ArtSpan Proudly Presents

A Group Show Including the Art of Aaron Wilder

December 7, 2018-January 10, 2019

[x]space Arts Hub

5137 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA 94112

[x]space, launched in the fall of 2018, is an interactive art making and exhibition space accessible to youth and community members of all ages. The “x” in [x]space is related to exchange, experimentation, Excelsior, and x as a variable.

Youth need the arts. They need a safe space to innovate, create, and call their own. We’ve always dreamed (and dreamed) that one day we would have our own Youth Art Exchange space. After 18 years of borrowing, sharing, and popping up in spaces throughout San Francisco, our dream is coming true as Youth Art Exchange and ArtSpan partner for [x]space.

Transformed from a meat market (Chuck’s Market) that was shuttered for nearly a decade, this space is focused on creative exchange between artists and community. It is an active arts center by Youth Art Exchange with free classes and programming for San Francisco public high school students, workshops, a youth printshop, ArtSpan’s artist studios, an art gallery, community meeting space, and venue rentals.

Work from Aaron Wilder’s “Details” project is included in the exhibition. Inspired by the “Evidence” collaboration between Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel as well as Sol LeWitt's PhotoGrids, “Details” is a series of zoomed in photographs of minutiae in the cityscape. It is an exploration of marks, patterns, and signs of weathering. These are details of human impact and manipulation cut off from context to emphasize the aesthetics of wear and tear that typically go unnoticed in our daily lives.