Laguna Honda Hospital
Garden Area
375 Laguna Honda
Forest Hills
This life size bronze is called Rabbinoid on Cell Phone and is by California artist Gerald Heffernon
Gerald Heffernon lives in Winters, California. He has shown at galleries and museums nationally as well as in France, including the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He has been awarded over a dozen public art commissions since 1978, including those for fire stations in San Jose and Sacramento, parks in Sacramento and Denver (both in progress), and the Light Rail Station in Sacramento. Mainly depicting animals, most of his sculptures are made of bronze. He also works with concrete, granite and aluminum and has created suspended sculptures, paintings and other wall-mounted works. He says, “Many of my pieces are whimsical. I like a playful, rather upbeat approach.”
This piece was originally in Stern Grove, placed there in 2005, at a cost of $50,000. Due to vandalism, it was placed in storage for many years, and now resides at Laguna Honda Hospital.
