{"id":447359,"date":"2026-08-29T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447359\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:28:10","slug":"rupinder-kaloti-the-gathering-exhibition-at-oceanside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447359\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupinder Kaloti the Gathering Exhibition at Oceanside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oceanside Museum of Art is hosting the museum debut of Punjabi-American artist Rupinder \u201cRupy\u201d Kaloti, and The Gathering is exactly the kind of show that stays with you long after you leave the gallery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a large-scale, deeply personal body of work that reframes a story most of us think we already know. Give yourself real time to walk through it, because there\u2019s a lot to take in.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Gathering-OMA.jpeg\" alt=\"Rupinder Kaloti The Gathering exhibition at Oceanside Museum of Art\" class=\"wp-image-92305\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Reimagining the Immigrant Story<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of focusing on immigrant struggle, this exhibition imagines what comes after, an expansive, joyful world shaped by resilience, ritual, and ancestral connection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaloti builds her paintings around the belief that souls choose their families, framing the immigrant family not as defined by hardship but as a sacred destination chosen for its strength and traditions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a genuinely refreshing way to reframe a story we\u2019ve all heard told differently before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Gathering-OMA-1.jpg\" alt=\"Punjab-inspired imagery from Rupinder Kaloti The Gathering exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-92308\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>A Personal Mythology Told in Symbols<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaloti weaves a personal mythology throughout the series, spanning from Punjab, India, to East San Jos\u00e9, California. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recurring motifs like a guiding star and a rainbow act as visual metaphors for the soul\u2019s journey home, while a powerful tiger figure, an homage to her grandmother, who was named after the goddess Durga, stands guard throughout the work as a symbol of protection and strength. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fire shows up again and again too, not as destruction, but as transformation, with homes that endure the blaze and emerge illuminated rather than erased.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"92310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Gathering-OMA-1-1-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92310\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"92312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Gathering-OMA-3-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92312\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"92311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Gathering-OMA-2-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Saturated color palette in Rupinder Kaloti The Gathering exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-92311\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>A Painting Practice All its Own<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaloti\u2019s process is just as striking as her subject matter. She paints on custom, hand-cut wood panels instead of traditional rectangular canvases, creating pieces that feel more like architectural fragments or altars than typical paintings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her color palette pulls straight from Punjabi textiles like saris and phulkari, filling every piece with color that brings real visibility to histories that are so often overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate the Opening<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This solo exhibition was awarded to Kaloti after her piece \u201cFire Raiser\u201d stood out in OMA\u2019s 2024 juried exhibition, More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to celebrate the show in person, OMA is hosting a public Exhibition Celebration.<\/p>\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come see how one artist is rewriting the immigrant story, one hand-cut panel at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udcc6 On view: September 26, 2026 \u2013 February 28, 2027<br \/>\ud83d\udccd 704 Pier View Wy, Oceanside<br \/>\u2139\ufe0f Find out more about the artist <a href=\"https:\/\/oma-online.org\/rupinder-kaloti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See you there, San Diego!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oceanside Museum of Art is hosting the museum debut of Punjabi-American artist Rupinder \u201cRupy\u201d Kaloti, and The Gathering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[71331,71327,74,76,54934,75,8419,18100],"class_list":["post-447359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-art-exhibition","tag-art-museum","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-museums","tag-san-diego-news","tag-things-to-do-in-san-diego","tag-things-to-see-in-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}