Tag: Glass
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North-Shore Pump Station Stained Glass
North Shore Pump Station The intersection of Bay Street and Embarcadero The stained glass window in the North Shore Pump Station was created by Narcissus Quagliata. The piece was commissioned in 1980-81. According to the Arts Commission meeting minutes of July 12, 1982, the total cost for the commission of a 12-panel window was…
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Glass Flowers
Portola Branch Library 380 Bacon Street Portola/Excelsior Dana Zed has been exhibiting her art nationally and internationally for over 30 years. She holds a BA from Brown University in Rhode Island. She has works in the permanent collections of The Corning Museum in New York and The Oakland Museum. Zed owns and operates a glass…
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River of Time
San Francisco General Hospital 1001 Potrero Avenue Potrero Hill Acute Care Building 7th Floor This piece, titled River of Time, is in three pieces. The above piece is at the end of a short hallway on the 7th floor. The other two, however, are behind locked doors. I was able to snap a photo of…
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Reflections
680 Folsom Street SOMA East of 5th This piece by Gordon Huether is titled Reflections. It is part of the 1% for Art program in San Francisco. According to his website Gordon Huether was born in Rochester, NY in 1959, to German immigrant parents. Having dual citizenship in Germany and the U.S., Huether has spent much…
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Glass that challenges your understanding
San Francisco International Terminal Terminal Two Air Over Under by Norie Sato – 2011 These two Huge panels are easier to see than to photograph. (The above photo is courtesy of FlySFO) They are hand painted and silkscreened glass enamels on float glass and measure 16 ft. x 150 ft. each. Norie Sato’s imagery was inspired…
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Takaroa
1086 Green Street Russian Hill Takaroa Fountain by David Ruth 2004 Pyrex Glass This fountain sits outside a condominium complex on Green Street, and was a private commission. According to David Ruth’s website: The Look of ice comes from the fusing of borosilicate glasses like Pyrex. After I was introduced to the material I tried…
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Old Blueprints take on a New Look
Muni Metro East Yard Pier 80 Bayview This view, taken through a fence, is as close as one will get to the art work at the new Muni Metro East maintenance facility. * These photos I took from the Pulp Studios website. I am going to simply copy directly what they have to say about…
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SOMA Grand’s Glass Mosaic
1160 Mission Street SOMA SOMA Grand Composed of 390 panels, most about 2-by-7 feet and 1/4-inch thick, this mural is titled “Realm”. It is the biggest piece of glass art in the city. Coming in at three stories tall, it cost $800,000. The piece is part of the 1% for art program of San Francisco…
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A Heroine is Honored
1199 Mason at Washington Chinatown This is the entry to the Betty Ong Recreation Center in Chinatown. Betty Ann Ong was a flight attendant on American Airlines, Flight 11, the first airplane to become hijacked on September 11, 2001. Shortly after the hijacking began, Betty chose to be involved and make a difference by taking action…
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Cast Glass at the Mission Street Garage
4th and Mission 5th and Mission * These sandblasted, fused and cast glass pieces are by Narcissus Quagliata. Narcissus Quagliata is an Italian and U.S. Citizen. He was born in Rome in 1942 where he studied painting with Giorgio De Chirico. At the age of 19 he moved to the U.S. and studied at…
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Fire creates Firehouse Art
1091 Portola Drive St Francis Wood/Mt. Davidson Station #39 * This 30″ Blown Glass Rondella, done in 1997, is by Mark McDonnell. Mark McDonnell (1945- ) is a visual artist whose work can be found in the permanent collections of the Louvre, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Corning Museum of Glass. He has extensively…
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Palm Springs Art Museum – Glass as Art
Like many people, my first exposure to glass as art was the stuff that you see in street fairs. It wasn’t my favorite medium. As I have gotten older, and visited more museums I fell in love with cast glass. Glass casting is the process in which glass objects are cast by pouring molten glass…