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While excited about the Chase Center opportunity, — “it’s just surreal, it seems too good to be true,” Barakat said — she also thinks the Warriors’ decision to highlight the region’s top
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Among Sports & The Arts’ artists, according to Speca-Ventura, are digital painter and “huge basketball fan” Yann Dalon, who lives in France and has completed works for the NBA, MLS and the NFL; Texas painter Bart Forbes, whose has designed more than 20 U.S. postage stamps and can “capture the nostalgia of the bygone era”; and San Francisco-trained painter Nina Fabunmi, who contributed a “fan celebration” piece.
“I’m very excited that people who I respect will be able to encounter it, and that piece will be part of the aura that’s going on there,” he said.
To reflect the “incredible diversity” of San Francisco and its preferences for “authentic, seasonal” cuisine, Bauccio said, the company created the Taste Makers program, inviting small businesses from Chase Center’s neighborhood and around the city to apply for a spot.
Among those chosen: Yvonne Hines, whose Yvonne’s Southern Sweets bakes cookies, cakes and pies in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood; Earl Shaddix, also of Bayview, who produces Earl’s Brittle peanut brittle; JP Reyes and Kristen Brillantes of Sarap Shop, a Mission District food truck serving Filipino American comfort food; and Cassandra Chen, creator of CC Made artisanal caramel popcorn and a member of the Chase Entrepreneurs of Color Program and the San Francisco community development nonprofit Working Solutions.
Another Taste Makers participant, Old Skool Café, is a nonprofit supper club in the Bayview, where at-risk youth create, cook and serve “international soul food” as well as provide live entertainment. At the Chase Center, Old Skool will have a stand offering a meatball po-boy, a West African peanut butter chicken stew, baked mac and cheese squares that can be eaten by hand and sweet potato pie, according to founder and CEO Teresa Goines, who said the exposure as well as additional income should be significant.
“One of the greatest things about coming to Mission Bay and visiting Chase Center and Thrive City is whether you attend an event or not, there will be stunning art,” said Warriors President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Welts.
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Monday 7th October
by John Smith
While the Golden State Warriors’ new arena in San Francisco may be a work of art in itself, Chase Center and its adjacent Thrive City plaza will also serve as an unprecedented, 11-acre showcase of works by world-renowned artists such as sculptor Olafur Eliasson, numerous Bay Area luminaries and many of their emerging colleagues.
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In addition to lending Calder’s 27-foot-wide painted metal mobile “Untitled,” which will hang in Chase Center’s West Entrance Lobby, and Noguchi’s red steel “Play Sculpture,” which will overlook the bay from a platform in Thrive City, the museum commissioned two pieces by notable Bay Area artists: painter and installation artist David Huffman and the map-inspired collaborators known as Hughen/Starkweather.
“We have an opportunity here to do something kind of special,” Welts said. “We wanted a combination of internationally renowned artists and a very heavy presence of Bay Area artists.”
Describing the outdoor Eliasson sculpture (still under wraps at the time of his interview) as “huge in scale” and “interactive,” Welts said, “it has the opportunity to be one of those things on a list of must-sees when your friends and family come to San Francisco.”
The Eliasson sculpture will be located outside the East Entrance of Chase Center.
The abundant art — which also includes loans from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) of an Alexander Calder mobile and an Isamu Noguchi sculpture — comes as the result of both a public directive and personal initiative, according to Welts.
Warriors owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber are “very art-focused in their personal lives,” he noted, so their organization “completely embraced” the city’s requirement of developers to spend 1 percent of their budget on public art.
“The Warriors were definitely about making this as diverse and interesting as we possibly could. There were no limitations,” she noted. “They said, ‘Bring us the best of the best, and as many as you can that differentiate the collection."
“We make sure we have a wide range of players and eras represented, and that the artists create things that surprise us,” Speca-Ventura said.
She counts among those surprises a public transit-themed painting by Oakland artist Milton Bowens, who grew up going to Warriors games at the Coliseum.
“A lot of people don’t know that the Warriors are originally from Philly, that their first landing was in San Francisco, when they played at the Cow Palace, that they even played in San Diego for selected games, and when Oracle Arena was renovated, they had to play a year in San Jose,” Bowens noted.
His painting includes a BART train and a cable car — a nod to Oakland and San Francisco and how the Warriors “have been able to bridge both communities, no pun intended, and build two fan bases,” Bowens said.
Another piece from the SATA collection that is sure to catch people’s attention is a large mural located on the northeast esplanade by San Francisco Mission District-based Precita Eyes Muralist Association.
The nonprofit plays an integral role in the city’s cultural heritage and arts education including offering weekly art classes for children and youth in the area.
Patrons with access to two private clubs inside Chase Center will be able to experience even more works by regional artists — including some with special challenges, noted Mark Roe, Senior Curator, JPMorgan Chase Art Collection.
On view in their corporate spaces across the U.S. and internationally, the firm’s collection “always strives to acquire and install art by local artists in our office,” he explained.
“When we started talking with Chase about their space, it seemed like there was an extraordinary opportunity to think about new works that would work especially well in the arena,” Bishop said.
SFMOMA was happy to contribute to that lineup, according to chief curator Janet Bishop.
“I’m pretty stoked about it,” said Huffman, a Berkeley native, long-time Oakland resident and Warriors fan.
His earlier painting “Double Jump,” one of a series of abstractions based on basketball hoop netting, served as the basis for a new, 14-by-14-foot mixed-media work on canvas called “Rise,” which will hang in a “beautiful spot” inside the East Entrance of Chase Center, Huffman noted.
Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather’s layered, mixed-media piece “Between Land and Water,” which will hang on a long wall facing the bay inside the East Entrance, reflects “their interest in shifting shorelines and water resilience,” according to Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, curator of architecture and design at SFMOMA. “It represents the past, the present and the future of water within the Bay Area … And as the Warriors shift from one side of the bay to the other, the water is an obvious connector.”
The Warriors also tapped California-based Sports & the Arts, which previously helped source art for Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, to provide original pieces tied to the team’s history or the region. At last count, 33 local, national or international artists working with Sports & The Arts have contributed 83 works, plus 150 pieces of photography and nine large-scale graphics, according to Tracie Speca-Ventura, SATA’s founder and president. In addition, a collaboration with Bill Graham’s sons saw the addition of nearly 100 authentic Fillmore posters bringing the overall piece count to nearly 350 individual artworks in the collection.
“Art is a catalyst for connection — with clients, communities and employees,” noted Charlotte Eyerman, Director and Chief Curator of JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. “Because our collection focuses on contemporary artists who are emerging or developing in the places we operate, the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection expresses the global reach and local flavor of both our business and communities. That was David Rockefeller’s vision 60 years ago when he founded the Art Collection and that vision still holds true today. We’re a global company that engages locally, recognizing artists as pillars of vibrant communities.”
The Chase Club inside the arena will feature pieces by Huffman, fellow Oakland artist and “big Warriors fan” Sadie Barnett and Chris Johanson, formerly of San Francisco, while the JP Morgan Chase Club will include works by artists associated with Oakland’s nonprofit Creative Growth Art Center. The latter provides “artists with developmental, mental, and physical disabilities a professional studio environment for artistic development, gallery exhibition and representation,” according to the organization’s mission statement.
As for the artwork, it won’t all stay in the same place during the year, according to Speca-Ventura.
“Peter Guber got involved by suggesting we rotate some of the pieces to keep the fan experience fresh and new” she said.
George Wilson (American, born 1946)
Untitled, 2016
Acrylic and watercolor on paper
Acquired in 2019
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
Courtesy of Creative Growth, Oakland
George Wilson (American, born 1946)
Untitled, 2016
Acrylic on paper
Acquired in 2019
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
Courtesy of Creative Growth, Oakland
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is lending a Isamu Noguchi sculpture to Chase Center.
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