Vessel Gallery curates for Bioneers 2019 at the Marin Center

Lonnie Lee is proud to showcase Curtis Arima, Shawn Hibma Cronan, Gordon Glasgow, Luke Heimbigner, Todd Laby, Jos Sances, Wayne Shaffer for “Seeding the Field, Growing Transformative Solutions"

With special keynote speakers: Valerie Kaur, Bill McKibben, Eve Ensler, Heather McTeer Toney, Terry Tempest Williams, Isha Clarke, Paul Hawken, Kali Akuno, Monika Bauerlein, Jerry Tello, Desmond Drummer, Julian Brave Noisecat, Kenny Ausubel, Leila Salazar-Lopez, Nina Simons, Casey Camp-Horinek, Mishka Banuri, David Orr.

Worldviews create worlds. Our civilizational crossroads reflects a crisis of consciousness. Everything's going to change, and the only question is how.

For Bioneers’ 30th conference, "Seeding the Field: Growing Transformative Solutions," they've assembled a visionary program reflecting decades of transformative solutions and trail-blazing pathways that this growing community has so brilliantly developed.

As a community of leadership, Bioneers is helping disrupt our current failed institutions by offering people better choices. We show a compelling vision, successful models and “the how.” Bioneers are working to rapidly spread, adapt and scale the abundant models and solutions that already exist, and seed new ones.

Like a prism channeling sunlight, Bioneers is focalizing this treasure trove of community wisdom, skillfulness, vision and values into beams of action to help realize this global shift to a restored world. It comes down to growing the national and global movement of movements, which Bioneers reflects and embodies. It’s going to take you and every one of us. In this time, we’re all called upon to be leaders — and leadership resides in community.

Together we can move the world from breakdown to breakthrough. Please join with us in this revolution from the heart of nature and the human heart. Future generations are counting on us.

An idea whose time has come is unstoppable. Please join with us to help realize 30 years of transformative solutions and make the Revolution from the Heart of Nature and the Human Heart. October 18-20, San Rafael, CA.

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A Vessel Satellite exhibit - New monotypes by Barry Ebner,
new paintings by Chaves Smith, and new sculpture by Peter St. Lawrence, and William Schwob

OPENING: Friday, September 6, 6-9PM
MUSIC: Luis Peralta Quartet

EXHIBITION DATES: September 6 – December 20, 2019

POP UP LOCATION: The Alice Collective
272 14th St, Oakland, CA 94612
HOURS: Tuesday thru Saturday 8AM - 3PM

For an appointment, contact Vessel Gallery at 510-919-9694, or email us!

The Alice Collective is a mixed use space that celebrates the diverse community of Oakland. Located in Downtown Oakland, The Alice Collective is a dynamic space that includes a cafe, bar, event venue, and commissary kitchen, all housed in a beautiful historic building in the heart of downtown Oakland.

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Vessel Gallery is delighted to bring our art to this dynamic venue! Hope you'll join us at The Alice Collective for our opening of "Center of Gravity"!

Venice PERSONAL STRUCTURES, Biennale Arte 2019

Vessel Gallery in collaboration with the European Culture Centre (ECC-Italy) and GAA Foundation, proudly presents artworks by Pamela Merory Dernham, Cyrus Tilton, and Sanjay Vora in Personal Structures.

VENUE   Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
HOST  European Cultural Centre - Italy
ORGANIZERS  Valeria Romagnini, Lucia Pedrana, Sara Danieli, Claudia Piovan, Bérénice Freytag, Bianca Bonaldi, Rocco Schenkel, Elena Volpato, Alessandra Valle
OPENING RECEPTION May 9 - 10, 2019 6 – 10 PM in Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
EXHIBITION DATES  May 11 - November 24, 2019

 In the context of the Biennale Arte 2019 the ECC-Italy presents the exhibition "PERSONAL STRUCTURES". The exhibition is hosted and supported by the European Cultural Centre in two of its prestigious Palazzo's in the centre of Venice -Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora- and the Giardini Marinaressa.

The exhibition shows an extensive combination of internationally established artists and artists whose works are less well-known. A cross-section of what can be seen as contemporary art today. The selected artists come from many different parts of the world, different cultures resulting in very different artworks. Visually, the artworks may appear very different, but all artists present their own subjective, personal expression of their reflection on the concepts Time, Space and Existence.

The exhibition mainly presents recent artworks by living artists, either site-specific, specially made for this exhibition, or taken from the existing collection of the artist. Some rooms in the palazzos are dedicated to the presentation of a single artist, while other rooms will present a combination of projects and works. Strong statements give each of the rooms a very specific character. The exhibition features a broad variety of artistic media; video, sculptures, paintings, drawings, photos and installations. Since the more than 200 participating artists originate from very diverse cultures representing over 40 countries and are also of very different age, the topics Time - Space - Existence are highlighted from unusual, very personal points of view.

The ECC-Italy’s exhibition "PERSONAL STRUCTURES " shows the commonness and differences between Europeans in dialogue with works of non-Europeans. In addition, the exhibition stimulates a more conscious relationship from the spectator towards his daily surrounding aiming to increase the awareness of their own personal Existence as human beings influenced by a specific Culture within Time and Space.

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San Francisco Vessel Gallery is delighted to announce our first Vessel Satellite exhibit with partner Arkitektura SF. This show, Stillness Within, celebrates a diverse group of artists and how they create and imagine space and time. The collection takes the viewer on a reflection of memories and perceptions of space. It suggests that if we take a moment to reflect the possibilities of imagined, interpreted, cosmic perspectives the “macro-to-micro” understandings of space and time, then infinite experiences can be ours to behold, and our imaginations, when engaged, can be free to associate with our perceptions, and even share in the visual dialogue. 
Artists: David Burke, Pamela Merory Dernham, Edith Hillinger, Linn Thygeson, and Sanjay Vora

Curatorial Consultation Service:
Vessel Gallery provides curatorial services for corporate and private collectors. They can accommodate the needs of any specific installation, working with a wide range of artists, designers, fabricators and architects to assemble and complete projects in a range of two and three-dimensional mediums. Lonnie Lee personally collaborates with design teams to showcase artwork in building spaces and renovations. More than 30 years of design experience ensures that intent is conveyed, increasing marketability and evoking the appropriate message of the space design. 

Services include:
-Art Acquisition 
-Assistance Servicing Permanent Collections
-Commissions
-Rotating Exhibitions 
-Exhibition Design 
-Art Installation 
-Art Collection Management

Vessel Gallery can assemble the appropriate team members to complete the parameters of the project at hand. Working within vision, scope, and budget, each project is delivered with talent and expertise.

Lonnie Lee, curator of Vessel Gallery, is concerned with the artist’s life’s work pursued over time with increasing concentration and singular focus. This approach helps collectors, enthusiasts, and viewers understand the development of the artist’s work. Vessel strives to exhibit diverse showings where discoveries for viewers are not only experiential but endless.

STILLNESS WITHIN will be on view at both Arkitektura and B&B Italia showrooms from 10-6pm, Monday – Saturday until August, 2019.  

Arkitektura SF
560 9th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-565-7200

B&B Italia
2211 Alameda Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-565-0900

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Vessel Satellite Presents “A Survey of Works by Iris Polos”

A look at the life works of painting, mixed media, and sculptures by social political surrealist artist Iris Polos, at the private residence of E. Silva.

February 2019

Iris takes her viewers through the experiences of Alice and Wonderland, William Blakes’s poems, addresses social concerns of homelessness, mass incarceration, animal extinction, environment preservation, primate lives, and the hopes and dreams for the future. 

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Elsewhere | Artworks by Cyrus Tilton
Together and Apart | New paintings by Sanjay Vora

PREVIEW: Tuesday, October 23, 11–6 PM
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, November 2, 6–9 PM
coinciding with Oakland Art Murmur, on 1st Friday and
music performance by The Dans of Steel, 7:30–9 PM

Vessel Gallery presents UTOPIA: FORECASTING OUR FUTURE | PARTNERS OF COAL + ICE AND GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN’S GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT

“What would global adherence to environmental preservation look like?  These artists will take us on a journey seeking the idea of utopia. The time is now to collectively chart our course towards environmental preservation and ultimately returning humanity’s reverence for nature.”  
— Lonnie Lee

Artworks by Kim Anno, David Burke, Rueben Salgado Escudero,
Dave Young Kim, Hyeyoung Kim, Christy Kovacs, Yuyang Liu, &
Cyrus Tilton

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 7, 6–9 PM
coinciding with Oakland Art Murmur, on 1st Friday

SPECIAL POETRY | SPOKEN WORD | READING EVENT:
“The Future is Now: Women Writing New Worlds”
Curated by: MK Chavez
MK Chavez, Michelle Lin, Thea Mattews, Marguerite Munoz, Maw Shein Win
Saturday, September 15, 6:30–7:30 PM

CELEBRATION: Friday, October 5
coinciding with Oakland Art Murmur, on 1st Friday

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, July 6, 6–9 PM
coinciding with Oakland Art Murmur on First Friday
Oaktown Jazz Workshop performing 8–9 PM

Summer is finally here and Vessel Gallery is proud to announce our new summer show, Summer Sessions. This show celebrates a multitude of artists and will change as the summer season progresses, so every time you see it there will be something new! Don’t miss this exciting, ever-changing show opening Friday, July 6, 6–9 PM coinciding with Oakland Art Murmur on First Friday!

You can continue to enjoy the Summer Sessions Celebration with us on Friday, August 3rd as well! Visit us and see how the show has evolved and how context gives new meaning to art when new works are interjected. Open until August 25th - come in and see this exhibit evolve!

New paintings by Chaves Smith

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, May 4, 6–9 PM
coinciding with Oakland Art Murmur, on 1st Friday

CELEBRATION: Friday, June 1, 6–9 PM
coinciding with Oakland Art Murmur, on 1st Friday

ARTIST TALK: Saturday, June 2, 2 PM
a conversation with the artist

The Cycle by Cyrus Tilton | Crocker Art Museum

TALK: Three Views of Cyrus Tilton and The Cycle:
DeWitt Cheng, Ron Holthysen, Lonnie Lee  
SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2 PM

PROGRAM TICKETS: lecture reservation, general admission, & opening reception.  It is highly recommended to reserve program tickets in advance

$6 MEMBERS • $12 NONMEMBERS

Purchase tickets by clicking here REGISTER, visiting the Museum Admission Desk, or by calling (916) 808-1182.

Provocative, inventive, and astounding, The Cycle by Cyrus Tilton includes a kinetic installation over owing with sculptures of locusts in various stages of development as a metaphor for the dangers of over-consumption. This larger-than-life installation will be discussed by three champions of Tilton’s artwork: gallerist Lonnie Lee; Ron Holthuysen of Scientific Art Studio, who trained Tilton in large-scale sculpture fabrication; and writer and art critic DeWitt Cheng. Conversation and a Q&A with the audience will follow, as well as a reception in honor of the artist.

Artworks by Edith Hillinger, Cherisse Alcantara, Marilyn Bardet, Lauren Crew, Rea DeGuzman, Dave Young Kim, Christy Kovacs, and Iris Polos

OPENING RECEPTION + ARTIST TALK: Friday, March 2, 6PM
coinciding with Oakland Art Murmur, on 1st Friday

Artworks by Cheryl Calleri, Irene Imfeld, and Ron Weil

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 5, 6–9PM
coinciding with Oakland Art Murmur, on 1st Friday

ARTIST TALK: Saturday, February 10,  2PM
Cheryl Calleri, Irene Imfeld, and Ron Weil

Many have come to know Cyrus Tilton’s fascinating, superbly crafted sculpture and drawings through Vessel Gallery.  It is with heavy heart Vessel Gallery shares the news that artist Cyrus James Tilton passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at his home in Oakland, California after a courageous year-long battle with esophageal cancer..  If Cyrus' work has left an impression, inspired you to connect, or made you ponder ideas about beauty and mystery – here’s a chance to thank him for enriching your life, and ensure the legacy of his artwork.

The Lovers for Cyrus Tilton campaign is reaching out to all who love and value the power of visual arts, and who appreciate Tilton’s work and its thematic values connecting humanity to the environment, to join in philanthropic support.  

Collectors, art enthusiasts, and community members have frequently expressed the wish that Lovers find a permanent home. We have done just this!  We are excited to announce The Crocker Art Museum has warmly accepted Cyrus Tilton's LOVERS into their permanent collection. The Crocker will unveil the work with a solo exhibition of Tilton's The Cycle scheduled March 25 – July 15, 2018

Art Opticon / Oakland Magazine + Alameda Magazine, June 2017 -East Bay Artist Cyrus Tilton: A Powerful Legacy Lives On
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Art Daily, May 2017 - Crocker Art Museum awards inaugural $25,000 Knudsen Prize to Bay Area sculptor Cyrus Tilton
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Sculpture Magazine, May 2017 - Pacific Rim Sculptors (PRS)
Cyrus Tilton won the 2016 John S. Knudsen Prize, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento acquired his sculpture,  Read more>

HYPERALLERGIC, APRIL 2017 - Accolades: The Crocker Art Museum awarded its inaugural John S. Knudsen Prize to Cyrus Tilton (1977–2017).  Read more >

East Bay Times, by Mark Hedin, April 2017 - Bay Area sculptor, musician Cyrus Tilton dies of cancer at 39,  Read more >

ARTFORUM, April 2017 - Cyrus Tilton wins inaugural $25,000 Knudsen Prize.   Read more >

The Sacramento Bee, Janet Vitt, April 2017 - "The Crocker Art Museum has awarded the first John S. Knudsen Prize, which supports a California artist with $25,000.  The award has gone to the late Cyrus Tilton,... Read more >

Art Ltd. Magazine, January 2017 - "Chief curator Scott Shields of THE CROCKER ART MUSEUM in Sacramento announced Cyrus Tilton has  won the 2016 John S. Knudsen Prize."  Read more >

Art Letter, Crocker Art Museum Members Museum,
May, Jun, Jul, Aug 2017
John S. Knudsen Prize Awarded to Cyrus Tilton
The artist’s first solo museum exhibition opens next year at the
Crocker.  Read more > 

Art Letter, Crocker Art Museum Members Magazine,
Jan, Feb Mar, Apr, 2018
The Cycle by Cyrus Tilton: This March, a swarm of muslin and steel locusts will inhabit one of the Museum's third floor galleries as part of The Cycle by Cyrus Tilton...  Read more >


We’re asking for your help in completing this dream come true. Please consider gifting a donation / pledge towards completing the purchase of Lovers so that the Crocker Art Museum can exhibit, share, and loan it, and it may be pondered and enjoyed for years to come. 

In 2012, The Cycle filled all of Vessel Gallery with a series of works inspired by the life cycle and behavior of insects that, when looked at through the lens Tilton created, came to seem all too human. We peered into Potentials, a series of wall-mounted sculptures that rendered chunks of earth in cross-section, revealing nested clusters of locust eggs. We walked through a swarm of hundreds of carefully fashioned Individuals, a stunning, immersive, kinetic and sonic installation. Finally, we stepped gingerly around the awesome Lovers, a pair of human-scale mating locusts. Lovers has since been installed in several locations and seen in multiple exhibitions. Those who saw it were mesmerized by The Cycle, especially Lovers.

Will you help? If your connection is personal, please join us, share, and tell others. If you have a professional connection, we ask your support thru aligning industries, corporations, and institutions to support the Lovers for Cyrus Tilton campaign.  Contact us with your support. And be sure to come by Vessel before January 26, 2017, to see Lovers—they’re still getting it on.

Please contribute towards Lovers being placed into the Crocker Art Museum's permanent collection, by making a gift of donation here. Gifts of of all sizes are deeply appreciated and will collectively contribute to this immeasurable heartfelt and meaningful placement. Alternately, checks may be made out to Vessel Gallery, with memo "Lovers for Cyrus Tilton" and mailed to Vessel Gallery, 471 25th Street, Oakland, CA 94612

TO DONATE TO "LOVERS FOR CYRUS TILTON" CAMPAIGN, CLICK HERE > 

More information on Cyrus Tilton, Lovers, and the fundraiser, you can visit: http://www.vessel-gallery.com/artists/#/cyrus-tilton/