Point Cloud

 Posted by on March 26, 2019
Mar 262019
 

Moscone Center

Villareal lights Moscone

“Point Cloud” by Leo Villareal, the designer of “The Bay Lights” on the Bay Bridge has been incorporated into the new East Bridge, which connects Moscone North and South.

Commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission for  $1.5 million, it is part of the city’ 2% for Art Program.

This light sculpture is made up of over 50,000 full-color LEDs arranged in a three-dimensional array. Approximately 800 mirrored stainless steel rods, hanging from the ceiling, support the LED matrix.

Leo Villereli Port CloudThe lights on this site-specific artwork are sequenced with Villareal’s custom software. The patterns are constantly changing.  While these photos, taken during the day, do not show how bright the lights actually are, it is a nice focal point for both walkers and drivers naviagting the crowded situation always found around Moscone.

Leo Villareal (born 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) lives and works in New York City. His work combines LED lights and encoded computer programming to create illuminated displays.

Villareal received a BA in sculpture from Yale University in 1990 and a graduate degree from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program.

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Geneses I at Moscone Center

 Posted by on March 14, 2019
Mar 142019
 
Geneses I at Moscone Center

Christine Corday was born in 1970 in Maryland. Before receiving her B.A. in Communication Arts (1992), she wrote an original research paper which led to an Astrophysics internship at NASA Ames Research Center. She went on to do graduate work in Cultural Anthropology and the works as a graphic and structural designer for advertising companies. Corday received the Edison Ingenuity Prize in Montreal, Canada and has also won a number of international design awards for her patented glass bottle for the Republic of Tea. In 2000, Corday was selected for a Short Story prize from Francis Ford Coppola’s fiction magazine Zoetrope. According Continue Reading

Hellenism in San Francisco

 Posted by on July 7, 2015
Jul 072015
 
Hellenism in San Francisco

This plaque sits, somewhat neglected in an ivy bed at the corner of 3rd and Folsom Streets at the Moscone Center.  I, like so many people, have seen it, read it, and continued on my way.  I began wondering what was behind it. The Greek immigrant community was one of the largest and most conspicuous communities South of Market prior to the 1960s. Greeks had begun coming to San Francisco even before the 1906 Earthquake,  the community grew rapidly prior to the First World War as Greeks escaped their own war-torn and poverty stricken homeland. Many made their way across Continue Reading

Driving Me Up A Wall

 Posted by on November 17, 2012
Nov 172012
 
Driving Me Up A Wall

255 Third Street SOMA * * These three paintings are on the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors near the elevators of the Moscone Center Garage.  Painted by Dan Rice in 1982 they convey the artist’s impression of motorized existence and depict the frenzy and banality of the daily commute. * * * Autoscape #3, Twin Spin, Driving Me Up a Wall by Dan Rice Dan Rice who received his MFA from UC San Diego said this about the paintings in 1982: ” “My paintings reflect my perceptions of the contemporary american way of life,’ Rice said. ‘They deal with symbols abstracted from our Continue Reading

Hidden Sea near Moscone Center

 Posted by on September 22, 2012
Sep 222012
 
Hidden Sea near Moscone Center

321 Clementina SOMA Hidden Sea by Ned Kahn 2000 Recipient Organization: Tenants and Owners Development Corporation In late 1999, artist Ned Kahn collaborated with the staff of the Tenants and Owners Development Corporation (TODCO) and the residents of their housing projects to create a public artwork for the exterior wall of Ceatrice Polite apartment building at Fourth and Clementina Streets. The apartment is in the Yerba Buena redevelopment area. Ned Kahn’s public artworks encourage people to observe and interact with natural processes. Upon talking with the advisory group, his concept for this project became to create a piece that captures Continue Reading

SOMA – Man With Flame

 Posted by on September 17, 2011
Sep 172011
 
SOMA - Man With Flame

SOMA Convention Plaza 3rd Street Between Howard and Folsom Man With Flame by Stephen de Staebler This little walk way offers a wonderful respite from the hectic goings on inside Moscone Center. There are lots of tables and chairs, wonderful public art, and a Starbuck’s if you are so inclined. I have copied the following directly from his New York Times Obituary. Stephen De Staebler, a sculptor whose fractured, dislocated human figures gave a modern voice and a sense of mystery to traditional realist forms, died on May 13 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 78. The cause Continue Reading

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