Sonia Gill: Memento Vivere/Remember to Live
2026-04-23 12:00 - 2026-06-06 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Transmission Gallery, 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Sonia Gill: Memento Vivere/Remember to Live
April 23 – June 6
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​Artists’ Reception
concurrent with reception for Jeff Dikio: This Must Be the Place
Saturday, May 2nd from 1-4 pm
​Artist’s Talk
Saturday, May 16h at 2 pm
Closing Reception
Saturday, June 6th from 1-4 pm
In Memento Vivere: Remember to Live, Sonia Gill’s work invites us into a world where painting is reimagined through paper—where the brushstroke is replaced by the torn edge of a magazine fragment, and color is discovered rather than mixed.
Beginning with a photographic reference drawn from her everyday life, Gill builds her compositions piece by piece through a slow and contemplative process. Drawing from a vast archive of printed matter: pages of magazines, discarded scraps, and remnants of images once whole, she assembles hundreds of paper fragments translating the image into a new state of presence. Within this self-imposed constraint, she embarks on a rigorous and intuitive search for the exact hue, value, or texture needed to bring a scene to life.
​At its core, this body of work is an homage to the quiet, enduring moments that define human life: reading together, tending to small rituals, routine tasks and moments of reflection. In an era often marked by business and noise, Gill’s practice offers a counterpoint—a deliberate slowing down, a careful reconstruction of meaning through attention and care reminding us that life’s significance resides not in spectacle, but in the accumulation of small, luminous moments. This work is a reminder – remember to live.
Trained as a painter and influenced by mentor’s Jay DeFeo and Ron Dahl, Gill graduated with a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts, in addition to degrees from Michigan State University in French. With a robust exhibition history, she has shown extensively in the Bay Area with solo exhibitions dating over the past twenty years and inclusion in a long list of juried shows. Her work has been published in Studio Visit Magazine and 48 Hills, among other publications, and recognition in painting and watercolor with awards from the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Northern National Art Competition, Richmond Art Center and Fort Bragg Art Center.

Jeff Dikio: This Must Be the Place
2026-04-30 12:00 - 2026-06-13 17:00 | Transmission Gallery, 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Jeff Dikio: This Must Be the Place
April 30 – June 13, 2026
Opening Reception, Saturday, May 2nd, 1-4 pm.
In This Must Be the Place, Jeff Dikio reflects on the quiet spaces where memory, environment, and emotion intersect. Borrowing its title from the Talking Heads song, the exhibition considers “place” not as a fixed location, but as a feeling—something recognized in passing, in fragments, in moments of stillness.
Using paint chips in his collages, Dikio reconstructs familiar “every day” scenes into compositions that feel both grounded and unsettled. What emerges is a visual language of belonging, where home is less about geography and more about resonance.”
Dikio is a Bay Area artist born in 1975 on Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. Raised within a transient military culture, he found early grounding in drawing and observation, developing a lifelong sensitivity to place, movement, and change.
In his recent collages, Dikio tries to capture the colorful and quirky architecture and scenes found in his immediate surroundings that are distinctive of the surrounding Bay Area.
He received his BA in Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1997, and has since worked across figurative, landscape, and mixed-media practices.

Multi-Artist Exhibition -- May-June, 2026
2026-05-05 10:00 - 2026-06-28 18:00 | Art@Archer, 431 13th Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
FIVE BAY AREA ARTISTS FIVE UNIQUE STYLES
Dalit Fresco
Leon Kennedy
Christie Langley
Murray Nelson
Suying Zhang
