Island Fever

 Posted by on March 24, 2014
Mar 242014
 

50 8th Street
SOMA/Civic Center

MAGS mural on Holiday Inn on 8th Street SOMA

 

I am a huge fan of  Lady Mags and Amanda Lynn, and they have been on this website many times. I have also been walking by this piece for quite a while, admiring it and yet not quite having a chance to take pictures when it wasn’t blocked by cars.  Finally, I had the chance, so here it is for your pleasure.

According to Amanda Lynn’s  website:

Lady Mags and I (aka Alynn-Mags) recently completed the largest mural production we have ever created, and it all happened in less than 5 days! We were asked to collaborate with JanSport and their ‘Live Outside’ campaign, to create a mural any size and any content that we could imagine. Mags and I decided to go bigger than ever and create a piece that was enhanced by elements of our fine art collaborations, traditional graffiti, and of course some lovely ladies! We are so honored and humbled by all the amazing support we have received with this project, and look forward to doing many more. Stay tuned for the official campaign launch and accompanying video of the whole process.

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Amanda Lynn and Lady Mags

 

If you follow this website often, you will notice that I have been doing fewer and fewer murals.   The reason is they have become repetitive.  I am in awe with anyone that can take brush or spray can to a wall and create something of beauty.  However, the art of so many of the artists I have focused on in this website can be recognized without the help of a guide.  The same might be said of Alynn-Mags, but it isn’t quite true.  Their work, while often of beautiful women, are of the same genre, but the paintings themselves are each unique and beautiful.

I look forward to catching other great street artists breaking out of their molds.

Holiday Inn Mural

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Alynn-Mags

 

 

Sex and Culture all in one Mural

 Posted by on November 13, 2012
Nov 132012
 

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 Lusty Lady SF and St. James Infirmary have both been a source of creative inspiration for the artists.

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.

Few and Far Paint Clinton Park

 Posted by on October 15, 2012
Oct 152012
 

 

As you turn onto Clinton Park from Valencia the first piece you are greeted with is the beauty by Amanda Lynn.  Few and Far  have covered the walls of Clinton Park to the delight of all that wonder down this very short alley.

 

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And a little further down Valencia at Duboce, you will find another by Mags and Amanda Lynn

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Around Town with muralist Amanda Lynn

 Posted by on August 11, 2012
Aug 112012
 
Amanda Lynn around Town
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Sunday Flamenco by Amanda Lynn – 2012
18th and Mission

Amanda Lynn works by day restoring and painting motorcycles and metal sculptures. When she is not working, she paints figures on doorways and walls around San Francisco and throughout the country, usually accompanying graffiti mural productions. As well as concentrating on her fine art career of painting seductive female imagery on large scale canvases.

She studied at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and received a Bachelor’s of Fine Art with an Illustration major. You can see more of her work here on her website or here in this site.

9th and Mission – SOMA

Alabama and 22nd

 

SOMA – Few and Far

 Posted by on June 20, 2012
Jun 202012
 
SOMA/The Mission
69 Duboce
Between Valencia and Mission
Few and Far – Part III

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The last of this three part post from Few and Far is by Amanda Lynn.
 Amandalynn, whos pieces are all over town, takes her expertise in art and painting into an array of applications. She studied at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and received a Bachelor’s of Fine Art with an Illustration major.

 

Haight Ashbury – Murals

 Posted by on April 23, 2012
Apr 232012
 
Haight Ashbury

There are murals everywhere in the Haight, these are just a few of the better ones.

 Haight and Masonic by Lango

Jimi Hendrix by an unknown artist.  This mural is at 1524 Haight Street, the home of Jimi Hendrix when he lived in San Francisco.  It is now Ashbury Tobacco Center.

This doll is on the Bettie Page Clothing Store at 1529 Haight. (Bettie Page was one of America’s great pin-up girls).  This mural was painted by Amanda Lynn.   Amanda studied at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and received a Bachelor’s of Fine Art with an Illustration major. After school, she worked independently and freelances on many mural productions and theater set paintings.

If you are interested in learning more about Bettie Page – There is a wonderful article about her life and art here.

 

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