Slash Art

Slash Art / is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit visual art space founded in 2018 to advance and promote the expanding field of contemporary art in the city of San Francisco.

04/11/2026

Have you heard…that you have to be there? Well now you have 😉

Listen to Slash staff and buy your ticket today to our late-night pole and karaoke party next Saturday, April 18! All proceeds support our future programming 💫

Link in bio to purchase

01/22/2026

Sky Hopinka () “primarily circles Indigenous life in the present, rather than the past.”

Thank you Karly Quadros () for highlighting “Sky Hopinka: Sonic Transmissions” in ! The solo exhibition at Slash features six of Hopinka’s films alongside poetry, ephemera, and a listening station of songs curated by the artist, many sung by his father, Mike Hopinka.

🔗 Read the full article via the link in our bio and stop by to see the show during our extended hours tonight. We’ll be open till 8pm for SF Art Week!

🌼 "You Are a Paradise Enclosed," a site-specific installation by , is on view in through April 19. ⁠⁠The artist brings ...
03/14/2025

🌼 "You Are a Paradise Enclosed," a site-specific installation by , is on view in through April 19. ⁠
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The artist brings together elements including sculpture, ephemera, and sound that center on her wish to heal seven generations of her family, past and future. Rather than defining a cohesive map or narrative, Revilla invites viewers to consider each item individually and speculate about the connections between them.⁠
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Revilla will also be in conversation with fellow artist Heesoo Kwon () and curator Kathryn Cua (.cua) on Saturday, March 22. The three will discuss family archives, inherited objects, and ancestral healing. The event in the Minnesota Street Project Lounge will begin with a screening of Kwon's film "Leymusoom Garden" and conclude with a walkthrough of "You Are a Paradise Enclosed" at Slash. ⁠
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Learn more about the exhibition and conversation here: https://www.slashart.org/katie-revilla-and-heesoo-kwon/

We are excited to announce two upcoming live performances of scores by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and artist Raven ...
03/12/2025

We are excited to announce two upcoming live performances of scores by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and artist Raven Chacon at Headlands Center for the Arts. Chacon’s work addresses Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice and is featured in "The Blinding Light," the group exhibition curated by Diego Villalobos currently on view at Slash.

Background Music
A participatory performance and hike
Sunday, April 13 | 11am-12pm
Free, registration required

Compass
Performed by Zachary James Watkins
Sunday, April 13 | 1-2pm
Free, no registration required

"Background Music" and "Compass" are hosted during Headlands’ Spring 2025 Open House (12–5PM), which features additional programming including artist open studios, lunch for purchase, and readings. The performances are co-presented by Slash and Headlands.

Click the links below to learn more about the performances and register for "Background Music."

https://www.slashart.org/raven-chacon-background-music/

https://www.slashart.org/raven-chacon-compass/

Manon de Boer's 2010 film "Dissonant" features footage of dancer Cynthia Loemij interrupted by one-minute cuts to darkne...
03/07/2025

Manon de Boer's 2010 film "Dissonant" features footage of dancer Cynthia Loemij interrupted by one-minute cuts to darkness.

As Diego Villalobos, curator of "The Blinding Light," writes, "During these visual gaps, the audience is drawn into a memory game: just as Loemij relies on recollection to perform, viewers are invited to project the image of her dancing body onto the black screen, guided by sound and the memory of her movements. This interplay of visual absence and auditory presence creates a dissonance that blurs perception, memory, and time."

"Dissonant" is on view at Slash through April 19. Learn more through the link in our bio!

📷️ Manon de Boer, Dissonant, 2010, single-channel video, color, sound, 10:40 min. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels.

Manon de Boer mainly works within the audiovisual realm. Her work is pervaded by an extended experience of time that res...
03/04/2025

Manon de Boer mainly works within the audiovisual realm. Her work is pervaded by an extended experience of time that resists normativity, functionality, and productivity. Instead, she advances a concept of time that is firmly anchored in the conditions of creation that incessantly produce a present and presence. De Boer was born in Kodaicanal, India and lives and works in Brussels.

"Dissonant," a 2010 video by de Boer, is currently on view at Slash in "The Blinding Light." Learn more about the exhibition here: https://www.slashart.org/the-blinding-light/

📷️ by Kristien Daem

In "Dissonant" (2010), Manon de Boer films dancer Cynthia Loemij as she performs a 10-minute response to Eugène Ysaÿe’s ...
02/28/2025

In "Dissonant" (2010), Manon de Boer films dancer Cynthia Loemij as she performs a 10-minute response to Eugène Ysaÿe’s "3 Sonatas for Violin Solo."
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The synchronicity between time, movement, and music is disrupted by the 3-minute duration of one 16-mm film roll. When a roll runs out and de Boer loads the new film, the screen turns to black while the music and sound of Loemij's dancing continues. ⁠

"Dissonant" is on view at Slash in "The Blinding Light," an exhibition that invites us to look beyond conventionally ordered systems of seeing and listening. Click the link in bio for more information!
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📷️ Manon de Boer, Dissonant, 2010, single-channel video, color, sound, 10:40 min. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels.

Ishan Clemenco highlights the intwined materiality of multiple elements in "n.T. [tablet: 6 chalk-lines; pthalo blue/irg...
02/25/2025

Ishan Clemenco highlights the intwined materiality of multiple elements in "n.T. [tablet: 6 chalk-lines; pthalo blue/irgazine yellow/cobalt blue/titanium white]" (2018-2024).

As guest curator Diego Villalobos writes, stone and wood are "the remnants of long passages from mountains and rainforests and processes of germination, growth, deforestation, quarrying, shipping, and architectural usage." Clemenco pairs a hardwood block with a granite tablet inscribed with chalk to highlight the visible markings of time on both forms.

This work is on view at Slash in "The Blinding Light" through April 19. Learn more through the link in our bio!

📷️ Ishan Clemenco, n.T. [tablet: 6 chalk-lines; pthalo blue/irgazine yellow/cobalt blue/titanium white], 2018-2024, chalk-line marking on incised Nero Assoluto granite, ipé (Tabebuia serratifolia), galvanised brackets, 15 1/2 x 5 x 22 inches. Courtesy of the artist. For stanley brouwn (1935-2017).

Ishan Clemenco began his career as a composer whose early work was concerned with just intonation and extended duration ...
02/18/2025

Ishan Clemenco began his career as a composer whose early work was concerned with just intonation and extended duration associated with 60s minimalism. Private composition residencies with Lou Harrison and poetics studies with Anne Waldman at Naropa Institute led to extensive Asian travels.

Since 2000, he has worked intensively with adapted chalk-line marking instruments, developing a vocabulary of visual and spatial possibilities for site-specific chalk-line wall drawing, and large-scale suspended chalk-line installation. He makes work in a variety of material, notably metal, sound, photography, and video, and has worked internationally in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Clemenco lives and works in San Francisco.

Clemenco has two works on view at Slash in "The Blinding Light." Learn more about the exhibition through the link in our bio!

📷️ by Facundo Argañaraz

🎶 Ishan Clemenco translates the concerns of intonation and duration in music into treatments of surface and volume in sc...
02/14/2025

🎶 Ishan Clemenco translates the concerns of intonation and duration in music into treatments of surface and volume in sculpture. ⁠
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In "n.T. [chalk-line ink block: 15 lines; irgazine yellow/cobalt blue/titanium white]" (2022), one his sculptures on view in "The Blinding Light," a sumi ink-stained wood block sits on a granite stele. The artist's multicolor chalk marks reflect light and draw attention to the rhythm of geologic and human-made time.⁠
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Learn more about the artist and exhibition here: https://www.slashart.org/the-blinding-light/
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📷️ Ishan Clemenco, n.T. [chalk-line ink block: 15 lines; irgazine yellow/cobalt blue/titanium white], 2022, ground pigment, sumi ink, Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), charnockite, 45 x 10 x 7 inches. Courtesy of the artist. For Lothar Baumgarten (1944-2018).

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