SELECTED WORKS.
Public art, murals, installations, collections and commissioned works spanning more than three decades of Javier Rocabado's practice.
WORK MADE
FOR PUBLIC SPACE.
Murals and civic works shaped by architecture, neighborhood, representation and the people who encounter them every day.
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SUPER HEROES MURAL
A monumental West Oakland mural built from the superheroes imagined by local children and brought to the wall by a community of artists.
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BREAKING WALLS
Migration, movement and belonging across 460 feet of public wall.
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VETERANS MEMORIAL
Six service members expanding the visual language of who is seen, remembered and honored.
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MORNING BREEZE
Javier's first commissioned mural — a 40 × 25 foot acrylic work on stucco, revisited and restored twenty-four years later.
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URBAN BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT
Utility boxes transformed into small-scale public landmarks through birds, flowers, butterflies and color.
ART WITHIN
PLACES OF CARE.
Commissioned work created for institutional, ceremonial and sacred environments — from ceramic tile to interior mural and altar painting.
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SHRINERS — EXTERIOR
Seven hundred hand-painted ceramic tiles designed, glazed, fired and installed by Javier.
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SHRINERS — INTERIOR
A long-form painted environment connecting Bay Area imagery, philanthropy, healing and decorative traditions.
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OUR LADY OF LOURDES
Two painted angels and a grotto created for the altar of a historic California parish.
MATERIAL
BECOMES MEANING.
Museum-scale mixed-media work in which currency, gold, pearls, medicine, found objects and hand-built elements carry their own histories into the image.
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THE BURDEN OF OUR DAYS
Real currency, 22-karat gold, pearls, medicine and objects become physical carriers of wealth, survival, identity and power.
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NATURE FOR SALE
A follow-up collection asking what happens when nature is framed by literal systems of economic value.