Opening Reception: Frank Cole: The House Inside

Please join us for the Opening Reception, Saturday, March 14th. Stop by anytime between 1 and 4 pm to greet tartist Frank Cole and enjoy the light refreshments and conversations as you check out the artwork.

Also on hand will be Kristie Hansen, whose work is showing in concurrent solo exhibition, “Alternation.”

Look for the “ART” building on West Grand Ave. in Oakland, between Brush and West. While you’re in the area, check out GearBox Gallery just downstairs. With two galleries in the building this is a great place to see art.

Transmission Gallery is pleased to present The House Inside, recent paintings by East Bay painter, Frank D. Cole.

Working from his West Oakland studio, Frank Cole’s large-scale works emerge from reflections on his childhood home in Mississippi, with landscape, weather, and architecture forming an enduring visual vocabulary. In this work, Mississippi becomes less a fixed geography than a felt condition, a stand-in for memory and connection, suspended between clarity and dream.

Framed by porches, window casings, and thresholds, Cole’s paintings position the viewer in an interior space, looking outward. Beams, panes, and floorboards divide and measure the picture plane acting as armatures for recollection, holding in place fleeting impressions of light on water, wind through tall grass, or rain dissolving a stand of trees. The result is both architectural and narrative, emerging as contemplations on place and time, imbued with reverie and longing.

Accompanying the large canvases are small preparatory studies that reveal the evolution of each composition. In these works, Cole tests structure, color temperature, and shifting atmospheres. The studies function as distilled meditations—intimate rehearsals for the expansive paintings—where gesture and light are first discovered before being scaled to immersive proportions.