'Muni Raised Me': A San Francisco art show for San Franciscans

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'I visit a lot of art galleries, and I usually take Muni to get to them. But, until recently, I’d never seen a Muni bus inside an art gallery.'

I visit a lot of art galleries, and I usually take Muni to get to them. But, until recently, I’d never seen a Muni bus inside an art gallery. The piece in question was Sahsa Lu and Ling Ling Lee’s “Altered SF,” 2023, the centerpiece of “Muni Raised Me,” a group exhibition at SOMArts. This is just one of over 30 artworks by 13 different San Francisco-born and raised artists, filmmakers and writers on view.

Many works in the show emphasize Muni as a melting pot, a site of collaboration and conversation. MC Amable’s series of mixed-media paintings, “Muni Time Travel,” 2023, presents various interior scenes through Muni bus windows, showing Muni as a multigenerational, multicultural space, where a father and daughter play catch, teenagers gather to gossip, and a woman curls up quietly with a book.

The tribute to transportation blends with a history of displacement in many of the artworks, raising timely issues of the housing insecurity many Bay Area residents face. Erina Alejo’s “this place rests a home,” 2023, is a mixed-media installation featuring a poem about evictions printed on multiple sheets of paper.

 

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