Tag: SOMArts Cultural Center

Exhibiting Artist Interview: Hugh Leeman

  For the past five years, Hugh Leeman has lived and worked in the Tenderloin.  Over the course of his tenure there, his work has grown to center around his relationships with his homeless neighbors, specifically through what he calls …

Exhibiting Artist Interview: Lori Gordon

Artist Lori Gordon has made a practice of eavesdropping.  For her ongoing project Snippets, featured in SOMArts’ exhibition Dial Collect, open April 5–26, she reproduces fragments of overheard conversations as pieces of text and displays them publicly. In this interview, she …

Sweetheart Chair, by Rachel Leamy

Closing Event for Overturn the Artifice

Join the curator and artists of Overturn the Artifice for a special closing event featuring an open meditation, free shoe shines and complimentary signed and numbered prints on Friday, March 29, 6–9pm

"Virgin Cake Plate with Saints Agatha and Agnes, Adriana Lima and Tim Tebow" by Kirsten Van Diggelen

Opening Reception for Overturn the Artifice

Friday, March 8, 6–9pm, join the unveiling of a new exhibition of locally, nationally and internationally-recognized fine artists working in painting, installation, time-based media and performance. The evening includes special performances by three participating artists.

"2 Abes" by Jack Leamy

Overturn the Artifice

Curated by one of SOMArts’ 2012–13 Commons Curatorial Residency recipients, Jack Leamy, Overturn the Artifice features locally, nationally and internationally-recognized fine artists working in painting, installation, time-based media and performance strive to re-enfranchise the individual. Exhibition on view March 8–29, 2013.

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“Furtography” by Kevn Tijerina in The Ramp Gallery through March 18

What: Fur Your Viewing Pleasure or Furtography by Kevn Tijerina When: February 26–March 18, 2013 Where: The Ramp Gallery, a community curated space at 934 Brannan St. (between 8th and 9th The textiles on display were created using manipulated photographs of …

Elliott C. Nathan in the Ramp Gallery, January 30–February 24

  What: San Francisco on Ham (and other abnormal abstractions), paintings by Elliott C. Nathan When: January 30–February 24, 2013 Where: The Ramp Gallery, a community curated space at 934 Brannan St. (between 8th and 9th Elliott C. Nathan loves bright colors and thick black …

Evan Reiser in the Ramp Gallery, January 9–27

What: Cortés and Moctezuma, drawings by Evan Reiser When: January 9–27, 2013 Where: The Ramp Gallery, a community curated space at 934 Brannan St. (between 8th and 9th This series of drawings depicts early 16th century historical figures Hernán Cortés, the …