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Tag: Mosaic

  • Balboa Has its Name up in Mosaic

    Balboa Has its Name up in Mosaic

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    Balboa at 39th and 34th Avenues These two sided sign posts on Balboa street were commissioned by the SF Arts Commission as part of the Balboa Streetscape Improvement Project.  They were created by artist Colette Crutcher, who has been in this site many times. The site of the Balboa Streetscape Improvement Project extends from 34th…

  • SurfHenge

    SurfHenge

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    Taraval and 48th Street Sunset District These sculptures designed by DPW landscape architect Martha Ketterer  are part of the Taraval Streetscape Improvement Project.  The design combines the lightness and fragility of surfboards or sails with monumental weight and verticality.  The work was then adorned with tile work by Colette Crutcher suggestng the ceaseless dance of…

  • Nature of Medicine

    Nature of Medicine

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    San Francisco General Hospital 1001 Potrero Avenue Potrero Hill Main Lobby of the New Wing When you enter the lobby of the new wing you are overwhelmed by color.  The two glass mosaics and the terrazzo floor are all done by Oakland artist, Rupert Garcia, done in 2015 they are titled Nature of Medicine. The floor art…

  • Esmeralda Slide Park

    Esmeralda Slide Park

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    Winfeld and Esmeralda Bernal Heights April 2017 In the 1970s a group of volunteers, with some help from the city, conceived and created Esmeralda Slide Park.  That volunteer organization later became the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center. A New York Times article published in 2010 noted that “At the park’s dedication party in 1979, a shrieking Mayor Dianne Feinstein…

  • Mosaics of Balboa Park

    Mosaics of Balboa Park

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    Ocean and San Jose Avenue Mission Terrace/Outer Mission There are several mosaics throughout the new Balboa Park Playground.  This bench sits on the exterior of the playground and explains about the restoration of the park, it also lists all the donors that helped  to make the project possible. The mosaic work is by Rachel Rodi. …

  • Two Worlds Apart

    Two Worlds Apart

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    Julliet Gordon Low Federal Building-Telfair Square 124 Broughton Savannah, GA Produced by Ned Smyth, these pieces were in conjunction with an exhibit at the Telfair Academy in 1992.  

  • Tile Benches at Alta Plaza

    Tile Benches at Alta Plaza

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    Alta Plaza Steiner/Clay/Scott/Jackson Pacific Heights   There are two benches in the children’s area of Alta Plaza Playground covered in beautiful tile mosaics. Commissioned by Friends of Alta Plaza Park, the artist, Aileen Barr, combined handmade tile and mosaic to create the two seating walls for the newly renovated playground. A series of donor tiles…

  • A Mosaic of Bay Area History

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    San Francisco International Airport Terminal 1 Connector Level 2 Bay Area Victorian, Bay Area, Deco, Bay Area Funk by Joyce Kozloff – 1982 This artwork is inspired by historical decorative styles found in the Bay Area. The left panel, Bay Area Victorian, draws its sources from the ornament on old homes in the Mission District,…

  • Richmond District Police Station

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    461 6th Avenue Richmond Police Station Richmond District The Richmond District Police Station was built in 1927 in a red-brick Romanesque Revival style. The Horse Barn Behind the police station this brick building housed horses with a loft to hold their feed in the back.  Both buildings were renovated in 1990 and the horse building…

  • GGP’s Sea Serpent

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    Koret Childrens Quarters Golden Gate Park This divine sea creature is by Phoebe Palmer. On an architectural scale, Phoebe is building densely textured, sculptural ferro-cement walls and working in mosaics and metal sculpture as well as her “normal” mediums of paint and pastels. Phoebe has taken the characters formerly inhabiting her paintings and pastels and cast…

  • Fish Tale

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    San Francisco General Hospital Potrero Hill Fish Tale by Hilda Shum was done in 1995. A stainless steel sculpture of an abstract fish tail rises from a mosaic “pool” of green and blue tiles. The fish is a symbol of transformation in many cultures and, as such, has special significance for this facility, which is…

  • Fish are swimming near Ocean Beach

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    39th and Ortega Ortega Library Ocean Beach Wowhaus consists of artists Scott Constable and Ene Oseraas-Constable. These two artists were also responsible for the Sunnyside Menagerie at the Sunnyside Conservatory here in San Francisco.   Located near the entrance of the library, the artwork features a duo of large-scale, glass mosaic fish sculptures. The sculptures…

  • Hidden Gems in Bernal Heights

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    82 Coleridge Street Bernal Heights This tile mosaic is titled Colloidal Pool and is by Peter Almeida. Done in 1988 it is suggestive of a puddle with ripples moving concentrically over leaf sheaves.  The view from Coleridge Mini Park Coleridge Mini Park

  • The Mission – Kids Power Park

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    The Mission District Kid Power Park Hoff Between 16th and 17th Our Children       This huge mosaic mural is by Joseph Norris.  Writing about this mural is difficult.  While I love the smiles on these children, and I think the quality of the mosaic is superior, to say nothing of producing a mosaic…