di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art maintains a permanent collection of works by Northern California artists that was originally collected by Rene di Rosa (1919-2010) and Veronica di Rosa (1934–1991). The collection contains notable works by artists living or working in the San Francisco Bay Area from mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first century, highlighting a story of experimentation of the artists of the region. It is displayed in part, on a rotating basis, in the galleries at di Rosa.
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Ms. Clingfree
Photograph
Woman in pink terry cloth holding house cleaning paraphernalia
613
Ektacolor print
Photographic Art
AR613
SF Camerawork
Purchase
Judy Dater
1982
Framed
28 in
23 in
Object
18 in
14 in
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Friday, April 14, 2024 - Sunday, August 27, 2024
The Incorrect Museum: Redux
May 13, 2022 - February 26, 2023, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa
The Incorrect Museum: Vignettes from the di Rosa Collection
April 17, 2021- April 17, 2022, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa
Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times (Part 2)
June 23, 2018 - December 30, 2018, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa
Looking at You Looking at Me: Artwork from the di Rosa Collection
October 29, 2011 – February 11, 2012, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa
Curator
2023
Dater’s tongue-in-cheek self-portrait – depicting the artist onstage in a sexy costume, loaded down by cleaning products – makes shrewd mockery of conflicting expectations faced by women in patriarchal society. With a deadpan sneer, she meets the viewer’s gaze, inviting them in on the joke. From a series of self-portraits produced by Dater in the early 80s in a style reminiscent of Cindy Sherman, Ms. Clingfree is explicitly informed by the politics of second-wave feminism and is particularly poignant at this moment when women’s rights are again under attack. Dater (b. 1941) is a pioneering feminist photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally, including the 2018 retrospective Only Human at the de Young Museum. Her work is included in public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, J. Paul Getty Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.