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Love in The Lower Haight Part III

 Posted by on June 30, 2012
Jun 302012
 
Lower Haight

Love in the Lower Haight

Continuing with our Love in the Lower Haight Series.  These are murals added since the first post early in 2011.
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Jeremy Nova – Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds – Einstein
 Jeremy Nova is best known for his stenciled koi fish on the sidewalks, often on top of graffiti tags, to “beautify the area.” There are now more than 2,000 of his koi throughout the city, including commissioned ones at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Quan Yin Meditation Center, Cafe Flore and the hair salon Every Six Weeks.
Artist Unknown


 

Lower Haight – Love in the Lower Haight

 Posted by on April 18, 2012
Apr 182012
 
Lower Haight
Ursula Young

This is on the corner of Laguna and Haight Streets.  It is part of the Love in the Lower Haight Project.  I have showcased a few artists in this area before.  Started in October 0f 2010 the project is on the walls of a UC campus slated for demolition, as long as the walls are standing the artists project will continue.

This piece by Ursula Young is so very, very girls of San Francisco for me, it just made me smile.  According to her blog:

Over the past fourteen years illustrator, painter and designer Ursula Xanthe Young has become known for her unique flowery urban fairytale illustrations. Graduate of Parsons School of Design (Illustration, BFA, New York 1996) Ursula exhibits frequently in the Bay Area and has sold paintings in New York, London, Singapore, Manila, Hong Kong and all across the U.S.

Ursula finds inspiration in the organic yet urban landscape of San Francisco and its surrounds; the crossed wires, Victorian buildings and fog-filled horizons, that are often backdrop to her brightly painted doe-eyed flower girls. She is also highly influenced by her frequent travels to the far-flung reaches of the globe and the variety of colorful characters that she encounters – both real and imagined – along the way.

Due to her love of electronic music since the early 90’s, and the culture that surrounds it, Ursula’s art can be seen on CD & record covers of dance music labels including Om records, Safe In Sound Music, Loveslap recordings, 2 Block Radius & Panhandle records. Along with murals, apparel & club flyers, her art can be spotted in magazines & ipod covers and in boutiques across the city of San Francisco and beyond.

Originating from the green rural dales of Northern England, Ursula has spent much of her time since then traveling and has studied art in New York City, Florence, Vermont, Oslo, and London. After ten years making her mark in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco, she recently relocated to the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California – this time to a remote spot in the forest – where she’s busy finding a whole host of new inspirations.

 

Love in the Lower Haight – Silly Pink Bunnies

 Posted by on April 26, 2011
Apr 262011
 
Silly Pink Bunnies and Love in the Lower Haight.
In October of 2010 the long wall on the corner of Haight and Laguna that surrounds a series of buildings that once housed the UC extension campus became a mural collective. Called “Love in the Lower Haight,” the mural stretches 100 feet up Haight Street from Laguna Street and 75 feet on Laguna. The mural is granted for at least one year with the possibility of a longer extension.
An estimated 12 local artists worked on it, while an additional component let residents add their personal touch to the project.
Information about the piece above took me a while to round up, I first went to the artist’s – Jeremy Fish- blog and this is what I read:
“my gang, THE SILLY PINK BUNNIES, is celebrating 20 years of being a mean gang this year. coincidentally 2011 is the year of the rabbit. this statue and mural is a tribute to the the gang and our history in the lower haight. viva la bunnies! see you this easter.”
But then I found an explanation –
“[the gang] is basically it’s an inside joke that just got carried and carried and carried. For me, it’s just the fascination of taking nothing and making it into something, and also watching peoples desire to be involved in something. It’s fascinating for me to watch grown adults gravitate towards something that’s kind of stupid… I’m also fascinated by watching something I created grow into something that I’m not even farming anymore. To see stickers in places that you have never even been when you go there, or to talk to a friend that just got back from South Africa and said he saw a Silly Pink Bunnies sticker in the subway. You know, I’m like, ‘how the [expletive] did something go from being so dumb to something so big?'”
I love the concept he describes, while the silly pink bunny in the photo above, probably leaves many different emotions with different people, the concept that he talks about is truly what art is about.

The Last Caravan in the Lower Haight

 Posted by on November 7, 2012
Nov 072012
 

Love in The Lower Haight
Haight Side of the Project
Laguna and Haight Streets

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This piece is part of the Love in the Lower Haight Project, it is a collaboration between Max Ehrman, aka EON75, Ernest Doty and Griffin One. Its title is The Last Caravan.

 Max Ehrman AKA E.O.N. 75 (Extermination of Normality) was born in 1975 in Naples Florida.  After attending the University of Florida heaved to Europe and studied architecture at the Dessau Institute of Architecture where he received his masters. Max presently resides in San Francisco.

 Ernest Doty is from Albuquerque, New Mexico and now resides in Oakland.  He is known for his rainbow work, including the one on Market Street in San Francisco.

 Sean Griffin AKA Griffin is Currently based out of Oakland, CA. Griffin has built a career for himself as a Aerosol Muralist, Painter, Illustrator & Designer.
He continues to balance his focus between his own canvas & mural work, as well as hand full of underground T-shirt lines, independent record labels & live artistry locally & worldwide.

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Native American Tongue

 Posted by on November 14, 2012
Nov 142012
 

 

This piece is on the Laguna Side of Love in the Lower Haight.  The artist is Krusch Rhoades.  It is titled Native Tongue and was done in 2012.

 

Krusch Rhoades, 33, spent the formative years of his youth in the “armpit of New York, the shoulders of New England and on the polluted teat of New Jersey.”

Since then, Rhoades has travelled all over the country, and currently calls Santa Cruz his home. He has painted, drawn, molded, and scrawled for as long as he can remember.

“Identifying myself as an “artist” at an early age somehow allowed me to view life with a golden preciousness. Being enraptured with the architecture of simplicity, the constant dance of light. I’m so thankful for this perspective,” said Rhoades.

Rhoades enjoys large scale work, especially when working with spray paint, which he calls the “closest synthesis of dance and paint.”

“The large sweeping strokes is so pleasurable when compared to the restricted movements of smaller pieces,” said Rhoades.

That being said, the artist produces work of all scales regularly, and even paints bicycle frames.

“Paint and bicycles have been the most consistent relationships in my life and have therefore becomes the pillars of my existence,” said Rhoades.

From a July 2012 interview by Maria Grusauskas of the Santa Cruz Patch 

GATS, Ras Terms and Dead Eyes

 Posted by on November 5, 2012
Nov 052012
 

Laguna and Haight Streets
Love in the Lower Haight
Haight Street Side

 

This piece is part of the Love in the Lower Haight Project, it is a collaboration between GATS, Dead Eyes and RAS Terms.

GATS (Graffiti Against The System) “GATS is one of the West Coast’s most prolific and rampant graffiti artists. Their iconic characters litter the landscape from coast to coast and have been spotted in over half a dozen different countries around the world.”

He was the focus of a video that I have found to be one of the best produced regarding the subject.  It is 9 minutes long with some rather strong language, but I am including here because it is truly worth watching.

RAS Terms is also in the video for a brief moment. Ras Terms was born and raised in Miami. As part of the BSK and FS crews he was a pivotal figure in the Miami graffiti scene. Terms is a gifted illustrator and painter who has provided many images for the Rastafarian community. Since his arrival in the Bay Area he has established himself as a character graffiti artist and has lent his talents to serve the community.

 

A Ross – Ziegler Collaboration

 Posted by on July 9, 2012
Jul 092012
 

435 Duboce
Duboce Triangle/ Lower Haight

Ian Ross and Zio Ziegler

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After these two worked together on a juxtaposed mural South of Market, it was an obvious step to combine forces.  The result is truly fabulous.  Obviously a temporary installation while construction is occurring behind this, but you have to love the person that decided this was a far better way to protect his construction site from trespassers than the standard metal gate.

The client is Doorman Property Management, they are the property managers for this mixed-use project of storefront and six residences. (scheduled to open in 2013)

Apparently there are also pieces of promotion in the mural as well.  Close inspection by Haighteration discovered these:

“GARAGE FEATURES CHARGING STATIONS FOR ELECTRIC + HYBRID VEHICLES”
“ALL INTERIOR WALLS ARE CONSTRUCTED WITH QUIETROCK ACOUSTICAL SOUNDBOARD”
“DETAILED WITH FLOOR TO CEILING WESTERN WINDOW & DOOR SYSTEMS COVETED BY MANY AS A MANUFACTURING MARVEL”
“UNPARALLELED ACCESS TO TRANSIT AND PARKS”
“INTEGRATED SMART HOME AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS”
Thank you Doorman Property Managers for giving art to Duboce Street in such a fabulous and unique way.

 

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