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Art Opening: Emptiness is Form

Saturday, July 11, 2026 - 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Free
Swim Gallery | 509 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA

Event Details

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Bay Hill

Join us at SWIM Gallery on July 11, 2026 from 6-9 for the OPENING of Emptiness is Form, a solo exhibition by a multidisciplinary SF-based artist, Bay Ambrose Hill. Working across ceramic sculpture, painting, photography, video, performance, and installation, Hill draws on nearly two decades of engagement with the Buddhist concept of emptiness (無, Wu) as expressed in the Heart Sutra. At the heart of the exhibition is the idea that emptiness is not a void, but the generative ground from which all forms emerge and to which they return.

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Cost: FREE*
*Free
Categories: Art & Museums, In Person
Address: 509 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA

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