Thinking of Balmy Alley

SFO
International Terminal
Boarding Area G
Level 3
Post TSA

Ceramic Tile Mosaic – 1999 by Rigo 99

The plaque on this piece reads:

This work, of a solitary boy totally absorbed in the act of paining, is inspired  y a mural (since destroyed) painted in 1993 by the artist and local youth in Balmy Alley, located in San Francisco’s Mission District.

Rigo 99 has been in this website many times before.  This piece was commissioned by the San Francisco Art Commission for the airport.