Collection in Focus: Ned Kahn
Ned Kahn’s playful and mysterious artworks emerge from a confluence of science and art. Inspired by atmospheric physics, geology, astronomy, and fluid motion, Kahn seeks to enable viewers to observe and interact with natural processes.
Robert Kinmont: Trying to understand where I grew up
Born in Los Angeles in 1937, conceptual artist Robert Kinmont spent his early years outside the small rural town of Bishop, California, before settling in Sonoma, his home of over 30 years.
di Party di Rosa: Auction Preview
Get a sneak peek at the artwork featured in the live and silent auctions at di Rosa’s 14th Annual Benefit Art Auction: di Party di Rosa. As di Rosa’s largest fundraiser of the year, the event is known for its dynamic offering of contemporary art by Bay Area artists.
Body Talk
This exhibition explores how technology is rapidly changing the human experience by prompting a reengagement with the corporeal. Inspired by a number of artists activating relationships between the body and the world at large, Body Talk presents works in performance, sculpture, video, and large-scale installation by six emerging Bay Area artists and artist collectives.
Squeak Carnwath: The Unmediated Self
Squeak Carnwath (b. 1947) has been fiercely committed to painting for decades. A well-known Bay Area artist, Carnwath often combines layers of words and images, fragments of things she comes across in daily life, in her work.
Tongue-in-Cheek
This exhibition explores the continuing legacy of humor and absurdity in Bay Area art through the lens of a new generation of artists. In an increasingly fraught social and political context—both locally and abroad—many artists have turned to comedy to reflect upon and illuminate the absurdities of daily life.
Relax in Electric Chair:Peter Saul at di Rosa
Peter Saul‘s lush and masterfully rendered paintings have been admired and derided far and wide for more than 50 years. This presentation marks the first time all seven Saul works in the di Rosa collection have been exhibited simultaneously.
Richard T. Walker: the fallibility of intent
Lending an outsider perspective to the limitless bounds of the American West, Richard T. Walker explores the complex intersections of language, music, and the human condition amidst the backdrop of the natural environment.
The Presence of the Present: Teresa Baker, Liam Everett, Leslie Shows
In a moment when technology reigns, and remarkable images can be generated with the push of a button, the relevance of painting persists. The Presence of the Present explores new work by Teresa Baker, Liam Everett, and Leslie Shows—three accomplished Bay Area artists whose seemingly disparate approaches to the painted surface share a distinct alertness to materiality and place.
Collection in Focus: Viola Frey
Bay Area artist Viola Frey (1933-2004) is perhaps best known for her larger than life figurative ceramic sculptures, many of which can be seen scattered throughout the di Rosa landscape. This exhibition focuses on lesser known aspects of Frey’s oeuvre through a selection of di Rosa’s impressive holdings of the artist’s works on paper and canvas.