SFMOMA: Don’t Believe the Doubters
Artist Etel Adnan has dedicated her life to creating poetry and visual art. Here she explains how she began working in those mediums and what she sees as the unique […]
Artist Cribs: Hung Liu
Chinese-American painter Hung Liu takes us inside her Oakland studio where we get a glimpse at colorful works in progress. She shows us her table of catalogs used to reflect […]
SFMOMA: Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins on her life in art, her source materials – from the kitchen counter to the cosmos – and her enduring obsession with “redescribing” the world around her.
SFMOMA: Mesmerizing Aerial Photos
Artist Jananne Al-Ani discusses how war reportage has contributed to Western representations of the Middle East as a largely uninhabited desert region. Her work Shadow Sites II (2011) presents aerial […]
SFMOMA: Absurd Thoughts
In her Brooklyn studio, Dana Schutz imagines the moment when a painting becomes “more than just material, and more than just a picture.” She describes how her paintings begin as […]
SFMOMA: Discovering Invisible Music
As he creates his unique sound sculptures, artist Bill Fontana finds inspiration in his physical setting and the philosophies of musical composition and found art.
SFMOMA: Expired Photo Paper
Artist Alison Rossiter develops expired photographic paper to reveal subtle exposures made through the passage of time. She discusses her processes, and why she finds purpose in using old materials […]
SFMOMA: Socialist Realism
Artist Hung Liu discusses how working in the fields during China’s Cultural Revolution has influenced her art practice. Listen to her explain how she uses washes, drips, and grainy photographs […]
SFMOMA: Photography on Fire
Marco Breuer discusses his practice not as a photographer but as an artist who works with photography. He describes his experimental approach, which includes conceptual frameworks and the use of […]
SFMOMA: Eternal Last Breath
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer discusses Last Breath (2012), a mechanical sculpture that captures the breath of a given person in an imperfect attempt to retain their presence even after they have passed […]