Curry Technical Senior Center

The Curry Technical Senior Center took us to the new art gallery featuring contemporary art on August 15, 2025. It is located in what used to be the Bank of America highrise at 555 California Street. The gallery is located at 345 Montgomery Street, a side entrance to the building.

It was a perfect day and here is the High Rise that the gallery is in and I had to take the Cable Car ride to the venue. I met a family from Manchester England, they and their children loved the City.

Group Photo of Curry Senior Center

We decided to do a layout to immitate one of the paintings in the exhibition.

David Antonio Cruz

stay, take your time, my love

Born and raised in North Philadelphia by parents who migrated from Puerto Rico, David Antonio Cruz explores the complexities of queerness and race through painting, sculpture, and performance. stay, take your time, my love brings together a selection of Cruz’s ongoing chosenfamily series anchored by newly commissioned work for ICA SF. A major new painting, two new drawings, and a site-specific installation all respond to San Francisco sites of LGBTQ+ rest, resilience, and resistance.

These chosen family group portraits capture queer relationship structures, highlighting the strength of nonbiological bonds formed through mutual love and support. Cruz’s painting process embodies a deep sense of community. Each portrait begins with conversations around the project’s intention, sharing gratitude and stories of family, and a celebratory dinner. Their celebration transitions into a lavishly styled group photoshoot (a performance in its own right) that Cruz later collages and reimagines into intricate artworks.

The gallery has a photo area for visitors to use. I told some of the group that we should do a photo shoot that copied one of the paintings. We decided to look like the first painting and did we laugh. An Asian woman suddenly decided to lay down off the couch like one of the people in the painting! Head on the floor. We had so much fun!

We wondered why so many were lying with their heads near the floor?

Of course I had to have a photo of myself relaxing on the couch!

Masako Miki

Midnight March

The first fully site-responsive exhibition in the new ICA SF at The Cube, Midnight March will present Masako Miki’s work as never seen before in her largest presentation to date. The exhibition collapses Miki’s two-dimensional and three-dimensional practices, bringing her paintings known as “Night Parades” to life in experiential form.

Visitors will descend from the upper level of the new ICA SF space to the lower level, encountering throngs of Miki’s signature felted character sculptures in a dramatically darkened environment. Here, we will be fully immersed in Miki’s world of riotous resistance. Dark indigo walls dotted with gold stars will echo the voids in her two-dimensional works, while theatrically lit characters will gather and disperse in complex relationships. Midnight March helps us understand deeper aspects of Miki’s “othered” figures and recognize difference as a positive force, even as we are unsettled by it.

Tau Lewis (b. 1993, Toronto, Canada)

Opus (The Ovule)

Tau Lewis remixes found materials using craft techniques like quilting, dyeing, appliqué, and assemblage. Stitching together pieces of history and personal experience, she honors African diasporic traditions of creative repurposing and upcycling. Her monumental sculptures often carry an ancestral presence, working within a long lineage of Black cultural producers who reach across time to unearth stories and memories embedded in textiles. The intense labor and care Lewis pours into each layered installation advocates for a future of love, healing, and justice.

Opus (The Ovule) is just one figure in a fictional universe Lewis calls T.A.U.B.I.S. Spirits in this universe are caring, compassionate, and free from earthly hierarchies. Opus’ head is their omniscient power source—floating flower garlands collect and upload knowledge into one unified consciousness. As its title suggests, this sculpture captures the hope of fertility, growth, and transformation. Merging elements of the feminine and masculine, human and plant, Opus (The Ovule) blossoms and unfurls, beckoning us into a genderless utopia.

Created on 2025.08.16       Updated on 2025.08.19