A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities is a collaborative exhibition between Sparks Gallery in San Diego and bG Gallery in Santa Monica: two art galleries connected by the same coastline, and shaped individually by their respective cities’ rhythms, energies, and audiences. Through this collaborative partnership exhibit, Southern California artists and internationally collected artists represented by each gallery will be on view in each other’s gallery for a limited showing. 

On view from January 7th– February 7th in both galleries, the works are curated toward the partner gallery’s audience, and each celebrates the spirit of dialogue, play, and shared imagination that can flourish when two art worlds meet.

For this gallery swap, Sparks Gallery brings to bG Gallery a vibrant selection of works by four San Diegan artists whose practices embrace bold color, pop-influenced  social commentary, and meditations about the world around them. Their pieces pulse with dynamic linework, layered symbolism, and speak to the collecting style of bG Gallery’s diverse, ambitious, and maverick collectors. 

At Sparks Gallery

530 Sixth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101Sparks Gallery, based in San Diego’s historic Sterling Hardware Building, will showcase a selection of bG Gallery artists known for expressive-conceptual, outsider-influenced, and boundary-pushing contemporary work. San Diego visitors will experience a fresh cross-section of LA’s inventive artistic culture.

At bG Gallery

2525 Michigan Ave., Suite A2, Santa Monica, CA 90404Located within Bergamot Station Arts Center, bG Gallery will host a curated exhibition from Sparks Gallery’s roster. The show will introduce Los Angeles audiences to a range of San Diego–rooted contemporary work — from surreal and figurative compositions to innovative mixed-media pieces reflective of the Gaslamp Quarter’s evolving creative landscape.

Receptions:

January 10 - reception at bG Gallery - 4pm - 7pm

2525 Michigan Ave., Suite A2, Santa Monica, CA 90404