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December 11 - January 23, 2010

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Invisible Homes
Opening reception: Friday, December 11, 6:00–9:00 PM Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 2:00-7:00 PM, Saturday 12:00–5:00 PM Invisible Homes is the first show curated by SOMArts new Curator and Gallery Director Justin Hoover. Through Invisible Homes visitors are invited to examine dreams of relocation and the subsequent challenge of civic integration, through a variety of media. Invisible Homes looks at representations of home in light of the current homeless epidemic, the economic foreclosure meltdown, and globalization. Invisible Homes is centered on idea of self-identification, and finding a home in the age of cultural hybridity. Invisible Homes brings together works by 27 artists from the Bay Area, New York, and abroad. The exhibition includes previously unseen digital prints by X. Man. a San Francisco Tenderloin artist and new works by 2008 and 2009 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship award winners Claire Jackel and Carlos Castro. Other artists participating include: Lisa K. Blatt, Frida Cano, Tyler Cufley, Takehito Etani , Brendan Fernandes, Michal Gavish, Sarah Hirneisen, Eric Reyes Lamonte, Cathy Lu, Lauren Marsden and Josef Jacques (in collaboration), Julio Cesar Morales, Crystal Nelson, Nadim Sabella, Hilary Schwartz, Laura Swanson, Migdalia Valdes, Marc Wilwert, and the Cents Collaborative Project (Barry Beach, Colby Claycomb, John K. Melvin, Kit Rosenberg, Izumi Yokoyama) Discussion with representatives from San Francisco’s cultural centers, including Samara Brown, Curator for the African American Arts and Culture Complex, Barbara Ockel, Interim Managing Director Bayview Opera House, and Maurizzio Hector Pineda, the Mission Cultural Center Gallery’s Curatorial Coordinator and representatives from the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and the Queer Cultural Center. Both discussions facilitated by Justin Hoover, Gallery Director and Curator, SOMArts Cultural Center.