North Beach Pool
661 Lombard Street
This piece, by Vicki Saulls, is an actual cast of 23 residents of North Beach shown in their swim gear.
Ms. Saulls also created Locus, a second piece of art that can be found at this North Beach pool.
Vicki Saulls was born in Idaho and raised in the northwest, Georgia, and California. Saulls graduated with a degree in Art from University of California at Santa Cruz. Vicki embarked on a career as a museum modelmaker and sculptor for natural history museums, aquariums, and parks, at such venues as Monterey Bay Aquarium, Yosemite National Park, Papalote Museo del Ninos and the National Museum of Natural History in Taichung, Taiwan. After 20 years in the San Francisco Bay area, she moved to New York in 2005 to join Blue Sky Studios on Dr. Suess’s Horton Hears a Who (2008), Vicki is now Lead Sculptor for Blue Sky, sculpting character maquettes for their many development projects & feature films.
Nuotatori is Italian for Swimmers
The piece was commissioned by the SFAC for $75,000 in 2007.
The casts are made of a polymer added gypsum