Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Category: SOMA

  • SOMA – Tuloy po Kayo

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    SOMA Filipino Education Center 824 Harrison Street Tuloy po Kayo, is Filipino for “welcome.” The mural was designed by internationally-acclaimed muralist Cece Carpio, and painted with Miguel Bounce Perez and other volunteer artists, the mural represents the Filipino community’s shared experiences, history, and culture. To prepare for this mural, Carpio led an arts workshop with…

  • SOMA – Victor Reyes

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    SOMA 1420 Harrison Street This magnificent and show stopping mural is by Victor Reyes. Reyes has been painting since the early 90s, and has shown extensively around the world in cities and countries such as Bosnia, Germany, Switzerland, Taipei, Japan, and Miami. Reyes is inspired by his peers, including a community of new California artists…

  • SOMA – Youth Art Project

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    SOMA 501 Minna Street at 6th       This set of small mosaic murals are part of the ArtSpan’s South of Market Youth and Public Art Project. Lead artist, Johanna Poethig who has been in this site numerous times is director for the Inner City Public Art Projects for Youth, a program of San Francisco’s South…

  • SOMA – Mac Dre

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    SOMA Langton Street This Mural has been painted over (6/2012) Mac Dre was a rapper, born in Oakland, lived in Vallejo, convicted of conspiracy to commit robbery and killed by a bullet from a passing car in Kansas City.  His bio on Wikipedia is really rather interesting.  If you are interested in his music style…

  • SOMA – One Tree

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    SOMA 10th and Bryant This mural is by Rigo.  This piece was done in 1996.  Rigo has been in this website many times before.  He 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 Institute in 1991…

  • SOMA’s Fun Creatures

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    354 5th Street This work is by Sirron Norris. Born in Cleveland, Ohio he graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, eventually settling down in San Francisco in 1997. Sirron worked as a production artist in the video game industry while he perfected his skill set as a fine artist.  In 1999, Sirron quickly gained…

  • Lango on Jessie

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    SOMA 6th Street and Jessie This series of murals is by Lango.  Lango has been in this website many times, and I am a big fan of his work.  You can more of his work here.  This is a rough part of town, so I am not sure how or why this wall was chosen, but…

  • SOMA – Large Pieces of Marble

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    631 Folsom Street SOMA These giant pieces of carrara marble are by Richard Deutsch are titled Frammenti.  Deutsch has been in this site before and I recommend you visit his website.  He is a very accomplished artist with work all over the world. This piece is titled Fragmented.  The day I was there the fountain was…

  • SOMA – Annular Eclipse

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    SOMA 560 Mission Street Annular Eclipse George Rickey George Rickey (1907 -2002)  built his career combining fundamental elements of nature and physics in the creation of his sculpture. His works include a broad vocabulary of geometric shapes and multiple devices for moving the elements in his sculpture, such as gimbals, pendulums and rotors.  Ricky constantly…

  • SOMA – Waterwall

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    SOMA 100 First Street 2nd Floor Scattered across downtown San Francisco are almost seventy semi-secret spaces, privately owned but open to the public. Subject to the fine print of a little-known pact between the city and business, these POPOS (Privately Owned Public Open Spaces) allow alluring vistas of San Francisco and access to its intimate…

  • SOMA, San Francisco – October 24, 2011

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    Fourth and Bryant SOMA These doors have been tagged for years, and finally someone decided murals might keep that from happening.  Kemit Aminophis is responsible for these two doors.  There are four doors to the auto body shop, so I have to assume that there is more to come.  I promise to bring them to…

  • Ghost Busters in SOMA

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    SOMA 8th and Bryant This fun mural is essentially the Simpson’s gang in Ghostbusters clothing.  While it is not signed, according  Live Soma the artist did have permission, even if he wouldn’t give his name. This says Diet, I am sure a message to the Stay Puft monster. The artist did tell Jeremy that he was…

  • Lango in the Mission and SOMA

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    SOMA – San Francisco Mary at Howard Streets This piece was done by Lango, a tattoo artist here in San Francisco.  I have tried to contact him to ask him about this mural, but according to a friend of his I met the other day he is extremely shy.  I respect that, and figure his…

  • San Francisco’s Muni Stops

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    Cable cars have been synonymous with San Francisco since the 1800’s.  We correct people all the time in the vernacular of cable car versus trolly, but, we have trolly lines too.  Our muni system is just that.  Muni covers much of the city, and many people that visit our town ride the vintage trolly cars…

  • St. Regis Hotel

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    SOMA St. Regis Hotel 3rd and Mission Streets This is by Raymond Saunders, an American artist born1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He lives and works in Oakland, California and is currently a professor of Painting at California College of the Arts, in Oakland. I found this description from a press release put out by the St. Regis:…

  • SOMA – Man With Flame

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    SOMA Convention Plaza 3rd Street Between Howard and Folsom Man With Flame by Stephen de Staebler This little walk way offers a wonderful respite from the hectic goings on inside Moscone Center. There are lots of tables and chairs, wonderful public art, and a Starbuck’s if you are so inclined. I have copied the following…

  • SOMA – Venus with Rope

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    SOMA Convention Plaza 3rd Street Between Howard and Folsom “Venus with Rope” Jim Dine 1986 Jim Dine has shown up in this site before.  In 1962 Dine’s work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and ground-breaking New Painting of…

  • Soma – Pneumatic Dreamer

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    SOMA W Hotel 3rd and Howard Streets Pneumatic Dreamer Michael Stutz Stutz studied painting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and York Street College of Art in Belfast, Ireland.  He began his career in San Francisco, supporting himself designing merchandise displays for Macy’s.   His commitment to public art grew out of work he did…

  • Keith Haring

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    SOMA Moscone Center Corner of Howard and 3rd Streets This piece has become iconic in the city.  It is viewed by anyone that is heading into the Moscone Convention Center. Keith Haring is controversial on his best days. Which is sad because he was a truly gifted artist who was passionate about facing up to…

  • SOMA – Spider Pelt

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    SOMA Convention Center 3rd and Clementina Artist Dustin Shuler, who calls himself an “urban hunter of cars” created this work in 1985. Titled “Spider Pelt,” it is a mounted sculpture of a “skinned” red fiat spider. The Los Angeles artist has built his artistic career, on hunting cars, skinning them of their sheet metal exteriors,…

  • Victoria Manalo Draves Park

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    SOMA Folsom Street Between 6th and 7th Victoria Manalo Draves Park How many times do we walk by something every day and forget that, yes, it is art. These fence panels are in a park with a fascinating history. Victoria “Vicki” Manalo Draves (December 31, 1924 – April 11, 2010) was an Olympic diver who…

  • SOMA 1:AM Gallery

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    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…

  • Banksy in San Francisco

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    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…

  • SOMA & The Haight – EL Mac

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    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…

  • SOMA – Freeway Prophecy

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    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…

  • SOMA – Tile Buildings

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    SOMA San Francisco 1235 Mission Street at 8th This building houses the Department of Human Resources offices. * * * From the Architect and Engineer Magazine of 1928:  Bliss and Fairweather’s building for Mangrum and Otter Inc…is being favorably commented on for the somewhat daring, but nonetheless effectual, architectural treatment in glazed color tile…Admittedly, it…

  • SOMA – Murals on 6th

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    6th Street Corridor – San Francisco 6th and Minna Streets 6th Street in San Francisco is not the nicest street in the city.  Its overabundance of SRO’s crack dealers, and soup kitchens make it a street many people avoid.  I took all these shots while wandering by myself, however, it was broad daylight.  The point…

  • SOMA – Gordon Street Murals

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    SOMA – San Francisco This mural is on Gordon Street, South of Market.  Gordon is a dingy dead end alley off of Harrison Streets between 8th and 9th.  It is hard to find, and you would have no reason to even be on the alley, but it was a quiet Sunday and no cars or…

  • SOMA -Art that Disappears when Buildings Do

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    SOMA – San Francisco 260 Fifth Street at Clementina This sign is an anathema to me for several reasons.  While hard to read, it states that this building will be demolished and a 9 story building will be put up in its place. Although not highly ornamented, it does have some lovely features. When I…

  • SOMA, Tenderloin, Market Street, July 30, 2011

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    Bears Around San Francisco A while back I was walking in my own neighborhood, SOMA,  (this is Berwick and Heron off of Harrison or 8th Streets) and in this little alley I came across this great big bear. Well as I was wandering The Tenderloin Forest, I came across this guy I knew I had seen this…