Gates of Kezar Stadium

 Posted by on April 3, 2018
Apr 032018
 

Kezar Stadium
Frederick Street Entrance

Gates of Kezar Stadium by Alan Fleming

These gates stand at the entry to Kezar stadium and were installed in 1991. There are 22 of them around the stadium

 Kezar Stadium has a long history in the City of San Francisco, but much of its original elements no longer remain.

The gates were purchased by the San Francisco Arts Commission for $99,825 and were the product of designer Alan Fleming.

Gates of Kezar Stadium by Alan Fleming

According to the artist the final design is evocative of the merging of the natural and the man made, the hard edge and the soft edge, the straight line and the curved, that is representative of the park as a whole. The gates are 10-12 feet in height, 7-16 feet in width. Fabricated in galvanized steel, the gates were to be painted dark green.

Fleming holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Michigan State University and a Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley.  He is a licensed architect and general contractor.

Caesar Stadium Gates by Alan Fleming

Arco

 Posted by on April 22, 2015
Apr 222015
 
Arco by Jose Villa

Arco by Jose Villa Soberon

In December of 2010, the city of Santiago de Cuba held its first Rene Valdes Cedeño Public Sculpture Symposium. Sponsored by the Caguayo Foundation and the Advisory Council for the Development of Public Sculptures and Monuments, the symposium seeks to promote sculpting in marble and metals. Arco was a result of the 2013 Symposium, the pieces that came out of the project are put around Santiago de Cuba.

Jose Villa has two pieces in Havana that have been in this website before and that you can read about here.

Santiago de Cuba native José Ramón Villa Soberón ( September 2, 1950) is particularly known for his public sculptures around Havana. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arte (The National School of Art) in Havana, Cuba and the Academy of Plastic Arts in Prague. He is a professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.

Jose Villa Soberon

Mission Parade

 Posted by on November 21, 2012
Nov 212012
 

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According to the artist, “The artwork is a playful interpretation of the Mission District’s diverse community and creativity. The procession’s cast of historical and imaginary characters evoke the neighborhood’s past while casting a cheerful look toward the future.”

Mission Parade consists of 20 steel cut panels with 10 unique vignettes that repeat at both park entrances. Each panel features three fantastical characters. Some of the figures include a peg-legged pirate with a hook for a hand; a friendly one-eyed, one-toothed monster; an alligator with a top hat holding a flower; a fire-breathing dragon; a plant watering can following a smiling tree holding an umbrella and a gold miner complete with a pick ax and a pan. All of the figures in the panels are oriented towards the same direction so that they appear as if they are walking in a procession. The design is repeated at both park entrances. The fence was manufactured at Rocket Science in the Mission.

Michael Bartalos is an accomplished printmaker, sculptor and graphic designer who has exhibited his work internationally and has authored many limited edition artist books. In September 2008, his design for a 42-cent Latin Jazz stamp was issued by the U.S. Postal Service. Michael was born in Heidelberg, Germany, attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received his BFA from Pratt Institute.

 

Fort Mason – SEATS

 Posted by on April 12, 2012
Apr 122012
 
Fort Mason
SEATS Exhibition
Solstice by Brian Martin
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This is part of the SEAT installation at Fort Mason.  The seat exhibit showcases work that reflects on the history of fort mason center and responds to the natural elements of the site. Each piece is meant to be gently sat on and then you can use your mobile phone to dial up a phone number that will tell you about the piece.
According to the artist:  This piece represents the dates and times that so many people have entered and exited into our city. Set in a specific position to the horizon, the sun lines up with the eye and the seated, revealing the time and date of something very special. ((Hint….the answers to the timing and position are etched onto the head of the seat)
Brian Martin is a metal artist, designer, and fabricator. He moved to San Francisco in 1997 to attend the Academy of Art, during which he apprenticed with Eric Powell until 2001. After leaving Eric Powell, he  started Brian Martin Metals, working for designers, architects and homeowners. In the past few years he has concentrated on building fine furniture and sculpture.

 

William Wareham at SF City College

 Posted by on June 14, 2011
Jun 142011
 

San Francisco City College
Ocean Avenue Campus

 This piece at City College San Francisco, Ocean campus, is titled “Wyoming Coup” by William Wareham.  It was installed in 1972 on the West Lawn of the Science Building.
William Wareham graduated with an  MA and MFA from UC Berkeley in 1971, he did his undergraduate at the Philadelphia College of Art. He has always had a strong metal theme in his work.
Since his stint as the first Artist in Residence at the Norcal Solid Waste Systems facility in 1990, where he set up the studio and wrote the safety manual, Wareham has been using recycled steel as the primary source for his sculpture, but he goes far beyond what most artists do with recycled materials these days. It is the “pre-used history that the material inherently holds”, he says, that inspires him. “These worn-out metal things will continue to have a life by gathering, refocusing and rejoining into a collective other life”.   He is extremely prolific, that can be seen at the website of a gallery that reps his work.
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