SAN FRANCISCO, June 5, 2025 – The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) is thrilled to present the second installment of the 2025 Art on Market Street Poster Series, Overlapping Histories: Art on Market Street Poster Series, 1992–Present, [2] a retrospective showcase commemorating over three decades of artistic commissions.  

Fifteen posters spanning from 1994 to 2016, highlighting distinctive neighborhoods, parks, geographic and topographical features, and street scenes of the city will be displayed along Market Street between 7th and Steuart streets at 15 SFMTA transit shelters through August 2025.  

The curated selection of archived commissioned posters will be presented in three groupings throughout the year, based on the themes of "People, Places, and Things.”   

The posters reflect on historical events, notable individuals, art, and architecture significant to San Francisco's evolving landscape, and intersects with the continued work of SFAC's ongoing Shaping Legacy [3] program, calling attention to underrepresented communities and overlooked histories.  

The second group of posters is focused on the theme of “Places.”  

“Since its inception, Market Street has served as a vibrant urban canvas for local artists, a place where San Franciscans come together to reconnect, celebrate, and protest,” said Ralph Remington, Director of Cultural Affairs. “The second installment of the 2025 poster series retrospective invites us to reflect on the idea of “place” through the unique visions of the many artists we’ve had the privilege to work with over the past three decades, whose work captures the stories, neighborhoods, histories, and communities that have come to shape and define our city.”  

The 2025 “Places [4]” series features the following posters and artists: 

• "Sky" from the 1994 series Market Street Tales by Rigo – Graphic depiction of Rigo’s iconic Sky mural.  
• "Park" 2000, by Amy Ellingson – Ellingson’s striking graphic posters layer architecture, ads, and visual detritus from Market Street to critique American culture’s obsession with spectacle and consumption. 
• "Embarcadero" 2000 by Stanley Chan – Chan’s drawings of common place sights along Market Street, layered with handwritten stories and other collaged elements evoke that memory and longing. 
• "Admist Sunshine & Rain" from the 2004 series Peripheral Visions by Jason Jagel – Jagel’s Peripheral Visions series presents narrative paintings of imagined urban episodes inspired by Market Street’s diverse sights and textures. 
• "Creeks" from the 2007 series Between above and below by Amanda Hughen & Jennifer Starkweather – This collaborative duo visualizes invisible systems, such as pedestrian movement, seismic activity, and tidal flow through intricately layered geometric prints. 
• "The Built World" from the 2007 series Wish You Were Here! Postcards From Our Awesome Future by Packard Jennings & Steve Lambert – Collaboratively, Jennings and Lambert offer a speculative look at San Francisco’s future, visualizing ideas from architects and planners unconstrained by politics or physics—resulting in imaginative posters of floating transit lines, rooftop farms, and utopian urban fixes. 
• "Dolores Park" from the 2009 series Taking In by Pamela Helena Wilson – Helena Wilson’s watercolor series reinterprets archival photographs of people in San Francisco parks, offering quiet moments of contemplation amid Market Street’s bustle. 
• "The Hill" from the 2011 series The Golden Spoke by Ian Huebert – Huebert takes viewers on a joyful bicycle ride across San Francisco, celebrating iconic locales and the freedom of two-wheeled travel. 
• "Chinatown" from the 2013 series Celebrating Bay Area Arts by Paul Madonna – Known for All Over Coffee, Madonna pairs pen-and-ink drawings of city landmarks with stories of local artists, honoring San Francisco’s creative heritage. 
• "Golden Gate Park" from the 2013 series Active San Francisco by Mark Ulriksen – Ulriksen’s whimsical series captures a day in the life of active San Franciscans swimming, skating, biking—through colorful, lively illustrations. 
• "North Beach" from the 2013 series Strangerhood by Lordy Rodriguez – Rodriguez imagines six iconic neighborhoods as independent nations in Strangerhood, using cartographic language to explore collective identity and place. 
• "16th Avenue Tiled Steps Project" from the 2014 series Wild Spicy Growing Gritty Spirited Transmission by Ranu Mukherjee – Mukherjee’s layered imagery celebrates the SFAC Civic Art Collection by interpreting six iconic public artworks through pattern, color, and artist quotations. 
• "Party Animals" from the 2015 series Party Animals by Andrea Bergen – Bergen’s bold collages depict City Hall’s birthday celebration with partying animals and surreal imagery, blending humor with civic pride. 
• "The Office" from the 2016 series SF New City Atlas by Lauren Bartone - Bartone transforms everyday materials collected from Market Street into interpretive maps, exploring labor, transportation, public space, and social desires in the city. 
• "St. Francis Theater, 965 Market Street, 2012 [Bargain Matinee]" from the 2016 series Market Street Marquees by Jeff Canham – Canham reimagines vintage theater marquees from Market Street’s past using a vibrant typographic aesthetic that speaks to the city’s cultural memory. 

The first group of ten posters focused on the theme of “People [5]” and was displayed from March through June 2025. 

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About the Art on Market Street Poster Series 
The San Francisco Arts Commission has commissioned new artworks from artists on an annual basis since 1992 in partnership with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and Clear Channel. Now in its 33rd year, the program has partnered with over 130 artists since its inception, commissioning over $1.2 million worth of art, showcasing a wide breadth of artistic styles, themes and topics centered around San Francisco. Up to four artists are commissioned annually by the Arts Commission to create a series of at least six unique works of art that responds to a theme specific to San Francisco. To learn more, visit sfartscommission.org/artonmarketstreet [6] 

About the San Francisco Arts Commission  
The San Francisco Arts Commission is the City agency that champions the arts as essential to daily life by investing in a vibrant arts community, enlivening the urban environment and shaping innovative cultural policy. Our programs include: Civic Art Collection, Civic Design Review, Community Investments, Public Art, SFAC Galleries, and Art Vendor Licensing. To learn more, visit sfartscommission.org.   [7]