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"Letter's Missing” is representative of the artist’s dramatic use of color, gestural strokes, elegant line, and the collaged remnants of everyday life to provide compositional, textural, and spatial contrasts. #publicart #RaymondSaunders @sfac #SFAC #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 18, 2022.
"Waiting" is a photographic close-up of five figures involved in the familiar yet deeply symbolic drama of waiting in an airport for the return of loved ones. The photograph was translated into a digital image with each pixel represented by a one-inch mosaic tile. #PublicArt This tweet was posted on July 13, 2022.
#JamesChronister approached making “California (1)” by first hiking in the Bodega Bay area of Northern California and taking hundreds of color photos of the terrain. #publicart #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on October 06, 2020.
#JamesChronister digitally changed the source photo into black and white, bumped up the contrast, and projected the image onto the canvas. Using a very small brush, he painted with black oil paint directly from the projection #publicart This tweet was posted on October 06, 2020.
#MiguelArzabe collects and repurposes printed promotional material (posters, flyers, brochures, etc.) from art exhibitions he has attended. He often has a personal connection to the artist whose work is depicted therein. #MuseumFromHome #publicart This tweet was posted on September 11, 2020.
#MiguelArzabe’s weaving process is an homage to the textile tradition of his Andean heritage (Bolivia). He creates his own patterns inspired by Andean motifs that describe the environment and mythology of a particular region. #MuseumFromHome #publicart This tweet was posted on September 14, 2020.
#Onthisday in 1919, Lee Mullican was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Mullican’s paintings reflect the influence of his interest in and study of Native American art and culture. He evokes ritual and myth with his ornate, mosaic-patterned surfaces. #PublicArt #LeeMullican @SFAC This tweet was posted on December 02, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1940, Vito Acconci was born in New York City’s Bronx borough. Acconci began his artistic career as a poet, and came to national prominence in the early 1970s as an artist working in performance and conceptual art. #PublicArt #VitoAcconci @SFAC This tweet was posted on January 24, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1948, artist Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China. Liu's signature painterly style was one that allowed the paint to drip across the image. https://t.co/LpTLyXB2MC #HungLiu #SFAC #PublicArt This tweet was posted on February 17, 2022.
#RobertBechtle’s early work was as a Bay Area figurative painter, but in the 1970s, he received national acclaim as a Photorealist. Shown here is Benton Street in #SanFrancisco, one of the familiar local neighborhoods Bechtle frequently paints. https://t.co/Exr4TSUHDQ #publicart This tweet was posted on September 13, 2019.
#SanazMazinani states, "I was always really interested in borders, and being an immigrant, and I found it really rewarding to look up at the sky and see these beautiful clouds moving — without any limitations, without checkpoints, without passports." #publicart @SFAC This tweet was posted on March 05, 2019.
#TammyRaeCarland conceived the “On Becoming” series out of a desire to re-create a lost archive of her family. She said, “I had wanted an image of me in the presence of my parents.” #Pride #Photography #PublicArt This tweet was posted on June 15, 2022.
#TammyRaeCarland’s presence is seen as she performs the roles of her mother, who was of mixed race, but tried to pass as white, and her Irish Catholic father, who was a closeted gay man. #Pride #Photography #PublicArt This tweet was posted on June 15, 2022.
@SFAC "Forever in the Sky" by #SanazMazinani, is on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/vwTcO4pby8 #publicart #WomensHistoryMonth @SFAC This tweet was posted on March 05, 2019.
@flySFO @SFAC See “Welcome North, Welcome South, Welcome East, Welcome West” by #DanSnyder on display in the arrivals level of Terminal 2. https://t.co/33JWugkQXt #SFAC #publicart This tweet was posted on October 08, 2019.
A small gold circle indicates the location of the Grand Hyatt Hotel and San Francisco International Airport. Visitors are encouraged to explore the surrounding natural wonders. #EarthMonth #EllenHarvey #PublicArt #mosaic This tweet was posted on April 25, 2023.
Acconci’s work is often characterized by a direct involvement of the viewer as an element in the artwork. At the end of each “light beam” in “Light Beams for the Sky of a Transfer Corridor” is a functional telephone. #PublicArt #VitoAcconci @SFAC This tweet was posted on January 24, 2022.
According to the artist, “Air Over Under” is about perception, relativity and how our position and situations are never static.”#5WomenArtists #NorieSato #Painting #silkscreen #PublicArt @SFAC This tweet was posted on March 10, 2022.
After applying for the sculpture opportunity at SFO, he was selected and created three medium size sculptures for International Terminal Boarding Area G. #WoodyDeOthello #publicart #SFAC @SFAC This tweet was posted on January 28, 2022.
Alison Saar's “Flourish” is a story of displacement and inclusion; a narrative of seeded with the adversity that migrants and refugees often experience upon arrival. #PublicArt #AlisonSaar #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 03, 2023.
Along this corridor on the departures level of the International Terminal, sculptural beams of light splay out from the recessed lighting in the ceiling above and transverse the length of the corridor, like rays of light. #PublicArt #VitoAcconci @SFAC This tweet was posted on January 24, 2022.
As an artist, Raymond Saunders relies on his own keen observations and experiences: “The important thing about doing art is that I also live… and the more I bring into myself, the more I have a desire and need to translate it into something.” #publicart #RaymondSaunders @sfac This tweet was posted on February 18, 2022.
Back at the studio, #JamesChronister searched the many photos to find an image with the perfect balance of movement, rhythm, space, and “an energy akin to music.” #publicart #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on October 06, 2020.
By creating these images, #TammyRaeCarland produces a parallel between the camera’s ability to construct an imagined world and her parents’ constructed identities. She becomes her parents, who were never able to become their authentic selves. #Pride #Photography #PublicArt This tweet was posted on June 15, 2022.
David Huffman (b. 1963), who was born and raised in Berkeley, CA, combines the aesthetics of science fiction, urban vernacular, & the language of abstraction to investigate the politics of race through the iconography of the basketball. #PublicArt #DavidHuffman #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 17, 2023.
Each strip in this colorful artwork by #LeahRosenberg corresponds to a landmark, moment, or object that is unique to our beloved city. #publicart @SFAC This tweet was posted on July 07, 2018.
Eric Staller’s artwork utilizes light, space, and motion to delight and surprise the public. #publicart #EricStaller This tweet was posted on September 14, 2022.
Finch affixes colored filters on LED light tubes to represent the spectral color emission of each star. For example, Betelgeuse is a very old star and appears red in the night sky. @SFAC #PublicArt #SpencerFinch #Scuplture #LED This tweet was posted on June 30, 2023.
For this suite of prints, Shaun O’Dell uses simplified icons of American history—liberty bells and silhouettes of the founding fathers—to depict the complexity of the past. #PublicArt #ShaunODell @SFAC This tweet was posted on November 08, 2022.
For this suite of prints, Shaun O’Dell uses simplified icons of American history—liberty bells and silhouettes of the founding fathers—to depict the complexity of the past. #ShaunODell #etching #publicart #SFAC @SFAC This tweet was posted on November 08, 2021.
For “Long Arc of Day,” Kim Anno combined multiple scenes of San Francisco Bay and the California landscape into one image. Anno created the tableaux by collaging and layering glass with pigment color drawings that were based on historical engravings. #KimAnno #publicart @SFAC This tweet was posted on December 19, 2022.
Fred Eversley worked as an aerospace engineer until 1967 when he turned to making sculpture. #FredEversley #BlackHistoryMonth #PublicArt This tweet was posted on February 23, 2022.
From 1997 to 2002, #RichardMisrach photographed the #GoldenGateBridge from the front porch of his house in the Berkeley Hills.He took pictures of this scene at different times of year and different times of day, creating more than 700 images overall. #publicart #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on August 18, 2020.
From the Golden Gate Bridge’s iconic International Orange color, to the Painted Ladies in the Western Edition, "Everywhere a Color" by #LeahRosenberg pays homage to San Francisco. #publicart @SFAC This tweet was posted on July 07, 2018.
Gay Outlaw spoke with us during the installation of her artwork "Intersection," "Shell," and "Bird Plane House." Watch how these massive, multi-ton sculptures were placed and learn about the artist's process. https://t.co/grJqAUnZwA #WomensHistoryMonth #PublicArt This tweet was posted on March 02, 2021.
Happy 101st Birthday to Wayne Thiebaud, who was born #onthisday in 1920! In the early 1960s, Thiebaud was acclaimed as one of the defining practitioners of Pop Art and has continued to be considered one of California’s most important and influential artists. #publicart @SFAC This tweet was posted on November 15, 2021.