Tag: Street Art
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Peace
154 McAllister Street Civic Center According to Reka’s own website: James Reka – Melbourne, Australia Self-taught artist James Reka is a young contemporary Australian artist based in Berlin, Germany. His origins lie in the alleyways and train lines of Melbourne’s inner-suburbs where he spent over a decade refining his now-emblematic aesthetic. His character work…
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Os Gemeos, Bode and The Warfield
Taylor and Turk The Tenderloin This fun mural was finished in September of 2013. It is a collaboration between Os Gemeos and Mark Bode, both whom have been in this site before. This whimsical piece sits on the back of the Warfield Theater on Market street. The two cousins from Brazil and San Francisco artist…
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A Peacock Awes the Tenderloin
Geary and Leavenworth The Tenderloin This phenomenal peacock is by Satyr-1, who has been in this website many times. Satyr-1 is a professional artist who has long since left the ideas of “tagging” behind for commissioned projects in defined spaces with the support of building owners. His work made a difficult transition, but it mirrors the…
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Mid Market Sees Black and White
1125 Market Street Mid Market Area This piece is a collaboration of Cannon Dill and Feral Child. Cannon Dill is from Mill Valley and presently lives in Oakland. Feral Child is a California based artist who has been working in the streets for the past five years. Influenced by folk art, activism, and the geometry within…
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Strong Roots, Healthy Tree
Olive and Polk The Tenderloin This mural was done in 1989. It is titled Strong Roots, Healthy Tree and is by Johanna Poethig who intertwined images from Laotian, Vietnamese, and Cambodian cultures. Johanna is responsible for numerous pieces of public art around San Francisco * * Since the 1970s, a growing number of Vietnamese, Laotian…
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Old Time Fun
Frank Norris Street (aka as Austin) and Polk The Tenderloin Mike Shine is an artist who lives and paints in Bolinas, California. With no formal art school training, his background instead includes fine woodworking, furniture and cabinet making: skills that often appear in his artwork. He typically creates using driftwood and found objects, and many…
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Taking Life Lying Down
100 Block of Hemlock The Tenderloin This Native American is by Spencer Keeton Cuningham. Cunningham is responsible for another Native American mural in the tenderloin. Cunningham is a member of the Indigenous Arts Coalition, a Bay Area organization started in 2008 that advocates for Native American artists. Spencer Keeton Cunningham (Nez Perce) is originally from Portland,…
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Nico Berry on York Street
1354 York Street Mission/Potrero This mural is part of the San Francisco StreetSmARTS program and was done by Nico Berry. Nico Berry’s cultural perspective is shaped by his encounters with hip-hop, skateboarding, and urban youth culture while growing up on the South Side of Chicago. Over the years he has also become interested in exploring…
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Shapes and Letters
751 and 780 Valencia at 19th The Mission This mural, consisting of shapes, numbers and letters, is by 24 year old SF resident, Jonathan Matas. In 2012 Jonathan did an interview with a group in Atlanta while participating in a show called Living Walls. Here is a few interesting excerpts from the article: I have…
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2 Bears in the Haight
226 Filmore between Haight and Waller The Haight These two bears are by Bologna based, Italian artist Ericailcane, whose website is so delightful it is worth a visit. Ericailcane makes etchings, graphic art, street art (most notably in collaboration with street artist Blu), animations, sculptures, installations, tattoos and loads of drawings. Inspired by Victorian children’s illustrations,…
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Rattlecan Blasters go back in Time
1340 York Street Mission District This mural is part of the SF StreetSmARTS program. Painted by Rattlecan Blasters in 2011. Rattlecan Blasters consists of graffiti artists, Cameron Moberg (aka Camer1 from San Francisco) and Aaron Vickery (aka Fasm from Modesto). The duo teams up frequently to paint church youth rooms and exhibit in art shows. They…
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Zoe Ani and the SF StreetSmARTS program
2840 San Bruno Excelsior District M.K. Zoe Ani’s work ranges from representational to abstract landscapes. Her perspective is enriched by her Hawaiian and American Indian heritage. Her experience is one of a dichotomy of two cultures separated not only by a vast ocean, but also a mindset that is reflective of the dissemination of each…
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Wes Wong and the Phoenix Hotel
601 Eddy The Tenderloin This long series is part of the San Francisco StreetSmARTS program. The artist is Wes Wong, he is part of the Fresh Paint Crew. Fresh Paint, a San Francisco Mural painting crew aims to defy assumptions of what is possible with a spray can. The group is comprised of and collaborates…
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Beautification of a Utility Box by Malik Seneferu
3rd and Oakdale Bayview This utility box was painted by Malik Seneferu. Malik is a self-taught and extremely prolific African-American artist that has created more than 1,000 different pieces of artwork, including paintings, murals, and mixed media projects in the past 25 years. Despite the fact that he has no formal college training, Malik’s art…
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RESPECT
1601 Lane Bayview/Hunters Point Respect This mural is on the side of the YMCA in the Bayview. It was funded by SF StreetSmARTS program and was done by Senay Dennis, also known as Refa One. Refa’s website had this to say about his calligraphy murals. Style 1: a distinctive manner of expression (as in writing…
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Leaping Lizards
Myrtle and Larkin The Tenderloin This piece is by Satyr. Satyr has some other murals in the Haight. Satyr is known for his quality murals in San Francisco. He was brought up by The Master Piece Creators, one of the original aerosol art crews to bring concept walls to the city. Years into his graffiti…
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Meggs in The Tenderloin
Myrtle Alley The Tenderloin This piece is by Meggs. Growing up in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, David ‘Meggs’ Hooke, immersed himself in the worlds of drawing, cartoons, sci-fi films and skateboarding. In 2000, Meggs graduated from University with a Bachelor of Design and soon after became recognized for stencils and poster art on the…
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Sirron Norris Paints Calumet
* As you can see, this piece by Sirron Norris is huge. This is what Sirron had to say about the piece before it began. (The scaffolding came down on August 31st). This mural will be funded by Calumet and will be a collaboration with Precita Eyes (www.precitaeyes.org)and the 3.9 art collective (www.threepointninecollective.com). My hope…
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Few and Far Paint Clinton Park
As you turn onto Clinton Park from Valencia the first piece you are greeted with is the beauty by Amanda Lynn. Few and Far have covered the walls of Clinton Park to the delight of all that wonder down this very short alley. * * * * * * And a little further…
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Evan Bissell captures Artists on the Streets of SF
Folsom and 17th Mission District “I write to organize my thoughts. I spit poems because it feels empowering to know there is a room full of people there to listen.” This is Luara Venturi, a local spoken word poet, as depicted by Evan Bissell. The Intersection for the Arts’ show “Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere* youth,…
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Parisian Street Artist Tags the Asian Art Museum
McAllister and Hyde Wall of the Asian Art Museum Civic Center UPDATE: The artist on this is actually an artist from Iowa that goes by TheUpside. Apparently the UpTown Almanac and I spotted this one at the same time. Here is what they wrote: Tim Hallman, the Asian Art Museum’s Communications Director, dropped…
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American Indian Occupation in the Tenderloin
The Tenderloin/Polk Gulch Austin at Polk * American Indian Occupation by Jaque Fragua and Spencer Keaton Cunningham Jaque Fragua is an acclaimed multi-media artist from New Mexico. From his cultural background, he has developed a yearning for creativity and for the intrinsic process that is Art. Experimenting with various mediums, such as aerosol, found-objects, earthworks,…
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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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Dan Plasma in the Mission
Mission District 15th and Valencia This is the side wall of restaurant Pica Pica. Dan Plasma had originally painted a tiger mural on this wall, then over the course of a few days other aerosol muralists covered it over with their work. This made Mr. Plasma rather angry, so when he took the wall back…
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Mission Super Heroes
Mission District – San Francisco 19th and Mission Street This wonderfully whimsical wall is on the 19th Street side of a grocery at 2290 Mission Street. It was done by three artists, you can see their names in “bubble” style. KEB, WAND and BUTR. The skill in which they have recreated the various super heroes…
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Chor Boogie
Mid Market – San Francisco 2174 Market Street Mid market is a desolate stretch of abandoned store fronts and SRO’s. This long frontage of boarded up building has been covered by an artist known as Chor. This is not any random street painter, Chor has a worldwide body of work, including a commissioned piece for…
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Western Addition – Pastime
Western Addition – San Francisco Corner of Franklin, Page and Market Street It is no secret that I consider graffiti to be an art form. Do not confuse that with tagging, (those single color scribbles) or bombing (just really, really large tags) which fall into a whole other category. But the question is, where does…
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SOMA – Califor’ya
SOMA – San Francisco This mural is on a building at the corner of 7th and Folsom Streets, (It is on the 7th Street side) in the South of Market area of San Francisco. It was done by 1:AM short for First Amendment, a gallery at 1000 Howard Street in San Francisco. According to 1:AM…
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Os Gemeos on Market Street
1007 Market Street Mid Market This piece, sponsored by The Luggage Store Gallery and Funded by the Graue Family Fund for Public Art was done by Os Gemeos in September of 2013. Os Gemeos have been in this website before. They are twin brothers from Sao Paulo with a wonderful and very distinctive style. According…