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SF Art Galleries - Openings & Events Event Link: see venue calendar above ^^ WAVE COMES IN, WAVE GOES OUT AFTON LOVE, DANIELLE DIMSTON, JANE SPRINGWATER, SOLANGE ROBERDEAU, AND ZAIDA OENEMA Opening Reception Saturday, July 11, 5–7pm Municipal Bonds is pleased to present Wave Comes In, Wave Goes Out , a group exhibition featuring works by Afton Love, Danielle Dimston, Jane Springwater, Solange Roberdeau, and Zaida Oenema, on view July 7 through August 29, 2026. Taking its title from the cyclical movement of water, the exhibition brings together artists whose works emerge from repetitive mark-making. Between the wave’s arrival and retreat lives the atmospheric, the bodily, the mineral, and the psychic. Across works on paper, porcelain, silk, and wood, recurring lines and gestures shape perception. Their rhythms recall tides, breath, weather, and the return of thought to form. Request a Preview San Francisco-based artist Jane Springwater creates her In Motion drawings through repeated movements of her arm and hand. Beginning with a simple arc and an envisioned geometry, she repeats the same gesture again and again. As the marks accumulate and overlap, structure gradually takes form, suggesting the pull and passage of water. While the forms evoke motion, they also directly record Springwater's movements. Repetition transforms a single gesture into complex fields of line, with changing densities that reveal the relationship between gesture and form. The resulting drawings are both expressions of motion and traces of the gestures that created them. Movement becomes both the subject of the work and the means by which it is made. Afton Love, a New Mexico-based artist originally from Northern California, makes work that appears as an open portal between interior and exterior worlds. Through perspectives of place and material, Love investigates erosion and preservation in relation to time. She elevates surface as her principal matter, delving into vast planes and substance. Nearing translucence, the work brings light into relation with shadow. In Aurum, Latin for gold, Love turns toward the alchemists’ search for the Philosopher’s Stone: the gold within. Made in 23-karat painted porcelain, Aurum stands as a counterpart to Prima Materia, an installation of eight nearly transparent porcelain tiles. Hovering in place, they ask for the intimacy of close attention. Prima materia, or first material, refers to the formless base of all matter, the very beginning. Love is drawn to its Jungian interpretation as the projection of the unconscious, where seeing clearly begins with recognizing the role we play in what we see. Danielle Dimston, who lives and works in New York, makes ink drawings in which lines extend and divide, accumulating into provisional architectures that render space elastic and alive. Spirals advance and recede with precision, converging only to disperse again, so that motion and form remain bound together. Each drawing becomes a site of emergence, where structure gathers and shifts through the same gesture. Dimston’s compositions move between geometric and organic order, always held to the hand and the medium. Lines connect and build, looping and intersecting as forms begin to take shape, then open into fields of breath. Her abstractions carry clarity and psychological ease, with rhythm and control held in continual exchange. Mendocino-based artist Solange Roberdeau made The Smell of Rain in Northern New Mexico, where the summer monsoons roll in fast, dark, and heavy, saturating the landscape and lifting warm scents from the soil—big sagebrush, chamisa, piñon. Incrementally, Roberdeau spread ink across a sheet of glass, pressed paper down, and watched as the wet was absorbed into the dry, leaving an impression that pushed its way through the paper. She pressed the paper closer, watched, then quickly lifted it away. The process left a field of peppered marks, not unlike those first minutes of rain on the land, the surface activ…