See more of Pirate Verker under our Project 2048 menu!

Adventures in art welding.

CELLspace is excited to offer welding classes in M.I.G. Receive individual attention with one instructor and two students. Learn from a certified welder. M.I.G. is the easiest welding process to learn. Each student takes home one individual sculpture.

Classes take place Monday night from 7-10pm.  Each class meets for 5 sessions. Cost is $360 per student. $60 material fee included.

Contact heycoreybest@yahoo.com if interested.
 

 Read more about Sun Young under our Project 2048 menu!

Read more about Julia under our Project 2048 menu link!

SPACECRAFT

Salon style exhibition featuring painting, sculpture and multimedia works by  Cellspace studio members and guest artists!

Live music by
Ash Reiter        http://www.myspace.com/drunkenboat
Panic is Perfect   http://panicisperfect.bandcamp.com/
Luc Fornier

FREE!!!
7pm till midnight
Thursday Aug 5th
Cellspace 2050 Bryant
SF CA 94110

http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Francisco-CA/SpaceCraft-CellSpace-Fan-...

Check out out write up in the Chronicle   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/06/DDRL1E8OJQ.DTL

also some video from the last show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha_-iEVMxrQ

see you all there

Ground to Cloud

A Special Bay Area Preview

Christine Marie & Ensemble present "Ground To Cloud," a full-length theater spectacle of giant shadows, live action, and moments of 3D effects.

With special opening guest, Tobias of the Yard Dogs Roadshow

Plus Jonathan Youtt of The Big Tadoo Puppet Crew AND Vladamir Levitansky

Thursday, July 22 8pm to 11pm

$14 via Brown Paper Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/118172

$15 or more at the door

CELLspace
2050 Bryant St.
SF, CA 94110

This will be a preview performance and will make it's premiere the following week in LA at the REDCAT NOW Fest and an east coast premiere in New York City in August for the New York City Fringe Festival.

www.cimimarie.com

Seamlessly integrating projected shadows, live actors and an innovative sound score, Christine Marie and her collaborators draw on the history of electric light to manifest a flickering world of natural phenomena and human intervention. Large-scale imagery from simple handheld lights and props takes on mythological proportions as scientific discovery, religious folklore and magical trickery blend into an incandescent work of expressionist theater.

"Christine Marie's shadow design conjures a literal ocean of surprise." - Los Angeles Times

featuring:

Russell Howze, Rachel Mestrovich, Jessica Unker, Steven Wendt and Melissa LaNunziata

with Vladamir Levitansky in 3D

Created, directed and designed by Christine Marie. 

Original composition by William Mark. 

Original mask design by Carlo Vogele.

Original link to article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/06/DDRL1E8OJQ.DTL

Cellspace artists keep underground scene alive

Trey Bundy, Special to The Chronicle

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

 

Like the Golden Gate Bridge, Cellspace is the kind of thing the rest of the world imagines when they think of San Francisco - even if they've never heard of it. The 10,000-square-foot Mission District artists' residence hosts local and visiting artists in an interdisciplinary and fiercely community-minded project space. Started in 1996, the gallery has continued the legacy of San Francisco's underground warehouse art scene, which has been slowly eroding since the dot-com boom. We stopped by for the first anniversary of Spacecraft, a party on the first Thursday of each month, when residents and local standouts display their latest and greatest pieces. True to the Cellspace philosophy, the work was amazingly diverse, and the DIY ethos was inspiring.

Shannon Abac, 26

Profession: Academic adviser at San Francisco Academy of Art / Ceramicist

Neighborhood: Inner Richmond

How have others described your work?

Whimsical, dark at times, feminist. Somebody called them cute earlier and asked, "Can I call them cute?"

Define art.

I can't define art. My pieces are how I feel about societal expectations of women. How we're supposed to be versus how we really are.

Have you suffered for your art?

Financially, yeah. But I think my work makes people happy, that's why I love doing it.

Grace Cooper, 25

Profession: Record store employee (artistic medium: watercolor/ballpoint pen)

Neighborhood: Sunset

How have others described your work?

Feminist but unorthodox. I thought that was funny. They said it was very sexual but detailed.

Define art.

Masturbation, because it's getting the most out of yourself and creating something only you can truly understand.

Have you suffered for your art?

I guess so. I spend many hours at home to the detriment of having better social skills.

Scott Walker, 42

Profession: Multimedia artist/worker

Neighborhood: Mission

How have others described your work?

Somebody came by today and just said, "I like these. They're musical collages."

Define art.

Art is regurgitation. Art is cover versions of things you've heard before. There's nothing new. There's never been anything new.

Have you suffered for your art?

All art is suffering. You take things that give you problems and solve them by making art.

Michelle Guintu, 27

Profession: Making stuff/record store

Neighborhood: SoMa

How have others described your work?

Expressionist, stylish, kind of dark.

Define art.

For me it's a lifestyle. You make stuff for yourself and no one else, but you get to show people what your soul is all about.

Have you suffered for your art?

Are you kidding me? My parents hate me. They're, like, "What are you doing?" And I'm poor.

Corey Best, 40

Profession: Teacher/artist

Neighborhood: Upper Haight

How have others described your work?

Minimalist, abstract, modern.

Define art.

On a very basic level, an artist makes art. Every good artist practices all the time.

Have you suffered for your art?

I don't know about the word "suffer," but it's made me smarter. I've understood how lucky I've been to have something better than myself to work on.

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