A spectacularly trashy art show celebrates San Francisco’s garbage piles
Some people, notably tech CEOs and out-of-state politicians, like to complain about how dirty San Francisco is. Others embrace the trashiness – literally, in the case of a gritty new exhibit at the city’s MAG Galleries.
“Art and Fashion in the Garbage Age” assembles recent work from the Piles Collective, a group of artists who repurpose garbage and up-cycled materials sourced right here from local streets and trash piles. “We live in an age when Garbage threatens our way of life,” they declare. “Countering the problems that generate the garbage is a momentous task, but also significant is the creative desire to find the detritus as a source of artistic possibilities.”
The multimedia extravaganza presents photography and sculptures of urban debris, as well as furniture design, jewelry and elegant garments made from discarded (and hopefully washed) textiles and even a bunch of trashy zines. Show up on January 25 and you’re in for a treat – a runway show at the gallery featuring models in rubbish-based clothing.
Details: Show runs January 3 (opening night) to February 2 at MAG Galleries, 3931 18th St., San Francisco; open noon-7 p.m. Thursday-Friday and noon-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, mag-galleries.com.