Aug 052013
Grant Avenue and Jack Kerouac Alley
Chinatown/North Beach
This community mural is on the corner of Jack Kerouac Alley and Grant Street. Titled The Bridge, the lead painter was Robert Minervini along with over a dozen local youth from Chinatown. It was sponsored by the Chinatown Community Development Center and the Adopt-An-Alleyway Youth Empowerment Project with funds from the City of San Francisco Community Challenge Grant.
Robert Minervini is a painter who creates invented spaces based on, but slightly askew from reality. He draws from notions of utopia and the sublime. His works utilize traditional motifs of still life and landscape painting.
He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and BFA from Tyler School of Art.
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I love the pastoral nature of this mural – so subdued and different from the garish bold colours often found in murals.
This is quite lovely!
This has an almost dreamy quality to it with the soft colours.
Really like the Arts & Crafts feel of these murals.