The Cottage Industry Painting Salon

Mission

The Cottage Industry Painting Salon champions Bay Area painting, both in the contemporary and historic sense, by exhibiting ambitious, fresh and accessible emerging painters as well as Beat Era art, photographs and documentaries.

The Salon

The Cottage Industry Painting Salon is located below the famed apartment, 2322 Fillmore St. in San Francisco where artist Jay DeFeo painted the The Rose, and where Bruce Conner shot the film The White Rose, documenting the removal of DeFeo’s legendary painting from her apartment in 1965. Joan Brown also lived and worked in the building. Artist Kristen van Diggelen established the Salon in February 2010 after being invited by the owner of the historic building to set up her studio at 2326 Fillmore St. in 2009.

The second Wednesday of the month, van Diggelen hosts a salon, inviting a local contemporary painter or a group of painters to exhibit, entirely uncensored and self-curated, or dedicates the Salon night to an exhibition of Beat Era art and/or history.

The Cottage Industry Painting Salon is a non-profiting, artist-run salon created to provide Bay Area artists with an alternative exhibition space, as well as a place to gather and network with fellow artists and members of the larger community.