday 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm

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+15108352626

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