"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 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.
#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.
#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.
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.
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.
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.
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 “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.
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.