Past
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Toward Orphism
Austin Thomas, Blaise Rosenthal, Zaida Oenema March 15 - April 26, 2025 Municipal Bonds presents Toward Orphism , a group exhibition on view March 15–April 26 in the gallery’s annex, considering Orphism’s legacy in contemporary abstraction. Coined in the early 20th century, the term describes a movement that expanded Cubism’s geometric foundations, emphasizing color, rhythm, and optical vibration. This sensibility continues in... Read more -
Jane Springwater: Parallax
March 8 - April 26, 2025 ARTIST RECEPTION | Saturday, March 15, 4–6pm Municipal Bonds is pleased to present Parallax , an exhibition of new and recent works by Jane Springwater, on view March 8–April 26, 2025. This marks the San Francisco-based artist's inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery, following her celebrated duo show last year.... Read more -
Dan Levenson: Artifacts from the SKZ
January 11 - March 1, 2025 Opening & Artist Reception | Saturday, January 11, 4–6pm Municipal Bonds is pleased to present Artifacts from the SKZ , marking Los Angeles-based artist Dan Levenson's debut exhibition with the gallery, on view January 11–March 1, 2025. Through paintings, works on paper, and sculptures, Levenson constructs artifacts rescued from the... Read more -
Fritz Horstman: Geometry of Light
November 2, 2024 - January 4, 2025 Opening & Artist Reception | Saturday, November 2, 5–7pm Artist Remarks, 6pm Municipal Bonds is pleased to announce Geometry of Light , a solo exhibition of works by Fritz Horstman, on view from November 2, 2024 through January 4, 2025. In Horstman's series Folded Cyanotypes , he explores the relationship... Read more -
Blaise Rosenthal: Sierra Madre
September 7 - October 26, 2024 Sierra Madre A homecoming Scarred by passing years, and recalled to a terrain of memory Following a river's course as it winds back to a beginning Back to a place of sheltering from winter's dark rain that fell in torrents from cold gray skies And endless barefoot summers spent wandering... Read more -
Counterpoint
Crystal Gregory, Sarah Koik, Yvonne Mouser, Tiersa Nureyev, Blaise Rosenthal, Michelle Yi Martin June 1 - August 24, 2024 OPENING & ARTIST RECEPTION | Saturday, June 1, 5-7pm Municipal Bonds is pleased to present Counterpoint , a group exhibition joining together artists Crystal Gregory, Sarah Koik, Yvonne Mouser, Tiersa Nureyev, Blaise Rosenthal, and Michelle Yi Martin. Interacting in unity and contrast, the exhibition features two- and three-dimensional abstract works... Read more -
A Man by Himself: Mike Smart
June 1 - July 21, 2024 Read more -
Invisible Forces: Yvonne Mouser & Jane Springwater
April 6 - May 25, 2024 ARTIST TALK: Saturday, May 4, at 4pm, with Yvonne Mouser and Jane Springwater, facilitated by Katherine Lam, an independent designer/builder and Chair of the Furniture Design Program at California College of the Arts (CCA). Municipal Bonds is pleased to announce Invisible Forces , a duo presentation of Yvonne Mouser's sculptures... Read more -
Generative Earth: Solange Roberdeau & Nick Schwartz
February 3 - March 23, 2024 OPENING RECEPTION | Saturday, February 3 | 5–7pm ARTIST TALK | Saturday, February 17 | 3pm Municipal Bonds is pleased to announce Generative Earth: Solange Roberdeau and Nick Schwartz , an exhibition of new drawings and ceramic vessels, on view from February 3 through March 23, 2024. The gallery will... Read more -
Michelle Yi Martin: Off Grid
December 2, 2023 - January 27, 2024 OPENING & ARTIST RECEPTION | Saturday, December 2 | 5-7pm Municipal Bonds is pleased to announce Michelle Yi Martin: Off Grid , an exhibition of new and recent weavings, on view December 2, 2023 – January 27, 2024. This is the artist’s second solo presentation with the gallery, featuring her... Read more -
Zaida Oenema: Broken Suns
October 4 - November 25, 2023 Opening | Saturday, October 7 | 12-7pm Artist Reception | Saturday, November 4 | 4-7pm Municipal Bonds is twice pleased to inaugurate our new, expanded space at Minnesota Street Project with Zaida Oenema: Broken Suns , on view from October 4 to November 25, 2023. The Dutch/Finnish artist's second solo... Read more -
Cécilia Andrews: Invisible Language
July 8 - August 19, 2023 Municipal Bonds is delighted to announce our summer presentation by Chilean-French artist Cécilia Andrews. On view July 8 through August 19, Cécilia Andrews: Invisible Language is the Paris-based artist's second solo show with the gallery. Featuring Andrews' work on Braille paper, her exhibition delves into themes of humanity, language and... Read more -
Sofía Clausse: Labyrinth
May 3 - June 24, 2023 Municipal Bonds is pleased to announce our first presentation of the London-based Argentinian artist Sofía Clausse. On view May 3–June 24, Sofía Clausse: Labyrinth will mark the artist's debut solo exhibition in the US. Join us for the Artist Reception on Saturday, May 6, from 5 to 7pm. Read more -
Fritz Horstman: Folded Light
March 1 - April 22, 2023 Municipal Bonds is pleased to present 'Fritz Horstman: Folded Light,' on view March 1 – April 22, 2023. The gallery's first exhibition with the artist features a selection of Horstman's Folded Cyanotypes . The work comprises deep blue images of shapes that emerge from the confluence of folded paper and... Read more -
Afton Love: White Window
November 12, 2022 - February 18, 2023 Municipal Bonds is delighted to present the gallery's first exhibition with Afton Love. Featuring a new body of work by the New Mexico-based artist, 'Afton Love: White Window' explores the visible world with its tethers to human consciousness. In doing so, she looks to the existential, the unseen, and the... Read more -
ODYSSEY: Solange Roberdeau, Sarah Koik, Danielle Dimston
September 10 - November 5, 2022 Read more -
Conversations in the Dark
Summer Group Show June 25 - August 20, 2022 Municipal Bonds is pleased to announce Conversations in the Dark , our summer group show, on view June 25–August 20, 2022. Featuring ten artists represented by the gallery, selected works mine relationships between interior and exterior worlds. Each artist approaches inner-outer connections through the spoken and unspoken, seen and unseen—geographically,... Read more -
Mihail: Rocketships
April 30 - June 18, 2022 Municipal Bonds is honored to present Rocketships, a mixed media exhibition by the late Bulgarian-born American artist Mihail (1929–2021). Inspired by the iconic moment of the early 1980s when NASA launched its first space shuttle, Mihail created a body of work themed on space travel. His series of architectonic drawings, dream-like paintings, atmospheric watercolors, and model sculptures from the 1980s and 90s celebrate the era of nascent space exploration. During a time of quantum leaps in science and the acceleration of humanity's hope in outer space discovery, Mihail's work captured the transcendent imagination and optimism around what he simply called "rocketships." Read more -
Zaida Oenema: A Clear Day
February 19 - April 16, 2022 Municipal Bonds is delighted to announce Zaida Oenema's debut exhibition in the United States, A Clear Day , on view February 19–April 16, 2022. The Dutch/Finnish artist's work features abstractions of the natural world, cut and burned into reliefs on paper. Inspired by the environment's temporal moments—moving shadows, rippling water,... Read more -
Michelle Yi Martin: In Medias Res
December 4, 2021 - February 12, 2022 Municipal Bonds is pleased to present Michelle Yi Martin's first solo show with the gallery, In Medias Res , featuring her recent abstract woven works. Titled with the Latin phrase for 'in the middle of things,' Yi Martin's exhibition includes woven filament sculptures and freeform fiber works. Through these varied... Read more -
Yvonne Mouser: The Shape of Time
September 18 - November 20, 2021 Municipal Bonds is pleased to present a solo exhibition of sculptural works by Yvonne Mouser, titled The Shape of Time . Oakland-based Mouser investigates her fascination with perceptions of time and natural phenomena, through works suggesting growth, decay, or a sequence of temporal states. In altering mundane objects, she creates... Read more -
Austin Thomas: Metropolis
July 10 - September 11, 2021 Municipal Bonds is pleased to present Austin Thomas's second exhibition with the gallery, titled Metropolis. In this homage to her hometown, Thomas's work embodies the dynamics of New York City, its architecture and energy. Featuring a selection of abstract monotypes on found paper, her solo show is both referential and reverential of quotidian moments from the city streets. Read more -
Cécilia Andrews: Indivisible Particles
April 17 - June 26, 2021 Municipal Bonds is pleased to present Indivisible Particles , our debut exhibition with Chilean-French artist Cécilia Andrews. Teeming with abstract portraits—extolling the gaze, lauding the hand—Andrews's works on paper are articulated by collage. Cut-out and reassembled faces, with blurred contours on found papers, speak to the construction, deconstruction and reconstruction... Read more -
Solange Roberdeau: Beyond Latitude
February 6 - April 10, 2021 Municipal Bonds is pleased to present Beyond Latitude , a solo exhibition of recent works on paper by Bay Area artist Solange Roberdeau. In this selection of reductive drawings, abstract forms reference shapes, happenings, and cadences of the natural world. Responding to nature in its distilled yet fluid form, Roberdeau... Read more -
Danielle Dimston: Lightness of Being
November 7, 2020 - January 30, 2021 Municipal Bonds is pleased to present Danielle Dimston: Lightness of Being, a solo exhibition of select works on paper from 2008-2020. Dimston creates watercolors and drawings notable for a minimalist palette, linear composition, and transcendent field. Her work radiates emotional honesty through purity of the line—accessed by repetition, gradation, and undulation.
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Monument
Minnesota Street Project October 28, 2020 - January 30, 2021 Municipal Bonds is delighted to present Solange Roberdeau's Night Sky Over the Taos Mesa, in Minnesota Street Project's group exhibition Monument. Read more -
Jamie Romanet: All the Hemispheres
September 5 - October 31, 2020 Municipal Bonds is pleased to present "All the Hemispheres," a solo exhibition of works on paper by Jamie Romanet. Inspired by a poem of the same title, written by the 14th-century Persian mystic Hafiz, Romanet explores the infinite self through conceptual representation of the face and figure. Delving into existential limitlessness, her work comprises otherworldly portraits and subconscious symbols in congruence with the classical elements of matter. Read more -
Austin Thomas: In Constellation
July 15 - September 30, 2020 Municipal Bonds is delighted to announce "Austin Thomas: In Constellation," an exclusive online exhibition of celestial monoprints, July 15 to September 30, 2020. Initially, this exhibition’s purpose was an invitation to a respite, a moment of levity and meditation. Additionally, it has come to represent a conversation, between artist and gallery during the past months, about giving—we believe art and giving go hand-in-hand. It is our constellation: making and giving, presenting and representing. This exhibition is aligned with Thomas and Municipal Bonds’ partnership in ongoing fundraising. 20% of every sale will be donated to the pop-up food pantry organized by La Jornada and Together We Can Food Pantry at Queens Museum. Read more -
Invincible Summer
Minnesota Street Project Group Exhibition June 30 - September 30, 2020 Municipal Bonds is pleased to announce our participation in Invincible Summer , a group show presented in collaboration with the tenant galleries at Minnesota Street Project. The title is inspired by a quote from Albert Camus' 'Return to Tipasa' essay: 'In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within... Read more -
Bara Jichova Tyson: Talking About Adultery
March 4 - August 22, 2020 Municipal Bonds presents "Bara Jichova Tyson: Talking About Adultery," a solo exhibition of multimedia works, on view at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco. Jichova Tyson constructs her inquiry in two complementary parts: a series of unique photo collages and a hybrid documentary feature film. Read more -
Openness
Inaugural Exhibition September 3 - October 5, 2019 Municipal Bonds presents our inaugural exhibition Openness at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, featuring four important female artists: Austin Thomas, Bara Jichova Tyson, Danielle Dimston, and Yvette Taminiau. Read more
