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Tile Benches at Alta Plaza

 Posted by on January 13, 2014
Jan 132014
 

Alta Plaza
Steiner/Clay/Scott/Jackson
Pacific Heights

Tile Benches at SF Alta Park

 

There are two benches in the children’s area of Alta Plaza Playground covered in beautiful tile mosaics.

Commissioned by Friends of Alta Plaza Park, the artist, Aileen Barr, combined handmade tile and mosaic to create the two seating walls for the newly renovated playground. A series of donor tiles are integrated into the design, which display the names of community members who contributed to the fund for the renovation. The seating walls measure 30 ft and 50 ft in length.

Alta Plaza Playground Tile Benches

 

Aileen Barr has been in this website many times, you can see her other work here.

Aileen Barr Tile Work*

Tile bench at top of Pac Heights Park*

Tiles in the bench at Alta Plaza in Pac Heights SF

 

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Tile Benches by Aileen Barr in Pacific Heights

 

The scope of this renovation was focused on the play area, which was renovated to comply with the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s guidelines for playground safety, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Title 24 of the California Building Code. An accessible route to the play area was provided as a part of the project, along with ADA renovations to the existing restroom.  The cost of the renovation was $817,850.

 

 

Taking Life Lying Down

 Posted by on January 23, 2013
Jan 232013
 

100 Block of Hemlock
The Tenderloin

Spencer Keeton Cunningham

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

Spencer Keeton Cunningham (Nez Perce) is originally from Portland, Oregon and along with drawing and painting, he shoots experimental and documentary films. He graduated from SFAI with a BFA in Printmaking in May 2010. Spencer currently works at White Walls Gallery in Central San Francisco. Since 2010, Spencer has shown his prints and drawings internationally in Canada, and most recently Japan, all the while collaborating with Internationally recognized artists such as ROA and Ben Eine.

American Indian Occupation in the Tenderloin

 Posted by on July 16, 2012
Jul 162012
 
The Tenderloin/Polk Gulch
Austin at Polk
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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, poetry, & music, messages of civil unrest, social justice, emotional introspection, and personal healing have heartened his unique perspective on life through art. Fragua has studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and in turn, has taught many community-based workshops, such as mural projects/public-art studies, and studio classes for figure drawing & painting. Fragua has worked with fine establishments such as Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Institute of American Indian Arts, & Museum of Indian Arts & Culture to produce progressive/innovative exhibits concerning the plight of Native America.
Spencer Keeton Cunningham (Nez Perce) is originally from Portland, Oregon and along with drawing and painting, he shoots experimental and documentary films. He graduated from SFAI with a BFA in Printmaking in May 2010. Spencer currently works at White Walls Gallery in Central San Francisco. Since 2010, Spencer has shown his prints and drawings internationally in Canada, and most recently Japan, all the while collaborating with Internationally recognized artists as ROA and Ben Eine.

Hayes Valley – Great Adventure

 Posted by on April 2, 2012
Apr 022012
 
Hayes Valley/Western Addition
Octavia and Page

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This is Growing Home’s Community Garden, their mission is to provide a community garden where both homeless and housed San Franciscans work side-by-side to grow nutritious food, access green space, and build community.

The mural on the back wall is by Ben Eine, he has several murals around San Francisco.

In an interview with Proxy SF, Eine said this about the piece, “My problem with this wall was the width between the windows. The first letter I sketched up on this was the ‘E’ and then that gave me the size of each letter going left or right of the ‘E.'” The interview is quite extensive, go to the link above if you are interested in reading it in its entirety.

The Tenderloin – Louder, Harder,

 Posted by on January 29, 2012
Jan 292012
 
The Tenderloin
259 Myrtle Street
 Louder Harder by Ben Eine

Ben Flynn, a.k.a. EINE, shot to international fame when David Cameron presented one of his works to President Obama as a gift on his first official state visit, but is arguably more famous for ‘Alphabet Street’ – the shutters and murals he painted in his trademark colours and typography in Middlesex Street, London– described by The Times as “a street now internationally recognized as a living piece of art with direct links to The White House.” Ben Eine has been in this site before, a recent interesting interview with him that you can read here.

Ben Eine’s work is nothing but the letters, Louder, Harder, all other work was added by others later.

 

The Mission District, San Francisco

 Posted by on September 2, 2011
Sep 022011
 
The Mission District
1077 Valencia Street
Ben Eine has shown up in this site before.  This is done in his circus font.
To quote his website:Ben Flynn, a.k.a. EINE, (Born 1970. London, England) shot to international fame when David Cameronpresented one of his works to President Obama as a gift on his first official state visit, but is arguably more famous for ‘Alphabet Street’ – the shutters and murals he painted in his trademark colours and typography in Middlesex Street, London– described by The Times as “a street now internationally recognized as a living piece of art with direct links to The White House.”
This piece has been painted over as of April 2013

Hayes Valley – Ethereal Art

 Posted by on July 27, 2011
Jul 272011
 
Hayes Valley – San Francisco

Hayes Valley came to prominence when film director Erich von Stroheim chose the corner of Hayes and Laguna for the filming of his 1924 film “Greed.” His affections were for a 19th-century Victorian that had been built in the early 1880s by Col. Michael Hayes as an amusement pavilion, though word has it Hayes constructed the building to lure an extension of the streetcar line to Hayes Valley. The building survived the 1906 earthquake and fire and at the time of filming was occupied only on the ground floor, by a French laundry and the Hayes Valley Pharmacy, which remained in business until the 1960s. Stroheim created signs for a dentist’s office and a photographer’s workplace for the movie, which fooled some locals into believing they were real. The film included numerous shots from the top floor of the building looking down on Hayes Valley. He also used 595-597 Hayes, a building that acted as a storeroom in the 1920s, as the site of the saloon in the film.

In the 1950’s the Central Freeway was built over the top of the neighborhood and Hayes Valley quickly descended into a rough neighborhood that remained a spot for ladies and gentlemen of the night well into the 1990’s.   The 1989 earthquake brought so much destruction to the Central Freeway that they tore it down.  What evolved was a neighborhood, replete with wonderful individual (read non-chain) stores and lots and lots of excellent restaurants.  Wikipedia even calls it a “fashionable” neighborhood.

In the heart of the area is Patricia’s Green (in memory of neighborhood activist Patricia Walkup), also called Hayes Green.  It runs the length of Octavia, between Hayes and Fell.

The Green is the sight of ever rotating art installations.    I ran into the little impromptu piece on the sidewalk of the Green.

It was tagged Nik Larsen 7/7/11.  I took the photo on the 22nd of July.  It is chalk, and I was amazed it still was in such good shape.  It is titled Violet Eclipse Mechanics.  What a wonderful ethereal piece of art, that proves you must always keep your eyes open.

Nik writes a blog Chalkvisions if you want to check out other things he has done around town.

Just off the green is this piece by Ben Eine of London, a fun interview with him can be read here.
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