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the luggage store annex
aka 509 cultural center
509 Ellis Street (nr. Leavenworth)
San Francisco, CA 94109 USA.
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Cohen Alley
Tenderloin National Forest
San Francisco, CA 94109 USA HOURS: WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY, 11AM-3PM
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1 415 255 5971 FOR LEASE - AVAILABLE NOW
Commercial space below the luggage store storefront: approx. 2000 square feet mezzanine: approx. 1000 sq. ft. basement: approx. 2000 sq. ft. Please call 415 255 5971 or email luggagestore@sbcglobal.net
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MID FEBRUARY
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: MAGDALENA JARKOWIEC
Culminating Exhibition: "Dear Everybody, eat shit"
March 12th - March 27th, 2010 Opening Reception: Friday, March 12th, 6pm - 9pm Luggage Store Annex/Cohen Alley, 509 Ellis Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12pm – 5pm Beginning in Mid February, Magdalena Jarkowiec began a three
week artist residency at the Luggage Store Annex. During that time she will create fabric homes for her Giant
Mutant Dolls, life-size sculptures of sewn fabric that are stuffed with
ordinary poly-fil. The residency
will culminate in a show, “Dear Everybody, eat shit”.
The
title of the show, a private and humorous incantation, is a summary of the
artist’s conflicting desires to have a place in the world, and to have the
world leave her the hell alone. The dolls are a wild and imaginary resolution to that conflict: in their
strangeness and absolute singularity they have no hope of having a place in the
world, but they seem at ease in their exclusion. The dollhouses will emphasize that ease; they will allow the
dolls to be seen without the dolls “showing themselves”. They will be seen in their own
world.
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UPCOMING EXHIBITION at the luggage store Dusted: Dustin Fosnot, new work MARCH 19 - April 24, 2010:
Opening Reception: Friday, March 19th 6pm - 8pm
Dustin works with materials that are close at hand or
found on the street and reworks them to comment on the environment they came
from or which through their materiality they are related to. This work is also about creating other
worlds, which the viewer can be transported to, all the pieces are loosely tied
together through their content, the different materials in the pieces are
related in terms of the cheapness or found aspects.
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Short Cuts:
World Wide Hustlers is part of the luggage store’s Short Cuts Program to identify, support and emerge new and/or young curators and artists.
ANGELA ANGEL & ROBIN DAVID
Luggage Store Annex/Cohen Alley, 509 Ellis
Opening Reception
Friday- April 16, 2010
at the Luggage Store Gallery Annex
509 Ellis Street-- Cohen Alley/Tenderloin National Forest (near Leavenworth)
San Francisco, CA 94109
6-9pm
Food, Vendors and Live Music
Gallery Hours: Wednesday- Saturday 12-5pm and By Appointment
*Exhibit runs from April 16- May 16, 2010
World-Wide Hustl[ers],
inspired by true narratives from street vendors, public markets,
transportation workers, farming villages, and scavenging communities,
the show will be told through photographs, paintings, paintographs,
murals, film, installations and many other integrative pieces. Each
scene will include collaborative and solo pieces by resident artists,
Angela Angel and Robin David.
For more info:
415.255.5971
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BARRY MCGEE MURAL on roll down door 1009 Market Street PAINTED OVER
We have literally received hundreds of inquiries regarding the painting over of our roll down door that the luggage store commissioned BARRY MCGEE to paint in 1994. The luggage store did not paint over this door. It was ipainted over w/o our permission by the Central Market Community Benefit Corp.
We are in the process of negotiating a settlement, as there are ethical issues, legal issues and financial issues. We are encouraging people to write us and let us know your thoughts/feelings/ideas about the door and this highly unfortunate situation.
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THE TENDERLOIN NATIONAL FOREST (*TNF: name derived from SFSU student Marco Crescenti) Cohen Alley, between Leavenworth and Ellis Street, San Francisco
a continuing public art project lead artists DARRYL SMITH/LAURIE LAZER of the luggage store
1989 - present "from black flies to butterflies Tommy Guerrero at Tenderloin National Forest
Luggage Store Co-Artistic Directors/Artists Darryl Smith
and Laurie Lazer of the luggage store have been working to transform
Cohen Alley since 1989 from a place emblazed in a health-hazardous
cesspool of bodily fluids and other dumped items, non-supervised open-air
chemical experiments and illicit – criminal activities -- to a
community commons where people of all ages can gather for public art,
performance, experimental art projects. and classes and activities
related to this inner city garden which is home to naturally growing
vegetation and built organic structures, or just to sit....
The Alley has been reclaimed and will be rededicated May 9,
2009 as “The Tenderloin National Forest." With recent funding from the
San Francisco Art Commission/Creative Space Fund and the Mayor's
Office, Community Challenge Grant, a series of physical improvements
were completed.
One of the very few open spaces in our high density
neighborhood of over 40,000 culturally and ethnically diverse residents, the
Alley lies adjacent to two heavily trafficked inner city streets
(Leavenworth running north and Ellis running est); and it is roughly 23 feet
wide by 136 ft. deep. It is surrounded by multi story residential
buildings and hotels that house formerly homeless, immigrant
individuals and families, as well as seniors, artists, active drug
users, dealesr and
others. The Tenderloin Children’s Playground is situated directly
across the street.
In 2000, Lazer and Smith negotiated a lease with the City
of San Francisco for $1.00 per year, which permanently closed the alley to
traffic. A sculptured gate, commissioned by the luggage store and
built and designed by Bay Area artist Kevin Leeper was installed.
Over the years, Lazer and Smith have organized murals to be
painted on all sides of the Alley, produced and presented hundreds of
performances and cultural events, planted trees, vegetables, herbs,
flowers, built a small “ green” structure with a living roof, a staging
area, seating, a
clay oven, and upgraded lighting.
The Tenderloin National Forest is now dynamic, and is one of the most
peaceful, quiet and inspirational areas in then neighborhood.
The name "Tenderloin Naitonal Forest" came from Marco Crescenti, a student of Sarah
Lewison's at SF STate University during Lewison's residency in the
alley...The alley's original name is Cohen Place.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN ABRIDGED HISTORY AND WILL BE UPDATED SHORTLY.... Nen Tv
and in celebration of the completion of several projects
"CULTURAL GEOMETRY," a project by RIGO 23 in collaboration with JOSE FERNANDO CARDOSO and the luggage store
funded by The Creative Work Fund/SF see below for more information on "Cultural Geometry"(scroll down and click on "More" for additional information)
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EVERY 15TH OF THE MONTH
at the luggage store's COHEN ALLEY (the luggage store's venue for public art/performance and greening; home of the Tenderloin National Forest..
Darryl Smith and Laurie Lazer began this project in 1987-88 and it continues to morph and grow... ongoing activities and performances....
Ellis Street btw Leavenworth and Hyde (SF)
MICHAEL SWAINE
"Sewing for the People"
Noon - 5pm
Michael Swaine brings out his hand made sewing cart every 15th of the month, and shares his energy, creativity and talent/. You can bring something to Michael that needs sewing or mending and hang out with him in the Alley.
If you'd like to volunteer, please call the luggage store at 415. 255-5971.
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REHISTORICIZING ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM featuring women and artists of color, late 1950s to 1970
coming to the luggage store in MARCH 2010 CARLOS VILLA, curator featuring Debra Remington, Jimmy Suzuki, Sun Lu Chon, Manuel Neri, Arthur Okemura, Carlos Villa, Leo Valledor, Win Ng, Bernice Bing, Gustavo Rivera,
Dewey Crumpler and others to be announced. For more information see REHISTORICIZING
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