PHILOSOPHY

Vessel Gallery represents both emerging and established artists from California and around the world. Formerly exhibiting two- and three-dimensional works in a gallery space of 5000 sq ft. in Oakland (we’re still looking - any ideas?), we invite everyone to view our curated exhibitions and individual works through art fairs, its partner platforms, and through this online gallery store. Lonnie Lee, curator and director of Vessel Gallery, is committed to developing long-term relationships with artists and to helping collectors, enthusiasts, and viewers understand the development of the artists' work.

Vessel Gallery is looking for art and art collectors that are interested in helping to enrich humanity through the visual arts. Our goal is to forge a community of artists and collectors that enhances mutual understanding through an engagement with art. We believe that by creating bridges between artist and collector, audience and creator, curator and art professionals, we can make the world a better place.

We help seasoned art collectors find new artists and new works, and we love consulting with admirers and enthusiasts who are just starting to build their collections. We are interested in who you are and what interests you about art, and we are ready and eager to introduce you to the distinguished artists who regularly exhibit with us.

Vessel Gallery is a place where artists and art lovers go on a journey together. We see the gallery as a conduit through which ideas pass from person to person. We're here to cultivate the intellectual and visceral experience that comes when you encounter art in real space and real time.

"The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow
sharper." ~ Eden Phillpotts 

"All art has this characteristic: it unites
people." ~ Leo Tolstoy 

"I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists."
~ Marcel Duchamp

"Every authentic work of art is a gift
offered to the future." ~ Albert Camus 

"The object isn’t to make art, it is to be
in that wonderful state which makes art
inevitable." ~ Robert Henri

"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail,
and mankind the vessel. " 
~ August Hare 

"Art evokes the mystery without which
the world would not exist."
~ Rene Magritte