Minnesota Street Project Summer 2024 Shows
Image: Abigail Goldman. In Good Company, 2024. Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco.
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street & 1150 25th Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
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Overview
Today’s LOVE LETTER TO ART focuses on my FAVORITE SHOWS from the summer openings at Minnesota Street Project.
Minnesota Street Project is a collection of 14 independently owned galleries located at 1275 Minnesota Street and 1150 25th Street in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood. Beyond being an art gallery collective, Minnesota Street Project is also an event space, art handling and storage service, and multiplex studio space (The Studio Program at 1240 Minnesota Street) for the Bay Area arts community.
Below are some of my FAVES from my recent visit to the galleries.
Preview of Hashimoto Contemporary’s 10 Year Anniversary Show. Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco.
Here’s a snippet of Hashimoto Contemporary’s 10 Year Anniversary Show, featuring 50+ artists from the past 10 years. Like most anniversary shows, there’s a lot to take in. This one’s a feast.
“Starting on San Francisco’s Sutter Street in 2014, the gallery has since opened spaces in Los Angeles, New York City, and relocated the San Francisco gallery to the Minnesota Street Project.
The 10 Year Anniversary Group Exhibition brings together over fifty contemporary artists from across the globe to celebrate a decade of exhibitions, art fairs, publications, friendships, and more.”
Shown here are works from:
Abigail Goldman, Nic Dyer, Alex Ziv, Gina M. Contreras, Mu Pan, Joel Daniel Phillips, Keya Tama, Corey K. Lamb, Jillian Evelyn, Rachel Gregor, Jeffrey Cheung (who also curated SFMOMA’s recent show, Unity Through Skateboarding), Adrian Kay Wong, Mary Finlayson, Angela Burson, and Wayne White.
Hashimoto Contemporary’s 10 Year Anniversary Show is on view until Saturday, August 31, 2024 at Hashimoto Contemporary located on the first floor.
⭐ HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY: Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Jenkins Johnson Gallery’s The Culture From Which I Sprang
Preview of Jenkins Johnson Gallery’s The Culture From Which I Sprang. Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco.
The Culture From Which I Sprang is a powerful reflection on Black life since the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This PHENOMENAL show presents museum-quality works by a selection of influential African American artists, spanning the past 60 years.
The Culture From Which I Sprang commemorates “the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It features work by Dewey Crumpler, Lola Flash, Wadsworth Jarrell, Gordon Parks, Greg Rick, Andre D. Wagner, Warith Taha, and Philemona Williamson.
The exhibition title is a quote from Richard Wright’s, acclaimed autobiography Black Boy: ‘This was the culture from which I sprang. This was the terror from which I fled’.
Wright’s novel recounts the agonizing years of the Jim Crow Laws between the years of 1912 to 1927 following his childhood and young adulthood. Delving into the complexity of the south from which he ‘sprung’, Wright grapples with achieving his dream despite being forced into a society and culture that proclaimed otherwise.
The signing of the Civil Rights Act not only marked the prohibition of discrimination based on color, race, religion, sex or national origin, but it also gave an end to the Jim Crow Laws. Despite this landmark civil rights and labor law, many achievements and hard-won rights are under threat once again in the 21st century.
This exhibition brings artists to the forefront whose work recognizes a call to action, who respect sacrifices of the past while continuing to fight for a vibrant future.”
The Culture From Which I Sprang is on view until Saturday, September 21, 2024 at Jenkins Johnson Gallery located on the second floor.
⭐ JENKINS JOHNSON GALLERY: Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Rena Bransten Gallery’s Marci Washington: A Spell to Break the Spell
Preview of Rena Bransten Gallery’s Marci Washington: A Spell to Break the Spell. Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco.
Here’s a snippet of Marci Washington: A Spell to Break the Spell, which runs until September 7 at Rena Bransten Gallery.
“Emerging from a deep spell, the sleeper awakens. Shaking off the dirt of the grave, a new spell is cast.
Reaching between two realms in places where the veil is thinnest, drawing upon an old knowledge and a power long suppressed, the dead are raised and spirit summoned.
Life stirs in the darkness, plants bloom in the night, and a way forward is found.”
Marci Washington paints Pagan female glory like no other. Absolutely LOVE her 2-D painting style. Total Suspiria vibes set to a goth soundtrack, like this Die Form track here.
Don’t miss this badass show!
Marci Washington: A Spell to Break the Spell is on view until Saturday, September 7, 2024 at Rena Bransten Gallery located on the second floor.
*FYI: the gallery will be closed from Aug 27-Sept 2.
⭐ RENA BRANSTEN GALLERY: Hours: Wednesday–Saturday 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Also, check out her FABULOUS book available for purchase at the gallery and at Amazon.
re.riddle’s Summer Snow
Preview of re.riddle’s Summer Snow. Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco.
Here’s a snippet of Summer Snow, one of my FAVORITE shows that opened recently at re.riddle, featuring the work of Joey Leung and Lawman.
“Summer Snow, an exhibition featuring the works of Joey Leung and Lawman, explores the poetics of hiding and its personal and cultural manifestations.
In a time of overexposure, with too much, too often, and too soon, the concept of hiding can serve as a creative act offering a means of protection, freedom and self-preservation.
Hiding grants the state of concealment, a space to withdraw from sight, to be and to go somewhere where one cannot be found.
Hiding provides time for incubation as we ready ourselves towards future emergence.”
Officially OBSESSED with Joey Leung’s work. Clever twists of irony transform her ethereal beauties into complex creatures, perhaps even sirens. Lawman’s melting pot of pop culture references is the perfect counterpoint to Leung’s demure works, as virtue and vice make everything nice in the Summer Snow. Well done!
Summer Snow is on view until Saturday, August 31, 2024 at re.riddle gallery located on the second floor.
⭐ RE.RIDDLE: Hours: Wednesday–Saturday 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
💌 Did you see the show(s)? What did you think? Let us know in the comments (in the Reviews section located on the second tab at the top of the page).
Quick Guide: Minnesota Street Project
⭐ SHOWS:
Hashimoto Contemporary // 10 Year Anniversary Show (closes on Aug 31) // Hours: Tues–Sat 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Jenkins Johnson Gallery // The Culture From Which I Sprang (closes Sept 21) // Hours: Tues–Sat 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Rena Bransten Gallery // A Spell to Break the Spell (closes on Sept 7) // Hours: Wed–Sat 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
re.riddle // Summer Snow (closes on Aug 31) // Hours: Hours: Wed–Sat 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
⭐ LOCATION: Minnesota Street Project is located at 1275 Minnesota Street between 23rd and 24th streets (3 min walk from the 3rd Street stop on the T Line) and 1150 25th Street between 24th and 25th streets (5 min walk from the 3rd Street stop on the T Line). *From 1275 Minnesota Street, EXIT LEFT and walk up the hill for the 1150 25th Street galleries.
⭐ ONSITE FOOD/DRINK: Besharam (Indian w/flare. Great vegetarian and vegan options).
⭐ NEARBY ART: ICA San Francisco (10 min walk/2 min drive), Museum of Craft and Design (6 min walk/3 min drive), Letterform Archive (5 min walk/3 min drive).
⭐ NEARBY FOOD/DRINK: Philz Coffee (across the street); Piccino Restaurant (3 min walk/1 min drive), Marcella’s Lasangeria (4 walk/1 min drive), Dogpatch Saloon (5 min walk/2 min drive).
💌 More nearby suggestions are always welcome. Feel free to add in the comments!
*TIP: If you’re visiting the galleries and want to check out the local flora and fauna, be sure to stop at the Minnesota Grove garden located on Minnesota Street between 24th and 25th streets. It’s such a lovely thing to do on a beautiful sunny day in SF.
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