Females Grace the Olympic Club

 Posted by on August 11, 2014
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665 Sutter Street
The Olympic Club Parking Garage
Union Square

Olympic Club Parking Garage

I have showed you the figures at the front of the Olympic Club here.  But at the back, the entry to the parking garage, are 9 female nudes.

The sculptures are by Michelle Gregor.  Michelle has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from University of California, Santa Cruz and Master of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco State University.

Michelle Gregor Sculptor

Michelle Gregor has taught ceramics at San Jose City College since 2002. She also teaches 3-D design every spring semester.

Public Art in San Francisco

“Her style is described as emblematic of the unique Californian style seen in art, as it is not too representational, but has a certain serenity and spiritual feeling about it. She comes from a generation that blazed the path of abstract expressionism in the Bay Area, specifically for female artists.”  The California Aggie

Sculpture at Olympic Street Garage

Driving Me Up A Wall

 Posted by on November 17, 2012
Nov 172012
 

255 Third Street
SOMA

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These three paintings are on the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors near the elevators of the Moscone Center Garage.  Painted by Dan Rice in 1982 they convey the artist’s impression of motorized existence and depict the frenzy and banality of the daily commute.

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Autoscape #3, Twin Spin, Driving Me Up a Wall by Dan Rice

Dan Rice who received his MFA from UC San Diego said this about the paintings in 1982: ” “My paintings reflect my perceptions of the contemporary american way of life,’ Rice said. ‘They deal with symbols abstracted from our economy, transportation, national defense, technology, religion and government.”

Rice’s paintings, with their luminous color, have been compared to works by Monet, Matisse and Bonnard.

He came out of the American Expressionist school but was sometimes called an abstract impressionist. He was hard to classify and didn’t fit into trends, and therefore didn’t receive the acclaim he deserved. Nevertheless, his paintings are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Wadsworth Atheneum and the Princeton University Art Museum.

Rice now lives in Montana

Performing Arts Parking Garage – Dancing in the Curve of the World

 Posted by on May 25, 2012
May 252012
 
Civic Center
Performing Arts Garage
Gough and Grove Streets
 
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Dancing in the Curve of the World by Josef Norris
Josef Norris is responsible for the murals at Kid Power Park. This piece, done in 2003 was paid for by the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Cultural Equity Fund and the Neighborhood Beautification Fund.


The Tenderloin – Trolleys

 Posted by 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.

 

 

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