Town Art

East side of B Street, south of 8th, this mural is no longer there as the child care center was replaced with apartments

Also see Urban Art and Art Galleries. Art on the UC Davis campus can be found at Campus Art,

The town of Davis is home to all sorts of city-sanctioned art such as murals and sculptures. But there's also a lot of impromptu sort of art lying around there. Some of it, on the whole, is pretty awful. But some pieces are hidden treasures. Here we collect a little of both.

2012 saw a dramatic surge in new town art to create the Transmedia Art Walk.

• A Street Bridge Mural
  

• Albino Bigfoot outside ACE Hardware
  

• Alluvium in Walnut Park
  

• Ancient Shadows by Oakshade Town Center
  

• Arroyo Park UFO
  

• The Bicycle Statue on Russell Blvd.
  

• Blue Blaze is a bench shaped like a dog in front of the vacant 407 G Street building.
  

• Blue Turns
  

• Butterfly Pillar
  

• Butterfly and Hummingbird mosaic vase in Central Park Gardens
  

• Arroyo Avenue Ceramic Bench
  

• Caterpillar Sculpture
  

• Circus
  

• Clepsydra in the E Street Plaza
  

• Cloaked Skateboarder outside ACE Hardware
  

• Cnawan Stone sculpture of dancing people in Central Park Gardens
  

• Columbus Cafe mural by Carousel Stationery
  

• Collaboration sculpture at the southwest corner of the intersection of 4th Street and G Street.
  

• Color Study for Cyclists in the bike tunnel of Richards Underpass
  

• Covell Greenbelt Dog Sculptures
  

• Cow Fountain at The Marketplace
  

• "Davis '88" tile mural at the DMV
  

• Dehlia
  

• New Again, aka the "Davis Family Mural"
  

• The Dancing Pigs at The Marketplace
  

• The Dominoes
  

• Driven to Davis
  

• Flutter and Hum
  

• Great Angel
  

• Guardians of the Grape is the mural on the front of Valley Wine Company
  

• Hidden Treasures, mural on the side of KetMoRee
  

• It Can Happen Now…TO YOU, mural on a wall of the E Street Alley
  

• The Joggers aka "The Eyesore" in Downtown
  

• Jack of Diamonds and Queen of Hearts
  

• The Keeper
  

• Ken's Bike & Ski's south wall is painted with a mural
  

• The L and 2nd Garden
  

• The Lamplighter Players
  

• LandMarks
  

• The Locomotive Hedge
  

• The Mace Ranch Community Tile Project
  

• Mediation sculpture of hands in Central Park Gardens
  

• Medusa's Mirror Image is a sculpture behind Pence Gallery
  

• Museum View
  

• The N Street Park mural - a dinosaur cloud parade
  

• The Main Post Office Historic Places Mural
  

• Plant Plaza between Thai Nakorn and the USDA building on G Street
  

• Polly
  

• Portrait of a Plump Tomato at the Davis Food Co-Op Shopping Center
  

• The Quantum Sea
  

• Send My Roots Rain, a series of metal gateways in the Northstar Nature Trail
  

• The Signs and Wonders of an Interdimensional Warrior
  

• Splash
  

• Stan, the Submerging Man in front of John Natsoulas Art Gallery
  

• Standing Wave
  

• Stealth Angel
  

• Stevenson Bridge located west of Davis
  

• Straw Bale Bench at the train depot
  

• Taking the Scenic Route
  

• The Ugliest Statue outside of Save Mart
  

• The Loneliness of Integrity between the Library and the Veterans Memorial Building
  

• Solar Intersections on the south side of 2nd Street, where it ends at the Train Station (used to be a mini traffic circle)
  

• Tidal Play sculpture of dolphins and an otter in Slide Hill Park
  

• Tribute to Pieter Brugel, the Elder mural on the northern exterior wall of Original Steve's
  

• Village Farm is the mural behind Village Pizza's outdoor fountain.
  

• Wheel Dome
  

• Windows
  

• Wolf Pipe
  

• Woman On Balance Beam on the North East corner of 5th Street and Pole Line Road at Fifth Avenue Place
  

• The X Mural

Art at the Train Station

Look for temporary public art installations and events April 9 - June 30, 2007 at the Train Station Plaza and the former police Substation nearby.

• Davis Arch mural
  

• What happened to the naked man in a box statue that was in the shopping center downtown(Ben & Jerrys, Borders, etc)?
  

I thought for sure this was removed and reconfigured as Woman On Balance Beam but I'd love to know for certain. Seems it must at least be by the same artist — EdHenn

For more information about the City's Art in Public Places Program, you can visit http://www.cityofdavis.org/pb/cultural/