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Hands by Vicki Saulls

 Posted by on July 7, 2018
Jul 072018
 

Eureka Valley Rec Center
100 Collingwood
Castro

Titled From the Heart Outward, this piece sits in the lobby of the Eureka Valley Rec Center.

Titled From the Heart Outward, this piece sits in the lobby of the Eureka Valley Rec Center.

The project consists of casts of hands of citizens throughout the neighboring community.  The call for volunteers read:  “My sense of the center is that it’s a really welcoming place for diverse interests and community groups. I wanted to use the welcoming theme and came up with the idea of using hands and gestures. My plan is to use various groupings–parents and children, friends, couples, partners–doing gestures. They could be holding hands, holding a basketball, playing cards. I expect some people will have ideas better than mine as far as the final gestures used,” says Saulls.

The pieces, cast by Erick Dunn, are of cold cast bronze and zinc aluminum

The pieces, cast by Erick Dunn, are of cold cast bronze and zinc aluminum

There are three hands at the entry to the Rec Center

There are three hands at the entry to the Rec Center.  This piece is titled Welcome Hands

These hands are made of concrete and were cast by Concretework Studio

These hands are made of concrete and were cast by Concretework Studio

Vicki Saulls has been on this site several times before.

This project was commissioned by the SFAC at a cost of $42,000 in 2004.

Nuotatori

 Posted by on June 21, 2018
Jun 212018
 

North Beach Pool
661 Lombard Street

Nuotatori by Vicki Saulls

This piece, by Vicki Saulls, is an actual cast of 23 residents of North Beach shown in their swim gear.

Ms. Saulls also created Locus, a second piece of art that can be found at this North Beach pool.

Vicki Saulls was born in Idaho and raised in the northwest, Georgia, and California. Saulls graduated with a degree in Art from University of California at Santa Cruz. Vicki embarked on a career as a museum modelmaker and sculptor for natural history museums, aquariums, and parks, at such venues as Monterey Bay Aquarium, Yosemite National Park, Papalote Museo del Ninos and the National Museum of Natural History in Taichung, Taiwan. After 20 years in the San Francisco Bay area, she moved to New York in 2005 to join Blue Sky Studios on Dr. Suess’s Horton Hears a Who (2008), Vicki is now Lead Sculptor for Blue Sky, sculpting character maquettes for their many development projects & feature films.

Nuotatori by Vicki Saulls

Nuotatori is Italian for Swimmers

The piece was commissioned by the SFAC for $75,000 in 2007.

Nuotatori by Vicki Saulls

The casts are made of a polymer added gypsum

Animals in the Park

 Posted by on May 17, 2013
May 172013
 

Koret Playground
Golden Gate Park

Koret Childrens Center

There are five of these cast stone creatures in the new Koret Childrens Area of Golden Gate Park.  They are the second public art project that Vicki Saulls did in San Francisco.  The first you can view here.

The playground underwent a major renovation with generous funding from the Koret Foundation and reopened in 2007 as the Koret Children’s Quarter. New features include a climbing wall shaped like waves and a rope climbing structure; the historic concrete slide was retained.  The landscape Architect on the project was MIG.

Turtle at the Koret Playground

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These pieces were commissioned by the SFAC for $54,000 in the 2007 budget year.

Eureka Valley Rec Center

 Posted by on October 14, 2011
Oct 142011
 

Castro District/Eureka Valley
Eureka Valley Rec Center
157 Collingwood Street

Time After Time
by Betsie Miller-Kusz
2005

 

Betsie was Born in Los Alamos, New Mexico and resides in Jemez, New Mexico.  This is from her website “I paint and only paint.  My installations are extensions of this act, which gives meaning to my existence. These paintings speak about the field of consciousness as it transforms itself, with a great guardian figure as the mediator.  Through rivers, into seas, through trees and mesas, the sentience of life flows into the light. This is the territory which I have then painted into reality, and in the New Mexico paintings, brought back into the land, guarded by my protector figure.

In the past several years, I have flown over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the South China Sea, the Inland Sea of Japan, the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes. During this time, my life has undergone profound changes, and yet has seemed tranquil and at peace on its surface. So this my imagery, after many years of painting the human figure, speaking of respite available in the midst of turbulence.

I hope the paintings invoke the life force which was needed to paint them. They are simply the brush in my hands, close to the earth.”

First painted in 1993, this mural was dedicated to Claire Anderson, a popular director at the recreation center for 35 years, and the mural depicts waves of music as color moving out from a piano. The original composition was extended to cover two sides of the new Teen Center building when the builing was renovated in 2006.  The new work was done by Vicki Saulls.  The original mural, sponsored by the Eureka Valley Trails & Art Network, was painted with help from the surrounding community.

This mural is on the side of the rec center.  There is a very narrow alley and then the dog park.  You can not really get a clear shot of the mural as a whole so I had to bring it to you through the chain link fence and inside the dog park.

North Beach Swimming Pool

 Posted by on September 21, 2011
Sep 212011
 
North Beach
Swimming Pool and Clubhouse
Lombard and Mason Streets
Artist Vicki Saulls was selected for this site-specific commission through the Arts Commission’s Public Art Program which, by city ordinance, allocates 2% of the construction cost of civic buildings, new parks, and other capital projects for public art.
This is the entry door to the North Beach Clubhouse.  “Locus”  is a sliding sculptural door on the eastern side of the clubhouse adjoining the pool building. The surface of the metallic gray door depicts a stylized topographical map of the North Beach neighborhood. Although no locations are identified on the map, viewers can orient themselves by the familiar waterfront pier formations along the upper right edge of the design. North Beach Pool and Clubhouse are located near the center of the work. The sculpture was fabricated in cold-cast aluminum to the artist’s specifications by Kreysler & Associates, a Bay Area fabricator.
This is what the door looks like overall.  The sign, listing summer restroom hours,  proves that to some it is art, and to others, it is just a door.
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