The 10 Best Museum and Gallery Shows to See in the Bay Area This Summer | KQED

"Her abstract, dreamy renderings of plants, animals and interior spaces convey a sense of constant movement and change. The eye can next quite fix on a foreground, or an order of operations. Instead, Mukherjee presents fragmented, entropic ecosystems, fitting depictions of our current state of environmental, social and political affairs."

"After an onslaught of gallery closures in 2025, this generous group exhibition takes stock of the Bay Area's commercial landscape and finds reason to be optimistic. Featuring the Bay Area's "most influential and idiosyncratic" art galleries, and displaying more than 40 artists, Slice of the Pie includes both the time-honored (Crown Point Press, founded in 1962) and the young upstarts (Jonathan Carver Moore, founded in 2023)."

"The very premise of the show reflects the collaboration that has always shaped the Bay Area scene, where chairs are loaned for artist talks, openings are timed to coincide, and gallerists understand they don't have to exist in a zero-sum game. Come for familiar faces, new artistic discoveries and a heap of wholesomeness that feels very Fraenkel."

"For this show, itinerant ceramicist and erstwhile Bay Area denizen Reniel Del Rosario gathers artists using clay in a way that makes you question "why do this this way?" (I'm paraphrasing here.) Artists include Fred DeWitt, Sahar Khoury, Cathy Lu and six others making work that joyfully, playfully, precariously stretches the limits of their chosen material."

Dreamy renderings of plants, animals, and interior spaces convey constant movement and change, preventing the eye from settling on a single foreground or clear sequence. Fragmented, entropic ecosystems align with current environmental, social, and political conditions. A group exhibition in San Francisco takes stock of the Bay Area commercial landscape after gallery closures in 2025, featuring influential and idiosyncratic galleries and more than 40 artists, from long-established Crown Point Press to newer spaces. The show’s premise reflects collaboration through shared resources, coordinated timing, and non-zero-sum attitudes. A Vallejo ceramics exhibition gathers artists working with clay in playful, precarious ways, stretching material limits, and connects to a larger Scripps College Ceramic Annual.

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