Manny’s: Alvar Jacomet – Waves and Warps (art opening)

Come join us for the May art opening featuring Alvar Jacomet: Waves and Warps. This exhibit explores the layered relationship between architecture, memory, and transformation, highlighting how our built environment shifts over time. Experience a powerful visual conversation shaped by materials, place, and change.

Artist Statement – Alvar Jacomet

We are always in dialogue with the built environment, negotiating the tension between the enduring and the ephemeral. My current body of work explores this tension, seeking to capture the dynamic interplay between the built environment and its slow but inexorable changes.

By collecting modular elements of local architecture (mostly Victorians), these pieces were then reassembled into new landscapes & structures. For added texture and depth, I used mediums you’d find in any building, such as caulking. This in turn allows the Bay Area’s varied and unstable geography to show through as well.

The pieces you see here are the culmination of 3 years of developing this idea. It has branched out in many directions, showing the warping and deconstruction of change over structures we often consider historic and static.