Founders Gallery
Located on the lower level of Art Works Downtown, the Founders’ Gallery offers an expansive space well-suited for sculpture, installation, and innovative group or solo exhibitions by a diversity of Bay Area artists. Surrounded by working artist studios, it invites visitors to experience art in close dialogue with the creative process.
Upcoming Exhibits
June 12–July 31, 2026:Nimisha Doongarwal
Layers of Belonging
Solo Exhibit by Nimisha Doongarwal
Mosaic of Humanity, mixed media, 36 x 36"
June 12–July 31, 2026
June 12 + July 10, 5-8pm: receptions and Art Walks
Layers of Belonging explores identity as something shaped through memory, migration, culture, and lived experience. Through mixed media portraits layered with collage, textiles, painting, and archival imagery, these works reflect the complexity of belonging between places, histories, and generations.
Many pieces incorporate fabrics and materials connected to personal and cultural memory, transforming each portrait into a layered narrative of inheritance, transformation, and human connection. Rather than presenting identity as fixed, the exhibition embraces the evolving nature of who we become through movement, experience, and the stories we carry with us.
Colonial Contrast
mixed media, 36 x 36"
Tapestry of Identities
mixed media, 36 x 36"