Category: All of SAN FRANCISCO
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Laura Campos – No One is Illegal
The Mission District – San Francisco 24th Street and Capp This mural entitled “No One is Illegal” is by Laura Campos. Laura was born in Mexico and grew up in Texas. While young, and not yet legal she was called an illegal alien on a regular basis. When she did become legal she was still…
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SOMA 1:AM Gallery
South of Market 1 AM Gallery Folsom and 6th Street 1 AM Gallery has been in this site before. Their new exhibition is entitled Dark Mater. What I love about the gallery is that they always do graffiti/murals regarding the current exhibit on the side of their building. I love the concept of just using black…
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Lilac Alley
Mission District – San Francisco Lilac Alley Lilac Street runs parallel to Mission between 24th and 26th Streets. It is one of those alleys that serves no purpose other than the backs of businesses and the entry to garages. Several organizations use the buildings in this area as canvases. I counted the Lilac Mural Project…
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Mission Super Heroes
Mission District – San Francisco 19th and Mission Street This wonderfully whimsical wall is on the 19th Street side of a grocery at 2290 Mission Street. It was done by three artists, you can see their names in “bubble” style. KEB, WAND and BUTR. The skill in which they have recreated the various super heroes…
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The Mission District, San Francisco
The Mission District 1077 Valencia Street Ben Eine has shown up in this site before. This is done in his circus font. To quote his website:Ben Flynn, a.k.a. EINE, (Born 1970. London, England) shot to international fame when David Cameronpresented one of his works to President Obama as a gift on his first official state visit,…
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Outer Mission – Swoon
Outer Mission – San Francisco Hampshire and 24th Street This was done in 2008, and is showing it’s age. But the elegance of it is worth showing, even in its present state. Swoon is a street artist originally from Daytona Beach, Florida. She moved to New York City at age nineteen, and specializes in life-size…
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Amate Mission
Mission District – San Francisco 85 Bartlett Street “Amate Mission” This mural, by Oakland-based artist Jet Martinez, was created in partnership with The Mission Community Market, the SF Arts Commission “Streetsmarts” program, and the Mexican Museum. The title “Amate Mission” is a double entendre, according to Jet: 1. Amate style painting with a Mission District…
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Mission District Parklet
Mission District – San Francisco Parklets A parklet is a small urban park, often created by replacing several parallel parking spots with a patio, planters, trees, benches, café tables with chairs, and/or bicycle parking. Parklets are designed to provide a public place for citizens to relax and enjoy the atmosphere of the city around them,…
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Chor Boogie
Mid Market – San Francisco 2174 Market Street Mid market is a desolate stretch of abandoned store fronts and SRO’s. This long frontage of boarded up building has been covered by an artist known as Chor. This is not any random street painter, Chor has a worldwide body of work, including a commissioned piece for…
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Bankers Heart
Financial District – San Francisco 555 California Street This is in the center of A.P. Giannini Plaza. A.P. Giannini was born in San Jose, California and was the Italian American founder of the Bank of America. He founded the Bank of Italy in 1904. The bank was housed in a converted saloon directly across the…
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Claude Lane Mural
Union Square – San Francisco Claude Lane Claude Lane is a small alley that runs between Bush and Sutter Streets in San Francisco. It began developing in 1989 when Cafe Claude opened up with an alley entrance. It blossomed over the years and now rivals Belden Place for shopping, dining and that European cafe experience. Mear…
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The Sentinel Building in North Beach
North Beach Sentinel Building The Columbus Tower, also known as the Sentinel Building, or to most as Zoetrope sits at the corners of Columbus Avenue, Kearny Street and Jackson Street. It is a flatiron building with a distinctive copper-green exterior. Designed by Salfield and Kohlberg the building is clad in white tile and copper.…
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Mid-Market StreeSmARTS Program
Market Street – San Francisco 998 Market at Taylor This is courtesy of the San Francisco StreetSmARTS program, funded by the Department of Public Works. According to their website “It is by artist, Robert Harris. For this mural, Harris creates an urban/abstract landscape that offers a renewed perspective of the city’s shapes and textures. Featuring…
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Union Square 1:AM
Union Square – San Francisco Saks Fifth Avenue – Fifth Floor It is difficult to write about Union Square when discussing art. The only form of art that you actually find is the pursuance of the all mighty dollar. It is what many think of when they travel to our fair city, and it’s center…
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The Tenderloin
The Tenderloin – San Francisco 149 Mason Street * *This block of Mason Street is looking so much brighter now that Glide has moved into the block. This is on the outside of GLIDE Economic Development Corporation’s 149 Mason Street Studios, an eight-story building which features 56 furnished studio apartments designed for people who have been…
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The Tenderloin – GEDC Family Housing
The Tenderloin – San Francisco 125 Mason Walking this section of Mason street, I noticed a profound difference in its essence. It was far cleaner, and brighter than I remembered from the past. This is most definitely due to two new housing buildings that have recently gone up. This one is 125 Mason Street and…
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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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The Mission & The Tenderloin
Tenderloin – San Francisco The Mission District – San Francisco Taken on Hemlock just off Polk The rabbit is by internationally know ROA. He has an amazing body of work that you can view at this website. Born in Ghent, Belgium, his start in the art world was like most graffiti artist, under bridges and on…
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Banksy in San Francisco
Banksy in San Francisco SOMA 8th Street between Folsom and Harrison Quoting from wikipedia “Banksy is a pseudonymous England based graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary…
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The Tenderloin – Friedel Klussman, The Cable Car Lady
Tenderloin, San Francisco Polk and Hemlock This mural, commissioned by the Mayor’s Office of Economic Workforce and Development as part of the Polk Street Alley’s Program, was painted by Dray. It is “Friedel Klussman, the Cable Car Lady”. I happened upon Dray while he was cleaning the tags off the mural and we got into…
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Hayes Valley
Hayes Valley – San Francisco 580 Hayes Street On the side of Hayes & Kabob – a terrific Mediterranean restaurant – there are these bright and happy dog murals. In front of the restaurant is a parking lot that used to be an “Elder Art Park” Fortunately, at least these pieces remain. Because it is…
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SOMA & The Haight – EL Mac
SOMA – San Francisco The Haight – San Francisco This is on the corner of Russ and Howard Streets, South of Market. Miles “Mac” McGregor. Goes by The Mac or El Mac. According to his own website El Mac was “born in Los Angeles in 1980 to an engineer and an artist, Mac has been creating…
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Civic Center – High School of Commerce
Civic Center San Francisco 135 Van Ness Avenue There are so many wonderful building on the Van Ness Corridor, sadly, most people are driving either in or out of San Francisco and much to busy to notice them. This building is near Market Street, not far from City Hall, if you are in the…
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Hayes Valley Farm
Hayes Valley – San Francisco Hayes Valley Farm Thanks to the efforts of Colonel Thomas Hayes, Hayes Valley became the first outlying area of the vast Western Addition to develop. Hayes was born in 1823 in Ireland. Afflicted by gold fever, Hayes and his two brothers set sail for San Francisco, and acquired a 160-acre…
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Western Addition – Pastime
Western Addition – San Francisco Corner of Franklin, Page and Market Street It is no secret that I consider graffiti to be an art form. Do not confuse that with tagging, (those single color scribbles) or bombing (just really, really large tags) which fall into a whole other category. But the question is, where does…
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SOMA – Freeway Prophecy
SOMA – San Francisco Clementina and 8th Street Freeway Prophecy Subtitled “a surrealistic look at the future of transportation” this is another mural by Johanna Poethig sharing “lead artist” credit with Sofie Siegmann. “Freeway Prophecy” was a major coordinated production crediting, besides Siegmann, nine other Artist Collaborators, seventeen Youth Artists and the Writers Corps…
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Mid-Market – Swallows and Sycamores
Mid Market – San Francisco Swallows and Sycamores by Amber Hasselbring 7th and Market Mid Market area has long had a reputation for being a wasteland. Storefronts boarded up, tourists as well as locals, finding a way around this section of Market, without actually walking down it, a veritable waste land in the middle of…
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Alamo Square
Alamo Square – San Francisco Alamo Square is surrounded by Victorian Houses, and the famous “painted ladies” photograph that is quintessentially San Francisco, to say nothing of the fact that it’s image is probably the number one selling postcard. I see no point in posting that picture, you have seen it. I even hesitate to…