di Rosa's True North Features 50 North Bay Artists Working in Diverse Media

NAPA, Calif. - Oct. 23, 2024 - PRLog -- di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the artists selected for True North, their biennial juried exhibition of North Bay artists. True North will open with a reception Saturday, November 16, with a di Rosa Patrons + Members Hour from 5 – 6 p.m. and a public reception 6 – 7 p.m. True North will be on view through February 16, 2025. Tickets and RSVP at dirosaart.org.

Selected by a panel of artists and art workers, this second iteration of True North presents a diverse array of work by artists living or working in Marin, Napa, Solano, or Sonoma counties. Submissions were juried by Lisa Crallé, artist, curator, and Founder & Director of Personal Space in Vallejo, CA; Reniel Del Rosario, artist; and Justin Wyckoff, art conservator and writer.

"Regional surveys such as True North are massively important because of how equalizing it feels," said Reniel Del Rosario. "As someone who grew up in the North Bay, I'm very grateful for opportunities such as this that really try to highlight those that may have been othered from the larger [Bay Area art] scene. Being in the last True North exhibition, it was stellar for me to meet so many other artists from the region and see the wide breadth of ways we were all making work."

Themes explored through the selected work include maximalist or additive aesthetics, playful references to craft traditions and materials, humor, and abstracted figuration and landscape.

50 artists were selected from over 470 submissions. This iteration of True North features work by: Blake Aaseby, Chris Adessa, Cat Alden, Nicole Irene Anderson, Lexi Bakkar, Kate Barrengos, Linda Belden, Lemia Bodden, Vibrata Chromodoris, Daniel Clauson, Susan Simon Corwin, Rachel Davis, Anthony Demartini, Erica Dincalci, Holly Downing, Karyn Gabriel, Deborah Garber, Schylar Gholson, Sean Hallowell, Amy Hamley, Briona Hendren, Letisha Hill, Michelle Hirsch, Chiara Jacobsen-Sarter, Laine Justice, Mikey Kelly, Bessma Khalaf, Marsha Klein, Tom Krempa, Bonnie (Bebe) Kuhr, Bryan Locke, Mark Martin, Kristina McDonald, Doris Mitsch, Kristina Nobleman, Eden Pieper, Kate Rusek, Kala Stein, Lauren Szabo, Claudia Tarantino, Dawn Thomas, Leah Tumerman, Marie van Elder, Whitney Vangrin, Victoria Wagner, Denise Ward, Sue Weil, Julia Westerbeke, Nancy Willis, and Nate Yo.

di Rosa will present several public programs related to True North during the run of the exhibition, including performances by artists Briona Hendrin and Whitney Vangrin on January 18, 2025.

https://www.dirosaart.org/2024/07/open-call-true-north-2024/