Name: Artist Talk and Choir Performance - William Rhodes: Fear Not
Start: 2026-10-03T14:00:00-0700
End: 2026-10-03T15:15:00-0700

Join us for our annual San Francisco/ Bay Area Black Art week from Wednesday September 30th - Sunday October 4th, 2026!

Artist Talk and Choir Performance - William Rhodes: Fear Not

Saturday October 3, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm PDT

Transmission Gallery Oakland

Fear Not: William Rhodes

In conjunction with "Fear Not," a solo exhibition of recent work by William Rhodes, please join us for the Artist's Talk with accompanying gospel choir performance by the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center Choir, led by music conductor Kenneth Little, starting at 2 pm, Saturday, October 3rd.

Rhodes' work in "Fear Not" will be on view in the gallery Sept 17 – Oct 31, including NEXUS week, with the gallery open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 12- 5 pm.

William Rhodes's sculptures are made from things that have been used, inherited, discarded, or found. Trained as a furniture maker, Rhodes carves many of the elements himself and combines them with objects collected from a family home, photographs, hardware, tools, and other remnants of everyday life.

The resulting works resemble shrines or memorials, but they remain grounded in the ordinary. Religious symbols appear alongside household objects and personal photographs. Things with little apparent value are carefully incorporated into elaborate constructions, their histories becoming part of the work.

Rhodes is equally interested in people who have been overlooked or treated as disposable. By giving attention to these lives and to objects that might otherwise be thrown away, he considers how value is assigned and who gets remembered.

The title Fear Not appears in the work as both a phrase and a kind of instruction. It can be read in relation to the religious imagery that runs throughout the sculptures, but it also takes on a more personal meaning. To look closely at lives and objects that are easily dismissed is, in its own way, an act of resistance to that dismissal.

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San Francisco-based artist William Rhodes began his sculptural practice on the East Coast, where he studied sculpture and furniture design at the Baltimore School for the Arts and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He later obtained his MFA from the University of Massachusetts... Read More →

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Saturday October 3, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm PDT
Transmission Gallery Oakland 770 W Grand Ave Ste A, Oakland, CA 94612, USA

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Website https://thetransmissiongallery.com/index.html

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