Bruce Hasson – Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Bruce Hasson’s Ark

Posted by Cindy on June 15, 2015

Jun 152015

Father Boeddeker Park
295 Eddy Street
The Tenderloin

The Ark – 1985 – Bronze

This piece, by Bruce Hasson, sits in Father Boeddeker Park. The statue, as well as the park have essentially been inaccessible to everyone until the parks 2014 renovation.

According to the plaque that sits with the statue “Following a 1983 trek in the Peruvian Andes, Hasson was inspired by the mysteries of Inca stone work. The Ark resembles a large geological artifact. It is symbolic of a sanctuary that protects life and a reminder of the importance of preserving endangered animals and their natural habitat.”

Hasson lives and works in San Francisco, and is responsible for other iron work around San Francisco.

Hasson was originally payed $20,400. In 2010 the Ark underwent a $21,000 renovation thanks to the Koret Foundation’s donation to the ArtCare program. The piece has the concrete base repaired, it was cleaned and then a protective coating was added.

The Tenderloin – Trolleys

Posted by Cindy on February 1, 2012

Feb 012012

The Tenderloin

Bush and Polk

1399 Bush Street

Trolleys by Bruce Hasson

This artwork includes 56 cast aluminum balustrades and a balcony. Four designs based on the human form and images from transportation, interspersed on the top three floors of the garage. These pieces are part of the San Francisco Arts Commission Collection.

Bruce Hasson lives and works in San Francisco. He draws inspiration from his studies around the world, and is especially influenced by the Etruscan art in Tuscany and Southern Italy, the Egyptian and Assyrian art collections of the British Museum, the Inca art of Peru and the Mayan art of the Yucatan. “A sense of continuity, a connection to ancient and Renaissance art as well as to the modernist tradition appears in the art of Bruce Hasson,” comments art curator Peter Selz.

Hasson was born in 1954 in Los Angeles. He lives and works in the Bay Area, though he often travels to Italy and Latin America where many of his works have been created. He was educated at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Academia di Belli Arti in Florence, where he received traditional training in figurative art and to the academy in Carrara where he studied sculpture, which was to become his vocation.