SF Arts Commission: Brand New Art Gallery Grand Opening | War Memorial Veteran’s Bldg

Submitted by the Event Organizer

The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) invites you to celebrate the Grand Opening Celebration of the new, and greatly expanded 3,000-square-foot gallery space located on the ground floor of the historic War Memorial Veterans Building from 6-9 pm on January 22, 2016.

The space will open with three distinct exhibition projects featuring works by 13 regional artists.

Taking up the largest volume of the gallery is the exhibition Bring it Home: (Re)Locating Cultural Legacy through the Body (January 22 – May 7, 2016), curated by SFAC Galleries Director Meg Shiffler and independent curator Kevin B. Chen. The exhibition presents work from artists representing diverse Bay Area communities, and centers thematically on how these artists grapple with cultural identity and its relationship to the human condition. Bring it Home features work by both established and emerging Bay Area artists including Zeina Barakeh, Jeremiah Barber, Vic De La Rosa, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dana Harel, Carolyn Janssen, Summer Mei Ling Lee, Ranu Mukherjee, Ramekon O’Arwisters, and Tsherin Sherpa working in media ranging from painting to digital photography, video to textiles, performance to sculpture.

Works by Bay Area artist Susan O’Malley will be presented in an intimate exhibition, Do More of What You Love (January 22 – May 7, 2016). O’Malley centered much of her artistic output on the effects of positive messaging and the myriad complexities of language, offering and soliciting advice and instructions, and how the body relates to various environments ranging from forests to manicured lawns in South Bay suburbs. Susan’s passing at a young age in early 2015 was a devastating blow to the local arts community and this opening celebrates both the vibrancy and power of her creativity and the impact she had as an artist, curator, and beautiful spirit.

ENTER: 126 is a new annual program featuring a commissioned, site-specific work in the SFAC Gallery entryway. The inaugural ENTER: 126 installation, Coalescence, is a collaboration between two dynamic Bay Area creatives: architect Annette Jannotta and media artist Olivia Ting. Coalescence incorporates building materials from the construction of the gallery and video depicting the renovated Veterans Building, to give broader context to the transition from past to present.

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