1349 Mission Street at Grace
SOMA
This eclectic mural is being funded by the Center for Sex and Culture. According to their website: The Grace Alley Mural Project will be a highlight of San Francisco’s sexual history and culture– paying homage to our past sexual renegades, founders, activists and healers featuring some of our very own notorious and not so notorious mural artists. The Mural location is in an area of SF that is a mix of nightlife, non-profits, neighborhood residential, and mixed commerce– but it’s also an area in need of beautification to our public spaces. It will enhance the good work we are doing here and let the surrounding community know we are an organization that plans to stay and grow in this neighborhood.
The artists are: Eddie Colla · Finley Coyl · Amanda Lynn · Jeremy Novy · Eclair Acuda Bandersnatch
Eddie Colla According to a really great interview at SF Juncture “I went to art school, but didn’t really know what I wanted to do. By the time I graduated, I ended up doing mostly photography, freelancing gigs like the New York Times. But I got burned out on it, so I tried screen-printing, making t-shirts and stuff. I was just doing it for fun, I didn’t really even have any equipment, I was just borrowing stuff from friends, doing things completely ass-backwards. And then I started selling T-shirts. “
I have written about Amanda Lynn and the Few and Far gang often.
According to Million Fishes website, where Finley is a resident artist: “Finley draws on paper, materials, and skin – and combines portraiture, installation and performance work. Finley’s work depicts balance, a play with polarities, the tension of opposites. Her drawing is design oriented, favoring bold lines and definitive textures, organic or abstract shapes and creature forms. Her digital portraiture grows out of the technical desires to expand and improve upon our physical bodies, while aesthetically compelling our animal instincts, our basic desires. She aspires towards ritual technology, being a cyborg and one day having a third arm.”
Jeremy Novy For the past ten years, Jeremy Novy has utilized stenciled street art to explore social and political issues. Novy has an associate’s degree in graphic design and a BFA in photography from Pecks School of the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jeremy’s Koi fish were featured in Art and Architecture-SF here
If you walk around San Francisco you will find Eclair Acuda Bandersnatch’s stencils everywhere.
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The Mission of the Center for Sex & Culture is to provide judgment-free education, cultural events, a library/media archive, and other resources to audiences across the sexual and gender spectrum; and to research and disseminate factual information, framing and informing issues of public policy and public health. They center is still trying to raise funds to complete the mural, if you are interested in helping out this cause check out their website.
Great idea, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. Also, there really ought to be some reference to filmmaker Curt McDowell, whose films pioneered in explicit sexuality.
That one would definitely run up against our anti-graffiti people. There is a lot of detail in it.
I read the article that you sent me – some of the pieces being debated were ones I have posted in the past and I think there is to be more discussions on them.
Quite a detailed mural. I wonder if it a controversial piece in the neighborhood.