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PORTRAITS OF ENDANGERED SEEDS ON MARKET STREET
Poster Series: Large-scale, full-color photographic portraits of individual endangered seeds, with the name of the seed and its history, in kiosks on Market Street.
Poster Locations : The posters are installed in the pedestrian side of 24 triangular kiosks on Market Street between Van Ness and the Embarcadero.
Installation Dates: Monday, May 15 through August 10, 2006
The Endangered Seed is an exhibition of individual portraits of nearly extinct corn seeds. These corn species have adapted over centuries to thrive in different environments, providing a rich variety of corn plants now threatened by current agricultural practices. Greatly enlarged, these evocative seed photographs have each been enhanced by hand painting and are combined on the posters with the seed’s name and information about its history. The artists were inspired by the Ferry Building at the end of Market Street as an ongoing site for farmer’s markets and the Bay Area as a primary urban center encouraging small, sustainable and diverse agricultural practices.
Artists Victoria Carlson and Virginia Hopkins have over 20 years experience producing artwork for theater, film and large industrial projects, as well as assisting with art installations for Alexis Smith at the Site Santa Fe Biennial, and an installation in Sacramento’s East Capitol Building Project. Victoria Carlson also works at a fine artist, with artwork in the collection of the De Young Museum in San Francisco.
A project of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Art on Market Street Program, which brings contemporary artwork by Bay Area artists year-round to San Francisco’s main thoroughfare.