Seeing San Francisco's many neighborhoods and experiencing their culture can be time-consuming. Traveling a few blocks south of Montgomery Station to get a taste of each neighborhood, however, is much easier.

NeighborhoodSF, the new exhibit at 111 Minna, opened Sept. 3. The night offered locals a full bar, a live DJ and a refreshing look at the city's various districts through the perspective of prominent local artists.

"I came up with the concept and thought it would be cool if all these artists could represent the city and the neighborhoods that they live in," said artist and exhibit coordinator Ryan Malley, 30.

Though the project took nine months to complete, artists used their time differently. Some spent the entire period creating their pieces, while others produced their work right before the unveiling. Malley spent nearly 300 hours on his own piece, completing the underdrawing, or preliminary sketch for a painting, in about one month.

"My art is all about bringing attention to things people don't usually look at," Malley said. "I like to focus on all the details." His piece, "Fern," created with oil on wood, captures every microscopic detail of Fern Street in the civic center. The light reflecting off the back end of a pickup truck, a garage door switch box and the ripples of a plastic grocery bag makes it seem like a photograph. Malley even installed a speaker behind the image to capture the audio details of the street.

Another artist, Justin Kaufman, 33, who goes by the name of Coro, piqued the interest of the crowd with his oil on canvas piece titled "Vice." In the middle of the painting stood an unclothed, androgynous, obese figure that dominated the piece. With messy entrails for a head and screws for its forearms, the beast haunts the man in the foreground. He sits smoking a pipe, surrounded by black garbage bags and his odd belongings within a Tenderloin doorway.

"I'm impressed -- it's like every Minna show, you've got to weed stuff out," said Kurt Tachet, 41, naming Coro's piece as a favorite. "Thirty percent of the art is over-the-top amazing and 20 percent is a joke. It doesn't cut any new ground, it's been done, it's been done a thousand times."

Done before or not, the city's high-end and low income neighborhoods were both captured in a variety of styles -- sketches of what appeared to be bird-like men, an installment displaying a home of the homeless and paintings so realistic they seemed like windows to the streets of the city.

"You can tell the artists love San Francisco and love the places they live," said 25-year-old attendee Amanda Pyle.