Carneros Gallery Welcomes Mexican Painter Chagoya

announces the opening of a new solo exhibition by Mexican painter Enrique Chagoya, “,” which runs from Feb. 12 to April 16 at the Carneros institution’s Gatehouse Gallery.

 Chagoya’s work explores and analyzes, with originality and black humor, social and political issues including the border and immigration, colonialism and the chaotic economic times we live in.

Born in Mexico, Chagoya has lived in San Francisco since the 1970s and is now a professor at Stanford University whose work is shown at well-known museums and galleries in the United States.

Di Rosa marketing and events director Ann Trinca and curator Robert Wuilfe, who is Hispanic, say the exhibition touches on themes that are both universal and of particular interest to the Hispanic community.

With this in mind, they’ve planned several Spanish-language tours of the Chagoya show as well as of the rest of the di Rosa collection, located on a 200-acre property in Carneros with spectacular views of vineyards and a lake.

For those who have never visited di Rosa, this is a good opportunity to do so. The collection has 2,000 original works by internationally recognized artists, including several Hispanic artists.

Chagoya himself will be on hand at the opening reception for “Surviving Paradise” on Feb. 19 from 6 to 8 p.m., preceded by a members’ preview from 5 to 6 p.m.

Di Rosa tours take place each weekend, by reservation. Tours in Spanish are planned for Feb. 19, March 5, March 19 and April 9 at 11:30 a.m.

For reservations, call Johanna Pearson at (707) 226-5991, ext. 25.

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