Infinite Reflections

 Posted by on April 18, 2022
Apr 182022
 

March 2022

1028 Market Street

Titled Infinite Reflections, the piece consists of sequentially arranged dichroic glass and polished steel panels. The stainless steel mirrors the landscape, and the glass filters the light and changes its colors

“The plan is for people to be able to see the urban environment around them, but reflected and filtered through the art.” – artist Sanaz Mazinani.

Mazinani said that she wanted to design something that would draw attention to the street and the neighborhood itself. She even modeled the installation’s tall, thin dimensions on the classic vertical signs that used to dot Mid-Market’s many theaters.

Dichroic glass can appear to be two colors at once thanks to its special coating.

The project is part of San Francisco’s 1% For Art Program.

 

The Ladder (Sun or Moon)

 Posted by on March 17, 2022
Mar 172022
 
The Ladder (Sun or Moon)

March 2020 1066 Market Street   The Ladder (Sun or Moon), is a ten-storied neon and steel ‘ladder,’ resembling a functional fire escape.  The piece was created by Iván Navarro.  Born in Santiago, Chile, Navarro obtained his BA in Fine Arts from the University of Chile in Santiago, Chile “I believe that art must be surreptitiously implanted into the public realm,” “to produce a maximum effect and propel the viewer to question not just the meaning of the single art object, but of the entire lexicon of everyday objects that surround it. THE LADDER should not announce itself as a Continue Reading

Glass Goddesses

 Posted by on September 9, 2017
Sep 092017
 
Glass Goddesses

Trinity Plaza Market at 8th April 2017 Trinity Plaza falls under the 1% for Art program.  Although the project began construction several years ago, the public space areas are not yet complete.  The concept for the public space  (titled “C’era Una Volta” – Once Upon a Time) was developed by artist Lawrence Argent. The overall composition of the open space is comprised of glass and marble sculptures, a stone wall and assemblage of blocks evocative of a quarry, and several scattered marble blocks with partially carved sculptures that appear to emerge from the stone. Two of these glass sculptures can Continue Reading

Promised Land

 Posted by on July 17, 2015
Jul 172015
 
Promised Land

10th and Market Streets Mid-Market As part of San Francisco’s 1% for Art program this 3500 square foot Public Open Space, at the corner of 10th and Market Street, was designed by Topher Delaney and Calvin Chin. The “official” description reads:” …cartographic layers of maps reflecting the exact location of the site in graded finishes of granite reflecting a scaled map 1:42 of San Francisco, bisected by intersecting granite trapezoids. One is etched with topographic lines indicating the California Coast and the other is etched with the watercourses of the Sacramento River which flows into the Richmond Bay surrounding San Francisco. Continue Reading

Caruso’s Dream Causes Pianos to Fly

 Posted by on January 24, 2014
Jan 242014
 
Caruso's Dream Causes Pianos to Fly

55 Ninth Street Mid Market/SOMA I spoke with Brian Goggin about his installation of Caruso’s Dream well over a year ago.  While it is taking a long time to get installed, and is was not quite finished when I wrote this post, I thought I would bring it to you anyway. Brian has been in this site many times, you can read all about him here. This is a public site-specific artwork commissioned by the developers of AVA 55 Ninth, a 17-story apartment complex on Ninth Street, sitting between Market and Mission. After singing Carmen in San Francisco, the famous tenor Enrico Caruso Continue Reading

Richard L. Perri and the Giant Pill

 Posted by on July 29, 2013
Jul 292013
 
Richard L. Perri and the Giant Pill

7th and Market Street SOMA/Mid Market The Odd Fellows Temple (you can read my post about the IOOF building here) is getting a CVS on the ground floor.  Artist Richard L. Perri has brightened up the construction zone with a really fun mural. Richard L. Perri has a studio in the Odd Fellows Building.  Born in Rockville Center, New York, Perri studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. MidMa stands for Mid Market District. According to their website: The Mid Market district has historically been an art center.  During its heyday (mid 1900’s) it was a vibrant and star-studded hub for theater Continue Reading

Mid Market Sees Black and White

 Posted by on April 8, 2013
Apr 082013
 
Mid Market Sees Black and White

1125 Market Street Mid Market Area This piece is a collaboration of Cannon Dill and Feral Child. Cannon Dill is from Mill Valley and presently lives in Oakland. Feral Child is a California based artist who has been working in the streets for the past five years. Influenced by folk art, activism, and the geometry within nature. These two have been collaborating around the bay area lately with a artist well known to this website, Zio Ziegler.

The Apexer and Mona Caron Collaborate on Market Street

 Posted by on December 24, 2012
Dec 242012
 
The Apexer and Mona Caron Collaborate on Market Street

1100 Market Street Mid Market This piece is by Ricardo Rickey, also known as the Apexer.  The flower is courtesy of Mona Caron.  Both Mona Caron and the Apexer have several murals around San Francisco.  The mural is on the outside of a pop-up store called the Trailhead. Sprouting from the community-conscious and creatively driven minds at The Luggage Store, this new six-month-long pop-up shop includes an itsy-bitsy parklet of purchasable seedlings from the Tenderloin National Forest, mouth-watering pastries and sips by the folks at Farm:Table, art installations, and a denim-dominated workspace-slash-store managed by Holy Stitch! Denim Social Club. This is the back of the Continue Reading

Mid-Market – Swallows and Sycamores

 Posted by on August 8, 2011
Aug 082011
 
Mid-Market - Swallows and Sycamores

Mid Market – San Francisco Swallows and Sycamores by Amber Hasselbring 7th and Market Mid Market area has long had a reputation for being a wasteland.  Storefronts boarded up, tourists as well as locals, finding a way around this section of Market, without actually walking down it, a veritable waste land in the middle of a vibrant city. For years politicians, concerned citizens and property owners have tried to figure a way to revitalize the area.  The artists have decided to use the area as a canvas and wait for the rest of the world to catch up. The SF Continue Reading

Market Street – Blossoms of Interest

 Posted by on May 26, 2011
May 262011
 
Market Street - Blossoms of Interest

Mid Market U.N. Plaza Black Rock Arts Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission has an Art In Storefronts Program that was intended to help the revitalization of the mid-market area of San Francisco.  I don’t know if that can be done, but I do love the fact that art is being brought out to the public, no matter what the cause. This piece is by Karen Cusolito.  The definition reads:  “Previously exhibited at the Burning Man event as part of her sculptural series Infinitarium in 2010, Cusolito’s ‘Blooms’ create a ‘scale-reversal’ environment in which visitors are obliged to take Continue Reading

Brightening Mid-Market

 Posted by on March 12, 2001
Mar 122001
 
Brightening Mid-Market

982 Market Street The side of the Warfield Theater Mid-Market This piece, finished in May of this year (2014), was done by Clare Rojas (who has been in this website before), along with the 509 Cultural Center. The mural was sponsored, to the tune of $40,000, by the Walter and Elise Hass Fund. Thanks to the Creative Work Fund, I was able to find this photo of the work in progress, as well as an explanation of the piece. “The proposed mural will be a natural outgrowth of Rojas’s earlier work, which was overtly feminist and employed surreal or unreal Continue Reading

Os Gemeos on Market Street

 Posted by on March 11, 2001
Mar 112001
 
Os Gemeos on Market Street

1007 Market Street Mid Market This piece, sponsored by The Luggage Store Gallery and Funded by the Graue Family Fund for Public Art was done by Os Gemeos in September of 2013. Os Gemeos have been in this website before.  They are twin brothers from Sao Paulo with a wonderful and very distinctive style. According to Juxtapoz: Many years ago, the Brazilian twin art duo, painted this exact roof. It was an impressive piece, but upon their recent return to San Francisco, the two decided to revamp with something new. In this new version, local graffiti martyr, Tie and the recently Continue Reading

The Eastern Outfitting Company

 Posted by on March 10, 2001
Mar 102001
 
The Eastern Outfitting Company

1017 Market Street Mid-Market This gorgeous building sits on Market between 6th and 7th.  It has been sheathed and scaffolded for quite awhile now, and it is a pleasure to see that it has come out from behind its blanket much better for the stay. The seven story building, with its terra-cotta finish and steel frame construction has a unique steel and glass façade that begins above the ground floor retail space and is framed by Corinthian pillars. The giant Corinthian order columns and capitals are constructed of terra-cotta tiles; and the entablature, seemingly so massive, is in fact hollow—a Continue Reading

Rainbow Warrior

 Posted by on March 9, 2001
Mar 092001
 
Rainbow Warrior

1061 Market Street San Francisco This little piece has got to just make you smile.  It is by the Rainbow Warrior, Ernest Doty. Doty is from Albuquerque, New Mexico and presently lives in Oakland. He has lived a fascinating life which was covered in an interview at Oakland Art Beat. An excerpt: I’m a high-school dropout, 10th grade was my last year, and I’ve always been an artist, that’s what I always wanted to be when I was a kid. I guess I forgot it for awhile when I was in my early 20s. I was an alcoholic, and once I Continue Reading

The Hibernia Bank at the Heart of MidMarket

 Posted by on March 9, 2001
Mar 092001
 
The Hibernia Bank at the Heart of MidMarket

1 Jones Street MidMarket   Imagine walking down the Champs-Élysées, or Fifth Avenue between 49th and 60th Streets, and when you hit the middle you hail a cab just to go two or three blocks, then get out and continue walking. This is what has happened to Market Street in San Francisco. The street that best epitomizes the concept of the City Beautiful Movement has a large gaping hole in the middle. The area around 6th and Market has been taken over by the less fortunate, and they have made it their outdoor hotel. The area between 5th and 10th on Market Continue Reading

IOOF Building at Mid-Market

 Posted by on March 8, 2001
Mar 082001
 
IOOF Building at Mid-Market

26 7th Street Mid Market This is the second Independent Order of Odd Fellows Temple in San Francisco, the first was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.  There is a wonderful history of the past temples with great photographs at my friend Mark’s site.  Check out the old photos here.   The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), is a global altruistic and benevolent fraternal organization derived from the similar British Oddfellows service organizations.  Their symbol of three links stand for Friendship, Love and Truth. The North American IOOF was founded in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 26, 1819. Odd Fellowship became the first national fraternity to include both Continue Reading

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