“Art in Storefronts” Talk and Art Walk | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

A group of San Francisco-based artists recently transformed vacant storefronts and neglected, boarded up buildings in the Central Market corridor. Join the Art in Storefronts artists for a discussion about their temporary projects and discover how they each addressed the neighborhood’s specific culture and history in their work. Then take a stroll through the neighborhood to check out the projects on a guided Art Walk.

• Alexis Arnold fills a Market Street window with old bike rims encased in glinting crystals along with a series of gold-painted U-locks.
• Vanesa Gingold presents colorful sculptures and mobiles inspired by interviews with individuals from the Central Market community.
• Madeline Trait’s presents a pile of discarded aluminum cans that magically transform into gracefully flying butterflies.
• Erik Otto depicts the openness for lasting change through metaphors symbolized by clouds, houses, and a circle of neon light.
• The Indigenous Arts Coalition project looping images of historical footage and appropriated images to represent the “double life” of individuals straddling cultural identities.
• Cat U-Thasoonthorn reanimates photos of defunct commercial buildings into a panoramic fictional street view with the insertion of neon lights.
• Robert Harris creates an abstract urban landscape of Market Street looking towards the Ferry Building.
• Paz de la Calzada covers the old Strand Theater with a charcoal drawing of tangled strands of hair.
• Vicky Knoop and Beatrice Thomas celebrate iconic sites of Central Market with their mural rendered in the style of vintage tourist postcards.
• Rafael Landea’s mural pays homage to the historic theaters that once lined Market Street, depicting a swirl of old theater seats swept up into tornado-like activity.
• Amber Hasselbring brings to life the story of the Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly and the London Plane tree, two indigenous species found on Market Street.

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