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Intersection for the Arts is San Francisco’s oldest alternative art space (est. 1965) and has a long history of presenting new and experimental work in the fields of literature, theater, music, dance, and the visual arts, and also in nurturing and supporting the Bay Area’s cultural community through service, technical support, and mentorship programs. Intersection provides a place where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists, and audiences can intersect one another.

The Gallery at Intersection develops and presents brand new installations and exhibitions that provide a resource of visual ideas and a platform for communications; art that transgresses boundaries of culture and discipline; artists who define, interpret and help to transform society through their work.

Mirroring the multi-disciplinary heart of Intersection programming, exhibitions have included media as diverse as photography, video, printmaking, sculpture, embroidered suits, glass, sound and audio, historical artifacts, painting, collage, architectural models, site-specific murals & illustration. Intersection presents a wide variety of work – work by prominent established artists who have shown work in major galleries and museums, local emerging artists, and concept driven, Intersection-curated shows. Exhibitions are always programmed with events (artist’s talks, panel discussions, film & video screenings, performances, critics’ roundtables) that highlight the inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural nature of the work.

“Every moment of Intersection’s past conflates with its present and future; it is always reaching forward and behind. The artists, images and ideas of Intersection’s past continuously inform and resurface in the work of today’s artists. No matter what door you enter…inside that door is a consistent and coherent commitment to nurturing a space for alternative art.” – Amber Whiteside, Artweek