Enrique Chagoya: Surviving Paradise/Sobreviviendo el Paraíso
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Surviving Paradise/Sobreviviendo el Paraíso features new and significant recent work by Enrique Chagoya highlighting cross-border themes that he has explored throughout his artistic career: immigration, colonization, political struggle, economics, and cultural imposition. Through masterful drawings, prints, books, and editioned objects, Chagoya brings an analytical and often darkly humorous eye to bear on the world around us.
Know the Rules–Then Break Them
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Know the Rules–Then Break Them featured a selection of photographic works from the di Rosa collection, curated by Doreen Schmid. The works in this exhibition reflected how photography has evolved from traditional documentary device to embodying and shaping various postmodern movements. Artists included: Ruth Bernhard, Bruce Conner, Imogen Cunningham, Bill Dane, Judy Dater, Lynn Hershman, […]
Artivore Antics: Auction Preview
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Visitors get a sneak peek at works in the live and silent auctions, including renowned Bay Area artists such as James Barsness, Chester Arnold, John Casey, Enrique Chagoya, Jason Jagel, Deborah Oropallo, Maria Porges, Rex Ray, Walter Robinson, Travis Somerville, Catherine Wagner, William Wiley, and many more. Bidding begins October 1, 2010 at the Preview […]
POMP: New Work by Deborah Oropallo
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Deborah Oropallo uses a computer rather than the brush, and has always preferred a systematic approach to her digitally constructed paintings. POMP features a varied range of her work, including pieces from her Guise and Wild Wild West series where she addresses the issue of adornment, pageantry, and costume. The Guise series is focused on […]
MFA Selections : A Salute to Bay Area Master Emerging Artists
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di Rosa’s Biennial MFA exhibition presents a juried selection of artists who recently completed their Master of Fine Art degrees at Bay Area art schools and colleges. Artists include Joanne Hashitani, Leigh Merrill, Sandra Ono, Gina Tuzzi, and Andrew Witrak from Mills College; Carina Baumann and S. Patricia Patterson from San Francisco Art Institute; Jina […]
Altered States: The Collection in Context
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Among the many themes embedded in di Rosa’s extensive collection, the notion of spirituality—or at least an altered state of consciousness—is discernible in the work of a number of artists. The Bay Area has long been an accommodating home to people searching for different views of reality, and its artists have often made visible those […]
Mike Henderson: New Work
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Mike Henderson shares new expressive, gestural abstract paintings that, like the blues and jazz music he also creates, fully engage viewers both physically and intellectually. Working both with and beyond the tradition of abstract expressionism, Henderson improvises with oil paint in a visual equivalent to the musical improvisations he crafts with his guitar. Henderson has […]
(un)Natural
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An exhibition of works of art interpreting nature and created by Bay Area artists responding to the natural environment, whether in detailed studies of plants and animals or lush paintings of the land or sea. Featuring work by Jessica Cadkin, Ross Campbell, Misako Inaoka, Carrie Lederer, Kathryn Spence, Lucrecia Troncoso, and Tara Tucker.
After the Age of Reason: New Work by Maria Porges
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The exhibition presents new drawings by Maria Porges, some of which incorporate fragments of actual books; wall-hung sculpture cast in a variety of materials, including wax backed with plaster, bronze, and cast lead crystal. Accompanied by a color brochure.
There! New Art From Oakland
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An exhibition exploring the creative talent exploding in Oakland today featuring artists Adam Air, Eric Araujo, Monica Canilao, Alika Cooper, Zach Houston, Obi Kaufmann, Keba Konte, Michael Meyers, Faviana Rodriguez, Mark Inglis Taylor, Matt Volla, Adam Air Williams, and Gabrielle Wolodarski.