The Tenderloin – Trolleys

 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.