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Exhibitions

    • 18 May 2025
    • 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
    • SFMOMA, 151 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103
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    PRS Musuem Visit:

    Ruth Asawa Retrospective at SFMOMA

    Sunday, May 18, 2025 | 11:00 AM
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
    151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA

    Join Pacific Rim Sculptors for a special visit to experience Ruth Asawa: Retrospective at SFMOMA—the most comprehensive exhibition of Asawa’s work to date. This landmark show features over 300 pieces spanning six decades, including her iconic looped- and tied-wire sculptures, intricate drawings, paintings, clay masks, and cast bronze works. The exhibition also explores how Asawa's San Francisco home and garden served as the epicenter of her creative universe, highlighting her role as an educator and civic leader . 

    We'll meet at the museum entrance at 11:00 AM. Admission is free for SFMOMA members; general admission tickets can be purchased online or at the door.

    Don't miss this opportunity to delve into the life and legacy of one of the Bay Area's most influential artists.


    For more information and to purchase tickets: https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/ruth-asawa-retrospective/


    • 31 May 2025
    • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    • di Rosa Downtown, 1300 First St., Ste 251, Napa, CA 94559
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    Curator's Tour 

    di Rosa Downtown: Second Nature

    An exhibition featuring

    PRS members Annette Goodfriend & Ruth Tabancay

    Join us for a free curatorial tour led by Annette Goodfriend at 5:00pm with ample time to view and ask questions.

    “Straddling the line between art and science, these artists craft dream-like representations of the natural world. Using varied media, ranging from organic materials such as insects and urchin shells to industrial steel and rubber, Goodfriend, Tabancay, and Traugot examine the changes human activity has wrought upon the world, and the need to better care for all the planet’s creatures.”

    Curatorial tour led by Annette Goodfriend at 5:00 with ample time to view and ask questions.

    Following the tour visitors are invited to join a unique foraged-based dinner  and fundraising event for di Rosa Center for Contemporary Arts with live music $70/per person

    To sign up for the dinner- https://www.mariafinn.com/event-details/daylighting-upwelling-the-story-of-a-river-a-community-1

    *** Please note that this exhibition is located at the di Rosa's satellite campus in downtown Napa.*** 

    Location: di Rosa Downtown at 1300 First St., Ste 251, Napa, CA.
    Exhibition Dates: March 8 – June 1, 2025.
    Free and open to the public Friday – Sunday, 12 – 4 p.m.

    Ester Traugot, Sea Urchin

    More about the dinner:

    Daylighting & Upwelling: The Story of a River & A Community
    May 31st: 6:30-9:00 
    di Rosa Downtown (1300 First Street, Ste. 251)
    $70/person

    Join us for an evening celebrating the dynamic waterways of the Napa region, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Second Nature at di Rosa Downtown.

    With menu by Maria Finn, author of Forage. Gather. Feast. Feast and founder of The Institute for Ecosystem Based Living;

    Musical performance from Kitka trio of water-based songs;


    Menu

    Portside Sourdough with Tsar Nicolai smoked sturgeon rillettes & seaweed butter

     Star Route Farms salad greens with pickled bladderwrack & shallots, kombu gomasio, and puffed quinoa and dressed with mulberry & kombu vinaigrette. Self-garnish with wildflowers of the Napa Valley.

    Uni Cacio & Pepe pasta with crème fraiche, preserved lemon & pink peppercorn

    California Bay nut & Rose petal jam cookies & fresh fruit 

    Poseidon Vineyard Rosé for the Bay by Obsidian Wines.


    Participants

    Maria Finn is a writer, chef, and storyteller. She’s the author of the recently published cookbook Forage. Gather. Feast. and founder of Flora & Fungi Adventures and The Institute of Ecosystem Based Living. She has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. and has taught creative and feature writing at Stanford University among other places.  Maria has told stories for The Moth Mainstage at the Museo del Barrio in New York City and the Castro Theater in San Francisco. She was a fellow in the first creative cohort in the Design Science Studio and Living Systems Collaboratory, as part of the Buckminster Fuller Society. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Autodesk, Pier 9 maker space and created an edible map of the San Francisco Bay that is on display at the San Francisco Exploratorium. She was chef-in-residence for Stochastic Labs, a residency for artists, scientists, and tech innovators in Berkeley. 


    Kitka Trio - Music Concert and Presentation
    A trio from the acclaimed Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble presents a short concert featuring a variety of traditional polyphonic music—work songs, healing songs, sacred/liturgical, and ritual melodies—from Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and Caucasus Georgia. The music reflects the lives of everyday women—revealing a range of traditional ecologies, folklore, and the deeply communal nature of multi-voiced singing traditions. The trio consists of Kelly Atkins, Kristine Barrett, and Janet Kutulus.


    About the Artists:

    Annette Goodfriend was born and raised in Northern California. She completed her undergraduate degree at U.C. Berkeley, where she studied Genetics and Art, and received her M.F.A. at the California College of the Arts. Goodfriend is a winner of the International Art Competition Premio O.R.A. Italia, the Malamegi Lab 15, 20, & 24 International Art Prizes, and is one of 18 artists from 15 countries whose work was chosen for the YICCA International Art Prize. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Discovered Award, a grant and exhibition funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Creative Sonoma, and was honored with residencies at the Morris Graves Foundation and the Headlands Center for the Arts.

    Her sculpture has been exhibited in solo and group shows locally, nationally, and internationally, including the Museum of Sonoma County, Monterey Museum of Art, Kellogg University Art Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, HDLU Pavilion in Zagreb, Croatia, and 3)5 Arte Contemporanea, a contemporary art gallery in Viterbo, Italy, among many others. Her work has been featured in exhibition catalogues, newspapers, and reviews, and is published in the books Artists of the Bay Area, Embodied Forest, and Entanglements(2).

    Goodfriend lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, son, and menagerie.

    For more information about Annette and her work:  www.annettegoodfriend.com

    Annette Goodfriend, MacrocystisAmbulataurus


    Ruth Tabancay's passion for science led her to study microbiology in college. Following a stint as a hospital laboratory technologist, she went on to medical school. After 11 years in private practice, she left medicine to study art. Her bodies of work include those based on microscopy and magnification, geometry (both Euclidean and non-Euclidean), and ecological systems. Her techniques include embroidery, stitching, crochet, assemblage, rotary knitting, Jacquard weaving, felting, cast sugar, and installation. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley; University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco; and California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally, including The Textile Museum, Washington, D. C.; Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; World Financial Center, New York City; and San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. She lives in Berkeley, California.

    For more information about Ruth and her work: www.ruthtabancay.com


    Ruth Tabancay, Plastic Reef


    About the exhibition:

    Second Nature features work by three Northern California artists: Annette Goodfriend, Ruth Tabancay, and Esther Traugot. Straddling the line between art and science, these artists craft dream-like representations of the natural world. Using varied media, ranging from organic materials such as insects, urchin shells, and tea bags to industrial steel and rubber, Goodfriend, Tabancay, and Traugot examine the changes human activity has wrought upon the world, and the need to better care for all the planet’s creatures.

    Working primarily with epoxy, resin, rubber, wax, and plaster, Annette Goodfriend creates sculptures that explore human anatomy, often hybridized or contrasted with non-human animal or plant forms. Goodfriend’s works featured in Second Nature depict an oceanic world in retreat: starfish crawling on human finger-like limbs, sea life held in anthropomorphic vise grips, an ambulatory kelp forest. Drawing on her background studies in genetics, Goodfriend’s work explores human interdependence with our oceans and seas, even as warming waters threaten this fragile ecosystem.

    With a background in bacteriology and medicine, Ruth Tabancay’s work combines textile techniques that she taught herself as a child — crochet and knitting — with an interest in environmental issues such as the bleaching of the coral reefs, the ability of some micro-organisms to digest plastic, and ecological systems such as mycorrhizal networks and bee colonies. Using materials as varied as tea bags, thread, yarn, beeswax, and sugar, Tabancay weaves and stitches micro-organisms digesting plastic, coral reefs constructed around plastic medical waste, and macro colonies of the bacteria that is on us and in us.

    Esther Traugot grew up in an idealistic farming community during the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970’s, an experience which influences the relationship between herself and the natural world on view in her work. Stitching with her own hand-dyed golden yarns, she crochets wrappings in and around found natural objects — bees, trees, sea urchin shells — nurturing, protecting, and making them whole again.

    Organized by Annette Goodfriend, a version of this exhibition was previously mounted at Marin Art and Garden Center in 2024.


Earlier Exhibitions

2019 30th Annual Bioneers Conference, with sculpture by Pacific Rim Sculptors, at Marin Civic Center Fairgrounds, October 18-20, 2019. Organized by Peter Keresztury (see Bioneers website: www.bioneers.org)   

2019 Matter of Form at SHOH Gallery, Berkeley, CA, Juror Christine Koppes. (Information & images here)

2018 Sculpture Now at Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA. Juror Brigitte Micmacker. (Information & images here; PMA Blog)

2018 Ingenuity at Marin Society of Artists, Marin, CA. Juror Michael Ruiz. (Information here; article here; video here & here); Facebook here)

2018 Forms & Sequences at Siskiyou Arts Museum, Dunsmuir, CA. Juror Phil Linhares. (Information here; Facebook photos here)

2018 An Exhibition of Indoor & Outdoor Sculpture at Real Goods, Solar Living Institute, Hopland, CA. (Information here)

2018 Room for Thought at SPACE 151, San Francisco, CA. Juror Jack Fischer. Fischer. (Information & images from opening reception here)

2018 - The International Sculpture Center Digital Exhibition at Zona Maco Mexico, with Pacific Rim Sculptors, Chicago Sculpture International, & the Texas Sculpture Group, February. 

2017 - The International Sculpture Center Digital Exhibition at EXPO Chicago, with Pacific Rim Sculptors, Chicago Sculpture International, & the Texas Sculpture Group, September.

2017 - The International Sculpture Center Digital Exhibition at Miami Art Week, with Pacific Rim Sculptors, Chicago Sculpture International, & the Texas Sculpture Group, December. 

2017 - A Sculpture Exhibition, in participation with International Sculpture Day, at Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA, April 4-30. Juror: Jeff Owen; Curator: Peter Keresztury.


2016 - International Sculpture Day Exhibition, at Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA, April 3 – 28.

2015/2016 - DISRUPTION, at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, Oct. 25, 2015 - March 27; A juried national show of works by International Sculpture Center chapters. Juror: Kenneth Baker.

2015 - Magic Carpet Ride, Pacific Rim Sculptors & The Greek Sculptors Group of Athens at Ekfrasi - Yianna Grammatopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece, Sept. 22 – Oct. 24.  Juror: Peter Selz.

2015 - SCULPTURE!  Part I at Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, June 14 - July 11. Juror:  John Toki.

2014 - In 3-D: Selected Art by Pacific Rim Sculptors, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, CA, Oct. 3 – 25. Juror: Donna Napper of San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.

2014 - SCULPTURE!  Part II, at Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, July 22 – Aug. 22. Juror: John Toki.

2014 - Beyond Gaga, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA, Feb. 1 – March 9.

2013 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Presents: Objects of Engagement at 600 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA, June 8 - July 21. Juror: Michele Rowe Shields.

2006 - 16 Years at 600 Townsend, Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA, July 27 – Sept. 7. Juror: Robert Brady.

2006 - Strange Days at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, June 9 - July 22. Juror: Tara McDowell, SFMOMA.

2005 - Obedient Nature at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, July – Aug. Juror: JoAnne Northrup.

2005 - Wit & Wisdom: Small Works from the Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, Jan. 27 - March 5. Juror:  Beth Goldberg & Nancy Legge.

2005 - California Dreaming at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Jan. 8 – Feb. 27. Juror: John Toki, California College of Art.

2004 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group: Annual Members Exhibition at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, July 22 – Aug. 27. Juror: Kenneth Baker.

2004 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Presents: Bay Area Student Sculpture Biennial at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, June 10 - July 16.

2004 - Off the Rim: Selections from the Pacific Rim Sculptors Group at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, May-Sept. Juror: Brook Barrie.

2004 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group 2003 Winter Exhibition at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Feb. 6 - March 21. Juror: Stephen Wirtz, Stephen Wirtz Gallery.

2003 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Presents: Fall Members Show at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Sept. 12 – Oct. 30. Juror: Karen Tsujimoto, Oakland Museum of California.

2003 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Presents: Fall Members Exhibition at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Sept. 10 – Oct. 31. Juror: Cheryl Haines, Haines Gallery.

2003 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Presents: Members Exhibition, Outdoor Show at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, July 31 – Sept. 8. Juror: Brigitte Micmaker & John Denning, A New Leaf Gallery, Berkeley.

2003 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Presents: Members Exhibition, Summer 2003 at 600 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA, June 11 - July 25. Juror: Steven Oliver, Oliver Ranch Sculpture Collection.

2002 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Presents: Bay Area Student Sculpture Biennial at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, June 13 - July 26. Juror:  Rene Yanez.

2002 - Steamie Creme with No Theme at 600 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 10 - March 1. Juror: Rene di Rosa, The di Rosa Preserve.

2002 - Sculpture & Art Show at Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, CA.

2001 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group 2001 Members Exhibition at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Sept. 13 – Oct. 23. Juror: Rene de Guzman, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

2001 - Becomings at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, March 15 - May 18. Juror: Donna Schumacher.

2001 - Natural Selections at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Jan. 11 – Feb. 23. Juror: Susan Cummins, Susan Cummins Gallery.

2001 - Art at the Summer Solstice at Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, CA.

2000 - Through the Door Revisited: The Fifth Annual Members Show, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Sept. 9 – Oct. 29. Juror: Jeff Nathanson, Richmond Art Center.

2000 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Presents: Bay Area Student Sculpture Biennial at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, June 8 - July 21. Juror: Catharine Clark, Catharine Clark Gallery.

2000 - Spring 2000: An Exhibition of Sculpture at 600 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA, April 20 - June 2. Juror: David Middlebrow, San Jose State University.

2000 - Best Friends at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Jan. 20 - March 5. Juror: Susan Hillhouse, Triton Museum.

1999 - Monuments: Markers of Time at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, June 17-July 30. Juror: Terri Cohen.

1999 - Container Vessel Shelter Home at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, April 22 - June 11. Juror: Clay Jensen, CCAC.

1999 - The Winter Show at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Jan. 19 - March 6. Juror: Michael Schwager, Sonoma State University.

1999 - Presence: An Exhibition of Sculpture That Suggests a Figure or the Presence of a Being at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Jan. 14 – Feb. 26. Juror: Marvin Schenck, Mendocino Arts Center.

1999 - Fourth Annual Sculpture Show at Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA.

1998 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group: Third Annual Juried Members Exhibition at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Sept 11–Oct. 31 Juror:  Bella Feldman.

1998 - The Third Time I Saw Phyllis, She Exploded at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, April 2 - June 4. Juror: Richard Berger, SFAI

1998 - Sculpture in the Garden at Cooper Molera Gallery, Monterey, CA.

1998 - Third Annual Sculpture Show at Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA.

1997 - Life Forms and Ancient Energies at Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA; Invitational Show of Selected Members of PRSG, July 17 – Sept. 7. Juror: Catherine Merrill & Louise Lieber.

1997 - Sculpture - 12 x 12 at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, March 10 - April 30. Juror: Stan Huncilman.

1997 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group: Twenty-two Artists Working with Wood, Stone, Metal, Glass & Clay at Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA.

1996 - The Pacific Rim: Annual Members Exhibition of the Pacific Rim Sculptors Group at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Sept. 12 – Oct. 25. Juror: Peter Selz.

1996 - Bay Area Sculpture Student Survey at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, July 1 – Aug. 15. Juror: Manuel Neri.

1996 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Exhibits the Mother Lode at Ironstone Vineyards Gallery, Murphys, CA, June – Aug.

1996 - Through the Door at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, May 18 – August 1.

1996 - Speaking of Her (environmental concerns for the future) at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, April 8 - June 21. Juror: John Battenberg.

1996 - Passion for the Figure at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Jan. 8 - March 22. Juror: Welton Rotz.

1995 - Weather Works: 9 Artists Face the Elements at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Sept. 17 – Nov. 24. Juror: Philip E. Linhares, Oakland Museum.

1995 - Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Presents: Jedrzej Stepak at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, March 23 - April 30.

1995 - Spatial Politics: A Garden at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, Juror: William Wareham.

1994/1995 - The Oakland Museum Presents: An Impromptu Exhibition of Outdoor Sculpture at Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Aug. 19, 1994 – Jan. 8, 1995. Juror: Adrienne Fuzee.

1994 - Northern Lights by Pacific Rim Sculptors Group and Nordic 5 Arts at Contract Design Center, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, April 15 - June 30. Juror: Adrienne Fuzee.


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