Rose D’Amato: Thru THICK and THIN @ Minnesota Street Project Foundation

In conjunction with the 2026 San Francisco Art Book Fair, Minnesota Street Project Foundation is pleased to present Thru THICK and THIN, an exhibition by Los Angeles-born, Bay Area-based artist Rose D’Amato.

Through a layered installation of windows, billboard structures, reflective paintings, and 8mm film, the exhibition surveys the typographic landscape of San Francisco’s recent past. In D'Amato's practice, streets become a metaphorical extension of time's transient nature, where objects, imbued with the marks of labor and human touch, transcend their materiality. Each work is not only a product of its physical creation, but reflects the history and influences that have shaped it. Through this interplay of space, time, and process, Thru THICK and THIN encapsulates the essence of craftsmanship as both a temporal and timeless pursuit.

On Thursday, July 23, for the Opening Night Preview of the 2026 San Francisco Art Book Fair, DJ TUFF and Nicolas Torres will spin a selection of vinyl records in dialogue with the installation.

Rose D’Amato (b. 1991, Los Angeles, CA) is a pinstriper and painter living and working in San Francisco, CA. D’Amato uses painting to create a personal archive of both the hand-painted signs in the built environment and the lettering she’s called on to paint for those around her. As a second-generation sign painter, D’Amato engages techniques inherited and learned through a years-long commitment to her family’s trade, working with airbrush, gold leaf, and hand lettering to create her own representations of their practices in motion. She hopes to hold and honor the visual histories of California subcultures in her artistic work.