di Rosa, Sonoma Highway, Napa | Bay Area Now 7 (BAN7)
Channel: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Date: 2014-08-27

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Visiting BAN7 exhibition partner organization, di Rosa, in Napa.

di Rosa is a place that provokes the creative spirit and imagination of our time through the celebration of the art and artists of Northern California in an extraordinary landscape. Established in 2000, di Rosa offers visitors refuge to enjoy the art of Northern California in a singularly unique setting on 217 scenic acres in the Carneros region of the Napa Valley, with a wide array of exhibitions and educational programs for all ages. The property includes three separate galleries, a sculpture park, a 35-acre lake, and wildlife preserve. di Rosa's permanent collection is considered the most significant holding of contemporary Bay Area art in the world, with approximately 2,000 works of art by 800 artists working from the 1960s to the present. Launched in 2005, the Gatehouse Gallery exhibitions program presents up to five contemporary exhibitions per year, including new work by emerging artists, providing local artists with exposure within the context of the Bay Area's distinctive art culture. 

http://dirosaart.org

Through the work of artists who capture the spirit of "now," YBCA's signature triennial, Bay Area Now, brings to life current perspectives for both this art center and the regional art scene. In its seventh edition, BAN7 is experimenting with a new approach to curating that highlights collaborations with our region's artists and arts organizations and pushes beyond presentation toward a multidisciplinary celebration of the diversity of artistic practices in the Bay Area.

BAN7's core idea is to decentralize the curatorial process, and centralize the public presentation of some of the most exciting artistic voices in the region today.

As a common shared site for the presentation of works, BAN7 aims to create a lucid web of creative activity in the Bay Area. Our vision to create a platform for new work and experimentation is rooted in the belief that a decentralized curatorial process will open up an opportunity for a wider range of voices and create spaces for dialogue beyond the arts.

The visual arts component of Bay Area Now 7 has been reconceived through an open and rigorous selection process. By inviting noncommercial, small- to mid-size regional visual arts organizations to curate site-specific projects with Bay Area artists in YBCA's galleries, we are making visible the rich complexity of our many arts communities. Using an art fair style format in which the selected participants curate projects for specific locations throughout an exhibition space, BAN7 celebrates visual arts organizations as vital players in the local arts ecology. The exhibition aims to foster increased appreciation for Bay Area art, artists, and organizers, and to promote a greater understanding of the vast range of practices and individual visions that make the Bay Area such a vibrant center for contemporary art.