Upcoming Exhibitions
KRISTIANA CHAN, Bodies of Water, 2019, video installation, courtesy of the artist. Main Gallery
Hold Fast: Charlie Callahan, Kristiana Chan, Tanja Geis, and Aubrey Trinnaman
July 19 - September 21, 2025
Hold Fast is the first in a series of forthcoming exhibitions that engage with seven core terrestrial and spiritual elements defined across cultures globally: earth, wind, fire, water, consciousness, perception, and emptiness. The title borrows from a featured body of work by Tanja Geis highlighting root-like structures that enable marine organisms to survive tempestuous ocean currents by anchoring to a solid substrate, and offers a powerful metaphor for Earth—the ultimate holdfast for all life. The works presented in the exhibition explore the material and emotional power of water and its fundamental role as both a nurturing, generative force and as an agent of destruction, growth, and change. Working across mediums, participating artists Charlie Callahan, Kristiana Chan, Tanja Geis, and Aubrey ... Learn More
L: Shao-Feng Hsu, Night Swimming (August 17th, #4), 2023, unique silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 inches, courtesy of the artist. R: Shao-Feng Hsu, Night Swimming (August 17th, #2), 2023, unique silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 inches, courtesy of the artist. From Below features selections from two parallel bodies of work by Shao-Feng Hsu, who employs both analog and digital methods of photographic image production. Hsu’s practice is rooted in a deeply embodied practice in the water and an intimate observation of ecotones, the spaces between biological communities. His images of coastal features in the Bay Area, his current home, tie him to his homeland of Taiwan across the Pacific Ocean. Whether focused on the tidal zone at dusk or the pattern of his breath underwater beneath a new moon, Hsu explores the relationships between water and air, land and sea, bodies and the environment, and our connections with the people and places we long to be near.
United States Geological Survey Mount Tam Quad, 1897 (detail). From the Bolinas Museum Archives. Through historic and contemporary maps of Marin County, What Maps Reveal presents a fascinating view of history, cultural strata, and stories from the past and present. Included in the exhibition is a map from 1892 based on the work of Marin’s second county surveyor, George Dodge, which shows indigenous place names, vast Mexican land grants, the dense ranches of Tomales and Bolinas, early towns and school districts, wetlands, and boat routes to San Francisco. Other featured maps include a 1915 map of Mount Tam and its vicinity that was carried in the pocket of a man who loved to walk between Mill Valley to Bolinas, with the paths he explored traced in red ink, as well as a contemporary map ... Learn More