Minnesota Street Project

Minnesota Street Project eagerly presents 'Grammar of Grief Handbook,' a website developed by Bay Area-based artist Indira Allegra during their time as a virtual resident on #Adjacent. The 'Handbook' arrives at an exceptional moment and serves as a site which allows us to meet our experiences of grief anew through a live archive of performance practices. Loss is a normal part of lived experience. Memorials are typically thought of as stone structures rising above eye level in... a public square. The Handbook reimagines bereavement through writing, audio, or physical movement that can be created at home and come out of the body's unique relationship to grief. Indira Allegra would like to acknowledge the contribution of Temple Contemporary at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University with participants from the Fabric Workshop Museum and engagements with the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University, and Oxbow School of Art and Artists Residency in 2020 and 2021. To visit 'Grammar of Grief Handbook,' head to below link. minnesotastreetprojectadjacent.com/virtual-artist-residency #GrammarofGriefHandbook #IndiraAllegra

Municipal Bonds is pleased to introduce 'Danielle Dimston: Lightness of Being,' a solo exhibition of works on paper. On view by appointment starting this Saturday, November 7th, through January 9, 2021. Dimston creates watercolors and drawings notable for a minimalist palette, linear composition, and transcendent field. The fluidity of the artist's drawings, and the luminosity of her watercolors, shift perceptual awareness from structural to ethereal. With a meditative sense ...of space, unburdened by time or representation, Dimston’s abstractions emit lightnessat ease, an invitation to safe harbor met by psychological freedom. To visit the work, kindly contact the gallery directly through email or phone. [email protected] 917.450.0583 Danielle Dimston The Flower and the Butterfly, 2011 Watercolor on Arches paper 16 x 20 in (40.6 x 50.8 cm) Courtesy the artist and Municipal Bonds #MunicipalBonds #DanielleDimston

Please join McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), and the San Francisco Public Library next Wednesday, November 11th, for a conversation between activist, educator, and author Angela Davis and artist Isaac Julien. The two will discuss #LessonsoftheHour, Julien's current exhibition with McEvoy Arts, #FrederickDouglass, and modern abolition movements within the era of the prison industrial complex. The conversation will be moderated by Sar...ah Lewis, associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and African American studies at Harvard University. The event will take place at 6PM PST online via Zoom. Admittance is free with registration at the link below. mcevoyarts.org//angela-davis-and-isaac-julien-in-conversat Courtesy of Angela Davis. Photo by KK Ottesen/ Courtesy of Isaac Julien. Photo by Jang Dukwha. / Courtesy of Sarah Lewis

Our doors are open for you to cast your ballot today from 7:00 am - 8:00 pm PST! As you wait to vote at a social distance, we encourage you to turn towards the face of our building, which now features a timely wheat-pasting by CatchLight Fellow Andrea Bruce. The work was developed in partnership with the Our Democracy project team, PhotoWings, the National Writing Project, and Nat Geo. Together, they, and we ask: "What does democracy look like in our individual lives and com...munities? Courtesy the Our Democracy Project Team: Andrea Bruce, Lorraine Ustaris, and Rebecca Lee Sanchez Project Partners: CatchLight, PhotoWings, The National Writing Project, and National Geographic #Vote #AndreaBruce #CatchLight #photowings #NationalWritingProject #NatGeo

Cast your ballot at a secure social distance from the Minnesota Street Project lounge! We will be serving as a polling place starting tomorrow, Election Day, from 7:00 am - 8:00 pm PST. Wishing all safe voting! #Vote

Have a lot on your mind in regard to the coming week? Make the next few days a little easier by ordering takeout or delivery from Besharam, one of our favorite #MSPNeighbors. Head to the below link to get your meal started! Featured is a thali comprised of palak dal, saag paneer, roti, samosas, pea basmati rice, papadum, raita, chutneys, mango lassi, and gulab jamun. besharamrestaurant.com... #BesharamSF

'Bio Exuberance,' SFArtsED's collaborative exhibition developed with Artist-in-Residence Zoe Farmer is now available to view on #Adjacent through January 30, 2021. "Animals, insects, and organisms offer many ways to challenge the conventional social constructions that we apply to our own species. The term biological exuberance, introduced by Dr. Bruce Bagemihl in his book of the same name, describes the surprising diversity of the animal kingdom, which encompasses a seemi...ngly endless variety of gender and sexual fluidity. In part, this show is an exploration and celebration of wonder that fully embraces the diversity of what it is to be a biological being in an intricately interconnected network of organisms. And in part, it is a response to our confinement under the pandemic and an increased need for biophilic experiences. Biophilia, as defined by Edward O. Wilson, is the urge to affiliate with other life forms. Nature seems to be amplified now, as does our need to connect with it. Diversification equals strength. Collaboration amongst all living organisms leads to biological success and, by extension, a well-balanced, connected world." Zoe Farmer, SFArtsED’s 2019-2020 Minnesota Street Project Artist-in-Residence https://minnesotastreetprojectadjacent.com//sfartsed-bio-/ Zoe Farmer Flamboyant plumage, 2020 Mixed media Courtesy San Francisco Arts Education Project

Altman Siegel presents 'I Yield My Time. Fuck You,' a group exhibition featuring Nick Cave, Troy Chew, Wade Guyton, Samuel Levi Jones, Lynn Hershman Leeson, K.R.M. Mooney, and Torey Thornton. On view by appointment through December 19, 2020. The yielding of time signals a consciousness of how little space and agency we are granted and the importance of leaving some for those who too often go unheard. Three weeks into nationwide protests against police brutality brought on ...by the murder of George Floyd, the Los Angeles Police Commission hosted a virtual community meeting via Zoom. After six hours of citizens decrying the police department’s violence and most recent misconduct towards demonstrators, Jeremy Frisch wasted none of his 30-second time limit. This exhibition takes its title from Frisch’s eloquent tirade turned viral rally cry. The reason any of us have heard of this specific moment is due to a sort of perfect contextual storm that surrounded and amplified Mr. Frisch’s exclamation through a unique social moment crossing paths with new technological possibilities for historicization and iconography. For every instance that gets captured and made iconic through mediation and memetic transfer there are infinite accounts that never enter the discourse and are denied their proper platform in society and in history. Every police video we see for instance, must stand in for a thousand other similar events not caught on tape. Technology has become essential to our aesthetic construction of histories and to our projections of the future, both for those in power and for the otherwise voiceless. Wade Guyton Untitled, 2020 Epson UltraChrome HDX inkjet on linen 84 x 69 in. Wade Guyton Courtesy of the artist and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York. Photo: Ron Amstutz.

You have two more days to visit 'The River Laughs While The Sky Cries,' a solo exhibition of works by Drew Bennett, presented by Ever Gold [Projects]. Appointments can be made by emailing the gallery directly at [email protected]. For those wanting to experience the work from home, the exhibition is available to view through the Ever Gold [Projects] website and #Adjacent. Drew Bennett The Ferryman (The Guy), 2020 Oil on birch veneered plywood... 50 x 83 in Courtesy Ever Gold [Projects] #EverGoldProjects #DrewBennett

Minnesota Street Project is pleased to present 'Monument,' a new group exhibition which explores the various ways artists reference literal and metaphorical monuments within their practice. The show, which features works from our tenant galleries with additional works from San Francisco’s Catharine Clark Gallery, Guerrero Gallery, and Creativity Exploredis installed in the atrium of our 1275 building through December 12, 2020. Up to 25 visitors are welcome at a time. 'Monu...ment' is informed by poet Elizabeth Bishop’s 'The Monument,' which prompted our contributing galleries to broadly consider the notion of monument and monumentality. Each gallery brought forth works which draw ingenious, irreverent, and problematizing references to traditional notions of monumentality. Participating artists include Zarouhie Abdalian, Wesaam Al-Badry, Jud Bergeron, Dawoud Bey, Sandow Birk, T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jacob Hashimoto, Mildred Howard, Bovey Lee, Daniel Li, Nick Makanna, Alicia McCarthy, John Patrick McKenzie, James Miles, Aida Muluneh, Vik Muniz, Pamela Pianchachi, Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, Solange Roberdeau, Gay Outlaw, Roland Record, Evelyn Reyes, Hung Kei Shiu, James Shefik, Lava Thomas, Joan Wulf, and Zio Ziegler Evelyn Reyes Fence with Bell (red), 2003 Marker on paper 11-1/4 x 17 1/2 in Creativity Explored Licensing, LLC #Monument #MinnesotaStreetProject #CatharineClarkGallery #GuerreroGallery #CreativityExplored

Nancy Toomey Fine Art is pleased to present 'What Kind of Cool (Will We Think of Next),' an exhibition of collaborative works by artists Rodney Ewing and Tahiti Pehrson. Presented in partnership with The Space Program San Francisco. On view through November 30, 2020. Rodney Ewing and Tahiti Pehrson have long considered collaborating since bonding over the Isley Brothers' song "For the Love of You." Initially, the two were scheduled to work together in residence at The Space P...rogram San Francisco, but shelter-in-place offered a new challenge. Instead, the artists developed their project via mail, working with one another from a distance. The resulting works are featured in 'What Kind of Cool (Will We Think of Next).' The exhibition is available to visit in person by appointment. To schedule a viewing, please contact the gallery directly through their website. nancytoomeyfineart.com Rodney Ewing and Tahiti Pehrson Echo, 2020 Silkscreen on hand-cut paper 44.75 x 33 in Courtesy Nancy Toomey Fine Art

On behalf of Minnesota Street Project Foundation, we are pleased to announce the first five grantees of the California Black Voices Project. Please join us in celebrating Indira Allegra, Lizzeta LeFalle-Collins, Rashaad Newsome, Toni Scott, and Leila Weefur! Each grantee receives a stipend and space at the 1275 Minnesota Street Project Galleries to feature their newly developed works in 2021. Works will also be presented on #Adjacent, Minnesota Street Project’s virtual space... for art. Our gratitude to the considerate #CaliforniaBlackVoicesProject jury, Dewey Crumpler, Karen Jenkins-Johnson, Andrew McClintock, and Lava Thomas. We look forward to sharing what's yet to come from this stellar group in the coming months. To learn more about the Foundation's inaugural grant programs, head to the link below! https://minnesotastreetproject.org/

When you’re a part of a community or communities who have long histories of living with socio-economic vulnerability, losing and the ability to continue living and loving while losing becomes part of the fabric of your cultural education. What's happening in 2020 is that individuals who had privileges to be more insulated from loss culturally, socially and economically are now being initiated into a more precarious world than they ever knew existed." - Indira Allegra @indira...allegra Over the past month, #Adjacent virtual resident #IndiraAllegra has continued to develop 'Grammar of Grief Handbook,' a living online resource for people seeking performance practices which can help them work through various experiences of loss. Keep an eye out for their work in the coming weeks on #Adjacent. In the meantime, learn more about Allegra's practice by visiting indiraallegra.com. Photo by Dorothy R. Santos

This week's #1240StudioSaturday features documentation of a new performance painting by artist Mário Pires Cordeiro @mpc.studio. As a first time voter in the US, Cordeiro was inspired to create a work which emphasized the importance of voting this year. Mário Pires Cordeiro is a Portuguese-American artist and mentor. He was born in Lisbon and lived in London for ten years before moving to California in 2015. He received his MFA at Chelsea College of Art and Design at the Univ...ersity of the Arts, London and completed three years of a PhD researching color trends in fine arts. He has been commissioned by the Olympic and Paralympic Games Committee in 2012 and the Cape Farewell Foundation in 2013. He has exhibited in over forty solo and group exhibitions. Since 2016 he has been the Curator Auction Manager, The Crucible Soiree Art Auction, and he has been teaching at the Crucible since 2018. Recently he was a finalist for National Parks Arts Foundation - Hawaii Volcanoes Artist Residency, and is currently a Facility Artist of the 1240 Minnesota Street Program. To learn more about Cordeiro's practice, visit mpcstudio.co. #MPCStudio #VoteSmART