Disability Cultural Center

The walls at the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center are BIG and filled with beautiful, vibrant, thought-provoking art from our community. We are thrilled to partner with Hyde Street Artists from Hyde Street Community Services and ArtReach from The Arc San Francisco to fill the space! Thank you in particular to Julia Fell and Dr. Azulay from Hyde Street; Fran Osborne and Marley Townsend at SFSU Museum Studies; and Callie Cargo at ArtReach. If you’re interested in purchasing any of the art, please email us at access@disabilityculturalcenter.org.

ArtReach | The Arc San Francisco

Self-Portrait at Animal Ranch

Michael Broadhurst

A four-foot-wide by six-foot-tall self-portrait, paint on wood. Against a bright green background in the center is a person with brown skin, short black hair, and circular glasses. Their expression is neutral, and their eyes gaze directly forward at the viewer. They wear a bright blue shirt and are surrounded by a variety of animals that sprout from behind the artist, all facing sideways so their eyes look out beyond the painting. The animals include a gray elephant, a blue parrot, a brown deer, a green snake, a yellow cheetah with black spots, a purple whale, a bald eagle, a giraffe and even a green dragon breathing fire. The animals bodies are blocked, revealing just their heads and elongated necks, realistic for the giraffe alone, and all the animals are relatively similar in size in proportion with the artist at the center. Below the animals at the bottom of the piece is a dark green background, separated with a painted black line, with ants, flowers, tufts of grass, and puddles.

Self-Portrait with Animals and Mythological Creatures

Yukari Sakura

A four foot wide by six feet tall self-portrait, paint on wood, that blends realism and magical elements as animals surround the artist to fill the frame. The top half of the art piece: Against a backdrop of sky and yellow mountains is a portrait of a person with long black hair tied in a ponytail with two hair clips on either side of their head. They have tan skin with glasses and wear a black shirt with a blue jacket. Their expression is neutral, and their eyes gaze directly forward at the viewer. Behind them, in a regal pose just slightly smaller than the artist, is the bust of a wolf-dog with gray fur facing the viewer as well. A hummingbird and bee fly above its head and a blue and pink butterfly rests on a leaf nearby. A swan sits atop the person’s head with a bunny on the back of the swan, and on the other side is a Marabou stork with a long neck and open beak. In the bottom half of the art piece, the scene transitions to a grassland in the middle with a frog and a grazing unicorn. Underneath the grass is a beach area with a large snail, a gopher peeking its head from the sand, and a multi-colored cat. And just below this, at the very bottom of the piece is an area of water with a splashing turtle and pufferfish.

The Woman, The Cat, The Tree

Stella Tse

A self-portrait, 36 inches wide by 34 inches tall, is painted on canvas. A woman’s head, shoulders and upper torso fill most of the painting. She has a young face, thin curved eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, a small, flat rectangular-shaped nose, light brown skin, small, round bright-blue earrings, and small red lips. She’s in front of a vibrant cobalt blue background and the leaves of a tree, each nearly the size of her face, hang down behind her head. A gray cat arches its back upon her right shoulder. She wears a plain black crew-neck sweater with one small detail, a shape that looks a bit like a cross, and a bit like the outline of a bird, popping out and painted in the same vibrant blue as the background.

Untitled 

Yukari Sakura

This painting is 30 inches wide by 24 inches tall and is acrylics on canvas. The background is an underwater scene, an ocean teeming with bubbles on the ocean floor, a sandy area in the bottom fifth of the painting. At the center, a giant pale green creature that is half horse with a body that turns into a scaly tail with fins and a flipper. The fins and hooves are all multicolored in vibrant pinks, purples, reds, and oranges. Their face is friendly and their eyes gentle. The creature is surrounded by bubbles containing donuts with different toppings on chocolate and strawberry glazes. Wavy seaweed sprouts from the sand, which is covered with cracked gray and black rocks, shells, snails, and even a few more sprinkled donuts.

Untitled

Yukari Sakura

This painting is 17 inches tall by 21 inches wide. A vibrant array of pinks, reds, greens, yellows, blacks and whites. A sky dotted with puffy clouds and a bright yellow round sun, outlined in black, shines onto a curvy mountain which turns into a field of grass and stones. In the middle of the piece is a large winged bird with many intricate feathers in a variety of colors. The bird looks behind it, its long beak open. 

Untitled

Wecley Borges

This painting is 18 inches wide by 14 tall. A blue background with the texture of rough stucco. In the center is a red arch, like a cave doorway, then a thin pink arch above, and an orange arch over that. The arches are all painted in bright flourescent colors with irregular edges.

 

Hyde Street Artists | Hyde Street Community Services

Clockwise from top left painting.

Organic Flow

Anonymous

One foot tall and 15 inches wide. This abstract piece has strokes and dots of light pink, mustard yellow, light blue, black and white. In the center, the strokes of color grow denser and pop against background larger forms of black. 

Fallen Angel Fighting Her Innocence

Chau Truong

9 inches tall by 11 inches wide. Against a blue background with white dots is a little girl sitting with her knees pulled up to her chest, bare feet on the ground, and arms at her sides against a stone. The girl has shoulder-length blue hair, one blue and one red eye, and wears a white and gold dress. On either side of her head are red horns. Behind her is a piece of wood, and around her are lily pads.