The Californer - New Sculptures On View at di Rosa This Fall

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NAPA, Calif. - Californer -- di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art welcomes visitors to view several new temporary sculptural works installed on the property this fall. Now through November, works by artists Ana Teresa Fernández, Nina Katchadourian, Philip Krohn, and Nathan Lynch will grace the Sculpture Meadow and grounds. di Rosa is open to the public Thursday – Sunday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., and welcomes guests to join guided tours of the collection and grounds daily at 11:30 a.m.

On view October 10 – December 8 is Nina Katchadourian's Monument to the Unelected. An ongoing project conceived in 2008, Monument to the Unelected consists of a series of lawn signs advertising the presidential campaign of every major party candidate who ran and lost.

October 10 – November 17, sculptor and performance artist Nathan Lynch presents We Are Speaking, an installation consisting of three sculptural podiums installed in di Rosa's landscape. The Bully Pulpit, Platform on Peace, and Speech Aboard the Iceberg — large, curving podium structures with undulating surfaces and in hues of red, white, and deep blue, respectively — evoke the poles of civic discourse and the absurdity of American life.

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di Rosa is thrilled to welcome home Ana Teresa Fernández' large sculptural text work, TIERRA. Installed on a hill overlooking Winery Lake and the vineyards of the Carneros Valley, TIERRA is a six-foot-tall, 18-foot-long sculpture comprised of wooden letterforms spelling out "TIERRA," surfaced with a mosaic of tiles in various hues from pale pink to deep brown.

Installation of Hawks and Doves, a site-specific work by Philip Krohn and AUXART in di Rosa's Olive Grove and Sculpture Meadow, began in July and was recently completed.

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