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Graphic designer Sophine in the field (pun!) testing her Field Conditions wall text designs/spontaneously color-blocking.

Our new architecture + design exhibition, Field Conditions, opens in about 2 weeks! Love the exhibition description’s intro: Can there be architecture without buildings? What if a wall or a floor went on forever? What happens when people move through a room?

In a rare treat, we have Tyler Green’s recent interview with renowned photographer Robert Adams featured on our blog today. Check out the post and listen to their exchange about trees here.

Excerpt: 

Adams, 75, is one of America’s greatest living photographers. In the 1960s and 1970s he brought a new sensibility to photographing the most classic subject of American art, the land. By emphasizing man’s impact on Colorado and its suburbs in series such as “The New West” and “What We Bought,” Adams helped pioneer art that addressed our impact on the landscape and the Earth.

Pictured: Robert Adams, Sitka Spruce, Cape Blanco State Park, Curry County, Oregon, 1993-2003. Gift of Randi and Bob Fisher. © Robert Adams

To celebrate our current Cindy Sherman retrospective, the SF Bay Guardian asked four of San Francisco’s premier drag performance artists to re-enact four of Sherman’s iconic portraits.

Pictured: Lady Bear’s version of Untitled #354:

See all of the remakes here!

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre will be screened at SFMOMA tomorrow night, 7pm. Come see one of the most influential horror films ever on the big screen!

Watch the film’s trailer here.

Image: Tobe Hooper, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” 1974

Bus Riders by Cindy Sherman via Lomography:

While shot in 1976, it was only in 2000 that Bus Riders was printed and exhibited. The series features various characters that, as the title suggests, represent bus passengers as observed, portrayed, and photographed by Sherman herself. In true Sherman fashion, she transformed herself into these characters using make-up, wigs, and elaborate costumes. While each character was set against a plain and obviously staged setting, we can see in the series the earliest manifestations of Sherman’s flair for disguises and self-portraiture

isabellykim:

Being cultured at #SFMOMA (Taken with Instagram)

Nice black + white color reversal happening in this photo!

Pictured: Clyfford Still’s Untitled (1960)

bradypus:

Louise Bourgpony. #SFMOMA

Now THIS is a weird juxtaposition.

Learn more about Bourgeois’s The Nest (pictured above) in this interactive feature! Also fascinating: a video of Bourgeois talking about her interest in spiders. Have a look!

Pictured: Christine Wong Yap’s Positive Sign #42 (Subjective Well-Being), 2011; glitter pen on gridded vellum.

See more new work from Wong Yap’s positive signs series on Open Space!

isabellykim:

Girl with Pink Hat 1973
Oil on Canvas
Wayne Thiebaud.

My favorite piece on display at SFMOMA. I know it doesn’t seem like much but if you really keep looking at it, you won’t be able to stop. (Taken with Instagram)

SUBMISSION:

Marilyn

Marcelo Gutierrez

2012

Ink

11.5 x 10 inches

Part of a larger series, “Ode to the Icons”, that pays homage to the icons of my life so far. The series includes Andy Warhol, Tony Montana, my mother, my grandfather and many more. These people have  deeply shaped and influenced me as a person and artist. The initial concept was inspired by the historical tradition of artists painting portraits of the elite, from the the royal family to celebrities. These are my elite.