Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Tag: Large Sculpture

  • Hall of Justice

    850 Bryant South of Market The Seal of San Francisco adopted in 1859 features a sailor and a miner flanking a shield that bears a steamer ship entering the Golden Gate. Above the shield a Phoenix foretold of the great fire to come in 1906 and below the shield, the city’s motto, ‘Gold in Peace,…

  • Huru by di Suvero

    Crissy Field Huru 1984-1985 Steel   “Huru”,  at 55 feet, is the tallest sculpture in the exhibit. A simple tripod base supports a six-ton upper section made of two long pointing pieces, like open scissors that move in the wind. Some read them as welcoming arms; to me they looked like futuristic machine guns, or…

  • Are Years What? #7 of 8

    Crissy Field Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) – 1967 “Are Years What (for Marianne Moore)”, is the first sculpture Mr. di Suvero made entirely with steel I-beams. Its main feature is a steel V-shaped angle that hangs and swings freely in space, counteracting the solidity of its two vertical and four sprawling diagonal beams.…

  • Old Buddy #6 of 8

    Crissy Field Old Buddy (For Rosko) 1993-1995 “Old Buddy (For Rosko)” (1993-95), a tribute to the artist’s dog, could be read as an abstract animal. A rear upright section on two legs (which might have a tail) is joined to a front upright section on three legs (which might have a circular face and upward-pointing…

  • Mother Peace #5 of 8

    Crissy Field Mother Peace – 42 feet tall, painted Steel 1969-1970 Mother Peace was originally installed near an entrance to the Alameda County courthouse in Oakland, but a judge, so offended by the peace sign that di Suvero had painted on one of the I-beams, transformed himself into an art judge and insisted on its…

  • Figulo #4 of 8

    Crissy Field Figulo (2005-11) 47′ × 55′ painted steel, steel buoys – collection of the artist From the Brooklyn Rail when this piece was exhibited at Governor’s Island:  From afar, it looks to be a drafting compass fit for the gods. Its red extension beams ignite in the afternoon sunlight. At close range, the dimensions shift perceptually. The sculpture’s…

  • Will by di Suvero #3 of 8

    Crissy Field Will, 1994- steel-  Doris and Donald Fisher Collection This exhibit on Crissy Field coincides with di Suvero’s 80th birthday, the exhibition holds particular significance for the artist, who immigrated to San Francisco from Shanghai at the age of seven. His passage beneath the Golden Gate Bridge—which opened a few years before his arrival—proved…

  • Dreamcatcher first in a series of 8

    Crissy Field In light of the closing of SFMOMA for its expansion, the museum is placing art “all around town”. This exhibit of EIGHT of Mark Di Suvero’s massive metal sculptures is the first of the series. As much as I love and respect the curators of the SFMOMA, I have always felt that they…

  • Bliss Dance

    9th and Avenue of the Palms Treasure Island This piece, by Marco Cochrane , was featured at Burning Man in 2010.  According to the supporting art group Black Rock : The sculpture, of a dancing woman, stands 40 feet tall, weighs 7000 pounds and is ingeniously constructed of triangulated geodesic struts. By day, the dancer’s…