From July 2022 to June 2023, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture presented Christo Oropeza: Aun así, pienso en ti, a mural installation commission.
In FMCAC’s second outdoor painting commission, Oropeza remade former Army loading docks into portraits of FMCAC’s machine history. Continuing themes from his 2019 Whatever the Work May Be exhibition at Guerrero Gallery and mural projects for Facebook and SFMOMA, Oropeza depicted specialized tools and everyday objects—from super-sized nets, nozzles, and winches used during the site’s service as U.S. Army’s San Francisco Port of Embarkation (1932-1955) to implements maintaining the civilian site (1977-present). He created a suite of still-life paintings adapted for murals in the corridor gallery between Buildings B and C, building on San Francisco’s mural history from Diego Rivera to the Mission District murals inspired by Chicano, Black Power, and United Farm Workers movements.
Christo Oropeza Catalog
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Christo Oropeza (b. San Francisco, CA) is a “cultural worker” whose practice encompasses work as artist, curator, gallerist, producer, and museum staffer. Recent work includes mural commissions for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Facebook’s Artist in Residence program, and the painting exhibition Whatever the Work May Be at Guerrero Gallery. He co-founded Incline Gallery in 2010 with Brian Perrin. A San Francisco State University graduate, he founded the San Pancho Art Collective to create a post-school community for Bay Area artists and has been named to the YBCA 100 list of transformational figures.
From July 2022 to June 2023, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture presented Christo Oropeza: Aun así, pienso en ti, a mural installation commission.
The project was made possible by generous support from Dunn-Edwards Paints.
All Fort Mason Art Programs are generously supported by San Francisco Grants for The Arts and the FMCAC Board of Directors.
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