Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Category: Visitacion Valley

  • Full Circles

    Full Circles

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    Visitation Branch Library 201 Leland Avenue This piece consists  of interlocking steel hoops embellished with recycled bicycle gears and, according to Grieve, is intended to evoke a “universe of possibilities.” Mark Grieve (1965-) is a contemporary American artist. He studied painting and drawing at the San Francisco Art Institute and the College of Marin and apprenticed…

  • Hans Shiller Plaza

    Hans Shiller Plaza

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    Corner of Peabody and Leland Visitation Valley Opening in March 2001, Hans Schiller Plaza was the first Visitacion Valley Greenway site to be completed. Construction was supervised by the Trust for Public Land with funding from the Columbia Foundation founded by the late Madeleine Haas Russell.  The gift was made in memory of her friend…

  • Benny Bufano in the Sunnydale Projects

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    1654 Sunnydale Visitacion Valley This Beniamino Bufano statue is of a Bear over the Head of Peace.  It was done somewhere around 1935-1940 and stands in front of the Community Center at the Sunnydale Projects.  Bufano was a prolific sculptor in his time and his work can be found all over San Francisco. Sunnydale was…

  • Mosaic Planter at Beautiful McLaren Park

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    McNab Lake Wayland and University Street John McLaren Park Monica Treanor was educated in Trinity college, Dublin, Ireland where she graduated with a PhD in Environmental Sciences. She has worked as an ecologist on all seven continents. Her experiences stretch from the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific, living on a uninhabited island to the frozen…

  • Philosophers Walk on the Top of the World

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    John McLaren Park Mansell Drive and John F. Shelley Drive Excelsior and Visitacion Valley This is the view towards downtown San Francisco from John McLaren Park. Named for John McLaren, the superintendent of Golden Gate Park from 1887 to 1943, it is the second largest park in the city, after Golden Gate Park. Within McLaren Park’s…

  • Visitacion Valley Community Center

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    243 Leland Avenue Visitacion Valley Community Center Artist: Victor Mario Zaballa A prolific and fascinating artist Victor Zaballa is an Aztec originally trained in aeronautical engineering in Mexico City. He has lived and worked in San Francisco for a number of years where he is a popular and respected member of the artist community. He works…

  • Fire Station #44

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    Fire Station #44  Formerly #47 1298 Girard Street This piece is titled “Diagonal Relief” by Elizabeth Saltos.  According to Elizabeth she creates sculpture from a continually evolving series of geometric configurations using a visual alphabet of shape, color and surface in dialogue with its architectural environs. This piece is on Firehouse #44.  It was originally Firehouse #47 and…

  • Viscitation Valley – Rebar Art Consortium

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    Corner of Leland Avenue and Bayshore Boulevard – Viscitation Valley – San Francisco “Sprouting” from the sidewalk like stalks of organically grown street furniture, Street Life is a large-scale sculpture composed of surplus parking meter heads, painted dark orange, attached to tall, arcing steel poles. The sculpture marks the gateway to the entrance of what…