Jeff Dikio: This Must Be the Place

Jeff Dikio: This Must Be the Place April 30 – June 13, 2026 Opening Reception, Saturday, May 2nd, 1-4 pm. In This Must Be the Place, Jeff Dikio reflects on the quiet spaces where memory, environment, and emotion intersect. Borrowing its title from the Talking Heads song, the exhibition considers “place” not as a fixed location, but as a feeling—something recognized in passing, in fragments, in moments of stillness. Using paint chips in his collages, Dikio reconstructs familiar “every day” scenes into compositions that feel both grounded and unsettled. What emerges is a visual language of belonging, where home is less about geography and more about resonance.” Dikio is a Bay Area artist born in 1975 on Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. Raised within a transient military culture, he found early grounding in drawing and observation, developing a lifelong sensitivity to place, movement, and change. In his recent collages, Dikio tries to capture the colorful and quirky architecture and scenes found in his immediate surroundings that are distinctive of the surrounding Bay Area. He received his BA in Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1997, and has since worked across figurative, landscape, and mixed-media practices.