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COL Gallery was founded in 2023 by Callie Jones and Julia Li in historic Ghirardelli Square, a bayside landmark since 1862, a Lawrence Halprin-designed community space, and home of Ruth Asawa's first public work. COL is a project-based, contemporary gallery with an emphasis on emerging voices and creating cross generational connections. 

 

Jones previously served as a Director at Skarstedt and Fergus McCaffrey Gallery in New York and at Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco. For the past decade, Jones has focused on artist development and representation while creating close relationships with numerous private collectors and institutions, working both domestic and international fairs including Art Basel, Frieze London, TEFAF Maastricht, among others. 

 

Li was the inaugural Director of Inclusion and Belonging at the Asian Art Museum, where she developed and implemented the museum's first diversity, equity, access and inclusion strategy. Li is dedicated to championing underserved voices and artists with powerful stories to tell. She is also the founder of Create Space Generator, a nonprofit creative entrepreneurship incubator.

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Gallery Hours
By appointment only

Featured Artists

A dense, painterly composition full of motion - somewhat ominous spectral figures and objects (fragments of skeletons, skulls, wings, limbs, sinew) swirling against an atmospheric background of forms recalling clouds and shafts of light.

Grace Jin

A painting featured abstracted, entangled bodies with green, dark purple, red, peach, yellow. A grayish purple hand emerges, limply hanging from the swarm of people, with fingers that appear to be dripping in blood. There is a darkened, shadowy figure behind, holding a glass, looking out a window. The room is bathed in an eerie green light.

Lily Alice Baker

An atmospheric, abstract work with a predominantly blue-green pallet, overlaid with a lattice of yellow and a structural red strokes. The canvas is roughly symmetrical - two red half circles dominating the top of the frame, with the half-circle pattern radiating down to the bottom in broad blue strokes, some thatched with black lines. The frame is thin and gold.

Ruthanna Halprin Hopper

A tripod structure with a brick red finish, each leg consisting of two narrow, parallel planks connected at varying intervals by seven small discs. They come together to form a small platform with five visible levels, constructed with great precision. From this center platform is suspended an upside-down pyramid, sheathed in bronze, attached to a near-invisible cord, string or wire. The structure is photographed against a white background. The legs cast slight shadows.

Kylie White

A gray scale painting that appears to be airbrushed features the lower torso and legs of a figure with dark colored skin against a dark background. The figure has a tattoo on its abdomen and wears white basketball shorts, tall white socks, and Nike sneakers.

Esteban Samayoa

A view from above of a ceramic vessel that is matte black with drips of red glaze. On the top of the vessel are three figures. One is red and face down, another is lying on its side being held by a yellow figure.

Timna Naim

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