CELLspace

08/28/2025

A few more photos of the CELL PopUp exhibit just before folks started showing up last week, including a pic of Jonathan with Bob Burnside.

08/26/2025

You can still stop by the CELLspace PopUp until early September:

8/25-8/29: Monday to Friday, 10am-3pm
9/5: Friday 10am-3pm
9/8: Monday 10am-3pm
Weekend visits may be available. DM Russell, Jonathan, or Jane.

Photos by Maya Melenchuk - www.mayuchka.com

08/24/2025

(mostly) good times all around......

08/24/2025

Thanks for coming out Friday night! More photos coming soon, but here are hours for seeing the show:

Gallery and Cafe are open this week as follows:

8/25 -8/29 Monday -Friday 10am-3pm
9/5 Friday 10am-3pm
9/8 -9/29 Monday 10am-3pm
Note: Show will come down 9/10.

Jane Verma laid out this portion of the show. Tees and jackets from Russell and Jonathan's CELLspace stash. Posters and collage from the CELLspace archives; The Home collage from Russell's stash, brochure from Jane's stash, and the No Smoking sign was pulled out of the ruined building on Bryant by Russell. Group efforts and collective memories all around :)

08/22/2025

Just a few more posts of the Bryant St. walls.
See you all tonight! No Tickets Required.
FREE EVENT. Enter on Michigan St. around corner from main Midway entrance on Marin

CELLspace PopUp: Metal Mural Opening
Friday, August 22, 2025
6:30 to 9:30pm
Exhibit up until September 10
The Midway Gallery
900 Marin St, San Francisco, CA 94124-1217
enter around corner on Michigan St.

Had to dig deep for these photos, pulling them off of www.stencilarchive.org. In 2005, Peat "Eyez" Wollaeger asked about some wall space to throw up a few of his comedian stencils. CELLspace obliged. Then in 2007, Peat wandered back to SF and dropped a Skully stencil. Over the years, he added a luchador, a hippie, an elephant and possibly a few others to the Bryant St. walls (and in Clarion Alley).

The stencils in the photos below ran until the end, and this piece of plywood was taken off the wall around 2015. Cy Wagoner had added fills around these stencils, but in this older pic, you can see work by Claude Moller, empte eyes, and Craig McPhee.

The comedians, and Skully, will be on the wall tonight at The Midway SF gallery! Just got word that Peat will be flying in from St. Louis to peep the show. Let's hope he has a trouble-free airline experience :)

08/20/2025

Update for Friday: AKASHA will be providing the beats and music 8-9:30pm at for the CELL PopUp.

Another daily dose of CELLspace muralism. Cy Wagoner created this amazing work on the Florida St. doors in 2010, anchoring the new works at the back of the CELL warehouse bay. This image tells an amazing story of creation and creativity.

While saving the murals that we could, there was serious thought into how to take these doors off to preserve this piece. Alas, it never happened.

To the right, not yet installed in this pic, was the Bike Kitchen monkey mural (the BK took it), and to the left was a Jet Martinez work (he took it). Scott Williams worked with Russell Howze on putting a huge gorilla stencil on the fire exit door (not pictured).

08/18/2025

See you this Friday at the Midway Gallery! New art, old art, history and memorabilia: here's a teaser pic of some CELL posters that were pulled from the archives to go up on the wall this week.

Opening night with you all:
Friday, August 22, 2025
6:30 to 9:30pm
Exhibit up until September 10
The Midway Gallery
900 Marin St, San Francisco, CA 94124-1217

08/10/2025

We have heard from a few people that CELLspace is in the "Bay Area Then" exhibit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The 1990s indeed felt like a "moment of consequence", and holding down space was a significant part of that nascent internet world where gathering to celebrate, create, and collaborate felt so important.

Aug. 22, please stop by The Midway gallery for the CELLSpace PopUp, where we will look forwards as well as backwards during these current consequential times. Also check out this great retrospective at YBCA.

With its iconoclastic spirit and deep commitment to community, this exhibition asks us to find power in creative persistence even during challenging times.

08/02/2025

While discussing the idea of putting a map in the CELLspace PopUp show, Jane Verma found a decently-archived copy of the newspaper handout that Jonathan Youtt and Russell Howze cut and pasted. On top of the warehouse layout, there's explanations about where and what and how to volunteer. Throw it in a frame and it's going on the wall for August 22nd.

05/20/2025

The Metal Mural, with the Stencilada panels (and collabs), from around 2009 over on 2050 Bryant. This August at the Midway, we will celebrate to continued run of the Metal Mural along with an exhibit of CELLspace murals and art from CELL artists. Thanks to Metal Mural co-artist Jane Verma for stitching this new image together!

05/17/2025

If you walked into 2050 Bryant Street, this sign loomed over you for years :P Three different frames cobbled together to hold the message, probably pulled out of the garbage, makes this sign an ephemeral gem. In September, you all will be under its watchful presence for a month of art and celebration (details sooooon).

04/22/2025

Ten years ago...

CELLspace moved from its warehouse on Bryant Street in 2012 leaving behind a mural like no other in the Mission: a large metal structure that