Large metal sculptures adorn San Francisco's popular Crissy Field

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Large metal sculptures adorn San Francisco's popular Crissy Field

If you’ve recently walked through San Francisco’s Crissy Field and wondered what those huge iron sculptures were, you’ll now find out.

If you’ve recently walked through San Francisco’s Crissy Field and wondered what those huge iron sculptures were, you’ll now find out.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in partnership with the National Park Service (NPS) and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy just finished a major outdoor exhibition of sculptor Mark di Suvero's works near the Golden Gate Bridge. The exhibition will be out on Crissy Field until May 26th, 2014.

Mark di Suvero is an artist who emigrated from Shanghai to San Francisco at the age of seven. His passage beneath the Golden Gate Bridge—which opened a few years before his arrival—proved to be a lasting inspiration, as the scale and color of the structure have inspired di Suvero throughout his life. di Suvero notes, "It was like a rainbow, a bridge coming to the New World starting a new life. The woman who chose the color of the bridge, Malo Lowell, taught me how to work wood as a teenager and from there, all was freedom."

This exhibition is part of SFMOMA’s larger initiative of off-site programming that started this spring. It’s basically part of the next phase of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)’s expansion project.

The museum will go beyond its walls and directly into the community with extensive off-site programming while its building is temporarily closed for construction from the summer of 2013 to early 2016.

For more information, visit sfmoma.org.

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If you’ve recently walked through San Francisco’s Crissy Field and wondered what those huge iron sculptures were, you’ll now find out.

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