Between Two Worlds
05 Aug 2017 - 04 Mar 2018
Elliott Hundley, Agave, 2010
collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Elliott Hundle
collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Elliott Hundle
Don Dudley, Rainbow Series, 1964
collection SFMOMA, gift of Sharon Dudley
© Estate of Donald Dudley
photo: Katherine Du Tiel
collection SFMOMA, gift of Sharon Dudley
© Estate of Donald Dudley
photo: Katherine Du Tiel
Lari Pittman, Untitled #4, 2008
collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Lari Pittman
photo: Ben Blackwell
collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Lari Pittman
photo: Ben Blackwell
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
Art of California
5 August 2017 – 4 March 2018
This installation of the newly dedicated California galleries focuses on Bay Area and Los Angeles artists active from the 1960s to now. Some of the works on display explore the political possibilities of decoration, celebrating styles historically dismissed as “feminine” and unambitious. Others delight in the California landscape, their bold experiments with color, perception, and light inspired by the state’s visual pleasures — including its smog-enhanced sunsets. But all, regardless of topic or form, exist “between two worlds,” a phrase that Berkeley-born artist John McCracken used to describe art’s union of the physical world with the world of imagination. The art of California is one of SFMOMA’s great strengths, and this presentation spotlights new additions to our holdings, as well as rarely shown works from the collection.
Art of California
5 August 2017 – 4 March 2018
This installation of the newly dedicated California galleries focuses on Bay Area and Los Angeles artists active from the 1960s to now. Some of the works on display explore the political possibilities of decoration, celebrating styles historically dismissed as “feminine” and unambitious. Others delight in the California landscape, their bold experiments with color, perception, and light inspired by the state’s visual pleasures — including its smog-enhanced sunsets. But all, regardless of topic or form, exist “between two worlds,” a phrase that Berkeley-born artist John McCracken used to describe art’s union of the physical world with the world of imagination. The art of California is one of SFMOMA’s great strengths, and this presentation spotlights new additions to our holdings, as well as rarely shown works from the collection.