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On my very first morning in the City by the Bay, I crossed off one of my key MO when I visit a major city: go to my place of worship. While many still get spiritual bliss in medieval churches or ancient temples, I find the sublime in other human creativity and creations. And SFMoMA delivered in giving me my fix. Its wide collection and current exhibits inspired this visitor to see visions of Frisco that I wouldn't otherwise have seen.
Expansion dispatch of the week: here we see the existing SFMOMA opened up from the back, exposing the point from which our original galleries will seamlessly flow into our new Snohetta-designed space.
Fun fact: this view of the Botta turret is unique to our construction phase, and won’t be seen again once our expansion is complete.
Photo: September 2013, © Henrik Kam
Happy New Year!
On the last day of 2006, I went to the SFMOMA.
Before the crowds got heavy on this holiday weekend, I got to the museum to catch the Tina Modotti and Edward Weston exhibition. Almost missed it, as it's gone after tomorrow. I went solo, so as not to drive my wife insanse by looking at every inch of every print on the wall. Have to admit, I almost went insane today. :) It was amazing, and as I ventured to the rest of the gallery after scanning the Modotti and Weston prints, I saw two HUGE Candida Hofer prints 5'x5' easy.
Stood there for a few, and decided at that point, I was going to take pictures wherever I could in the museum till I fill my only 2 rolls of 400tx.
This is the first in the series. Starting at the top of the SFMOMA. Still feeling the sting from seeing one of my favorite Cindy Sherman's on that top floor, I stood in the center of the walkway, and almost attracted a crowd while I stood with both arms holding a medium format camera straight into the air as I were offering it to the structure above.
When I explained to security that I was aiming the camera 'up', and not at the art, they were cool, and wished me luck.
The camera was upside down, almost directly above my head.
Hasselblad 500c/m 80mm Zeiss T*
f/16 @ 1/125
Kodak 400TX Pro (new favorite film)
ISO400
Tmax Dev 1:4 - 8min - 7sec full rotation
CLYFFORD STILL
This gallery is permanently dedicated to the abstract painter Clyfford Still (1904-1980). SFMOMA presented Still’s first solo exhibit in 1943 and in 1975 the artist gave this museum twenty-eight paintings that spanned his entire career, from his early surrealist-inspired works of the 1930s and his pioneering abstract paintings of the 1940s and early 1950s to grand canvases from the 1970s. These pieces joined two others already given to the museum by Peggy Guggenheim and Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, making SFMOMA’s collection one of the world’s most important repositories of Still’s work. The selection of paintings by Still in this gallery will rotate periodically.
From 1946 to 1950 Still taught at the California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute), where he influenced an entire generation of West Coast painters. Although he then spent much of the 1950s in New York, he renounced any association with the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. Instead, he chose to develop his work independently, relying on the primacy of personal experience and the study and distillation of his own painting. Unlike most artists of his day, Still ground and prepared his own pigments, applying them to the canvas with both a palette knife and a brush. Although he famously insisted I paint only myself, not nature, the deep, earthy colors of his palette and the rugged texture of his canvases suggest primordial landscapes.
By 2016, SFMOMA will offer visitors sweeping views of the city skyline. Imagine standing on our new 7th-floor terrace, with views out towards the Pfleuger building, over SoMA, and down onto our Rooftop Sculpture Garden.
Photo: July 2013, © Henrik Kam
In 1995, the museum’s Mario Botta-designed building was a pioneer in the South of Market neighborhood. We’ve loved watching the area grow up around us, and we’re thrilled to add to the skyline with our seamless Snøhetta addition.
Photo: August 2014, © Henrik Kam
(detail) Short Circuit, 1955. Mixed media (1925-2008) Hidden Jasper Johns flag painting. Art Institute of Chicago. SFMOMA