MOSTLY EVERYTHING: Walkthrough with Tucker Nichols

September 06, 2025

1:00pm - 4:00pm at Gallery 16.

Join us Saturday afternoon for a conversation with Tucker Nichols about Mostly Everything: the sprawling exhibition that goes along with his first career-spanning book of the same name.

Gallery 16 founder Griff Williams will lead a conversation with Tucker about his work and practice.
And, possibly an advanced game of Twister on Tucker's painting on the gallery floor.

Drinks will be served. Admission is free but RSVP is requested:
RSVP here.

Walkthrough with Rebekah Goldstein

June 28, 2025

1:00pm - 4:00pm at Gallery 16.

What do Joan Brown, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, the Orphic Cubism movement, and medieval painter Duccio have in common? They have all informed Rebekah Goldstein's paintings in her first solo show at Gallery 16, Full Length Mirror.

Join us for an exhibition tour with Rebekah about her work and process.

Rex Ray / Bill Ward Walkthrough Event

March 15, 2025

2:00pm - 4:00pm at Gallery 16.

Join us for a Rex Ray and Bill Ward exhibition tour. Griff Williams, founder of Gallery 16, will guide guests through an intimate walkthrough of the two exhibitions. Griff will discuss the history of Rex Ray's artwork and career and lead a conversation with artist Bill Ward, who will be present to talk about his own work currently on view.

Drinks will be served. Marc Capelle, a native San Franciscan composer and producer, will provide live music.

Homebody Walkthrough

December 13, 2024

6:00pm - 9:00pm at Gallery 16.

Join us Friday evening for special Homebody exhibition walkthrough with Cate White, Erik Parra, Greg Climer, Karla Wozniak, Mary Campbell, Rachel Kaye, and Rachel Stallings Thomander.

The artists will guide us through the show with a conversation about their works and practices. And, we'll have some special warm drinks to celebrate the season!

Warp and Weft Walkthrough

October 18, 2024

6:00pm - 9:00pm at Gallery 16.
With a walkthrough and Q&A beginning at 6:30 PM.

Join us this evening for special Warp and Weft exhibition walkthrough with Rebekah Goldstein, Nathan Lynch, and Joshua Rampage!

We'll have drinks and music. Artist Joshua Rampage will DJ a special set of music. The artists will be on hand to discuss their works and practices with attendees and Gallery 16 founder Griff Williams. Griff will talk about Jim Melchert's work and legacy as well as the work of Michelle Grabner.

Drawing Session with Tucker and Jon Nichols

May 04, 2024

1:00pm - 4:00pm at Gallery 16.

Come join Jon and Tucker Nichols for an afternoon of artmaking and general merriment!

As brothers, Jon and Tucker have been collaborating in some way for fifty years now. They have invented games, published picture books, created films, and most importantly, filled countless afternoons drawing and making music for no audience but themselves. At Gallery 16, Jon and Tucker will offer prompts, guidelines, soundtracks, constraints, and elements of confusion to help share the joy of sitting around making things on a Saturday afternoon.

An assortment of mediocre drawing supplies will be on hand. Feel free to bring your own materials, if you are particular about that kind of thing.

IMG SERVER

April 27, 2024

5:00pm - 7:00pm at Gallery 16.

A performance / installation event by Joseph Blake to celebrate the closing of his Bryant St. installation, shitty gods.

Drawing from themes in Hito Steyer's 2009 essay "In Defense of the Poor Image," the artist will temporarily install a three-dimensional self portrait in the gallery made of receipt paper that will enclose him for the duration of the performance.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their own receipts to the gallery on which Blake will print images from his growing archive of "poor images" - low-resolution pictures sourced from the web.

Tell Them We Were Here screening

April 26, 2024

7:30pm at Gallery 16.

Please join us for a special screening of the award-winning documentary film Tell Them We Were Here at Gallery 16. Director Griff Williams and artist Tucker Nichols will be on hand to discuss the film.

Live from the Uncanny

February 23, 2024

7:00pm at Gallery 16.

In conjunction with the exhibition The Mystery of The Mystery, improvisational ensemble The Color Organist (Scott Hewicker, Wayne Smith, and David Van De Voort) will host an evening of performance, video, readings, and sound inspired by the ideas of The Uncanny, or the subtle horror of the familiar made unfamiliar.

The Uncanny occurs at the veil where our sense of security dissolves into an obscure uncertainty. It pokes holes in the boundaries of what might be understood as the real and reveals subconscious fears of what might actually be happening. It lies in the perpetual detachment felt when the reality of our situation consistently fails to live up to expected promises. Perhaps, we fear realizing these expectations may have become the lies we perpetuate to ignore necessary change.

As in film and in literature, The Uncanny is best examined through the lens of the Surreal. On this evening, The Color Organist will offer a phantasmagoric glimpse through the veil in order to share through voices (bodied and disembodied) our common fears and misgivings, and find a path out of the darkness towards something... less dark.

Participants include: Rebeca Bollinger with Gus Tomizuka and Patricio Coronado, Alice Shaw, Rumi Koshino, Yedda Morrison, Steven Seidenberg, Ebtihal Shedid, Rod Roland, Colter Jacobsen, Pam Martin, and Cliff Hengst.

Zoetrope Launch Celebration with Steve Keene

February 15, 2024

6:00pm - 8:00pm at Gallery 16.

Come meet the most prolific American painter of all time: Steve Keene.

We are celebrating the release of the Zoetrope: All-Story magazine issue that Steve Keene has designed. Keene's work will be available for sale for $10! Yup, ten bucks.

A longtime superstar in the indie music scene, Steve has created original album-cover art for the likes of Pavement, Silver Jews, and The Apples in Stereo.

Once called the "assembly-line Picasso" by TIME Magazine, Steve's artistic process consists of replicating hundreds of painted images a day. Keene has produced more than 300,000 hand-painted works via his studio/chainlink fence cage where he paints more than 50 paintings at a time.

Keene believes art should be accessible to all, stating, "I want buying my paintings to be like buying a CD: it's cheap, it's art, and it changes your life."

We’ll also be raffling off a signed copy of the stunning Steve Keene Art Book from our friends at Hat & Beard Press.