Our Mission:
Make Hang Gallery (opened June 18, 2011), located in the historic North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, embraces Bay Area emerging makers of art objects. The co-founders and curators, Aline Dargie and Alan Robin, add a fresh and progressive voice to the San Francisco art scene. Make Hang is a unique space where 3 dimensional, tactile, art is made and can be explored. Our artists use form to create personal experiences through sight, touch, smell and taste. A special emphasis is placed upon artists who use ecological processes and upcycled, unexpected materials in their work. Make Hang Gallery is a place where our diverse community can come to create as well as enjoy, learn and add to their collections. As David Delgado, our first installation artist, described our aesthetic, it’s new, funky, weird but also classical.
Make Hang Gallery
450 Green Street
San Francisco CA 94133
(415) 571-4874
Open Hours:
-First Fridays in North Beach, art party! 6-9 pm
-Spontaneous times, Aline is there “full time,” M-F
-During events, listed on makehang.com
-By appointment, please contact:
Aline Dargie (co-curator and weaver)
call: (415) 571-4874
email: aline@makehang.com
Come on by and check us out!
Make Hang’s
History and Context:
Make Hang exists in the oldest part of SF, in the overlap of 1960’s beat generation, Italian origins and the largest Asian community in America. We invite local emerging craft artists to work in the studio, creating dimensional, tactile objects and installations. Make Hang is completely artist-run and it enables and promotes contemporary underrepresented artistic voices.
In this time of booming technology, and economic angst, people yearn to create with their hands, but often do not have the resources. At Make Hang, supplies, tools and expertise are provided.
Make Hang’s space used to be a Chinese sewing sweatshop until 2010. Illegal immigrant workers made mass-produced clothing at all hours, living in the basement. We radically transformed the 2000sqft space with support and embrace of neighbors. In honor of its textile history, it’s now a sculpture laboratory and exhibition space for the artistically inclined, attracting many.
