Category: Lower Haight
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Labyrinth in Duboce Park
Scott Street Lower Haight Duboce Triangle This labyrinth was part of Duboce Parks revitalization plan. The plan, funded by Friends of Duboce Park, began with fundraising in 1997 and took years to accomplish. The labyrinth was laid in 2007. It was proposed by Friends’ Janet Scheuer, who had walked labyrinths all over the world. “We…
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Native American Tongue
This piece is on the Laguna Side of Love in the Lower Haight. The artist is Krusch Rhoades. It is titled Native Tongue and was done in 2012. Krusch Rhoades, 33, spent the formative years of his youth in the “armpit of New York, the shoulders of New England and on the polluted teat…
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Alebrijes in the Haight
1301 Haight Street * * Jet Martinez, whose work is all over San Francisco is responsible for these colorful frogs. It is titled Bosque de Alebrijes. This is what Jet said on his Facebook page: Alebrijes are small animal figurines decorated with beautiful colors and patterns. They are really incredible on their own, but what…
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The Last Caravan in the Lower Haight
Love in The Lower Haight Haight Side of the Project Laguna and Haight Streets * This piece is part of the Love in the Lower Haight Project, it is a collaboration between Max Ehrman, aka EON75, Ernest Doty and Griffin One. Its title is The Last Caravan. Max Ehrman AKA E.O.N. 75 (Extermination of Normality) was…
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GATS, Ras Terms and Dead Eyes
Laguna and Haight Streets Love in the Lower Haight Haight Street Side This piece is part of the Love in the Lower Haight Project, it is a collaboration between GATS, Dead Eyes and RAS Terms. GATS (Graffiti Against The System) “GATS is one of the West Coast’s most prolific and rampant graffiti artists. Their iconic…
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A Swiss Gentleman paints in the Haight
665 Haight Street This piece is by Romanowski. Born and raised in Basel, Switzerland he is a DJ and painter. According to All Music Romanowski considers sneaking into his mother’s liquor cabinet and record collection his introduction to the DJ lifestyle. Booze and Beatles albums gave way to old school rap and early electronica, a combination he spun…
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The Apexer in The Haight
Haight and Masonic * This spot recently held a mural by Lango. This colorful and powerful new mural is by Ricardo Richey, also known as Apex. Ricardo is a street artist who creates colorful abstract patterns through the use of spray paint. Part of the gestalt collective that engages in collaborative murals in San Francisco his…
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Professor Wangari Maathi
Haight and Pierce Street * * * The main character of this mural is Professor Wangari Maathi. Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya (Africa) in 1940. The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. Wangari Maathai obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Scholastica College in…
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A Ross – Ziegler Collaboration
435 Duboce Duboce Triangle/ Lower Haight Ian Ross and Zio Ziegler * * * * After these two worked together on a juxtaposed mural South of Market, it was an obvious step to combine forces. The result is truly fabulous. Obviously a temporary installation while construction is occurring behind this, but you have to love the…
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Lower Haight Part IV
Lower Haight Love in the Lower Haight This is the last of the new items added to Love in the Lower Haight. Artist: Dee Jae Pa’este Artist Unknown Artist Unknown
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Love in The Lower Haight Part III
Lower Haight Love in the Lower Haight Continuing with our Love in the Lower Haight Series. These are murals added since the first post early in 2011. * * Artist: Saunders Hildreth * Jeremy Nova – Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds – Einstein Jeremy Nova is best known for his…
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Lower Haight – Love in the Lower Haight
Lower Haight Ursula Young This is on the corner of Laguna and Haight Streets. It is part of the Love in the Lower Haight Project. I have showcased a few artists in this area before. Started in October 0f 2010 the project is on the walls of a UC campus slated for demolition, as long…
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Lower Haight – Murals
The Lower Haight 650 Haight Street * * * * Painted by Sam Flores, these were commissioned by the eight owners of the building. They replaced murals done by small children in the same places, and while we all know it is important to encourage children in their art, I saw the originals and these…
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Lower Haight
Lower Haight – San Francisco Oak and Scott Streets * This mural was painted by San and Escif. Escif is a 28 year old artist from Valencia Spain. San is 29 and from Madrid. Earlier this year they traveled up and down the coast of California creating street art. All of their inspiration culminated in…
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Oddities in San Francisco
915 Fulton Street This is Ron Henggeler’s Tower at 915 Fulton Street in San Francisco. Ron is a collector, he started building this 45 foot tower after the Loma Prieta Earthquake. He wandered down to where they were tearing up the Fell Street Freeway exit and scavenged the rebar, the tower grew from there. Ron…
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Love in the Lower Haight – Silly Pink Bunnies
Silly Pink Bunnies and Love in the Lower Haight. In October of 2010 the long wall on the corner of Haight and Laguna that surrounds a series of buildings that once housed the UC extension campus became a mural collective. Called “Love in the Lower Haight,” the mural stretches 100 feet up Haight Street from Laguna…