UPCOMING SHOWS - Karen Rose

What an honor to have more work featured at the SFArtsEd gallery at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco along with a video interview.

KAREN ROSE
TEACHING / PRACTICE: Artist Mentor Highlight

SFArtsED is thrilled to unveil a new mini exhibition series featuring rotating bi-monthly showcases of Artist Mentors’ works, paired with short interviews about their teaching and art practice. Presented adjacent to our gallery space upstairs at 1275 Minnesota street, the display will be visible during the building’s normal open hours, 11am – 6pm Tuesday through Saturday.

Karen Rose: Teaching / Practice
SFArtsED Artist Mentor Hightlight

We're thrilled to share recent paintings by Karen Rose as Part of Teaching / Practice, a rotating showcase featuring works by SFArtsED Artist Mentors paired with short interviews about their teaching and art practice. The display is visible adjacent to our gallery, upstairs at 1275 Minnesota Street.

Image: Rio Grande Border Fence, 2025 oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 36 x 48"
This painting is from the artist's Mexican Border series, inspired by a border photo near Ciudad Juarez posted in the New York Times by Alejandro Cegarra. This painting is dedicated to the people in fear of ICE in Los Angeles, Texas, and elsewhere. The flower and color palettes are from huipil designs by indigenous Oaxacan matriarchal people – Frida Kahlo was known to wear and collect these textiles.

Excited to be showing one of my favorite paintings, Del Rey Grapevines, along with my students' work from my artist in residence at Guadalupe Elementary in the Excelsior in San Francisco up through the end of March.

Golden Gate from Baker Beach (without the bridge in the color of the bridge), 2024 oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 24 x36” is in the @studiogallerysf Auction for the San Francisco Marin Food Bank from February 19-22. The auction link is https://www.studiogallerysf.com/2026-food-bank-auction and bidding begins on the 19th. The gallery address is 1641 Pacific Avenue at Polk Street.

My painting, Alligator Alcatraz, at Church of the Nativity in Raleigh on Ray Road during Lent. Proud to be included with @ilaac_nc - each piece accompanies a station of the cross. Praying for the immigrants held in this cruel facility in the Florida Everglades. “Thirty-two bodies crammed per cage, six cages per tent. People screaming ‘Help me, I’m a U.S. citizen.’ Drinking water pumped from the same toilet they’re forced to use. It’s filth, it’s cruelty, it’s America’s name on the door.” - Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost

Thrilled to be exhibiting 3 paintings: Alcatraz, Escape from Alcatraz (Dia de los Muertos), and Alligator Alcatraz with these esteemed fellow artists. I will be at the opening, Friday, December 19! Up through February 8.

Durham Arts Council Building
Allenton & Semans Galleries
120 Morris St. Durham, NC 27701

(about a block from the Durham Convention Center where I have 10 paintings up through the end of December)

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Stoked to show my very recent painting Del Rey Tumbleweeds, San Joaquin in the Monochromatic show at The O'Hanlon Center in Mill Valley!
Juried by Suzanne Gray and Chandler Simpson
November 20 – December 18 / Reception Tuesday, December 2, 5:30 – 7:00pm

Several of my large scale SF Bay paintings were accepted to a pop up at the Embarcadero benefitting Drawbridge Arts for children of the Tenderloin. These will include the 8 foot piece, Marine Layers, from the Mill Valley installation. I am very proud to be showing work in San Francisco, my hometown. The show was curated by Evelisa Genova - Curator, & Executive Director of Drawbridge and Dorka Keehn - Curator, Independent Art Consultant, & Founder of Keehn on Art. Tickets are free (rsvp link), donations allowed. 50% of works purchased will be donated to @drawbridge.youth.arts and tax deductible.

I had 5 small acrylic wash paintings on wood of San Francisco islands before settlement accepted to the Tiny Show at Studio Gallery! The show will run from Friday, November 7th - Monday, December 22nd. There will be 2 receptions: Sunday, Nov 9th, 12-6 and a second reception to celebrate the gallery's 22nd anniversary on Sunday, Dec 7th, 12-6. STUDIO Gallery 1641 Pacific Avenue (between Polk & Van Ness) San Francisco, CA 94109 * 415.931.3130 www.STUDIOGallerySF.com Thursday - Monday 12-6

10 of my large scale, Mexican border and North Carolina paintings have been selected by the Durham Arts Council to show at the Durham Convention Center July-December 2025! I painted Prickly Pear and Yucca especially for this show.

MARINE LAYERS, chosen by the Mill Valley Arts Commission reproduced and installed 8 x 4’ outside the Mill Valley Depot June - September of 2025. Original painting at the Drawing Room San Francisco through September:

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30th FALC Annual Juried Exhibition, juried by Adam Cave. Page-Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC through Sept. 5.

February/March/April 2025 (16 works at Gallery Route One and 43 works at DACC):
https://galleryrouteone.org/2025/02/karen-rose-border-paintings/

Thrilled to have this oil painting accepted by North Carolina Opera, in collaboration with Diamante Arts & Cultural Center, to be exhibited along with the magical opera Florencia en el Amazonas by Mexican composer Daniel Catán. A beautiful story, filled with love, transformation, and the wonder of the Amazon, will come to the stage January 31 & February 2, 2025 at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium:

Recently shown at Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, won 2nd place mixed media GOLDEN GATE: