Are you ready to celebrate some of the amazing people who live or work in San Francisco’s Mission District? Nearly 60 people I met on the streets and at the Mission Farmer’s Market allowed me to take their portrait last year and then feature them in an art project. The resulting series, called Of the Mission or de la Misión, depicts these adults in real or imagined settings to showcase how this neighborhood’s distinctive culture, vivid colors, textures and stories, permeates our lives.
Selections of these environmental-style portraits will be exhibited locally in a solo show opening November 14th, 2024 at the Mission Bowling Club, a participant in ArtSpan’s Art-in-Neighborhoods program. I am deeply grateful not only to the kind people who agreed to be photographed (for which each received a digital portrait), but also to ArtSpan, the Mission Bowling Club, and to Foodwise, a nonprofit that hosts the seasonal market and allowed me to run a “portrait pop-up” over the course of several weeks last fall.
Some information about the exhibition:
The opening reception is November 14th, from 6 to 8 p.m. The show runs through April 7th, 2025.
What’s on view? There are eight selections from my series Of the Mission, plus artworks from a group show called “Landscapes: Real & Imagined Pt. 2.”
Mission Bowling Club is located 3176 17th St, San Francisco, Ca. Entry is free. Here are the hours. Be advised that one, it’s a great place to bowl, and two, as a disclaimer, I suck at bowling.
The artwork will be available for purchase after November 11th on site or on the ArtSpan website.