The Resume

(January 24, 1926-August 5, 2013)
Born in Norwalk, California
Known for her wire sculptures and for her fountains
Fountains in San Francisco include Andrea the Mermaid in Ghiradelli Square (1966), the Hyatt at Union Square (1973), the Buchanan Mall Fountains (1976) and Aurora on the Waterfront (1986)
Also created the Japanese-American Internment Memorial Sculpture in San Jose (1994)

Why she might be annoying:

Most of her sculptures have no title.
While sculpting, she would wrap her hands in bandages to avoid cuts from the wire -- often to no avail.
For much of her career, she was little known outside of the San Francisco Bay area.
The San Francisco Chronicle said her work was dated, claiming that the undulating shapes of many of her hanging wire sculptures suggested 'a kind of lava lamp peristalsis.'

Why she might not be annoying:

As a teen during WWII, she was detained in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans.
Because of lingering anti-Japanese prejudice, she could not get a job as an art teacher.
She was married to architect Albert Lanier for 59 years until his death.
She helped found the San Francisco School of the Arts (1982), which was later named in her honor (2011).
She said, 'When I work on big projects, such as a fountain, I like to include people who haven't yet developed their creative side.'
For example, for the Hyatt Fountain, she had hundreds of children create neighborhood vignettes with dough that she then cast in bronze.
A museum curator said she 'really redefined what a sculpture could be or should be.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Breeders [Have 5 or More Kids] (Ranked: 6)
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 49]
• Google Modified Its Logo For My Birthday (Google Doodles)
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [A-C]
• I Died in 2013 (Ranked: 87)
• I Have Lupus
• I Married Outside My Race
• I Was Imprisoned at a Japanese Internment Camp in the US
• Profiles 34501-34750 (Ranked: 34716)
• Sculptors
• We Celebrated Our Golden Anniversary
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 20130805)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 18 Votes: 72.22% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 9 Votes: 22.22% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 90 Votes: 64.44% Annoying