Walking this section of Mason street, I noticed a profound difference in its essence. It was far cleaner, and brighter than I remembered from the past. This is most definitely due to two new housing buildings that have recently gone up. This one is 125 Mason Street and is the GEDC Family housing. Glide Economic Developement Committee is part of the Glide Memorial Family. The front of the building is covered with these wonderful three dimensional sayings, that lend a sense of respect to the building.
The installation is by Mildred Howard. The Chronicle describes Howard thusly: Mildred Howard takes full advantage of the latitude that modernism won for artists in the use of materials and expressive idioms. She has used photographs, glass, architecture, housewares and other found objects of all kinds.
Because she maneuvers so freely within the conceptually soft borders of “installation” work, people tend to think of her as a sculptor, but she prefers the vaguer, more open term artist.
A native San Franciscan, Howard, began her adult creative life as a dancer before shifting her energies to visual art.
Her work has appeared in exhibitions around the world and has garnered numerous awards, including the San Francisco Art Institute’s Adaline Kent Award, and fellowships from the Flintridge and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts.
