Invaders: Vallejo, Food and the Making of California
November 7, 2026-February 6, 2027di Rosa SF Interrupted Passage, Production Image, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris. Invaders pairs Interrupted Passage, an ongoing food-based project by Julio César Morales and Max Rivière-Hedrick, with significant works from the di Rosa permanent collection. Together, these works use food as a way of investigating alternative […]
Making Strange
August 29 – November 29, 2026di Rosa Napa What makes something beautiful? For much of Western art history, beauty has been bound to harmony, refinement, proportion, and technical mastery. Many artists working in Northern California chose a different path—one that located beauty in the awkward, the excessive, the humorous, the grotesque, and the imperfect. Making […]
David Best: Eyes and Ears
August 8-December 6di Rosa Napa For more than five decades, David Best has transformed the overlooked and the everyday into exuberant works of art, finding beauty, humor, and humanity in discarded materials. Eyes and Ears presents a new body of work that marks a fresh chapter in the artist’s practice. More intimate in scale than his […]
Michele Pred: Projecting Democracy
June 20-September 20 Visible nightly from dusk to midnight Gatehouse Gallery exterior About the artist Michele Pred is a Swedish-American conceptual artist whose practice includes sculpture, assemblage, and performance. Her work uncovers the cultural and political meaning behind everyday objects, with a concentration on feminist themes such as equal pay, reproductive rights, and personal security. […]
Mitch Temple: The Sea Inside
May 30th-August 9th di Rosa Napa Mitch Temple’s “The Sea Inside” is one piece comprised of fifty-two paintings—the number in a deck of cards, weeks in the year, and the age he was when painting the series. Each piece is 18×24, black and white, acrylic on paper, and features a large, totemic “wave” shape front […]
John Simpkins: The Many Natured Oneness of Things
April 11-May 17 di Rosa Napa Visionary painter John Simpkins evokes a series of ecstatic dream-states in this series of lush, luminous paintings. Layered with intricate details and symbolic mark-making, often featuring anthropomorphized animals as guides or messengers, the works reflect a deeply personal vision shaped by decades of exploration and reflection. About the artistJohn […]
The Dome Show
May 2 – September 12, 2026 di Rosa SF Founded in 1976 by sculptor Peter Voulkos, pioneering live-work community The Dome that has provided creative soil for generations of Bay Area artists. Once a dome-shaped food processing factory, Voulkos and his collaborators transformed the industrial architecture into a radical, communal site where boundaries between art, life, […]
Dream Scape: Site-Specific Practice at di Rosa
March 7-July 19, 2026di Rosa Napa For over six decades, di Rosa has served as a laboratory and incubator for innovative land-based works. This exhibition highlights extant and past works alongside proposals for never-realized projects, celebrating a long history of artistic response to di Rosa’s landscape. Featuring works by:David BestWalter DussenberryRandy HussongPaul KosMarcMark MackJim MelchertJames […]
Christy Chan: Whose Comfort? | October 7 – March 31
Visible nightly from dusk to midnight Gatehouse Gallery exterior In 2022, Christy Chan’s Fainting Couch Project traveled to art centers around the Bay Area as an interactive platform for participants to reflect on fragility, privilege and abuse of power in the United States. Participants were invited to rest on an object that historically functioned to idealize […]
Dissecting Time: Stirring Memory | September 19 – November 2, 2025
September 19-November 2, 2025 di Rosa Downtown1300 First Street, Ste. 251Friday-Sunday12 p.m. – 4 p.m. Artists Arminée Chahbazian, Laura Corallo-Titus and Chris Beards present works examining how time’s forward movement stirs human memory, both real and imagined. Each artist, in very different ways, is influenced by the concept of time – past, present, future – […]