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As early as 1970 she installed several
“Portable Parks” on elevated freeways
and downtown streets of San Francisco,
bringing sod, palm trees, picnic tables &
cows to bemused drivers & pedestrians.
She created these bucolic oases as public
Art, because she was not interested
in just
having objects confined in a museum.
“In the history of American freeways nothing
like it had ever happened. A
young San
Francisco artist, Bonnie Sherk, “planted” a
temporary oasis
with roll-up turf on the James
Lick Freeway – with the blessing of the State
Division of Highways, if not the Highway Patrol,
which ticketed cars
of the media attending the
on-location press conference.”
Society for Encouragement of Contemporary
Art, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, Bonnie Sherk, winner of Society’s
first SECA
Vernal Equinox Award.
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