It is hard to believe that a website dedicated to art is going to talk about a parking garage, but that is what makes this job so fun. This is the North Beach Garage at 735 Vallejo Street. The work was commissioned by the SF Arts Council in collaboration with the Department of Parking and Traffic under the guise of our two percent law, requiring two percent of the construction budget of a new public building have an art enrichment allocation.
Two local artists featured the faces of the Chinatown/North Beach community people in 11 ceramic steel portraits, on the exterior wall of the parking garage.
Harrell Fletcher and Jon Rubin went to neighborhood shops, offices and restaurants in search of family photographs, which they scanned and enlarged onto the durable ceramic steel.
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