SF Art Gallery Reopening Soon!

We're almost through the remodeling, and close to a deal to become the west coast showroom for my friend Eric Ehlenberger's neon art. He's a nationally known artist who owns the Venusian Gardens gallery in New Orleans. And in his spare time, he's a doctor, too, working about two weekends a month in SF.

Built in the 1920's as an auto repair garage, the building was the ArtSpace gallery in the late 80's and early 90's. Karen Finley performed here. Survival Research Labs put on shows as well.

Here's Andy Warhol, hanging out in our kitchen.

Those folks all moved to New York. Trevor Ito and Michael Morehouse founded and inspired the present incarnation, Arspace Gallery in 2003, with help from a community of artists. Trevor's in New York now too, and Michael moved to Portland closer to his son. So that leaves me.

I'm a creative accountant, not an artist. Yet somehow I've acquired a strange passion to keep this place going. The gallery has held amazing collaborative shows, recently ranging from the Autista collective from Brazil to the Asian Sex Worker’s Art Show. It hasn’t been moneymaking, but rather a labor of love, now ready for a major reincarnation..