Public Art
Carrie Lederer has been commissioned for public art projects across the Bay Area and beyond, bringing her signature botanical abstractions to murals, tapestries, sculpture, and site-specific installations in civic, corporate, and institutional spaces.
Her work explores our relationship to the land and the natural world — rooted in a deep personal curiosity about nature and the ways we are connected to it. The imagery moves fluidly between order and disarray, the realistic and the abstract, layering detail into dense, tapestry-like compositions that transport viewers across abstracted land and sky and out to the cosmos. The garden becomes a metaphor for the universe.
Interested in a private commission? Carrie Lederer would love to hear from you.
BART 19th Street Station, Oakland, CA
BART 19th Street Station, Oakland, CA Illuminated Art Display Cases Program, 2026 For more images visit my Instagram post Artwork title: Nature's Mysterious Conglomerates (Garden in the Cosmos) Carrie Lederer is one of four artists featured in In Full Bloom, a...
FaceBook Artist in Residence, 2019
https://vimeo.com/947507924 Mural Facebook Artists in Residence program. The Land of Magic Awaits, 120” x 480”, mixed-media mural, 2019, Fremont campus. Lederer’s project, titled The Land of Magic Awaits, explores life forms in nature—both micro...
Corn Palace Park, City of Sunnyvale, 2026
Public Art Commission Land of Magic: Garden in the Cosmos, 72” x 24” x18”, unique tile on cement bench.
Emeryville, California: Garden Conference Room, Emeryville City Hall
Scheduled for installation in 2027, Deer in the Cosmos: Looking for Time will span two adjoining corner walls of the Garden Conference Room, creating a continuous visual landscape that opens the room outward into a vibrant garden scene. By bringing nature's imagery...
Menlo Church Teen Center; Menlo Park, CA, 2021
Elevate Art Menlo Park commissioned Carrie Lederer to create their first mural project for this new public art organization. Located at Menlo Church on the side of the Teen Center, the title of the mural is Under the Wide Sky We Gather.
Commission for new City Hall, Sunnyvale, CA, 2023
Lederer was awarded a public art commission for Sunnyvale’s beautiful new LEED certified City Hall. She created a tapestry that is titled The Sunnyside of my Abstracted Garden, and activated the 7’ x 9’ foot surface with washes of neon paint, tufts of yarn, embroidery...
Big Belly Art Wrap Project, City of Walnut Creek, 2025
Nature’s Mysterious Conglomerates (Song in Green)
Palo Alto Public Art Project
The City of Palo Alto’s Public Art Program commissioned a site-specific mural titled Lost in my Abstracted Garden now located at 155 California Ave., Palo Alto CalTrans Station. To learn more about the mural program and other participating artists check-out this...
UCSF Bakar Precision Cancer Medicine Building, San Francisco, CA.
Two Artworks Commissioned for UCSF Bakar Precision Cancer Medicine Building in San Francisco, California. A tapestry-like format shows dense, lush landscape sprouting growth in every direction—haphazard, tangled, and bursting with energy. Seemingly chaotic and lacking...
San Francisco Art Commission Project: 49 South Van Ness Building, 2023
My work was selected by the San Francisco Arts Commission for their 2D Artwork Purchase Program for the 49 South Van Ness Building, headquarters for SF’s Department of Public Works. My painting for this project is from a series called Deep in the Willowwacks, and this...
Imagery Estate Winery Commission
I was delighted to be commissioned by Imagery Estate Winery to create an artwork for their 2022 Tempranillo Rosé bottle label. Imagery Estate has collaborated with hundreds of artists including Hung Liu, William Wiley, Squeak Carnwath, Sol LeWitt, Lorene Anderson,...