Moving Pictures | October 5, 2024 – March 30, 2025

Three large scale projections of monuments — statues of people on horseback and standing figures— hanging from harnesses against a grey sky.
Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, "UPRISING," 2021; three 4K projected videos with two-channel sound; 9:33. Courtesy of the artists and Catharine Clark Gallery.

Gallery 2 & di Rosa Grounds
Opening Reception October 5
On view October 5, 2024 – March 30, 2025

Moving Pictures: A Survey Exhibition of Works by Deborah Oropallo and Collaborators presents a survey of Oropallo’s work focusing on new directions in the Bay Area artist’s practice. Since making her home in Northern California in the early 1980s, Oropallo has worked in close collaboration with other Bay Area artists and thinkers including those featured in this exhibition: Michael Goldin, Jeremiah Franklin, and Andy Rappaport. 

Originally trained as a painter, Oropallo incorporates mixed media techniques, including photomontage, video, computer editing, printmaking, and painting into her practice. Her composites layer visual sources, producing dense interplay between time, place, form, and content, often addressing themes of climate catastrophe, political uprising, and gender identity. Whether still or moving images, the resulting works bear traces of the distortions that evolve or remain from her manipulations, and are imbued with the radical, politically-charged, and uniquely personal spirit of the Bay Area.

 

Gallery 1 Projection Series

As part of Moving Pictures, select single-channel video work by Oropallo and collaborators will be projected in the evening hours on the exterior of di Rosa’s Gallery 1, visible to passers-by on the Carneros Highway.

October
Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, MOUTHPIECE, 2019; single-channel video with two-channel sound;  02:16. Edition of 8 + 2 AP.

November
Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, RECKONING, 2020; single-channel video with two-channel sound; 13:32. Edition of 8 + 2 AP.

December
Deborah Oropallo and Jeremiah Franklin, SMOKED STACKED, 2017; single-channel video, 02:11. Edition of 8 + 2 AP.

January
Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, CRUDE, 2018; single-channel video, 06:24. Edition of 8 + 2 AP.

February
Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, MELTDOWN, 2018; single-channel video; 06:24. Edition of 8 + 2 AP.

March
Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, BLAZES, 2018; single-channel video, 03:31. Edition of 8 + 2 AP.

Related Programs and Events

Opening Reception
Saturday, October 5

5 – 6 p.m.
Patrons & Members Hour
Director’s Welcome at 5:30 p.m. followed by artists’ remarks.
Free for di Rosa Patrons & Members with RSVP to development@dirosaart.org

6 – 7 p.m.
Public Reception
Walkthrough of Campus Installations at 6:15 p.m.
$10 General | Members Free

Oropallo and the Art of Collaboration
Saturday, October 19 | 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Included with Gallery Admission
$25 General | Members Free

Deborah Oropallo, joined by collaborators Michael Goldin and Andy Rappaport, and artist and writer Monique Jenkinson, delve into the intriguing and sometimes messy, alchemy of creative collaboration. Moderated by gallerist Catharine Clark.

Limited seating available, first-come first-served.

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A wall with text reading "Moving Pictures," facing a wall with a large painting of a fragmented figure.
Three photomontage paintings of fragmented figures
A gallery with various large paintings and sculptures
A sculpture with snow white and dwarf costumes in animal traps
A view of various sculptures and wall works in a gallery
A gallery with various large paintings and sculptures
A sculpture with a boar's skull
A sculpture of black bare trees in a large gallery
A sculpture resembling trees, standing on bullao horns, with a hatchet.
Three photomontage paintings with imagery of cattle
A sculpture of black duck decoys mounted on a wall
large gallery room with multiple projected video works
A series of photomontage works with hands and protest signs
A series of photomontage works of portraits of masked protestors
A gallery hallway with various works, the end painted like the oval office
A video monitor with images from the oval office on a wall painted with yellow stripes
A work consisting of many small video monitors on a wall
Various video monitors in a grove of trees with images of masked protestors
A video monitor in a grove of trees with an image of a masked protestor

About the Artist

Deborah Oropallo received a BFA from Alfred University and an MA/MFA from the University of California at Berkeley. Oropallo’s exhibition history includes monographic exhibits at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; the Boise Art Museum; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; and work in exhibits at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Rivalry Projects, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Jewish Museum, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Oropallo’s work is housed in the collections of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Oropallo’s work is the subject of two monographs: POMP (2009) published by Gallery 16, San Francisco; and How To, published by the San Jose Museum of Art, CA. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, the Engelhard Award, and two grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

 

This exhibition supported in part by Catharine Clark Gallery and Schneider Museum of Art.