Lined with historic buildings, the Central Market area is home to neighborhood shops, restaurants and other retail, while its residential community and office workers add vitality to the district. A dense and urban neighborhood, Central Market is part of a larger downtown district referred to as South of Market, or SoMa. Concentrated along Market Street, the community includes beloved neighborhood gems, hidden treasures, and new and historical landmarks.

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Central Market is easily accessed by a range of public transportation options, and Market Street itself is arguably the most transit-intensive street on the West Coast. The Central Market community is connected to the rest of the region by two BART stations and to the rest of the city by the MUNI Metro system, both at Civic Center and Powell stations. The Central Market neighborhood is also served by at least 20 bus lines.

Contact: Daniel Hurtado
Executive Director of Central Market Community Benefit District
415-957-5985
dhurtado@central-market.org

Central Market Artists

986 Market: Don't Give Up the Ship
Alexis Amann & Jonathan Burstein

Alexis Amann’s paintings and installations contain layers of worlds populated by girls, fish, whales, zombies, rabbits, houses, boats, demons, harpies, bearded ladies, and other flora and fauna driven by the forces of love and water. Her work has been shown at New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles, Dust Gallery in Las Vegas, and Johansson Projects in Oakland, as well as in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Miami, and New York.

Jonathan Burstein is a San Francisco-based visual artist and teacher who creates mixed-media portraits and figures from a wide range of materials, including contemporary art magazines, found photographs, museum recycling, and Xeroxed currency. He also works with community groups and the public to create site-specific, collaborative murals and temporary installations. He is currently at work on a Kiosk Poster Series for San Francisco Art Commission’s Art on Market Street Program.

949 Market: Find Yourself in Natural History
Helen Bayly & Leanne Miller Leanne C. Miller was born in Phoenix, Arizona and moved to San Francisco to attend the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000. She graduated in 2005 and has since shown her work in San Francisco and New York as well as participating in murals and San Pancho Art Collective.

990 Market: INFINITESIMAL INFINITY
Drone Dungeon Collective (Hunter Longe, Jason Hendardy and Brett Foreman), originally formed by the spontaneous convergence of Hunter Longe and Jason Hendardy, has evolved to include contributions from other like minded individuals, such as Chad (No) Wayman and Brett Foreman. Their work hints at a new form of Brechtian distancing through the application of a degraded aesthetic, the destruction of traditional narrative and removal of original context. Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, Drone Dungeon patiently awaits the day of the unionization of their minds and your soul.

1119 Market: Comforting Connections
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer considers her Commodore 64 computer and Fisher Price Loom to be defining objects of her childhood. She is an artist, designer and writer. Her work explores the intersections between textiles, technology and the body, on historical, constructional and conceptual levels.

989 Market: Untitled
Paul Hayes received a BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and has been living in San Francisco since 2001. His site-specific installations consist of vast swarms of crumpled or folded pieces of paper suspended on strands of wire. Recent examples of Hayes' works have been shown at the San Francisco Arts Commission's Grove Street Space, the Exploratorium, Alcatraz, Red Ink Studios, and Johansson Projects Gallery.

984 Market: Consider It
Born in Silicon Valley and currently living in San Francisco, Phillip Hua explores the process of artmaking as it intersects with the environment. His work has been exhibited locally and nationally including Cornell Museum of Art and History, California Museum of Photography at UC Riverside, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Google Inc., Mission 17, Kearny Street Workshop, Micaela Gallery, and Hang Art Gallery, where he is represented.

998 Market: No One Seems To Care That I Want Roots
Liz Maher uses a variety of low-tech means to explore the ever shifting relationships between constructed reality and perceived environment. She received her B.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design in 2004, and since then has honed her casting and sculptural skills by pouring chocolates and baking cakes at her day job.

989 Market: Celebrate Film in San Francisco
The San Francisco Film Museum and Archive is a non-profit organization that chronicles the rich heritage of film making in San Francisco. Through education and examination of the art and science of these motion pictures, the Museum seeks to inspire innovation that will advance the future of film and digital media in the San Francisco Bay Area.

998 Market: Everything is OK
Christopher Simmons is a designer, writer, educator, design advocate and principal of the noted San Francisco design office, MINE™. His design work has been exhibited in museums and galleries from Chicago to Japan, including the Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pasadena Museum of California Art and the Smithsonian Institution. Most recently he was selected as one of 12 designers to represent San Francisco Graphic Design at an exhibition at San Francisco's Museum of Craft and Design. Christopher is an adjunct professor of design at the California College of the Arts and a past president of the San Francisco AIGA (the professional association for design). On completion of Christopher’s tenure, Mayor Gavin Newsom issued an official proclamation declaring San Francisco to be a city “where design makes a difference.”

Tim Belonax is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a former Chronicle Books fellow and a member of the experimental design collaborative, Project M. Tim’s work has been recognized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Graphis, Print magazine, STEP magazine, HOW magazine, Coupe, and GDUSA. His work was recently exhibited at the de Young Museum as part of Warhol:Live exhibit.

1028 Market: The Color Therapy of Perception
As an artist of modern times, understanding himself and the world through color, defining the meaning of originality Chor Boogie is one of many masters that leads this pioneering craft of spray paint in its diverse art form.

Other art happenings and community resources

• Pearl Art & Craft Supplies: On opening night, Zachary Blizzard from Cannons and Clouds will perform outside of Pearl. And Pearl will decorate their own window with an installation by Amanda Klimek who is constructing a mixed media installation out of materials found around the store.
• Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet: Students of LINES Ballet will perform at the opening reception and we will raffle off tickets to an upcoming performance.
• California Modern Art Gallery: Features 14 artists for Open Studios
• Art Institute of California-San Francisco: Their Student Gallery featuring work from the Foundations courses will stay open until 8 pm on Art in Storefronts launch night
• Orpheum Theater: SHN is donating a poster, signed by the entire San Francisco cast of Wicked, to our FREE raffle
• Show Dogs: This eatery will be offering a special art "dog" promotion and a painting by Jeremy Sutton of Lights on Mid-Market will be on display
• Luggage Store Gallery
• Warfield