Category: All of SAN FRANCISCO
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Lango in The Haight and The Tenderloin
Cedar Alley the Tenderloin Haight and Clayton – The Haight Lango is a tattoo artist in San Francisco.
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SOMA – Labyrinth-Habitat
SOMA 8th and Natoma Streets Labyrinth – Habitat 1999 Johanna Poethig with Episcopal Community Services Ceramic and paint Commissioned by the San Francisco Art Commission – Arts in Community Program. Johanna Poethig has been in this site many, many times. This mural is on the side of one of the Training Centers for Episcopal Community…
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The Tenderloin – Louder, Harder,
The Tenderloin 259 Myrtle Street Louder Harder by Ben Eine Ben Flynn, a.k.a. EINE, shot to international fame when David Cameron presented one of his works to President Obama as a gift on his first official state visit, but is arguably more famous for ‘Alphabet Street’ – the shutters and murals he painted in his…
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TheTenderloin – Fern Alley
100 Block of Fern Street The Tenderloin * * * * Dray has been in this site before, and is a really terrific guy. In researching this piece I found a lovely article about him from his days in Las Vegas. Dray did this mural pro bono in hopes that the alley would attract more…
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Civic Center – Pioneer Monument
Civic Center San Francisco’s Pioneer Monument, created by F.H. Happersberger was dedicated to The City by James Lick in 1894. Previously located at Marshall Square, near the intersection of Hyde and Grove, it marked the site of the Old City Hall, destroyed by fire in the earthquake of 1906. During the renovation of the new…
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Civic Center – Simon Bolivar
Civic Center Simon Bolivar a 1984 “Gift from Venezuela to the People of San Francisco.” Simón Bolívar, was a Venezuelan military and political leader. Together with José de San Martín, he played a key role in Hispanic-Spanish America’s successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential…
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Civic Center – Double L Excentric Gyratory
Civic Center San Francisco Public Library Double L Excentric Gyratory by George Rickey – 1982 The plaque reads – A gift from an immigrant Carl Djerassi to his adopted City. Dedicated by San Francisco Arts Commission May 1997. George Rickey was an American kinetic sculptor born on June 6, 1907 in South Bend, Indiana. When Rickey was…
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Civic Center – Ashurbanipal
San Francisco City Hall Ashurbanipal by sculptor Fred Parhad sits on the sidewalk of the Asian Art Museum, facing the San Francisco Library. The sculpture shows Asurbanipal wearing a short tunic and holds a lion cub in his right arm. The figure stands on a concrete base, with bronze plaque and rosettes. The statue shows the…
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The Tenderloin – Flores del Tehuan-derloin
The Tenderloin Larkin and Cedar This is “Flores del Tehuan-derloin” by Jet Martínez. The mural was commissioned by the SF Arts Commission project StreetSmARTS. It is done in the style of embroidery created by the Tehuanan women of Oaxaca, Mexico. This is what Jet said on his Facebook page about the work: A mural…
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SOMA – Landmark
SOMA One Hawthorne “Landmark” consists of a large grid of colorful panels 145 ft. high and 12 ft. wide. The panels are coated with porcelain enamel using a photographic imaging process, which accurately reproduced and enlarged a detailed series of 30” x 23” color drawings created by Robert Hudson. One Hawthorne tapped Valerie Wade, gallery…
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Financial District – The General Harrison
Financial District 425 Battery Street The General Harrison by Curtis Hollenback and Topher Delany The financial district of San Francisco was built on mudflats. At one time, the muddy shoreline came up to Montgomery Street. The mudflats were riddled with hulls of abandoned ships left by their crews when they headed for the gold in the…
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Foundry Square – Not Out of The Woods Yet
Howard at First Street Foundry Square SOMA Not Out of the Woods Yet by Richard Deacon 2003 In 2003 Kenneth Baker of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Deacon’s “Not Out Of The Woods Yet” (2003) nests muscularly in a tight spot behind columns at the entrance to 500 Howard St., on the intersection’s northwest corner.…
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SOMA – Foundry Square
Howard at First Street Foundry Square SOMA Untitled by Joel Shapiro 1996-1999 In 2003 Kenneth Baker of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Shapiro’s renown rests on his having turned the vocabulary of minimal sculpture back toward figuration about 30 years ago. He took square wood beams, favorite forms of his older contemporary Carl Andre, and…
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SOMA – Time Signature
Howard at First Street Foundry Square SOMA Time Signature Richard Deutsch *Richard Deutsch has several sculptures around San Francisco. This piece has it’s own video on Richard’s website, and I highly recommend that you go and view it. The film is a work of art unto itself, and I could not do justice to the…
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Restaurant Row – Maori Column
50 Third Street Ducca Restaurant Courtyard Westin Hotel Museum Row This piece is titled Maori Column and is by Alan Shepp. It was done in 1985. Shepp, along with his artist wife, lives in Napa California. He has a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and an MFA from the University of Washington. He…
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Isamu Noguchi on Museum Row
50 Third Street Ducca Restaurant Walkway Museum Row Fat Dancer Rain Mountain Figure Emerging These three figures are by Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi ranks up there as one of my all time favorite sculptors, but I must admit, this is not my favorite medium for him. (November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) Isamu Noguchi was…
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Museum Row – Stream of Vessels
50 Third Street Ducca Restaurant Walkway Museum Row These are in the walkway between Ducca Restaurant and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. They are titled Stream of Vessels, done in 1997 by David Nash of charred oak. David Nash is a British sculptor based in Blaenau Ffestiniog. He is known for works in wood and shaping living…
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Museum Row – Les Funambules
50 Third Street Ducca Restaurant walkway Museum Row Attached to the Westin Hotel is Ducca Restaurant. They have an open walkway between 3rd street and the Jewish Museum. In that walkway is seating and dining. Throughout that area is art. This piece is “Les Funambules” by Charles Ginnever, done in Bronze in 1991. Ginnever is an…
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S.F. Bicycle Coalition Mural
Castro/Duboce Avenue/Nob Hill Back of 2020 Market Street In 1972 BART built the Market Street subway, including Muni Metro. Along the Duboce Avenue tunnel entrance was a single eastbound lane for cars. During the 1994 closure of the street, for construction, The Bicycle Coalition worked to show that this street, which when used by…
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Yerba Buena Gardens – Urge
Yerba Buena Gardens Childrens Museum side of Howard Street Urge by Chico Macmurtrie This has always been one of my favorite sculptures in San Francisco. There is something so lifelike and yet so robotic about the figure. The sculptor works in a team that he formed in 1992, called Amorphic Robot Works. They are a…
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Yerba Buena Gardens – Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain
Yerba Buena Center San Francisco Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain (Seasons of the Sea ‘Adrift) John Roloff with NGA Industries and Wes-Co Industries 1993 * The accompanying plaque says: This glass ship is an art work that refers to the natural and geological history of California. Sediment gathered from the ocean floor four miles off the coast…
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Mission District – Community Thrift Store Mural
Mission District Sycamore Street at 623 Valencia This mural goes along the top of the Community Thrift Store. The mural is actually on Sycamore Street. Done by a school group they developed a mural design that emphasized the social as opposed to the currency value of objects, settling on a…
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Michael Kershnar Around Town
San Francisco Around Town * Market and 6th Street Hemlock Alley Caledonia Street, The Mission These are all by Mike Kershnar The Citrus Report did a great interview with Mike, a fun excerpt: The greatest way graffiti has changed my life is the ever-present knowledge that whatever the visual landscape is, it has the potential to…
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SOMA – 1AM
1 AM Gallery SOMA Howard and Sixth Street 1 AM Gallery always has murals done on their wall to celebrate their newest art installation inside. The installation this month is “When We Were Kids”. The background to this is lettering, but I thought the cartoon characters were worth a shout out. * Here is the…
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The Tenderloin – Zombie Michael
The Tenderloin Hemlock Street at Polk Zombie Michael The artist on this is Ezra Li Eismont. It was in support of his solo exhibition at Space Gallery, “Now I Lay me down to Sleep” This is the gallery description of the exhibition. Now! I Lay Me Down To Sleep. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep,…
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Fish Mural on Langton
SOMA Langton Street Between Folsom and Howard This lovely mural was done to hopefully stop the graffiti that had been occurring on the door. The artist is Deborah Yoon and according website she is a self taught multimedia artist who considers both San Francisco and New York home. She works primarily with pen, sumi-e, paint, and…
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Japantown – Fan
Japantown Webster Street, San Francisco There is a plaque near this fan – or Sensu – and this is what it reads: The Japantown Sensu (fan) is a modern interpretation of traditional Japanese forms blended with the unique Japanese American culture that has existed, persisted and grown in San Francisco’s Nihonmachi since 1906. Invented in…
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Japantown – Landmarks Project
Japantown Post Street San Francisco This sculpture is part of the California Japantown Landmarks Project. It is made of bronze and stone, stands 9 feet high, and weighs 1000 pounds. The sculpture is by Louis Quaintance and Eugene Daub. It was installed in San Francisco’s Japantown in 2005. A 20th-century sculptor, Eugene Daub has been…
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Western Addition – Blue Wall
Western Addition San Francisco Geary and Fillmore Streets This is Geary Street in San Francisco. On the left is Japantown and on the right is the Western Addition. The Fillmore street overpass has stretches of blue glass on either side. This installation is titled 3 Shades of Blue by Mildred Howard. The piece is a…
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Potrero Hill – Cars and Birds
16th and Bryant Potrero Hill, San Francisco This mural at 16th and Bryant is by Rigo and was done in 1997. Rigo has been in this website many times. was born and raised on the Portuguese island of Madeira. He later established himself as an artist in San Francisco, earning a BFA from San Francisco Art…