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Manifest Destiny by Jenny Chapman and Mark ReigelmanSouthern Exposure (SoEx) is a nonprofit visual arts organization that supports emerging artists. This project, the first of its kind for SoEx is a result of the support of The Graue Family Foundation. In 2009, the foundation offered Southern Exposure a major gift to support the public art initiative, SoEx Off-Site, and the creation of The Graue Award.
Jenny Chapman, a San Francisco-based architect, and Mark Reigelman, a New York-based artist, created this piece. It is “a simultaneous tribute to and critique of the romantic spirit and arrogant expansion of the Western frontier.” It is a temporary rustic cabin in “one of the last remaining unclaimed spaces of downtown San Francisco.” The artists used traditional architecture and building materials, to create work that will recall the city’s early settlements, providing a welcome contrast to the contemporary streetscape and ultimately integrating past, present, and future. It will remain, and let the elements take their toll until October 2012.