Art Works Downtown
1337 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901
Downtown
Monday | Closed
Tuesday | Closed
Wednesday | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday | Closed
Friday, June 12 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Free to the public; enjoy galleries, open studios, art exhibits, and more on the second Friday of each month.
Anchored by the Art Works Downtown galleries and studio tour, the 2nd Friday Art Walk connects art venues throughout downtown San Rafael for an evening of inspiration and community.
Art Works Downtown where artists create, collectors connect, and art finds its home.
Art Works Downtown is where art comes to life — and where collectors connect directly with the artists who create it. Located on Fourth Street in downtown San Rafael, our 40,000-square-foot building houses 3 galleries, 27 art studios, a vibrant artist membership program, restaurant, jewelers guild, frame shop, ceramic center, other arts organizations, 17 affordable apartments, and more.
Art Works Downtown provides an environment where visual arts thrive for the well-being of community.
Discover two levels of art studios and galleries
Reception: In Dialogue • Gallery 1337
Reception: Layers of Belonging by Nimisha Doonagarwal • Founders’ Gallery
Reception: Light and Water: The Landscapes of G.R. Brown • Donors Galley
Learn more here.
Thursday, June 25 | 6:00 PM
Art Talk via Zoom: In Dialogue
Zoom link available the day of the Art Talk on the Gallery 1337 page here.
In Dialogue invites you into a conversation—where memory meets imagination, identities unfold across time and place, and art becomes a space for connection, reflection, and transformation.
Featuring Bay Area artists of the Indian American Artists Association (IAAA), this exhibition brings together works shaped by layered exchange: between tradition and experimentation, personal history and collective memory, material and meaning. Rooted in diverse cultural lineages, these artists bring forward the richness of Eastern sensibilities and Western contexts, creating visual languages that are both grounded and evolving.
Artists: Ketaki Adi, Salma Arastu, Saranya Chandrasekaran, Raj Darshi, Dr. Smita Garg, Joyita Ghose, Charmaine Hussain, Dipti Irla, Saraswathy Lakshmivaraham, Hargun Mahal Mann, Pragati Sharma Mohanty, Raji Musinipally, Abhishek Nigam, Ragini Prasad, Poojitha Ramalingachar, Swati Rastogi, Meghna Sharma, Usha Shukla, Geeta Taneja, Ramya Thattai, Shraddha Tiwari, Sujata Tybrewala
Curator: Salma Arastu
Friday, July 10 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Free to the public, enjoy galleries, open studios, art exhibits, and more on the second Friday of each month.
Anchored by the Art Works Downtown galleries and studio tour, the 2nd Friday Art Walk connects art venues throughout downtown San Rafael for an evening of inspiration and community.
Art Works Downtown where artists create, collectors connect, and art finds its home.
Art Works Downtown is where art comes to life — and where collectors connect directly with the artists who create it. Located on Fourth Street in downtown San Rafael, our 40,000-square-foot building houses 3 galleries, 27 art studios, a vibrant artist membership program, restaurant, jewelers guild, frame shop, ceramic center, other arts organizations, 17 affordable apartments, and more.
Art Works Downtown provides an environment where visual arts thrive for the well-being of community.
Discover two levels of art studios and galleries
Reception: In Dialogue • Gallery 1337
Reception: Layers of Belonging by Nimisha Doonagarwal • Founders’ Gallery
Reception: Light and Water: The Landscapes of G.R. Brown • Donors Gallery
Learn more here.
In Dialogue • Gallery 1337 | June 5 - July 25, 2026
Curated by Salma Arastu
Artists: Ketaki Adi, Salma Arastu, Saranya Chandrasekaran, Raj Darshi, Dr. Smita Garg, Joyita Ghose, Charmaine Hussain, Dipti Irla, Saraswathy Lakshmivaraham, Hargun Mahal Mann, Pragati Sharma Mohanty, Raji Musinipally, Abhishek Nigam, Ragini Prasad, Poojitha Ramalingachar, Swati Rastogi, Meghna Sharma, Usha Shukla, Geeta Taneja, Ramya Thattai, Shraddha Tiwari, Sujata Tybrewala
In Dialogue invites you into a conversation—where memory meets imagination, identities unfold across time and place, and art becomes a space for connection, reflection, and transformation.
Featuring Bay Area artists of the Indian American Artists Association (IAAA), this exhibition brings together works shaped by layered exchange: between tradition and experimentation, personal history and collective memory, material and meaning. Rooted in diverse cultural lineages, these artists bring forward the richness of Eastern sensibilities and Western contexts, creating visual languages that are both grounded and evolving.
Nimisha Doongarwal: Layers of Belonging • Founders Gallery | June 12 - July 31, 2026
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.
Light and Water: The Landscapes of G.R. Brown • Donors Gallery | June 12 - July 31, 2026
I began my journey as a fine art painter later in life, after a 40-year career as a graphic artist, illustrator and art director in print and web media. All of my current work is from the last 4 years, the majority of that as landscapes.
I do not have a complicated philosophy (yet) about my art. I find and portray beautiful places in nature or the human world that speak to me. Virtually all of my landscapes are derived from photographs I have personally taken while hiking or traveling. Capturing light in nature is the simplest statement of what I attempt in general.
Einstein was quoted as saying that “the proof of God is that the universe is unnecessarily beautiful… that only a Higher Conscious Source would make it so”. I would agree.
Images:
In Dialogue • Gallery 1337
Layers of Belonging: Solo Exhibit by Nimisha Doongarwal • Founders Gallery
Light and Water: The Landscapes of G.R. Brown • Donors Gallery
In Dialogue • Gallery 1337