Following the gallery’s 2025 exhibition Concentric Circles: Tracing the Radiance of Bay Area Figuration, which centered on the founding members of the movement, Inherited Forms builds upon the gallery’s ongoing curatorial exploration of Bay Area Figuration. A focused presentation of works by historic artists associated with the Bay Area Figurative movement, Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, Frank Lobdell, and Manuel Neri, establishes a generative framework for the exhibition. In dialogue with these foundational figures are contemporary artists Linda Christensen, Marshall Crossman, Mark Engel, KL Folgner, Kim Frohsin, Ruth Hunter, Carolyn Meyer, Sandy Ostrau, Gary Ruddell, Hiroshi Sato, and Diane Warner-Wang, whose figurative practices are deeply rooted in and responsive to this lineage.

Swell (36x36) will be in a group show at the Pamela Walsh Gallery.