How to see Marin art in person and online
Note: Masks requirements were lifted in Marin and California. But as the county's rules and galleries' hours may change, it is recommended to call or check online before visiting.
Copperfield's Books: 999 Grant Ave., suite 105, Novato; craftymarketplace.com. Dec. 17: Crafty Marketplace's pop-up featuring handmade gifts from more than 10 local women artisans, from jewelry to ceramics to candles to art. 10 a.m. to 4p.m.
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts: 616Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley; 415-388-4331; ohanloncenter.org. Dec. 15: End-of-the-year celebration and gift sale. 5to 7p.m. Admission is $25, with proceeds to benefit the arts center.
Adele Gilani Art Gallery: 328 Pine St., suite A, Sausalito; adelegilani.com. Ongoing: Works by gallery owner Adele Gilani and other artists. By appointment.
Aerena Galleries & Gardens: 53 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley; 707603-8787; aerenagalleries.com. Through Dec. 15: Works by Michelle Andres and Josh Brown. Call for hours.
Artist Within — A Cedars Gallery: 603 San Anselmo Ave., San Anselmo; 415-454-2568; cedarslife.org/events-1. Through Feb.
10: “Small Art, Big Heart,” works by Cedars artists. 10a.m. to 5p.m. Mondays through Saturdays; 11a.m. to 5p.m. Sundays.
Art Works Downtown: 1337 Fourth St., San Rafael; 415-451-8119; artworksdowntown.org. Through Jan. 21: “The Small Works Exhibit” and “Cornucopia.” 1to 8p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays.
Bartolini Gallery: 10Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael; marincounty.org/depts/cu/art-exhibits/bartolinigallery. Through Feb. 10: Marin Photography Club's “Out of the Darkness, Into the Light.” 9a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays; select weekends.
Bear Valley Visitor Center: 1 Bear Valley Road, Point Reyes Station; 415-464-5137. Through December: An exhibit of the winners of the annual California Coastal Commission student art and poetry competition. 9:30a.m. to 5p.m. daily.
Belvedere Tiburon Library: 1501 Tiburon Blvd., Tiburon; 415-7892665; beltiblibrary.org. Through
Jan. 13: “Contemporary Bay Area Abstract,” juried exhibition featuring 30artists. 10a.m. to 7p.m. Mondays through Thursdays; 10a.m. to 5p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
Blunk Space: 11101Highway 1, suite 105, Point Reyes Station; jbblunk.
com/blunk-space. Through Jan. 8: Paintings by Gordon Onslow Ford and ceramics, paintings and wood carvings by JB Blunk. 11a.m. to 5p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; by appointment.
Bolinas Museum: 48 Wharf Road, Bolinas; 415-8680330; bolinasmuseum.org. Through Dec. 31: “Pacific Rise: Ocean Health,” “Seeing the Unseen,” works by West Marin artist Laurie Mahan Sawyer and “Maps at the Edge of Land and Sea.” 1to 5 p.m. Fridays; noon to 5p.m. weekends.
Bon Air Center window display: 50Sir Francis Drake, unit 110, Larkspur; marinopenstudios.org. Ongoing: Marin Open Studios' display featuring 40artworks.
Book Passage: 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera; bookpassage.com. Through January: “Chronicles,” Marin artist Daniel DiPierro's 50-year-plus retrospective. 10a.m. to 6p.m. Mondays through Saturdays; 11a.m. to 6p.m. Sundays.
Borge Point Reyes Gallery: 221B St., Point Reyes Station; 415-663-1419; borgeptreyesgallery.com. Ongoing: Landscape paintings by Martha Borge and symbolic realism paintings by Ralph Borge. 1to 4p.m. Sundays.
Corte Madera Community Center: 498 Tamalpais Drive, Corte Madera; 415927-5072. Through Dec. 15: “Corte Madera Invitational Art Exhibition,” featuring works by over 50artists as well as posters from Painted Bins, a Marin-based program that uses children's art to keep food waste from the landfill. 10a.m. to 4p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays; 10 a.m. to noon and 2to 4p.m. Thursdays. Dec. 15: Reception. 5to 7p.m.
Dance Palace: 503B St., Point Reyes Station; 415663-1075; dancepalace.org. Through December: Photography by conservation photographer Sarah Killingsworth. 9a.m. to 5p.m. weekdays.
Depot Café and Bookstore: 87Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley; alexandrabailliere.com. Through Jan. 3: “Color is a Place,” framed oil paintings on linen panels by Marin artist Alexandra Bailliere. 8:30a.m. to 6p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays and Sundays; 8:30a.m. to 7:30p.m. Thursdays; 8:30a.m. to 8p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
The Depot Plaza: 87 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley; cityofmillvalley.org. Through February: Marin artist Alexandra Bailliere's “Look Up!”
Desta Gallery: 100 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley; 415524-8932; destagallery.com. Through Dec. 23: “Abstraction & Figuration in Dialogue,” works by Jane Burton, Robert Cantor, Katheryn Holt, Carolyn Meyer, Silvia Poloto and Sandra Speidel. 11a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays; by appointment.
Fairfax Library: Community Room Gallery, 2097Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax; cedarslife.org. Through Jan. 3: “Big Expression,” works by Cedars artists. 9a.m. to 8p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10a.m. to 5p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; closed Sundays.
The Gallery: 6700 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Geronimo; 415-312 6365; motart.studio. Ongoing: Fairfax artist MOT's artwork. Private showings by appointment.
Gallery Route One: 11101 Highway 1, Point Reyes Station; 415-663-1347; galleryrouteone.org. Through Dec. 31: The late Betty Woolfolk's “The Museum of Curious Memories”; Gallery Route One artist members' “Off the Wall”; San Geronimo Valley resident Will Thoms' “Variations”; Ellen Vogel's “Pandemic Companions.” 11a.m. to 5p.m. Thursdays through Mondays as well as online.
Garvey | Simon: 538 San Anselmo Ave., San Anselmo; 415-720-9252; garveysimon.com. Through Dec.
30: “Marking Impressions,” featuring Claire McConaughy, Danielle Riede and Melanie Parke. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.
The Image Flow: 328 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo; 415-388-3569; theimageflow.com/gallery. Through Dec. 21: “Alternative Process Photography Exhibition,” featuring 29artists working with a wide variety of historical and analog photographic printing processes. 10 a.m. to 6p.m. weekdays.
Indian Valley Library: College of Marin's Building 27, 1800Ignacio Blvd., Novato; library.marin.edu. Through May: “Jacob Lawrence: American Artist” and “Visions of Visionaries: The Art of William Blake, Carl Jung, and Hilma at Klint.” 10a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays; 10a.m. to 4p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Joseph R. Fink Science Center Gallery: Dominican University of California, 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael; dominican.edu. Through March 22: “Gender Queer: The Art Of Maia Kobabe.” 8a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and 8a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.
Kim Eagles-Smith Gallery: 23Sunnyside Ave., Mill Valley; 415-981-1080; kesfineart.com. Through Dec. 24: “Ironic Icons,” works by Ukrainianborn artist Valentin Popov. Ten percent of all revenues from the exhibition will benefit the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund. 10:30a.m. to 5p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays; 11 a.m. to 5p.m. Saturdays; by appointment. Dec. 10: Reception. 4to 6p.m.
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art: 500Palm Drive, Novato; 415-506-0137; marinmoca.org. Through Dec. 22: Elisheva Biernoff's “The Tools Are in Your Hands,” an immersive, interactive mural installation. Through Dec. 23: “Follow the String,” a fiber arts exhibition by Cedars and NIAD Art Center and Lauren Jade Szabo's “Be Like Water.” Ongoing: Meet and see work by more than 50MarinMOCA members in a variety of works throughout four buildings. Go to marinmoca.org/studios. 11 a.m. to 4p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays; 11a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends.
Marin Society of Artists: 1515Third St. at E Street,
San Rafael; 415-454-9561; marinsocietyofartists.org. Through Dec. 22: Holiday art open house. Noon to 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.
Marty Knapp Photo Gallery: 11245Shoreline Highway, Point Reyes Station, 415663-8670; martyknapp.com. Ongoing: Photographs by West Marin's Marty Knapp. 11a.m. to 5p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays; 11a.m. to 3p.m. Sundays; by appointment.
MC Arts and Culture gallery: 100Donahue Ave., suite 190-B, Marin City; 844-8622787; mcartsandculture.com. Ongoing: A variety of works by creators, artists and entrepreneurs of the African diaspora. Call for hours.
Osher Marin JCC: 200 North San Pedro Road, San Rafael; 415-444-8000; marinjcc. org. Through Jan. 4: “Comment!” art in response to ancient Jewish texts. 7a.m. to 7p.m. daily.
Robert Allen Fine Art: 301 Caledonia St., Sausalito; 415-331-2800; robertallenfineart.com. Through Dec. 30: “Landscapes,” featuring Nick Coley, John Maxon and Nance Miller. 10a.m. to 5p.m. weekdays and by appointment.
Sarah Shepard Gallery: 2245 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur; 415-295-7791; sarahshepardgallery.com. Through Jan. 7: “Radiant Windows” by Kelly Ording and Lena Wolff. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and by appointment.
Sausalito Books by the Bay: 100Bay St., Sausalito; 415-887-9967; sausalitobooksbythebay.com. Through December: Paintings by Sausalito artist Paula Monsef. 10a.m. to 6p.m. daily.
Seager Gray Gallery: 108 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley; 415-384-8288; seagergray.com. Through Jan. 15: “Four Women.” Through December: Arminée Chahbazian's “Veiled Landscape.” Noon to 5p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays; noon to 4p.m. Sundays; by appointment.
Unnatural History Museum: 1292Lincoln Ave., San Rafael; museum.cynthiajensen.com. Ongoing: Marin artist Cynthia Jensen's sculptures of more than 70animals and insects created from recycled materials. Open by appointment.
Upstart Modern: 4000 Bridgeway, suite 100, Sausalito; 415-559-0020; upstartmodern.com. Through Jan. 15: “Reclaiming Pink,” paintings by Marin artist Laura Roebuck. Contact for hours. Dec. 13: Opening
reception. 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Via Piccola Trattoria: 1 Blackfield Drive, Tiburon; 415-388-9100; viapiccola. com. Ongoing: A display of Susie Rosenberg and Paulette Engler's watercolors. 11:30a.m. to 9p.m. Mondays through Saturdays; 4to 8 p.m. Sundays.
Villa Marin: 100 Thorndale Drive, San Rafael; fiberdimensions.com. Through Jan. 27: An exhibit of works by fiber/DIMENSIONS artists. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
WinterBadger Gallery: 65 Park Circle, Marin City; 415717-5279; winterbadger.com; wildflowerbooks.com. Dec. 10: Marin photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter's open studio featuring their award-winning coffee table book, “Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change,” paper and metal prints, handprinted notecards and photographic wildflower jewelry. Upper level, not wheelchair accessible. Masks are required indoors.
Other museums
Hamilton Field History Museum: 555Hangar Ave., Novato; 415-382-8614; novatohistory.org/hamiltonair-field. Maps of Hamilton Field, airplane models, photos of planes and crews, and other exhibits. Noon to 4 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; private tours available.
Marin History Museum: Boyd Gate House, 1125B St., San Rafael. Ongoing: “Great Heights — Aerial Photographs from 1955-1965.” 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays.
Marin Museum of Bicycling: 1966Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax; 415-4508000; mmbhof.org. Ongoing: Displays of bicycles and cycling history from the 19th to 21st century as well as new exhibition about the Tamalpais scenic railway.
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays, subject to county's COVID guidelines and volunteer staff availability. Check website for more up-to-date information.
Museum of International Propaganda: 1000 Fifth Ave., San Rafael; 415-3101173; propagandamuseum.net. Ongoing: Collection of propaganda posters, paintings, sculptures and items from more than a dozen countries. Noon to 3p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays.
Novato History Museum: 815De Long Ave., Novato; 415-897-4320; novatohistory.org/novato-history-museum. Maps, photos and oral histories of Novato as well as a special exhibit on the Novato Fire District. Noon to 4 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
San Anselmo Historical Museum: 110 Tunstead Ave., San Anselmo; sananselmohistory.org. Collections that preserve, interpret and present the history of San Anselmo. 10a.m. until 2p.m. Saturdays.
Online exhibits
Anna B. Francis: annabfrancisstudio.com. Ongoing: A look at a 40-year retrospective by Point Reyes Station artist Anna B. Francis on YouTube.
The Bay Area Creative Foundation: bayareacreativefoundation.org/submission. Ongoing: The Creative Youth Celebration's online gallery.
Darcy J. Sears: djsears.com. Ongoing: Virtual studio tour and online exhibit of works by Marin artist Darcy J. Sears. In-person visits can be arranged.
David Patchen: davidpatchen.com. Ongoing:
Online exhibit of blown and hot-sculpted glass by Greenbrae artist David Patchen on his website, as well as the glassblowing process on Instagram @davidspatchen. In-person visits to the glass studio can be arranged.
George Sumner: sumnerstudios.com. Ongoing: More than 60years of art by environmental impressionist oil painter George Sumner.
Headlands Center for the Arts: 944 Simmonds Road, Sausalito; 415-331-2787; headlands.org. Ongoing: Headlands At Home featuring art projects inspired by the Headlands campus and commissions by A Little Culture's Lucie Charkin, Wall Space: Trey Amos, sculptural installation of text at the Commons.
ICB Artists: 480Gate 5 Road, Sausalito; icb-artists. com. Ongoing: ICB artists offer Zoom appointments, private studio tours and more. Contact artists for their offerings.
MC Arts and Culture: 100 Donahue Ave., suite 190-B, Marin City; 844-862-2787; mcartsandculture.com. Ongoing: Online gallery of creators, artists, artisans and entrepreneurs of the African diaspora.
Mill Valley Public Library: 375Throckmorton Ave.; 415-389-4292; storymaps. arcgis.com. Ongoing: “Talkin' 'bout Mill Valley,” reflection of 50th anniversary of Rita Abrams' “Mill Valley” song.
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts: 616Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley; 415-388-4331; ohanloncenter.org. Ongoing: Facebook page, O'Hanlon From Home, highlights members' artworks. Through Dec. 31: “Painting with Pixels.”
WinterBadger Collection: 415-717-5279; winterbadger.com; wildflowerbooks. com. Ongoing: Marin photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter's awardwinning coffee table book, “Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change,” plus custom printed paper and metal prints.
Blue Line Arts: 405 Vernon St., suite 100, Roseville; bluelinearts.org. Through
Jan. 14: Marin artist
Stela Mandel's painting, “The Queen's Gambit,” is a part of the “2022 Crocker Kingsley Exhibition.” 11a.m. to 5p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.
SHACK15: Artist's Studio, 1 Ferry Building, Suite 201, San Francisco; tiffanyshlain.com/ humannature. Through Dec. 15: “Human Nature,” a solo exhibit by Mill Valley artist Tiffany Shlain, presented by the National Women's History Museum in partnership with Women Connect4Good. — Compiled by Colleen Bidwill
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