Sandra Escobar paints a cool mural on the side of Super Cocina in City Heights.
This afternoon Sandra R. Escobar, a multi-award winning artist from Orange County, finished painting a large, very colorful mural in City Heights. I arrived as she was applying the final touches to her canvas–a portion of the east side of Super Cocina!
Check it out!
Her work has a unique style of its own, as you can see at the artist’s website here. Sandra Escobar is also a digital artist, and I learned this fun mural, with its crazy jumble of eyes and noses and other facial features, was designed digitally in advance.
The title of the mural is 6 Feet Apart. It’s the largest mural she’s painted yet!
The new mural appears between two others that were previously painted on the east side of Super Cocina.Finishing a very cool mural on University Avenue in City Heights!
UPDATE!
I received some photos from Love City Heights of the mural being created…
Photo courtesy Love City Heights.Photo courtesy Love City Heights.
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As you approach the front entrance of the Museum at California Center for the Arts, Escondido, you might think you’re flying through the coronas of two fiery stars. Looking down, you see beautiful Star Streams beneath your feet!
Star Streams/THRESHOLD TESSELATION is the name of some very cool artwork that was installed in front of the Museum in 2017.
The 128-square foot LithoMosaic was created by artists Robin Brailsford, Wick Alexander and Doris Bittar. It’s the first of a series titled COLD CALL/ Museum as Muse, which involves the creation of LithoMosaic plaza public artwork for six museums across the United States.
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Long Live Vista! ¡Viva Vista!, by artist Kim Maria Cruz, 2019.
Public art thrives in Vista, California!
In addition to dozens of amazing sculptures, which I recently blogged about here, numerous colorful murals can be found throughout town!
Last weekend I walked randomly around downtown Vista and came upon an alley with an unusual name: Alley Art Man Way. It’s located between Main Street and East Broadway, South Citrus Avenue and Hanes Place.
As I wandered through and around the alley, I discovered many walls painted with fantastic artwork!
As you can see on the City of Vista Public Art Map, which you can check out here, there are many additional murals out there to be discovered. One day I’ll return to find more!
I’ve captioned my photographs using information obtained from the interactive map.
Alley Art Man Way in downtown Vista, California is home to many colorful murals!Vista Fire Department 1929, by artist Doug Davis, 2000.Water World, by artist Doug Davis, 2016.
Tribute to Margarita, by artist Daniel Toledo, 2018.Crazy, colorful graphic by front door of Backfence Society, where North County artists gather and create.Boogie Birds, by artist Chor Boogie, a.k.a. Joaquin Lamar Hailey.
Space Coyote, by artist Sarah Spinks et al.
Delpy’s, Vista Mercantile, Beattie and Travis, by artist Chuck Rose, 2001.Trees painted on either side of the entrance to Visions In Art.Lilac Cat on the Hunt, by artist Sarah Spinks and friends.
Vista Avocados, by artist Art Mortimer, 2011.
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Do you ever blink your eyes at an oh-so-serious adult and wonder what they were like as a small child? Before growing up and becoming terribly sophisticated, did they love to draw simple things like hearts, flowers and smiles?
I saw this amazing tile wall in Escondido last weekend as I walked from the California Center for the Arts toward Grape Day Park. A plaque states it’s the 1994 Escondido Students’ Tile Mural. Hundreds of names from local schools appear on this happy, quilt-like mosaic.
The tiles were painted 26 years ago.
I have no doubt that many who painted their tile with small hands long ago still love hearts, flowers and smiles.
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There’s so much art to discover around downtown Vista it makes one’s head spin! I don’t think I’ve observed a greater concentration of public art anywhere else in San Diego County.
In addition to many murals (I’ll share photos of those shortly), there are fun, super creative sculptures almost everywhere one turns: on sidewalks, on street corners, on walls, rising from pedestals into the sky!
There are crazy steampunk sculptures, abstract sculptures, healing sculptures along Veterans Memorial Park, joyful sculptures based on the theme Kites Over Vista.
There are so many public sculptures that I only photographed a fraction of them last weekend as I enjoyed a semi-random walk around downtown Vista.
If you follow Cool San Diego Sights, you probably noticed I already posted photographs of two of these sculptures. Wild Horses here, and Love Locks here. (I’ll soon be sharing photos of one additional very special sculpture.)
To discover much more of this amazing public art, visit the City of Vista Public Art Map by clicking here.
Big Blue Kite, by artist Robert Rochin, 2008.Into the Current, by artist Janis Selby Jones, 2017. (Represents the swirling Great Pacific Garbage Patch.)Joy Figure, by artist Josh Bowman, 2008.Healing, by artist Vicki Leon, 2016.
Freedom, by artists Jaydon Sterling Randall and Rick Randall, 2016.Remembrance, by artist Buddy Smith, 2016.
Plaques set in the Paseo Santa Fe sidewalk contain sculpted avocados.Prima Vista, by artist Michael Angelo Venturello, 2016.A View in Bloom, by artists Thomas and Sylvia King, 2006.Carnival, by artist Rick Randall, 2019.
Alley Cat, by artists Rick and Jaydon Sterling Randall.
Tortuga de Mar, by artist John Meyer, 2018.Peace Arrow, by artist Alex Gall, 2019.
A Flock of Kites, by artist Robert Rochin, 2008.
Alley Art Man.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is now displaying some very unique abstract artwork inside the America Plaza office building. One America Plaza, the tallest building in San Diego, stands across Kettner Boulevard from the museum’s downtown location.
This small exhibition of art is titled Commonplace Abstractions. The pieces, on view behind glass, were selected from MCASD’s collection. Each work of art incorporates one or more ordinary objects from everyday human life.
Step into the front entrance of America Plaza, head down the corridor to the left that leads to the nearby trolley station, and you’ll see how contemporary artists can use creativity and ingenuity to rearrange elements in our familiar world, and make it even more mysterious, thought-provoking, and strangely wonderful!
My photos provide a few examples of what you’ll see.
Painting with Coat Hanger, John Armleder, 1984.Office Depot, Mónica Arreola, 2003.Day by day is good day, Peter Dreher, 1990, 2007.
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Last year amazing local artists who together go by the name Ladies Who Paint created two more murals on a wall on F Street, just east of 14th Street. Their artwork is part of the Ladies Who Paint Mural Walk in East Village. Last weekend I finally got around to taking photos!
These two murals were created on a blank space of wall left of the blue “HI hello HOLA” mural that I photographed here.
Other cool Ladies Who Paint murals that I’ve photographed can be seen here, here and here!
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A large face greets those heading east on Turquoise Street in Pacific Beach.
Turquoise Street in Pacific Beach, from Mission Boulevard to Cass Street, is the home of a lot of fun street art.
Check out some photos!
Mural on parking lot wall by Treelogy Cafe Restaurant.These colorful flowers are at the center of the mural.Old-fashioned advertising artwork on wall of Cafe Bar Europa.The happy wood shack of Blossoms Design Florist.Mural in a narrow alley celebrates 90 years of Crystal Pier.Bottom of the alley mural, with an octopus tentacle wearing a beach sandal. #octopier by @artanystefMural on the side of P.B. Yoga and Healing Arts.Enjoying a hot beverage with a dog. Mural by artist Gloria Muriel on the side of The French Gourmet.A fun blue character painted on another nearby wall by Gloria Muriel.
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Check out these two cool murals in Pacific Beach! Both can be found on the east side of Mission Boulevard, just north of Emerald Street.
The first super colorful mural features tikis, a green-eyed octopus and a happy blue bird. This one really grabs your attention! While walking up Mission Boulevard, I noticed it a block away! The imaginative artwork was painted around the entrance of Cheba Hut, by artist @BayneGardner.
The second mural shows an underwater scene teeming with beautiful marine life. The ocean, below palm trees and breaking surf, is the home to fish, coral, a swimming turtle, dolphins, sharks and more! You can find this fantastic street art, created by D. Longenecker, on the north wall of Taco Surf Pacific Beach.
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The creative process is messy. Heaps of old ideas and the peculiar shapes of new ideas are scattered on the ground around a busy creator.
With saw and hammer the pieces are cut and pounded until segments fit together. It’s sort of like a construction site.
In an essay you write for school, in a new work of fiction, a speech, invention, sculpture or painting . . . there are steel beams and two-by-fours, boards of drywall, sharp nails.
I walked past the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s historic La Jolla location yesterday. The already beautiful building is in the process of being altered, enlarged.
Along the construction site fence are images of paintings in the museum’s collection. Beyond the fence, you can see the messy but semi-ordered heaps. It’s a moment in the creative process. Once all the elements of that mess are integrated with creative energy, the finished building will be spectacular.
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