On a Thursday night in San Francisco, there are lots of interesting places to be. Though this past July, the only place anyone seemed to want to be was at Jessica Silverman Gallery for the opening of Chelsea Ryoko Wong’s new solo exhibition Nostalgia for the Present Tense. Wong is a highlight in the Bay Area art scene, known for her vivacious and colorful works that spotlight the community of people around her–both those she loves and those she admires from afar. It’s no wonder that in addition to this exhibition, the Asian Art Museum commissioned Wong for a mural to be featured on their Lawrence and Gorretti Lui Hyde Street Art Wall, (which I’m told will depict a bustling…