SOMA & The Haight – EL Mac

 Posted by on August 13, 2011
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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 and studying art independently since childhood. His primary focus has been the lifelike rendering of human faces and figures. He has drawn inspiration from the surrounding Mexican & Chicano culture of Phoenix and the American Southwest, religious art, pin-up art, graffiti, and a wide range of classic artists such as Caravaggio, Mucha, and Vermeer. He began painting with acrylics and painting graffiti in the mid ’90s, and has since worked consistently towards mastering his signature portrait style. Around 1998 he began to paint technicolor aerosol versions of classic paintings by old European masters. This led to being commissioned in 2003 by the Groeninge Museum in Brugge, Belgium to paint his interpretations of classic Flemish Primitive paintings in the museum’s collection. He has since been commissioned to paint murals across the US, as well as in Mexico, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, South Korea, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Singapore, Germany, Ireland, and Vietnam.”

While I am grateful for the murals that he has done in San Francisco, please go to his website and check out some of the amazing work he has done around the world.   If you go to the spraypaint section and get as far as page 9, you will find, what I hesitate to label as my favorite, but certainly worth seeking out – Young Scribe.

This is on Fillmore between Haight and Waller.
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  12 Responses to “SOMA & The Haight – EL Mac”

  1. EG Wow says:
    August 13, 2011 at 8:59 pm

    McGregor’s work is amazing! It’s had to believe that this is spray paint. I checked out his website and I like “Young Scribe” too.

  2. Linda Makiej says:
    August 14, 2011 at 1:46 am

    Wonderful sooc shots!! Happy Sunday!! 🙂

  3. Teresa says:
    August 14, 2011 at 2:05 am

    Wow! Those are just amazing.

  4. Biboy Ordinario says:
    August 14, 2011 at 5:07 am

    Nice painting! Very fascinating!

  5. Henrietta says:
    August 14, 2011 at 6:22 am

    Those are real piece of art.

  6. Tara R. says:
    August 14, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    Those portraits are amazing.

  7. AudreyO says:
    August 14, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    We visit S.F. once a year or so and I love walking the streets and seeing this kind of thing. Amazing artwork 🙂

  8. oceangirl says:
    August 14, 2011 at 2:38 pm

    i love the shots especially the picture on the wall in the second one. thank you.

  9. Jan says:
    August 14, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    Thanks for sharing these, El Mac is wonderfully talented.

  10. Unknown Mami says:
    August 15, 2011 at 1:14 am

    I’ve got to go check out that last. It’s within walking distance.

  11. Poetic Shutterbug says:
    August 15, 2011 at 2:38 am

    Wow! His artwork is fantastic. I will have to get out there and see for myself. Great shots.

  12. Rug Cleaning Los Angeles says:
    August 16, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    This is so beautiful! I can’t wait until I’m in San Francisco next, I will make sure to stop by and visit this 🙂
    -Rachel

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