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: Camera Obscura
Artist Abelardo Morell reimagines scenery by turning entire rooms into camera obscuras – effectively merging interior and exterior spaces – and then photographing the results. He discusses how he developed […]
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: 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 […]
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: 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 […]
SFMOMA: Future Flying Cities
Argentinian artist and architect Tomas Saraceno discusses his installation at SFMOMA, Stillness in Motion—Cloud Cities (2016). He describes how the piece illustrates his vision of “future flying cities” built in […]
SFMOMA: Alica McCarthy
Artist Alicia McCarthy explains why she decided to reserve space in her 2017 SECA Art Award presentation at SFMOMA for work by the late Aaron Curry, known on the street […]
SFMOMA: Boiler Room Symphony
Artist Bill Fontana takes us to the source of his SFMOMA-commissioned sound installation Sonic Shadows (2010): the museum’s boiler room.
