Just Like a Woman

Just Like a Woman
Originally uploaded by Thomas Hawk

Great News!

Ecstasy's visit to Patricia's Green in San Francisco has been extended until December 31, 2010!

Thank you to the community members and local businesses of Hayes Valley, and to the Hayes Valley Arts Coalition for rallying support and advocating for an extension of Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito's sculpture Ecstasy. By popular demand, Ecstasy will remain installed until December 31, 2010, instead of deinstalling this month, as previously planned.

Some little media sightings to tell you about:
the lovers, dreamers, & me
SF Weekly
The Outer Sunset

And a special thanks to Thomas Hawk, local renowned photographer for the fabulous shot of Ecstasy!

Another beautiful shot of Ecstasy!

Scout: Ecstasy in mid-day. #autostiched sculptue by Dan Das Mann & Karen Cusolito’s. Hayes Valley. # sfist
Originally uploaded by jason whalen

Ecstasy Rocks the Virtual World!

STATUE ECSTASY
Originally uploaded by breakbeatbilly

Ecstasy is everywhere, blogs in Montreal, a photo shoot, a photo blog, local blogs, a tourist blog and even YELP! Check her out!

I Live Here: SF
Yelp
The Outer Sunset
Matt & Nat
Caliber
Next Stop

Sculpture Jump!

Sculpture Jump!
Originally uploaded by yokokikuchi

This is one of the most charming photos I have ever seen! Thanks so much girls for jumping with Ecstasy, and thank you yokokikuchi for the great photo!

Ecstasy Parties!!

Ecstasy loved the party and all of us loved her
Artists Dan Das Mann & Karen Cusolito
BRAF Executive Director Tomas McCabe photos: George Post

IGBA MMOH African Drummers photo: affinity
And even the dogs came out to enjoy the party photo: George Post

LadyBee, Chris Bently and Helvetica Hahne enjoying the festivities photo: George Post
Gaucho Gypsy Jazz The Lester's came out to enjoy the sunshine, the community and the art photo: affinity

Crimson Rose posing with Ecstasy photo: George Post

We have been telling you for a few weeks about Ecstasy by Dan Dass Man and Karen Cusolito coming to Patricia's Green in Hayes Valley, San Francisco. What a day it was with music and introductions of the artists and the neighborhood out enjoying Ecstasy and the beautiful afternoon. Thanks to all of you for coming out and celebrating with us.

Photos: George Post, craftphoto.com

Hayes Valley Welcomes Ecstasy!

In February, during the installation of Ecstasy, we stopped by to say Hi, sans camera, to Karen Cusolito and her crew who were doing the installation. Feeling foolish, on my job and my joy with no way to take photos who do I run into but a woman on a bike with a gorgeous camera, who of course goes to Burning Man and knows Dan and Karen's work. So I introduced myself and Kristin said she would be happy to get a few shots of the installation, and try to include one of Karen and her crew. So here are the photos, just in time for a final reminder of the "Opening Reception" this Friday:

March 19, 2010
Patricia’s Green
at Octavia and Hayes Streets
San Francisco, CA
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

We will have music, IGBA MMOH African Drummers and Gaucho Gypsy Jazz, and celebrate together!

The neighborhood continues to welcome Ecstasy. Besides all the great photos on flickr, they're blogging about Ecstasy out there! How fun is that? Clearly the neighborhood loves her, and it looks to me like she is loving them back. So if you want to read how San Francisco and especially Hayes Valley is falling in love with Ecstasy, read these!

Happy Rusty Friday

Today’s Walk 6 March 2010

photos: Kristin’s flickr set
Kristin Tieche Selvavision
http://selvavision.com/
Content for Sustainable Living
Vélo Vogue
http://velovogue.blogspot.com/
Where the bike lane meets the runway

This Used to be a Freeway!

Hayes Valley
Originally uploaded by tofuart

Prior posts about Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito

Ecstasy at Night

Female Staue in Patricias Green park 016
Originally uploaded by PreZen

Another fabulous photo from a local photographer. Thanks PreZen!


Prior posts about Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito

Rings

Rings
Originally uploaded by Rubin 110

And even more and different photos from the local community. Don't forget to join us on March 19th.

My feet, her toes

My feet, her toes
Originally uploaded by aziari

I know I said I was not going to post any more flickr photos of Ecstasy, but I just could not resist the magnitude and yet intimacy of this photo.

Thanks aziari.

Oh my aching back

Oh my aching back
Originally uploaded by mattymatt

Ok, just one more since it is an installation photo, and we love installation photos, but then no more Ecstasy photos until the Opening Reception on March 19th.

Art in Patricia's Green

Art in Patricia's Green
Originally uploaded by aziari

We continue to see photos on flickr of "Ecstasy". Obviously the neighborhood is loving it. Don't forget to come out for the opening on March 19th
Octavia and Hayes
4 - 7 pm

New Date for "Ecstasy" Opening Reception

March 19, 2010
Patricia’s Green
at Octavia and Hayes Streets
San Francisco, CA
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused, we have changed the date due to possible rain.

photo: Michael Strickland

Ecstasy at Patricia's Green

Octavia Green - 018 - 2010-02-19 - 13-46-20
Originally uploaded by camarografo

I love that we are getting such great shots of Ecstasy from flicker. That means that the public is out there enjoying this work.

Ecstasy

Ecstasy
Originally uploaded by Jamison Wieser

Valentine's Day Ecstasy on Patricia's Green

Read what my favorite blogger, Civic Center, fabulous photographer and Hayes Valley Neighborhood pundit had to say about Ecstasy on Valentine's Day. I especially loved that he mentioned that David Best's Temple on Patricia's Green was his first blog post, so check out Valentine's Day Ecstasy on Patricia's Green, there are other great photos like this one and a local take on the neighborhood.

Thanks Mike....

And don't forget to join us in celebration of Ecstasy at the opening reception:

February 26, 2010
Patricia’s Green
at Octavia and Hayes Streets
San Francisco, CA
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Prior posts about Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito

photos: Michael Strickland

Installing "Ecstasy"

Crimson said "The head of the sculpture is wrapped in a bag to keep the chains from tangling. When the bag was removed the people watching the install cheered."

photos: Crimson Rose

photos: Michael Mac Millan

We stopped by to see the artists installing Ecstasy at Patricia's Green. Crimson Rose, Board Member of the Black Rock Arts Foundation and Michael Mac Millan, one of the Hayes Valley neighbors were there taking photos that we wanted to share with you. We are pretty excited to see this amazing sculpture come to San Francisco.

Join us in celebration of Ecstasy at the opening reception:

February 26, 2010
Patricia’s Green
at Octavia and Hayes Streets
San Francisco, CA
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Dave Schumaker’s Post
serkadis'post


Prior posts about Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito

"Ecstasy" by Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito

The Black Rock Arts Foundation is proud to support the installation of Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito's sculpture Ecstasy at Patricia’s Green in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. This hopeful, figurative work will be on display, free to the public, from February 7, 2010 till June 18, 2010.

First displayed at the Burning Man festival in Nevada in 2008, Ecstasy is one of the eight monumental metal figures of the artists’ masterpiece, Crude Awakening. In Crude Awakening, these eight figures surrounded a 99-foot tall wooden oil derrick in gestures of prostration, worship and exaltation. Alone, Ecstasy embarks on a hopeful journey. Instead of throwing her head back in reverie to the oil derrick, she gazes wistfully into the open sky as she steps forward into an optimistic future, free of dependency on fossil fuel.

Through our Civic Arts Program, BRAF is pleased to further the evolution of this artwork’s message by exposing it to a new audience and community, and to return to the site of Patricia’s Green. In 2005, this location became the site of BRAF’s first public art project.

Working closely with the residents and business owners of the Hayes Valley neighborhood, BRAF established a model of community collaboration towards the curation and installation of public art. These community members continued to work on bringing art into their neighborhood, forming the Hayes Valley Art Coalition. The installation of Ecstasy at Patricia’s Green further affirms the success of this collaboration, and of the model of public, temporary art installation.

Join us in celebration of Ecstasy at the opening reception:

February 26, 2010
Patricia’s Green
at Octavia and Hayes Streets
San Francisco, CA
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Prior posts about Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito

photo: Gary Wilson

"Das Mann of Steel" in the News

I am sure you remember Passage, by Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito, which inhabited Pier 14 as the first piece of temporary art in that space, as part of BRAF's Civic Arts Program.

Dan, one of the sculptors is featured in the East Bay Express, check it out, Das Mann of Steel.

Congratulations Dan, it is always great to see art featured in the news!

Be sure and read Dan's response to the article, in the comments section of the article, in which he credits his co-sculptor Karen Cusolito.

photo: Scott Beale\Laughing Squid Laughing Squid

Hasta Luego "Passage"

"Passage", mother and child sculptures by artists Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito, have been gracing Pier 14 on the Embarcadero in San Francisco for 18 months. Passage created a lot of controversy. San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom once said “Short-term public art projects can invigorate our public spaces with artworks that may be bolder, provocative and more topical than the permanent projects and…will allow the public to see their city and their surroundings in a new way”.



So now it is time for the next temporary sculpture to inhabit this space.

affinity

photo by: Bill Silent Chan (the photo was taken by a tourist from Hong Kong who was kind enough to take a photo and send it to me. Thank you Mr. Chan)