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Glen Park artist’s work chosen for de Young exhibit

December 4, 2020 by Elizabeth Weise

Glen Park artist Michael Waldstein drops his piece “Red” off at the de Young museum for its 125th-anniversary show.

You’ve seen his work if you’ve read the Glen Park News, or perhaps strolling down Chenery Street. In the coming months you will be able to see it at the de Young museum.
Glen Park resident Michael Waldstein’s piece “Red” is one of numerous Bay Area artists whose work was chosen to be part of a 125th-anniversary exhibition. While temporarily closed due to the pandemic, it’s expected to reopen soon. The exhibit is currently scheduled through January 3 but will likely be extended, giving residents ample time to view it in person.

In the meantime, the exhibit can be viewed online, guided by curator Timothy Anglin Burgard.

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In addition,  you can view the 877 artworks in this exhibition online, along with thoughts from the participating artists.

A 36-year Chenery Street resident, Waldstein is a longtime artist whose work has been shown at the Open Studio and on home studio tours.
Waldstein was one of 6,188 artists who submitted work when the de Young put out a call for submissions by artists from across the nine Bay area counties. Just eight percent of the pieces were chosen to be displayed in nine galleries at the museum in Golden Gate Park.
The show is part of the museum’s 125th-anniversary celebration. It had previously been scheduled for the spring of 2021 but was moved up when the coronavirus pandemic upended the museum’s schedule. Because the museum couldn’t transport works from other places for their regular exhibits, the Open was moved up as local artists could deliver their works to the museum themselves.
To hand off his piece, Waldstein was given a time to come to the front of the museum where he was met by staff who loaded the work onto a special cart and carried it inside. Everyone was masked.
“It was very well organized,” he said.
Although COVID cut short his first museum showing, Waldstein says overall the pandemic hasn’t affected his working process greatly as his studio is at home.

“Red,” 2018. Artist: Michael Waldstein

“It’s made it more difficult to get supplies and the prices have gone up,” he said.
Waldstein has done photography and prints but now focuses mainly on two- and three-dimensional works featuring geometric shapes and strong colors.

“To me, reality in art is simply color, shape and arrangement or composition. Copying the natural world does not interest me now but, in my education, it was very important. Drawing from life is the way to develop a sense of beauty. It’s a building block needed to become a visual artist.
I claim no mystery in what I do. It is just how color and
composition affects the viewer, that’s a mystery.”

Living in Glen Park gives him a peaceful environment where he can work undisturbed, he said.
“I can stroll down to the coffee shop and meet up with my friends while I’m waiting for paint to dry. It’s nice to know the merchants. It’s convenient to have the hardware store a block away for a can of glue, picture hangers, nuts and bolts,” he said.
Passersby may have also seen his brightly colored sculptural bench on the corner of Chenery and Brompton which attracts children and adults with strollers taking a break.
“I made it so children would like walking on top of it,” he said.
You can see more of Waldstein’s art at www.waldsteinart.com.
Waldstein has also contributed dozens of photos to the Glen Park News over the past two decades.

In later-breaking news, the Glen Park News has learned that another Glen Park artist, Bruce Katz, has a piece in the show. You can see it here.

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Saturday’s Glen Park Greenway Work Party is Cancelled.

“I’m very sorry to say that
we have cancelled our Work Party for this Saturday July 12, along with all organized volunteer activity on the Greenway until further notice.
As you may have read in the news, our fiscal sponsor, San Francisco Parks Alliance (SFPA), has shut itself down. Just as SFPA has shut itself down, the Greenway, as an organized part of SFPA, has also been “shut down.” We are busy looking for a suitable alternative fiscal sponsor that is willing to replace SFPA. That search is going well but it is a slow process. We had hoped to find temporary ways to enable the Greenway project to function responsibly as a community activity without a fiscal sponsor. Sadly, despite our best efforts and the help of many others in Glen Park, we have failed. That is why we must cancel our Saturday Work Party and discontinue future work parties and other organized volunteer activity on the Greenway (like weeding and watering) until further notice. We recognize that the Greenway is public open space and that the organizers of the Greenway project have no control over the activities of you or of anyone else on the Greenway. However, if you do venture onto the Greenway to satisfy your urge for outdoor recreation, please be aware that your activity is not in any way organized or sanctioned by the organizers of the Glen Park Greenway project. I’m well aware of the efforts that many of the
Greenway’s supporters are making to get the Greenway organized with a new fiscal sponsor and I’m confident that this will be arranged within weeks or perhaps a few months.
However long it takes, I will contact you with news of our progress.
Many thanks for all that you do for the Greenway.”

Nicholas Dewar, volunteer Project Director

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Wonder what’s stopping just organizing it separate from that non-profit. It seems like the volunteers largely come from Glen Park.

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