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Notably, Golden Gate Park will host multiple installations in celebration of its 150th anniversary, including the Observation Wheel and 'Entwined' in Peacock Meadow. 'This is the perfect activation for San Francisco this season where we can all view these marvels while staying safe, enjoying the new outdoor patios along the way, and get some much-needed exercise with an evening stroll,' stated Brenda Tucker, director of marketing for SF Travel. Works are located in 17 different city neighborhoods, the release stated.

The San Francisco Travel Association is presenting the light festival. (As the Bay Area Reporter has reported, the quote is widely attributed to the late gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, though it is unclear when he first said it.) The local arts group also has a permanent work in the Castro, the 'Hope Will Never Be Silent' fronting Harvey Milk Plaza. 'Tara Mechani,' at Patricia's Green at Octavia and Hayes streets, is temporary through the end of the year.Īll told there are over 40 installations, including some from Illuminate, best known for the Bay Bridge Lights. One of the newest additions is 'The Ladder,' at 1066 Market Street, which will be a permanent installation, according to a news release. You’ll have the perfect view from your luxury condo at 181 Fremont overlooking the many lights-old and new-of San Francisco.Illuminate SF Festival of Light has added some temporary light artworks to its many others to brighten nights as the days get shorter.

Meanwhile, Illuminate CEO Ben Davis’s Hope Will Never Be Silent, an installation honoring Harvey Milk, “ will serve as a permanent greeting.”ĭavis’s piece is a great example of the way that, by taking the illumination project city-wide, the organizers of Illuminate SF have created a new art form that makes the whole city its canvas-adding to the illuminated skyline and incorporating it into the artwork’s design.

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Tatlin can be seen at the SFMOMA, one of a series of homages to the Russian artist Vladimir Tatlin who was a pioneer of the use of technology in making art. The festival will also feature more organically structured works in the city streets, at the San Francisco airport, and in some of the city’s finest museums, as well as artist talks, guided tours, and self-guided itineraries. Villareal’s use of the bridge’s original design and infrastructure is a perfect example of how light art can expand upon and become a natural extension of preexisting architecture. The most iconic example of San Francisco’s identity as a home and breeding ground for light art and artists is Villareal’s massive light installation The Bay Lights, which spans the north side of the Bay Bridge it was made permanent just last year. Artists working at the cutting edge of conceptual and sculptural light art, including prominent artists like Vito Acconci, Dan Flavin, Lisa Gemmiti, James Turrell, and Leo Villareal, are featured in both the year-round lighting project and the festival. It’s only fitting, then, that some of the best artists in the world would be drawn to make work for a first-of-its-kind festival that puts light art on the map-literally and figuratively. Like 181 Fremont, the festival is yet another manifestation of the ways that the city of San Francisco is at the forefront of both artistic and urban innovation. For the festival, which runs from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, artists create light installations throughout the city that transform public spaces into works of art and turn San Francisco itself into an illumination. San Francisco, on its architecturally distinctive peninsula, is one of the great American examples of urban aesthetic magnificence-and there is no better way to celebrate the city’s beauty-and the holiday season- than with the Illuminate SF Festival of Light. The designers of the luxury condos at 181 Fremont in SoMa know that a building can be a work of art-and that embrace of artmaking is no less true of a city.

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