Tag: SOMA
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Foundry Square – Not Out of The Woods Yet
Howard at First Street Foundry Square SOMA Not Out of the Woods Yet by Richard Deacon 2003 In 2003 Kenneth Baker of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Deacon’s “Not Out Of The Woods Yet” (2003) nests muscularly in a tight spot behind columns at the entrance to 500 Howard St., on the intersection’s northwest corner.…
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SOMA – Foundry Square
Howard at First Street Foundry Square SOMA Untitled by Joel Shapiro 1996-1999 In 2003 Kenneth Baker of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Shapiro’s renown rests on his having turned the vocabulary of minimal sculpture back toward figuration about 30 years ago. He took square wood beams, favorite forms of his older contemporary Carl Andre, and…
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SOMA – Time Signature
Howard at First Street Foundry Square SOMA Time Signature Richard Deutsch *Richard Deutsch has several sculptures around San Francisco. This piece has it’s own video on Richard’s website, and I highly recommend that you go and view it. The film is a work of art unto itself, and I could not do justice to the…
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Restaurant Row – Maori Column
50 Third Street Ducca Restaurant Courtyard Westin Hotel Museum Row This piece is titled Maori Column and is by Alan Shepp. It was done in 1985. Shepp, along with his artist wife, lives in Napa California. He has a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and an MFA from the University of Washington. He…
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Isamu Noguchi on Museum Row
50 Third Street Ducca Restaurant Walkway Museum Row Fat Dancer Rain Mountain Figure Emerging These three figures are by Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi ranks up there as one of my all time favorite sculptors, but I must admit, this is not my favorite medium for him. (November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) Isamu Noguchi was…
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Museum Row – Stream of Vessels
50 Third Street Ducca Restaurant Walkway Museum Row These are in the walkway between Ducca Restaurant and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. They are titled Stream of Vessels, done in 1997 by David Nash of charred oak. David Nash is a British sculptor based in Blaenau Ffestiniog. He is known for works in wood and shaping living…
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Museum Row – Les Funambules
50 Third Street Ducca Restaurant walkway Museum Row Attached to the Westin Hotel is Ducca Restaurant. They have an open walkway between 3rd street and the Jewish Museum. In that walkway is seating and dining. Throughout that area is art. This piece is “Les Funambules” by Charles Ginnever, done in Bronze in 1991. Ginnever is an…
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Yerba Buena Gardens – Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain
Yerba Buena Center San Francisco Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain (Seasons of the Sea ‘Adrift) John Roloff with NGA Industries and Wes-Co Industries 1993 * The accompanying plaque says: This glass ship is an art work that refers to the natural and geological history of California. Sediment gathered from the ocean floor four miles off the coast…
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SOMA – 1AM
1 AM Gallery SOMA Howard and Sixth Street 1 AM Gallery always has murals done on their wall to celebrate their newest art installation inside. The installation this month is “When We Were Kids”. The background to this is lettering, but I thought the cartoon characters were worth a shout out. * Here is the…
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Fish Mural on Langton
SOMA Langton Street Between Folsom and Howard This lovely mural was done to hopefully stop the graffiti that had been occurring on the door. The artist is Deborah Yoon and according website she is a self taught multimedia artist who considers both San Francisco and New York home. She works primarily with pen, sumi-e, paint, and…
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SOMA – Tuloy po Kayo
SOMA Filipino Education Center 824 Harrison Street Tuloy po Kayo, is Filipino for “welcome.” The mural was designed by internationally-acclaimed muralist Cece Carpio, and painted with Miguel Bounce Perez and other volunteer artists, the mural represents the Filipino community’s shared experiences, history, and culture. To prepare for this mural, Carpio led an arts workshop with…
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SOMA – Victor Reyes
SOMA 1420 Harrison Street This magnificent and show stopping mural is by Victor Reyes. Reyes has been painting since the early 90s, and has shown extensively around the world in cities and countries such as Bosnia, Germany, Switzerland, Taipei, Japan, and Miami. Reyes is inspired by his peers, including a community of new California artists…
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SOMA – Youth Art Project
SOMA 501 Minna Street at 6th This set of small mosaic murals are part of the ArtSpan’s South of Market Youth and Public Art Project. Lead artist, Johanna Poethig who has been in this site numerous times is director for the Inner City Public Art Projects for Youth, a program of San Francisco’s South…
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SOMA – Mac Dre
SOMA Langton Street This Mural has been painted over (6/2012) Mac Dre was a rapper, born in Oakland, lived in Vallejo, convicted of conspiracy to commit robbery and killed by a bullet from a passing car in Kansas City. His bio on Wikipedia is really rather interesting. If you are interested in his music style…
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SOMA – One Tree
SOMA 10th and Bryant This mural is by Rigo. This piece was done in 1996. Rigo has been in this website many times before. He was born and raised on the Portuguese island of Madeira. He later established himself as an artist in San Francisco, earning a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1991…
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SOMA’s Fun Creatures
354 5th Street This work is by Sirron Norris. Born in Cleveland, Ohio he graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, eventually settling down in San Francisco in 1997. Sirron worked as a production artist in the video game industry while he perfected his skill set as a fine artist. In 1999, Sirron quickly gained…
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SOMA – Large Pieces of Marble
631 Folsom Street SOMA These giant pieces of carrara marble are by Richard Deutsch are titled Frammenti. Deutsch has been in this site before and I recommend you visit his website. He is a very accomplished artist with work all over the world. This piece is titled Fragmented. The day I was there the fountain was…
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SOMA – Annular Eclipse
SOMA 560 Mission Street Annular Eclipse George Rickey George Rickey (1907 -2002) built his career combining fundamental elements of nature and physics in the creation of his sculpture. His works include a broad vocabulary of geometric shapes and multiple devices for moving the elements in his sculpture, such as gimbals, pendulums and rotors. Ricky constantly…
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SOMA – Waterwall
SOMA 100 First Street 2nd Floor Scattered across downtown San Francisco are almost seventy semi-secret spaces, privately owned but open to the public. Subject to the fine print of a little-known pact between the city and business, these POPOS (Privately Owned Public Open Spaces) allow alluring vistas of San Francisco and access to its intimate…
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Ghost Busters in SOMA
SOMA 8th and Bryant This fun mural is essentially the Simpson’s gang in Ghostbusters clothing. While it is not signed, according Live Soma the artist did have permission, even if he wouldn’t give his name. This says Diet, I am sure a message to the Stay Puft monster. The artist did tell Jeremy that he was…
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Lango in the Mission and SOMA
SOMA – San Francisco Mary at Howard Streets This piece was done by Lango, a tattoo artist here in San Francisco. I have tried to contact him to ask him about this mural, but according to a friend of his I met the other day he is extremely shy. I respect that, and figure his…
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San Francisco’s Muni Stops
Cable cars have been synonymous with San Francisco since the 1800’s. We correct people all the time in the vernacular of cable car versus trolly, but, we have trolly lines too. Our muni system is just that. Muni covers much of the city, and many people that visit our town ride the vintage trolly cars…
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St. Regis Hotel
SOMA St. Regis Hotel 3rd and Mission Streets This is by Raymond Saunders, an American artist born1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He lives and works in Oakland, California and is currently a professor of Painting at California College of the Arts, in Oakland. I found this description from a press release put out by the St. Regis:…
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SOMA – Man With Flame
SOMA Convention Plaza 3rd Street Between Howard and Folsom Man With Flame by Stephen de Staebler This little walk way offers a wonderful respite from the hectic goings on inside Moscone Center. There are lots of tables and chairs, wonderful public art, and a Starbuck’s if you are so inclined. I have copied the following…
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SOMA – Venus with Rope
SOMA Convention Plaza 3rd Street Between Howard and Folsom “Venus with Rope” Jim Dine 1986 Jim Dine has shown up in this site before. In 1962 Dine’s work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and ground-breaking New Painting of…
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Soma – Pneumatic Dreamer
SOMA W Hotel 3rd and Howard Streets Pneumatic Dreamer Michael Stutz Stutz studied painting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and York Street College of Art in Belfast, Ireland. He began his career in San Francisco, supporting himself designing merchandise displays for Macy’s. His commitment to public art grew out of work he did…
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Keith Haring
SOMA Moscone Center Corner of Howard and 3rd Streets This piece has become iconic in the city. It is viewed by anyone that is heading into the Moscone Convention Center. Keith Haring is controversial on his best days. Which is sad because he was a truly gifted artist who was passionate about facing up to…
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SOMA – Spider Pelt
SOMA Convention Center 3rd and Clementina Artist Dustin Shuler, who calls himself an “urban hunter of cars” created this work in 1985. Titled “Spider Pelt,” it is a mounted sculpture of a “skinned” red fiat spider. The Los Angeles artist has built his artistic career, on hunting cars, skinning them of their sheet metal exteriors,…
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Victoria Manalo Draves Park
SOMA Folsom Street Between 6th and 7th Victoria Manalo Draves Park How many times do we walk by something every day and forget that, yes, it is art. These fence panels are in a park with a fascinating history. Victoria “Vicki” Manalo Draves (December 31, 1924 – April 11, 2010) was an Olympic diver who…
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SOMA 1:AM Gallery
South of Market 1 AM Gallery Folsom and 6th Street 1 AM Gallery has been in this site before. Their new exhibition is entitled Dark Mater. What I love about the gallery is that they always do graffiti/murals regarding the current exhibit on the side of their building. I love the concept of just using black…