A selection of my artworks based on downtown San Francisco views and experiences are on display (and for sale) at The Market, an exciting new Food Hall in the street level of the old Twitter building, a 1937 Art Deco masterpiece with Mayan Revival and International Style elements, designed by architect Leslie J. Hendy, historically known as the Western Furniture Exchange and Merchandise Mart, then San Francisco Mart, then Market Square and now the Mart SF, at 1355 Market Street in the Mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco. The location is open for the citywide Artspan Open Studios the weekend of Friday, October 23rd (6 – 9pm with guitarist); Saturday, October 24th, 11am – 5pm; and Sunday, October 25th, 11am – 5pm with a quartet playing in the afternoon from 12 to 3pm.
The exhibition will be ongoing until further notice. The regular open hours of The Market Food Hall are Monday to Thursday 11am – 7pm, Fridays 11am – 9pm.There is street parking on Tenth Street and paid parking under the building at 840 Jessie Street (flat $8 for first hour).
These are the works (below) currently on display:
Cable Car below the Pyramid
Acrylic on canvas, 34″ x 51″, 2026
This depiction of the Transamerica Pyramid with a cable car in the foreground
was painted live in The Market as part of the 2026 Market Street Arts & Theater
Festival. It was painted using a painting knife and acrylic paint on canvas.
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Lights on Mid-Market
Pigment ink print on paper, 24″ x 16″, 2009
I created this painting to depict the vision of a vibrant, exciting, bustling evening in the Mid-Market theater district of San Francisco. The bill-board depicted shows my painting of the fabulous New Orlean’s trombonist Trombone Shorty. It was created using a Mac, Wacom tablet and Corel Painter software.
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Metal print, 16″ x 30″, 2017
This painting was created, using an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and Procreate app,
from direct observation of the headquarters of Twitter in San Francisco. It is part of a series of plein air iPad paintings titled “Iconic Places of Silicon Valley”. The image is augmented with a video sharing the process of creating it. To see the AR video embedded in image, download the free AR app Artivive and view through the app with your sound turned up – there’s a musical accompaniment!
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Erv
Acrylic on pigment ink print on canvas, 24″ x 36″, 2014
This is a portrait of saxophonist Jeff “Erv” Ervin playing with swing band
Stompy Jones at Union Square, San Francisco. It was created using a Mac,
Wacom tablet and Corel Painter software.
jeremysutton.com/erv