San Francisco 49ers Levi's Stadium Painting of Football Players
We walked into a small conference room at the San Francisco 49er's
Levi's Stadium. We were there for a tour
of the art collection in which the 49er's had purchased five paintings from me
for their collection and all three of the monitors in the room had
one of my images on the screen. The
original is 6 feet by 8 feet acrylic on canvas. We did not have access to where the original had been hung as that part of the stadium had not been totally finished.
“You can do high-end art, and it can depict sports and the
environment and still be fine art,” said Tracie Speca-Ventura, founder of
Sports & the Arts, which has handled art at venues such as Yankee Stadium
and Marlins Park York family) became invested and so did
management. It became very intimate with this building.”... “It goes back to, art’s not for the elitist,”
she said. “Art can really be for the people. We are all impacted by it... It captures a moment and an era.”
