09/05/2026
There's still time to see Daniel McClain's cryptic and meditative work in Lost and Found at Transmission Gallery.
Come in to see in person the full experience of the exquisite detail in the acrylic and graphite paintings and framed drawings on view through Sept 12th with the gallery open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 1-5 pm.
What looks like collage, is replicated by hand, down to the tape and graph paper in paintings balancing along the edges of hyper-realism and the abstract interplay of their evocative components.
Also at Transmission, concurrent solo show, Hands of the Maker, drawings by Aldo Farnsworth, and in our video exhibition space Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks SFBay, a 6 minute video walk about the Bay.
Be sure to step into the Office to see more art including one more piece by Dan McClain with Little Dorothy and Toto.
Clicking through here:
McClain's piece, Gift, 40 x 60, acrylic and graphite pencil on canvas ( this is the one referencing Frank Stella, Black Paintings)
Nardis, 40 x 33, acrylic and graphite pencil on canvas (this one with the beautiful re-creation of an Alice through the Looking Glass illustration and the Carl Andres In His Time book cover - note, minimalist sculptor Carl Andres was recognized for arranging unjoined mass produced materials in ordered and grid format sculpture)
Followed by Winter, 13 x 25, acrylic and graphite pencil on canvas ( note the gridded drawing of a snowman and replication of a well worn copy of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. There is a relationship between snowmen and Snyder's challenge to authoritarianism. Plus, maybe it's time to (re)read this book).
