295 Day Street
Noe Valley
SAN FRANCISCO WALL FLOWER “ERYSIMUM FRANCISCANUM”
This installation is titled Noe Valley Natives, and these pieces sit on fence posts at the Upper Noe Valley Rec Center. The artist is Troy Corliss. In 1993 Troy graduated from the studio art program at the University of California at Davis. While at UC Davis, he studied figure drawing and sculpture. Today, he lives with his wife Anne Liston in Truckee, CA. Corliss has been artist in residence at the Center for Land-Based Learning in Winters, California, the Tahoe Environmental Research Center, and the John Muir Institute of the Environment at UC Davis.
Manufactured in 2007 the flora is forged and fabricated steel. It was funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission
Rising from the top of six of the center’s gateposts stainless steel and glass plant forms represent the coastal dune and coastal prairie plant communities that once dominated this region of San Francisco. Troy Corliss searched the nearby hillsides, photographed and drew four tiny plants to be cut, forged and welded into these freestanding sculptures. Speaking of his method, Corliss says: “My intent in crafting this work is to emphasize plant diversity through the material handling and the sculptural design of the steel and glass forms”.
BEACH SAGE “ARTEMSIA”
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YELLOW VERBENA “ABRONIA LATIFOLIA”
COAST BUCKWHEAT “ERLOGONUM LATIFOLIA”
Novel idea!! I like them.