Opening Reception, Friday January 16, 5-9PM!

Music & Light Refreshments!


BLOOM emerges in the weeks following the equinox, when daylight begins its return and the days quietly lengthen. Even as evenings remain short, the balance has shifted — almost imperceptibly — toward Light. This exhibition marks that turning point: Growth continuing through darkness, media fatigue, and the political noise of this winter.


The show brings together two professional photographers with active art practices — Brandon Joseph Baker and Rob Williamson — who have created new work specifically for BLOOM. 


Working in analog and physical processes, both artists reject seamless digital certainty in favor of construction, touch, and intention. Their photographs are sites of assembly and interruption: staged symbols, flowers, bodies, and surfaces shaped by hand, gesture, and desire.


Baker’s symbolic tableaux explore syncretism, false narratives, and dreamlike apparitions, drawing on religious lore and personal history to construct intimate, mythic scenes. Rob’s work begins in precision — flowers rendered on black-and-white film — before being disrupted by instinctual marks of oil pastel, allowing control and chaos to coexist. 


Together, the works in BLOOM choose beauty as a form of resistance and creation as an act of optimism — not naïve, but resolute — affirming the quiet courage of making, feeling, and growing as the light returns. Enjoy the show.


—Don Ross
curator, an.ä.log SF

We look forward to seeing you soon! –Don & Guy

886 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94110.