Back and Even Better.. SEPT 3

SEPT 3 6 pm until late Haight to Geary!

Totem Pole art sneak peek from minibar






Sneak peek art from Madrone Lounge ( Victor Reyes)
(left)






Art from On the Corner Sept Show (Ben Alexy)

Call for Volunteers!

We are gearing up for the 5th and largest yet Divisadero Art Walk on Sept 3. We are looking for artists, street vendors and help in promotion to make this the best Art Walk yet.

Please get in touch with us at
divisbiz (AT) gmail (Dot) com.


Thanks so much!

THANK YOU

Thanks to all of you who made our June Art Walk a great success! If you would like to get involved in the our Sept 3 Art Walk, please send us an email at
divisbiz ( AT) gmail.com
Thank you,
Ellyn and Sommer

JUNE 4, 2009

peek the art from the June 4 Art Walk

Nancy Spoelhoff, Lake Gallery
661 Divisadero











Nell Hergenrather, On the Corner, 359 Divisadero













Nikki Levine, Jessica Katzi, Community Gallery
537 Divisadero














Hilary Williams,
Frankee Uno
1221 Divisadero

The Deleted Scene: Community Evidence

"The Battery"

Divisadero Community Gallery Presents: Making Space

Divisadero Community Gallery presents “Making Space” a group art exhibition featuring District 5 workers and residents opening March 5th and running through April 2nd.

Previously a vacant store-front (and before that, a Money Mart) the Divisadero Community Gallery has been temporarily donated to the neighborhood as a proto-exhibition space for what we hope to be a sustainable arts incubation program in District 5. The shows title, “Making Space”, announces the need for community based response to San Francisco’s developing alternative arts scene. The exhibition itself is a big THANK YOU to D5 property owners, community leaders, and neighbors for supporting and encouraging local art.

Making Space will include three emerging artists working in a variety of mediums. Photographer Jeff McElroy will display select images from his upcoming book project, The Deleted Scene. J Morris will present mixed media collages that reflect a confluence of 90s skate art, comic books and graphic design. A veteran alternative arts organizer, Peter Max Lawrence’s will present oil paintings and conjure environments rich in texture and possibility.

The opening reception will be held in conjunction with the Divisadero Art Walk on March 5th and will be a participatory event. Visitors are invited to take part in the exhibition through various fun and engaging activities led by the artists themselves.

Divisadero Community Gallery is located at 537 Divisadero St. between Fell and Hayes. The Divisadero Community Gallery is open by appointment only. Parking is limited but public transportation is central.

For more information, visit www.divisaderoartwalk.blogspot.com, or email Jayna Swartzman at J_Swartzman@yahoo.com

March Art Walk

Our great art walk series continues.. Please join all of the Divisadero Merchants on March 5 to keep Divisadero thriving!

Opening Night!

THANK YOU to everybody who participated in last months Divisadero Art Walk and came out to hang out with their neighbors and friends.  The Community Gallery continues to receive a lot of positive feedback from both District 5 locals and those just visiting.  It has been a truly rewarding experience to work with such fun forward thinking folks on this project.  I can't wait until the next one! 

                                                                                  

Divisadero Community Gallery

Divisadero Corridor Community Gallery presents: Her
Where: 537 Divisadero San Francisco
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 11th, 2008: 6:00pm – 9:00pm.
Featuring: Stevie Verroca, Art Van Kampen, and Aubrienne Greene
In collaboration with: Danni Spinks, Bob Mcintyre, The Other Shop, and On the Corner
Curated by Jayna Swartzman; Assistant Curator: Garret Brosky.



Divisidero Community Gallery presents Her, a group exhibition featuring painting, photography, print, text, t-shirt design and home-grown cuisine. Her - as subjective pronoun and indicative object - explores the actuality of “woman” as a person and the concept of “woman” as a symbol of beauty and desire.

Trained as a fashion photographer, Stevie Verroca translates vanity and commercialism into transcendental meditations on identity and place. In this series, Verroca focuses on the “fashionable woman”. A female figure, fitted in Marc Jacobs, traverses the moniker of Motherhood- Nature- only to discover, in her infinite horizons, a boundless and Martian indifference.

In an additional series, lust inevitably leads to repression and the Adult Section becomes the Confessional. Searing Biblical tradition, Van Kampen rediscovers Eve as a wholly liberated individual, the apple biter – the rebel.

While printmaking is traditionally associated with mass reproduction and commercial spectacle, Aubrienne Greene’s self portraits redefines this practice through personal narrative. Through solipsism, she embraces both her extant beauty and her inner depth.

Supplementing the artwork on opening night only, local t-shirt designer Danni Spinks will collaborate with writer/comedian Bob Mcintyre, to channel a distant and difficult relationship through “Tina.” Bob’s wayward alter ego will materialize through puffy-paint and text to remind us that there’s a little Tina in everyone. In response to Freudian analysis and commodity fetishism, the curator has invited members of The Other Shop collective to contribute memorabilia and vintage collectibles, time honored by theoreticians as surrogates for oedipal desire and castration anxiety. Of course the objects are for sale; the women are not.

Eat, Shop and Drink Local !

Take a stroll up Divisadero. Now is the time to spend your dollars locally!
Over 25 businesses from Geary to Haight open their doors with specials,
art and a chance to mingle with your neighbors!

Experience Divisadero at night.

December 11, 2008 starting around 6 pm, until late.

Muni lines: 38, 24, 21, 5, 7, 71, 6 .

Divisadero Community Gallery Oct 16, 2008

Divisadero Art Walk Oct 16, 2008