Hinckley Walk at Golden Gateway Commons
Fountain by Jaques Overhoff
Jacques Overhoff has several pieces around San Francisco. Overhoff was born in 1933 in the Netherlands and studied at the Graphics School of Design and the University of Oregon. He moved to San Francisco in the 1950′s.
This is titled Up-Tight #1 by Jaques Overhoff. Mr. Overhoff has been in this blog before with a piece on SF City College campus. Up-Tight #1 is painted concrete. The name was to symbolize the stabilizing effects of the tension cables. That made absolutely no sense to me until I found an earlier photo of the piece.
Obviously some restoration is in order for this piece that was installed in 1977.
This is called “Sculptural deck and Bicentennial Wings” by Jacques Overhoff. It was done in 1979. It is typical of Overhoff work, cast concrete with ceramic tile. Jacques Overhoff was born in 1933 in the Netherlands and studied at the Graphics School of Design and the University of Oregon. He moved to San Francisco in the 1950’s.
His civic sculptures range in style from symbolic figures to structural abstractions, as well as, in this case, entire sculptural plazas. This particular piece has suffered from abuse by skate boarders and taggers and was restored in 2008 by Karen Fix. Apparently, Overhoff visited from Germany and was happy with the work she did.
I have shot this looking through the wings, over the plaza and into the city. The next shot is of the “sculptural deck” looking back onto the “wings”
Looking up into the “wings”This sculpture is outside of Batmale Hall at San Francisco City College, just off of Ocean Avenue.