Monday, December 15, 2014

Treasure Island Art Walk - San Francisco Post Militaristic Minimalism

In the wake of Soviet collapse,the US closed a number of military bases including Treasure Island in SF bay.  The following pictures are mostly of graffiti eradication efforts at Treasure Island, that is the painting out of graffiti on the sides of buildings in assorted mismatched colors.  The net effect  tends to look like a rather ambitious minimalist public arts project. My opinion is that this graffiti eradication effort has created a more interesting body of work than the stuff that tends to get funded by official public arts projects.














































5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmmm, looks like each one could be titled "Cow Eating Grass" ...

Bisbonian said...

It's so good that you have documented this important (art) installation. I haven't seen mention of it in any of the regular art circles.

And you crack me up.

Anonymous said...

Hey, somebody ought to report this to the Moderator. Those two comments should be white-washed over.

;-)

Arf Arf Arf said...
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Arf Arf Arf said...

You should check out Miranda July's _The_Subconscious_Art_of_Graffiti_Removal_