August 07, 2006
Portuguese people everywhere you look
I was walking from Potrero Hill to the Mission in San Francisco and I saw this neat piece of conceptual public art much
to my intellectual and aesthetic enjoyment. I'm just sorry there weren't any birds perched on the roof when i took this. And I'm not of the photoshopping kind.
Googling about it, I find that the artist's name is Ricardo Gouveia (RIGO) - a fellow Portuguese - and that he went to the USA at age 19, "earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991 and a Master of Fine Arts at Stanford in 1997. He has been creating his large-scale outdoor paintings since the mid-1980s." -- more here and an interview with him here.
Posted by claudia
Comments
"I'm not of the photoshopping kind."
Sounds like a lyric to a heartbreak song.
Posted by matthew at August 7, 2006 07:03 PM