Public Art Projects

Constellation
Nayland W. Blake, 1996
Main Library, 100 Larkin St.
Grand Staircase, Atrium
Painted steel, mirrors, and fiber optic lighting. Illuminated 20th century author’s names at the grand staircase; central atrium.

Functional and Fantasy Stair
Alice Aycock, 1996
Main Library, 100 Larkin St.
Periodicals Reading Room, 5th floor and 4th Floor Atrium
Aluminum, painted steel, stainless steel, and plaster sculpture. The “Functional and Fantasy Stair” wraps around a two-story sculptural cone with an appearance of unraveling itself. As it unravels, fragments of imaginary stairs peel away.

Cyclone Fragment
Alice Aycock, 1996
Main Library, 100 Larkin St.
Periodicals Reading Room, 5th floor and 4th Floor Atrium
Aluminum, painted steel, stainless steel, and plaster sculpture. “Cyclone Fragment” is a purely abstract sculpture that serves as a ghost projection of the spiral stair.

Untitled
Ann Hamilton and Ann Chamberlain, 1996
Main Library, 100 Larkin St.
50,000 hand-annotated catalogue cards embedded in artisan plaster, covering 5,000 square feet of the core diagonal wall on three floors.

Double L Eccentric Gyratory
George Warren Rickey, 1982
New Main Library, 100 Larkin St.
Vertical composition, two large letter “L”s, which rotate independently through current of the air, on a concrete base. A leading artist in the “Kinetic Art Movement,” also considered a “Constructivist.”

Jury Assembly Room
Lewis DeSoto, 1998
Civic Center Courthouse, Jury Assembly Room, lower level, 400 McAllister Street, at Polk St.
Sandblasted & illuminated glass panels, custom designed furniture, architectural and projected light elements.

Trolley
Bruce Hasson, 1993
Bush Polk Parking Garage, Bush and Polk Streets
Cast aluminum balustrades and grillwork on the upper floors of the garage. The design is a free-wheeling interpretation of automobile chassis and rockets.

Dancing in the Sea of Milk and African King w/ Animal
Power
Martha Heavenston, 1995
Tenderloin Recreation Center
570 Ellis Street between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets
Two ceramic throne sculptures made with neighborhood youth depict a Cambodian dancer and an African tribal king.

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