Ornamental Gates at Rolph Playground

Rolph Playground
Potrero at 25th &
Utah and 25th
Mission/Potrero Hill

Isis Rodriguez has created two rolled iron ornamental artworks, one for each side of Rolph Playground.

Isis Rodriguez is a second generation Mid-Western Latina who grew up in Topeka, Kansas and received her first lessons in art from copying Hannah-Barbera cartoons by hand. She attended the University of Kansas where she received her BFA in Painting in 1988.

Two years later, she moved to San Francisco to pursue her cartoon inspired artwork using various art forms: murals, paintings, silk screens, graffiti, flyers, and posters. Isis worked on murals for the Clarion Alley Mural Project in San Francisco from 1993 to 2002 and as a result, she emerged as one of the artists from an ad hoc artistic movement known as “The Mission school”, that included painters like Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, Rigo, Carolyn Castaño, and Aarron Noble.

In 2003, Isis completed her first public art commission of designing cartoon mosaics for “Parque Niños Unidos” at 23rd and Treat, San Francisco and received the Norcal Sanitary Fill Artist in Residency Program, San Francisco.

Isis Rodriquez now resides in San Miquel de Allende, Mexico.