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Concentric Circles: Tracing the Radiance of Bay Area Figuration
May 02 - Jun 22, 2025
Tuesday – Saturday 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
(650) 300-6315
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Pamela Walsh Gallery is proud to present Concentric Circles: Tracing the Radiance of Bay Area Figuration, a major survey of works by the founding artists of the Bay Area Figurative Movement and those whose practices radiated outward from its transformative core. This exhibition revisits the fertile artistic period of 1950–1965, when a group of San Francisco Bay Area painters, led by David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and Richard Diebenkorn, made the radical choice to return to figuration at the height of Abstract Expressionism.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
The storied Bay Area Figurative movement that minted many of the region's most famous and enduring artists (Park, Diebenkorn, Bischoff, Brown, Oliveira, Neri, Thiebaud) seems to be having a renaissance lately. Kicked off perhaps by SFMOMA's 2020 David Park retrospective, one wonders: Are these works being reconsidered or have they ever gone out of view? Curated by the former president of the Diebenkorn Foundation, this show takes a deep (and deeply informed) dive into the movement's key players alongside the work of many they inspired.
Mark Taylor
SF/Arts Curator
The Pamela Walsh Gallery was founded in 2019 in Palo Alto, CA. The gallery represents a talented roster of contemporary artists who explore their creative expressions across a variety of mediums, as well as the Nathan Oliveira Estate. The gallery is located in the heart of downtown Palo Alto in a historic building designed by Stanford architect Birge Clark in 1929.
The Pamela Walsh Gallery was founded in 2019 in Palo Alto, CA. The gallery represents a talented roster of contemporary artists who explore their creative expressions across a variety of mediums, as well as the Nathan Oliveira Estate. The gallery is located in the heart of downtown Palo Alto in a historic building designed by Stanford architect Birge Clark in 1929.