June 7th MAPP

Saturday, June 7th, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom @23rd
Curator: Dina Zarif

6:30 pm – Doors
7:00 pm – 7:50 pm:  Andrea Guskin, Fracture Zones (art, music, words)
8:00 pm – 8:50 pm:  Eduardo Corzo (Cuban Piano)
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm:  Jazz Manouche duo (Acoustic Jazz guitar)

Exhibition: Andrea Guskin’s newest body of work: Fracture Zones.

THIS IS A FREE EVENT!

MAPP (Mission Arts & Performance Project)

Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural event that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces, such as private garages, gardens, living rooms, studios, street corners, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.

RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:

Artistic Director | Managing Director: Dina Zarif 

PR and Digital Marketing: Anjali Varma

THE PROGRAM

EXHIBITION: Fracture Zones

Fracture Zones | art, music, words

Join us for a multidisciplinary art event featuring Andrea Guskin’s newest body of work: Fracture Zones.

On opening night, she will sing original songs related to this series and share the story and inspirations behind the work.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Andrea Guskin is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist working across multiple disciplines, including photography, sculpture, and painting. She often uses everyday domestic materials and tools for mending–such as thread, foil, spices– to explore ancestry, domesticity, and strategies for repair and transformation in our daily lives.

Her current body of work, Fracture Zones, was inspired by the geographical language and imagery of topographic maps — particularly the large scars forming “fracture zones” deep beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. She sees the fracture zones as a metaphor for the layers of emotional experience related to ancestry, immigration, and lost family narratives.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Photo Credit: Gary Sexton

Andrea Guskin is a San Francisco Bay Area based multidisciplinary artist who was raised amongst the woods and college campuses of Wisconsin and Ohio. After studying painting at Antioch College in Ohio, Guskin moved to New York City and became part of the art and songwriting communities on the Lower East Side, joining a group of visual and performing artists working in a 19th century school building now known as The Clemente. She exhibited her work and performed her songs regularly in the East Village (Sidewalk Cafe, C Note, CBGB’s Gallery).

Since moving to California, she has regularly exhibited her work throughout the state (Berkeley Art Center, H Gallery, Mercury 20 Gallery), often combining her experience in museum education with her creative practice to lead participatory art events. Andrea is a 2025 recipient of the San Leandro Arts and Culture grant for her community cyanotype project, Local Roots.

In 2023, she graduated with an M.F.A degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from Mills College at Northeastern University. She currently lives in San Leandro with her husband and two sons.

ABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTISTS

Eduardo Corzo
Cuban Piano

Featuring originals and standards of the Cuban music repertoire.

Eduardo Corzo was born and raised in Havana, Cuba, where he began his musical studies with his father, a violinist in the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. Eduardo studied guitar and piano and graduated as a clarinetist from Conservatorio Ignacio Cervantes. He has composed and arranged music for Cuban and Mexican television, served as musical director of the Conjunto Nacional de Espectáculos, and toured throughout Latin America. Living in Mexico during the 90’s, he played piano, clarinet, and alto sax with artists like Lila Downs, Amaury Gutierrez, Leoginaldo Pimentel, and more. Today, he resides in San Francisco and performs as a soloist with local and international bands. He is an artist with a broad vision, interested in genres and styles different from his own, and whose background ranges from Bach’s partitas to Afro-Cuban sounds, as well as music from around the world.

 

 

Jazz Manouche
Acoustic Jazz Manouche guitar duo

Their style is very open and often incorporates Latin or flamenco style influences while always maintaining the jazz concept of improvisation.

Featuring:
Ross Howe – Guitar
Javier Jiménez – Guitar

Born in Madrid Spain, Javi Jiménez has been playing and studying guitar for over 25 years. In 2007, after graduating from the Conservatory of Jazz Music in Barcelona, Spain, Javi performed all over Europe. During this time, he discovers the music of Django Reinhardt, falls in love with it, and starts studying it. In 2010 Javi arrived in California and has been performing & working as a studio musician and teaching music. He composes, arranges and performs in his own band Barrio Manouche – A Blend of flamenco, gypsy jazz and latin rhythms. The band recently played at the Monterey Jazz Festival and Stern Grove Festival.

Ross Howe grew up in the Bay Area and was heavily influenced by the vibrant local music scene. In his early 20’s he discovered the music of Django Reinhardt and fell in love with it. Ross started playing Piano at the age of 8 and then turned to cello at 11. By the time he turned 12 he started playing guitar and has been in love with it ever since. His style of playing incorporates elements of classical tradition with the vocabulary of contemporary jazz, and gypsy jazz Manouche music, while always maintaining respect of the jazz guitar traditions and it’s forefathers, particularly the immortal Django Reinhardt. When not composing, playing or teaching guitar, Ross spends as much time as possible surfing and racing sailboats. Ross tries to breathe a bit of fresh air into the art of improvised music through contemporary aesthetics that he hopes his audience will find refreshing.

IN PERSON EVENT DETAILS

Time: June 7th, 2025, 7pm- 10pm (IN-PERSON)

Admission: Free!

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