UCSF PRECISION CANCER MEDICINE BUILDING, MISSION BAY, San Francisco
Artworks by t.w.five and Miguel Arzabe
Over the course of two years, Chandra Cerrito / Art Advisors developed a comprehensive art program for UCSF's new six-story Precision Cancer Medicine Building, a remarkable addition to the renowned UCSF Mission Bay campus.
Artworks (clockwise from top): t.w.five, Ivy Jacobsen, and Dharma Strasser MacColl
CC/AA helped select, commission, place and install over 900 artworks, including nearly 400 framed pieces, architecturally integrated works, and custom decals; over 460 painted canvases created especially for PCMB by patients and staff; and approximately 50 artworks relocated from UCSF's prominent collection. Additionally, CC/AA assisted in the selection, acquisition and placement of over 50 photo-based super graphics and art images printed on ceiling tiles. We are grateful to all the artists who contributed their beautiful and inspiring works to this special collection.
“In my 20 years as a fine art advisor, this project has been one I am most proud of.”
Art was selected for reception areas, wait areas, lobby spaces, patient rooms, procedure rooms, check-out rooms, staff work areas, and corridors. The collection includes a diverse range of media such as paintings, wall sculpture, photography, original works on paper, and limited edition prints. Four major projects commissioned by local artists were integrated into the building architecture. These included two large-scale murals for the ground floor lobby; commissioned artworks printed on infusion area glass partitions extending nearly half the building length on two floors; images of original paintings printed on wall covering in 29 exam rooms; and original artist designs translated into custom linoleum floors used for way-finding at elevator lobbies on five floors.
Artworks by Nicholas Coley, Linda Gass, t.w.five, and Jerry Carniglia
Artworks (clockwise from top): David Huffman, Henry Domke, Gina Borg, and Jud Bergeron
“After two years, six floors, several hundred framed artworks, patient/staff art projects, and large-scale art commissions, working on the UCSF PCMB project was a joy, an inspiration, and a highlight of my career. ”
In an exceptionally collaborative process, our consultants worked closely with a talented team of UCSF administrators and architects as well as an advisory committee comprised of medical staff, design team members, and cancer patients. As part of the selection process, CC/AA created a call for submissions that solicited work by UCSF patients and staff artists, whose fine art constitutes approximately 20% of the collection's framed artworks. In line with UCSF's patient-centric mission, exam rooms were given priority focus. Each exam room features a completely unique art experience with carefully curated patient/staff artworks, original super graphic artworks, and custom wall decals with selected inspirational phrases by patients from UCSF's outstanding Art for Recovery program.
Artworks (clockwise from top): Jenn Shifflet, Carmen Lomas Garza, UCSF patient, and t.w.five
Through our work at PCMB, we were deeply moved by the UCSF community's genuine compassion and devotion to providing the best possible patient experience, starting with the way their buildings are designed. It is our sincere hope that those being treated at PCMB, as well as their family members, doctors and nurses, will feel uplifted, supported and enriched by the art that surrounds them.