Open/Closed is a body of work that aims to highlight every day, essential services and objects that often went unnoticed or were under appreciated pre pandemic. Shining a light on the things that helped keep our lives running during the past year and a half of uncertainty and daily change is the artist’s attempt to say thank you. Signs advertising constantly changing hours, window grates keeping people out while also attempting to be beautiful, and an ever-changing landscape of businesses are all inspiration for this work and are a reminder that it requires a constant effort to keep a community running.
Inspired by the built landscape around us and how we interact with it, Sincich is intrigued by handmade signage, architecture, long standing storefronts and other human made alterations of a place. Signs offering repair work, storefronts selling everyday products and architecture that shows signs of use and wear all offer an insight into how our world works. He believes these things are worth celebrating, as they are what create the unique fabric of the places that we live. Sincich uses quilting to represent the feeling of comfort, tradition and history. Like a handmade quilt, elements of the urban environment offer people a sense of place, belonging and safety. They both have traces of the hand that created them and are unique in their own ways. They can be displayed, passed down, altered, mended or repurposed or discarded. They each represent a part of their community, surroundings and history and offer different meanings for anyone who lives with or around them. The use of found objects brings a sense of history or familiarity that can hold different connotations to each viewer.
December 3, 2021 - January 15, 2022
Opening Reception December 3, 6-8pm
220 Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
