474 Natoma
South of Market
On this affordable housing unit are digitally embossed metal panels entitled Global Gardens, by artist Catherine Wagner. The images are of culturally specific plants representing the diverse community.
Catherine Wagner is a Professor of Studio Art, as well as the Dean of the Fine Arts Division at Mills College. She received her BA and MFA from San Francisco State University.
Wagner is an American conceptual artist whose process involves the investigation of what art critic David Bonetti calls “the systems people create, our love of order, our ambition to shape the world, the value we place on knowledge, and the tokens we display to express ourselves.” Wagner has created large-scale, site-specific public artworks for the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, and Kyoto, Japan.
This is part of the 1% for Art Program in the City of San Francisco. All new construction is required to dedicate 1% of the overall construction costs to art.