SF Murals - Monkey Cycles

Monkey Cycles

SF Murals - Lower Haight #2

They have record stores and murals in Lower Haight too. But with a different flavor from murals in other parts of the City. I was muddled after a dr's appt., so I found these by being a little lost, one street over from my usual route outta town. I was distracted enough to allow a stop and snap these photos.

Edo Salon

603 Haight Street @ Steiner

 And across Steiner, you have these:

Black Pancake Records "Hot stacks of Wax"

593 Haight @ Steiner

and
Lower Haters Gallery @ 597 Haight,
which installed a new mural series on the walls of its building.
Of them, this is my favorite:

by Michael Kershnar


This guy and his friend are weird adornments by muralists 'Skinner' and '2501' that express the element of dark horror lingering below the surface of the lower Haight.

 

Crabby urbanites courtesy of Galo, an Italian artist:

Don't Forget to Look Down!

These guys look like they're part of a dark kids' book,

with adventures in grey places:

SF Murals - Lower Haight #1

As seen on a small wall on Haight Street.

SF Murals - 24th & Florida

This image above is shown on Google.Maps for the intersection of 24th & Florida Streets in SF. But if you were at this very intersection just last Thursday, in the pouring rain, you would have seen  this cool thunderbird.

Detail:

Marysville Murals - Sullivan's Saddlery Mural

Escape, Day 1 - 11/3/2010

I hadn't planned on stopping in Marysville, but it was such a gorgeous day, and I couldn't remember anything about the town. I spent all of 10 minutes in town and found this mural at Sullivan's Saddlery, located in Marysville's Historic district, on 4th Street at D Street.

SF Ad Art - Sandwich Themed

The local Stop & Shop Market, Mission at 26th in SF, sports a bit of subliminal advertising by adding sandwiches just about anywhere--from Dagwoods crossing the Golden Gate Bridge to Stop (for a Hoagie) signs. Then there was that denizen of bad tobacco's advertising with the Camel logo...bet you can buy cigarettes there too.

The Corner Store Project: A Collaboration between Stop & Shop, San Francisco Art Institute's Painting and New Genres Dept, and the Center for Public Practice, with Tony Labat and Carlos Villa ..."

SF Murals - Boswell Place: Immortal Battle Dragon vs. Octopus

Map to Dragon Murall / Donuts & Pastries!

Boswell (Avery) at Geary Blvd., SF. It's one-way here, so you have to look back to see the monumental clash between Dragon and Octopus.

Arcata Murals - Crocigator?

The crocigator from Spring Street at 13th in Arcata, CA. 

Now that's a front yard!

Murals - Pachyderms

Detail from Ferndale Mural      

An elephant does not get
tired carrying his trunk.
                                 --Burundi Proverb

Detail - Arcata

As seen on the Great Highway in SF:

SF Murals - San Bruno Launderland / Art In Progress

Another work-in-progress I stumbled across on the wall of the local Launderland Coin-Op, located at 2246 San Bruno Avenue in SF.  Apparently, it was sponsored by the Portola Neighborhood Steering Committee.

Background: The PNSC applied for a capital improvement grant to paint a mural on behalf of the property owner of Launderland, 2444 San Bruno Avenue. This wall is constantly tagged with graffiti. Even though the property owner does paint over it very often, we thought it would be great to have something there to beautify the neighborhood and deter graffiti.  The property owner was award the grant and we have hired Fiona Glas, a muralist, to paint a mural on the 25 ft by 10 ft blank wall on Launderland.

                                       --Portola Neighborhood Steering Committee (PNSC)

Next time I visit Portola Neighborhood, I'll try to post the completed mural

Another example of the hand as mural element:

Arcata - Murals #1

Long before this building was the Humboldt State Museum of Natural History, it was a Wells Fargo Bank. The Museum was closed when i arrived, but I was even more dismayed to see a note indicating that it would be open only to school groups. I am accustomed to such neat things as science museums being available to all regardless of age or academic affiliation! (See also: Lawrence Hall of Science, the Children's Discovery Museum, The Lindsay Wildlife Museum, the Randall Museum, Zeum, etc.). As a Humboldt Alum, I wonder about this! Is this an artifact of grant requirements or funding resources? 

So, here are the south and north sides of the building:

Arcata Murals - Union Plank Walk

On the way out of town, heading south, take a quick look at this mural:

Union Plankwalk & Railroad Co. 1854.

"Union" is the name formerly given to the foggy town we know as Arcata
(name change circa 1860).

SF Murals - Mission Wall Dances

Located between 14th and 15th streets, at 1849 Harrison, this mural is a multi-faceted work, covering two sides of one building and a wall of an adjoining building.  The work, entitled, "Mission Wall Dances, Something there is that doesn't love a wall", was completed in September 2002, by Josef Norris, and commissioned by Jo Kreiter of FlyAway Productions. The FlyAway website is worth a visit, because it features photos of the dance performance for which this mural was created as the backdrop. Franco Folini has a nice wide shot showing almost all of the mural here, and here.

SF Murals - Art in Progress #3

Third installation showing the progress of this mural on Sheridan Alley, SF

You can view the earlier, in-progress versions of this mural on my posts from May 2010 and July 2010.

Below, the early sketch work --

-- developed in to this:                        

       

and this      

became

this...    

SF Murals - Myrtle Alley

I wasn't able to learn anything about this one, but it's a treasure.