Curatorial

Justin Hoover joins the SOMArts family October 2, 2009. SOMArts Cultural Center added Justin Hoover as its new curator and gallery director. A Bay Area native, Hoover brings with him an extensive background in fine art and curatorial practice, art administration, and nonprofit management. Prior to his work at SOMArts, Hoover was the founding director… →Read More

Live Auctions – Ephemeral Art Radical Practices Live Auctions was founded in 2009 by Justin Hoover as an ongoing conceptual performance. Auction items have ranged from singing telegrams to professional wrestler lessons, to the production of a rainbow, to a dress made of clay.  It is an abstract platform for exhibiting ephemeral or performative work…. →Read More

Cantocore; a two part international exhibition that spanned 2008 and 2009.  The two sections, titled, Import/Export opened in Guangzhou, China, and FREE ON BOARD, opened in San Francisco examined, through applied art practice, the relationship between import and export of culture between Guangzhou and San Francisco. Guangzhou, also called Canton, is the third most populous… →Read More

The Garage is an artist-fueled space, focusing on expanding ongoing dialog and understanding between artists, curators, and the public. The Garage is an experiment in context and culture. It embraces the conceptual nature of collected energy dedicated to artistic play. It is a sculpture employing invisible materials, transforming the structures and belief systems informing our lives…. →Read More

About the Mobile Arts Platform (MAP) The Mobile Arts Platform (MAP) is comprised of two large-scale, interactive sculptures that are “activated” by a mobile exhibitions program. MAP brings together Peter Foucault’s Fal-Core Van and Chris Treggiari’s Mobile Store along with Justin Hoover’s curatorial guidance and appears in locations throughout the Bay Area. MAP is presented… →Read More