Sonia Gill: Memento Vivere - Remember to Live | April 23 - June 6, 2026

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 mentors 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.

New Work by Jeff Dikio: This Must Be the Place | April 30 - June 13, 2026

Transmission Gallery is pleased to present work by Jeff Dikio in This Must Be the Place, a solo exhibition of recent collage work that explores the idiosyncratic architecture and local environs of the Bay Area. From Doelger homes to Victorian facades and even an RV, Dikio’s compositions distill neighborhoods spanning the Sunset, Daly City, Richmond, and the beaches of Santa Cruz into essential shapes, colors, and rhythms.

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, and in moments of stillness. Dikio’s work lingers in these in-between spaces, where memory and perception overlap.

Working with repurposed paint chips, Dikio constructs his collages with a tactile sensitivity to color and structure creating compositions both grounded and unsettled. Angled planes, exaggerated perspectives, and prismatic skies create scenes that feel at once embedded in real neighborhoods yet slightly unmoored from them. What emerges is a visual language of belonging, where home is less about geography and more about resonance.

​Born in 1975 on Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, Dikio’s early life within a transient military culture informs his sensitivity to movement, impermanence, and the search for grounding. Drawing became a way to anchor his experience, a practice that continues to shape his approach today—observing, reconstructing, and ultimately reimagining the places we think we know.

M. Mark Bauer: THE, THE | June 11 - July 25, 2026

Cate White: World Raw | June 18 - August 1, 2026

Images:

Sonia Gill, Lighting the Night, 2026, paper, 20 x 20 inches

Jeff Dikio, Daly City Doelger (yellow on yellow), 2026, paint chip collage, 12 x 12

M. Mark Bauer, Artist Just Thinking, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 28

Cate White, 4 Horsemen, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 49 x 71