Moscone Park

 Posted by on July 11, 2017
Jul 112017
 

Moscone Park
1800 Chestnut Street
Marina District

Moscone Park SF

This Leatherback Sea Turtle and the Pink Short Spined Starfish in the playground of Moscone Park were gifts to the San Francisco Arts Commission from the Friends of Moscone Park

These bronze sculptures were the work of Jonathan Roberson Beery.

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Jonathan Beery is a California native and studied at the California State University in Long Beach.

The tiled seating was also a gift of Friends of Moscone Park and was a joint project between the artist and children of the neighborhood.  The bench cost approximately $9500.

Moscone Park and Playground

*Tile Bench at Moscone Park and Playground

Richard Mayer at Hastings Law School

 Posted by on September 30, 2012
Sep 302012
 
Civic Center
Hastings Law School
200 McAllister at Hyde
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 I would like to extend a big thank you to Suzanne Parks, the Volunteer Art Curator at Hastings Law School for this information.

This sculpture  is titled “Gary Diptych #1” and is by San Francisco Bay area artist Richard Mayer. He loaned Hastings the sculpture back in the early 1980’s and then gave it to them in 2008.

In his statement, the artist said: With its affirmation and ambiguity, “Gary Diptych #1 is intended as a metaphor for our times.

Mayer sat on the board of the SFAC when Arneson was chosen to make the, at the time, highly controversial sculpture for a memorial to slain mayor George Moscone
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