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Category: Tenderloin

  • Herakut and Rusk Paint the Tenderloin

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    The Tenderloin / Polk Gulch Hemlock and Polk * * * The area under this fire escape in Hemlock Alley has been the home to many worldwide known graffiti artists. Roa was featured here not too long ago. This piece is by Arkut, Hera (who often paint as Herakut) and Rusk, all from Germany. HERA,…

  • Mural Projects in the Tenderloin

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    The Tenderloin 126 Hyde Street  This group was shot on May 6, 2012 * * True Compassion by Evan Bissell This temporary mural was created through twelve workshops with local artists about the nature of compassion. The double portraits depict the artists interacting with themselves in a compassionate gesture of their choosing. The portraits will…

  • Mitchell Brothers Theater Mural

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    Corner of O’Farrell and Polk The Tenderloin This sweet and rather innocuous mural is on the side of Mitchell Brothers Theater. The Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theatre is an adult club, opened as an X-rated movie theater by Jim and Artie Mitchell on July 4, 1969, the O’Farrell remains one of America’s oldest and most notorious…

  • Qi Lun in Little Saigon, San Francisco

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    Little Saigon The Tenderloin Qi Lun by Walter Wong – Marble and Granite 2008 These dragons mark the entrance to a two-block corridor of Larkin Street between Eddy and O’Farrell officially declared Little Saigon in 2004. There are about 250 Vietnamese American-owned businesses in the Tenderloin and eighty percent of the businesses on the two…

  • American Indian Occupation in the Tenderloin

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    The Tenderloin/Polk Gulch Austin at Polk * American Indian Occupation by Jaque Fragua and Spencer Keaton Cunningham Jaque Fragua is an acclaimed multi-media artist from New Mexico. From his cultural background, he has developed a yearning for creativity and for the intrinsic process that is Art. Experimenting with various mediums, such as aerosol, found-objects, earthworks,…

  • The Tenderloin – We Rock Hardest

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    Polk and Eddy Civic Center/Tenderloin Englishman Ben Eine has many murals around San Francisco. Here is a video of the installation: The piece was done to launch his gallery exhibit at White Walls Gallery.  They did a marvelous interview with him that you can read here.      

  • The Tenderloin – Boeddecker Park

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    The Tenderloin Boeddecker Park Eddy and Jones Untitled by Anthony J. Smith This abstract sculpture is a sphere held up by a pair of large hands. Set in niches around the surface of the sphere are fourteen life masks of people who live in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. The artist’s face and the…

  • The Tenderloin – Safe Passage

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    The Tenderloin * * On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Chinatown Community Development Center teamed with community partners to paint a sidewalk mural, part of the “Safe Passage” project, in the Tenderloin neighborhood. “Safe Passage,” a two-part project that began in 2008, encourages community participation and effort to help improve street safety for children, and…

  • The Tenderloin – We are Humans

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    The Tenderloin Ellis and Jones * * This triptych is by The Luggage Store. According to their website: “…three new murals depicting humans and its relationship with the increasingly robotized culture. It is about living in a time when science is searching for ways to create human traits in robots but in the meantime with…

  • The Tenderloin – Our Future!

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    The Tenderloin This was done by Laserpunch and RattleCan Blasters.  They were joined by  team co-captain – and avid artist -Vernon Davis who added his creative touch  The mural is part of  the San Francisco Arts Commission’s StreetSmARTs program. The StreetSmARTS program is a joint initiative of the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Department of Public…

  • The Tenderloin – Pieces of San Francisco

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    The Tenderloin 569 Ellis Street Pieces of San Francisco Mural Project – 2008 -Created by youth from Glide Memorial, Youth With a Mission, Golden Gate YMCA and Hamilton Family Center in collaboration with Amnesty International. This mural is in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, on the street side of the organization of “Youth with…

  • The Tenderloin – 191 Golden Gate – Mural

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    The Tenderloin 191 Golden Gate Avenue The corner of the mural reads: “The Gifts you take are equal to the gifts you make.” 2009 Precita Eyes Muralists Funded by Community Challenge Grants Program and San Francisco Clean City Coaliton Special Thanks to Tenderloin Community Benefit District, Tenderloin Health, San Franciso Arts Commission. Precita Eyes Website…

  • The Tenderloin – Police Department

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    The Tenderloin San Francisco Police Department 301 Eddy Street  First Person Plural by Anders Barth  Fired Clay Glaze *   * (Lenda) Anders Barth has another piece of ceramic work on the Richmond District fire department. First Person Plural is an 8 x 24 foot, hand-carved and glazed tile mural on the Jones Street wall of…

  • The Tenderloin – Hemlock and Larkin Mural

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    The Tenderloin Hemlock and Larkin This was done in 2009 as part of Precita Eyes Urban Youth Arts Program.  It was in conjunction with Larkin Street Youth Services.  

  • The Tenderloin – Trolleys

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    The Tenderloin Bush and Polk 1399 Bush Street  Trolleys by Bruce Hasson This artwork includes 56 cast aluminum balustrades and a balcony. Four designs based on the human form and images from transportation, interspersed on the top three floors of the garage.  These pieces are part of the San Francisco Arts Commission Collection. Bruce Hasson…

  • Lango in The Haight and The Tenderloin

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    Cedar Alley the Tenderloin Haight and Clayton – The Haight Lango is a tattoo artist in San Francisco.

  • The Tenderloin – Louder, Harder,

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    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…

  • TheTenderloin – Fern Alley

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    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…

  • The Tenderloin – Flores del Tehuan-derloin

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    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…

  • The Tenderloin – Zombie Michael

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    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,…

  • Tenderloin – NBC Radio City Building

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    Tenderloin 420 Taylor Street Mural by C.J. Fitzgerald Diane Winters is a tile restoration artist.  She recently emailed me about this mural that she was instrumental in restoring.  I had never seen it before, and was thrilled to get a chance to photograph it and learn a little bit of San Francisco history, I was…

  • Polk Street History in Murals

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    Tenderloin 1221 Polk Street This series is by Dray.  This set of murals is on the side of Lush Lounge at 1221 Polk Street in San Francisco.  When I spoke to Dray about these murals he relayed an article in the San Francisco Examiner that discussed the controversy regarding a series of murals that was to be scheduled…

  • The Tenderloin

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    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…

  • The Tenderloin – GEDC Family Housing

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    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…

  • The Mission & The Tenderloin

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    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…

  • The Tenderloin – Friedel Klussman, The Cable Car Lady

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    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…

  • The Tenderloin – Humming With Life

    The Tenderloin – Humming With Life

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    The Tenderloin – San Francisco Hyde and Golden Gate This is panel one of a new mural on the U.S. Postal Service office building  at the corner of Hyde and Golden Gate.  It was done by Johanna Poethig, whose work we saw in The Tenderloin National Forest and Tutubi Plaza.  This mural is titled humming with life.  If…

  • The Tenderloin – 20,000 Missing Seats

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    The Tenderloin – Market Street Junction – San Francisco 6th -Taylor – Market Street This fascinating piece is on the back side of Show Dogs Hot Dog Stand at the corners of 6th Street, Taylor and Market. The mural is an homage to those movie and performance art theaters (Strand, Unique, Embassy, Rialto, Granada, Regal,…

  • 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…

  • Tenderloin – Alcazar Theater

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    Alcazar Theater – Tenderloin – San Francisco This is the center section of the Alcazar, it is flanked by two matching wings. In 1976, the Alcazar was awarded the highest rating for architectural significance in a survey of city buildings.   Located at 650 Geary Street, between Jones and Leavenworth in the Tenderloin, it was built…