Some things never change :)

Below: Pirkle Jones, Log and Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, from Portfolio Two…, 1952; ca. 1968

Internationally renowned media art pioneer Jim Campbell mixes technology, sculpture, cinema, and light into an art form uniquely his own. Suspended above our Atrium, Jim Campbell’s “Exploded Views” has captivated visitors since it went on view last November. We’re thrilled to announce that Campbell will be honored on Oct. 23 with the 2012 Bay Area Treasure Award.

Curious to find out how Exploded Views was created? Watch this video to hear Campbell speak on the genesis of the piece.

Photo by Johnna Arnold

Image: © 2012 Drew Altizer

Just a little peek at what you’ll soon be seeing around town in San Francisco… :)

wiblog:

SO excited for Trevor Paglen’s #TheLastPictures talk @SFMOMA tmrw night. If you’re into space and/or art, you should prrrobably make sure to not miss this.

Image: Waterspout, Florida Keys. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce.

Get tix online here!

creativetime:

Artist Talk: Trevor Paglen | SFMOMA | Thursday, Oct. 11, 7 PM

Alongside Litquake and Creative Time, the San Francisco Museum of Art will be hosting an Artist Talk with artist-geographer Trevor Paglen.  Paglen’s multimedia performance lectures connect to his latest book, The Last Pictures, for which he assembled one hundred images.  The images are intended to demonstrate and teach to an audience not of our civilization the existence of the people who “built a ring of communications satellites around Earth.” Paglen will be signing copies of the book from 6-7PM in the MuseumStore before the talk.

The Last Pictures lecture series is organized by Creative Time in conjunction with ten museums and non-profit spaces around the globe. Use the hashtag #TheLastPictures to join the conversation on Twitter, Tumblr or Instagram.

So excited for this talk tomorrow night! Get your tix here.

Why yes, Clock Smith, we DO happen to have some chainsaws in stock here at SFMOMA. Please consult our offerings here.

Yes, this is possibly the coolest project ever…

This fall, Creative Time will launch The Last Pictures, an archival disc created by artist Trevor Paglen, into outer space, where it will orbit the earth for billions of years affixed to the exterior of the communications satellite EchoStar XVI.

Intrigued? Come hear artist Trevor Paglen speak about this project at SFMOMA on Thursday at 7pm! He’ll also be signing copies of his book, The Last Pictures.

Cindy Sherman as a cat. Thanks for this, anonymous SFMOMA visitor!

REMINDER: Monday is the last day that Sherman’s exhibition will be on view at SFMOMA.

wiblog:

The end is near. #cindysherman @sfmoma closes this weekend. (Taken with Instagram)

This Monday is your absolute final last chance to see Cindy Sherman’s retrospective at SFMOMA.

Today would have been digital artist and painter Jeremy Blake’s 41st birthday.

From the NYTimes:

Mr. Blake began to make a name for himself in the late 1990’s with digital projections that combined colorful abstract geometric forms with photographic images — poolside cabanas, Modernist interiors, patio lights, skylines — that suggested scenes from movies. Some art critics described the work as Color Field paintings set in motion. He called much of his work “time-based paintings,” and wrote that he drew his subject matter from a fascination with “half-remembered and imaginary architecture” and images borrowed from “Hollywood’s psychic dustbin.”

He began to veer more toward the narrative and documentary in works like his “Winchester” video trilogy, which was shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005. The videos focused on the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, Calif., a 160-room mansion with mazes of hallways and dead-end staircases, built by Sarah Winchester, the widowed heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune, to try to protect herself from ghosts of gunshot victims whom she believed would haunt her.

Pictured: Blake’s Guccinam, 2000

Why are (most) artists so poor? In a new series on Open Space, Eleanor Hanson Wise makes an earnest attempt to get people to talk about money in the visual arts. Read it here.

Image: William Powhida for W.A.G.E., Why are artists so fucking poor? (detail), 2012.