Moving Pictures: A Survey Exhibition of Works by Deborah Oropallo and Collaborators
On view through March 30, 2025
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
Napa, California
https://www.dirosaart.org/
“Moving Pictures: A Survey Exhibition of Works by Deborah Oropallo and Collaborators” presents a survey of Oropallo’s work focusing on new directions in the Bay Area artist’s practice. Since making her home in Northern California in the early 1980s, Oropallo has worked in close collaboration with other Bay Area artists and thinkers, including those featured in this exhibition: Michael Goldin, Jeremiah Franklin, and Andy Rappaport.
Originally trained as a painter, Oropallo incorporates mixed media techniques, including photomontage, video, computer editing, printmaking, and painting into her practice. Her composites layer visual sources, producing dense interplay between time, place, form, and content, often addressing themes of climate catastrophe, political uprising, and gender identity. Whether still or moving images, the resulting works bear traces of the distortions that evolve or remain from her manipulations and are imbued with the radical, politically charged, and uniquely personal spirit of the Bay Area.
[Image: Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, UPRISING, 2021. Three 4k projected videos with two-channel sound; 9:33. Courtesy of the artists and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco.]
