Past Exhibitions

Kunsole is a multidisciplinary collaborative that works with sound, form, and pattern to create avant-pop music, images, objects, and performances. Kunsole presents live-performance events every Thursday evening in collaboration with a line-up of SF-based artists, musicians and performers. On Mondays, Kunsole invites all lonely houseplants to join in a reading circle for experimental texts. When performances are not happening, the public can participate with Dot Dot Knock, an embedded sound and visual installation on the exterior of Grove Street.

Reconciling America features works ranging from painting to video to installation and actively explores how artists grapple with, or attempt to reconcile their relationships with America. The American archetype is rooted somewhere in anthems, slogans and amendments – yet under this big blanket where do the lives of average Americans fit in? In our quest understand and to be understood, new technologies have made it easier to record observations and create personal histories. This is evident in the countless home movies, scrapbooks, blogs and personal web pages created by average Americans. Alternatively, the history of art practice has been deeply rooted in creating individual systems for understanding and documenting various aspects of our complicated world.

The SFAC Winter Workshop is designed to support artists engaged in the creation of long-term projects through providing space, administrative support and funding at an intermediary stage of the generative process. After a call for submissions, the staff of the SFAC Gallery chose Amber Hasselbring’s community-based urban earth artwork project, The Mission Greenbelt. The Greenbelt consists of neighboring native plant sidewalk gardens in front of homes, apartment buildings, storefronts and schools between Franklin Square Park and Dolores Park. The Main Gallery transforms into Headquarters for the Mission Greenbelt Public Awareness Campaign hosting a multi-media art installation, free public events and hands-on workshops.