CENTRAL MARKET DREAMSCAPE
12' x 60'
Acrylic and Charcoal
2011
Central Market Dreamscape was funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Artery Project. Using the word “Strand” on the theater marquee as inspiration, I reclaimed the abandoned Theater on Market Street in San Francisco using a detailed charcoal drawing of tangled strands of hair, symbolizing a feminist intervention. The large-scale, hand-drawn hair icon covered the facade of the building, contrasting the rigid architecture with a feminine symbol.
Built in 1917, the Strand Theater became a legend. After a long life as a mainstream theater, it went from projecting independent movies as a revival cinema to a porn theater showing projected video. It also became a popular venue for midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was closed by the city in 2002 and purchased by the American Conservatory Theater in 2012.
Acrylic and Charcoal
2011
Central Market Dreamscape was funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Artery Project. Using the word “Strand” on the theater marquee as inspiration, I reclaimed the abandoned Theater on Market Street in San Francisco using a detailed charcoal drawing of tangled strands of hair, symbolizing a feminist intervention. The large-scale, hand-drawn hair icon covered the facade of the building, contrasting the rigid architecture with a feminine symbol.
Built in 1917, the Strand Theater became a legend. After a long life as a mainstream theater, it went from projecting independent movies as a revival cinema to a porn theater showing projected video. It also became a popular venue for midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was closed by the city in 2002 and purchased by the American Conservatory Theater in 2012.
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Paz de la Calzada's Central Market Dreamscape
by Michael Rauner
Paz de la Calzada was selected by the San Francisco Art Commission’s Art in Storefronts program to make a large scale artwork on the boarded-up Strand Theater on Market Street in the middle of San Francisco. The façade was covered with a charcoal drawing of tangled strands of hair, which appear to wrap around the building, with one bold strand of hair trailing from the historic marquee. Unlike traditional murals this wall drawing challenges the spatial boundaries of art, playfully engaging with the architectural space and creating a sense of wonder.
by Michael Rauner
Paz de la Calzada was selected by the San Francisco Art Commission’s Art in Storefronts program to make a large scale artwork on the boarded-up Strand Theater on Market Street in the middle of San Francisco. The façade was covered with a charcoal drawing of tangled strands of hair, which appear to wrap around the building, with one bold strand of hair trailing from the historic marquee. Unlike traditional murals this wall drawing challenges the spatial boundaries of art, playfully engaging with the architectural space and creating a sense of wonder.
