SFMOMA

I found several of the exhibits currently at SFMOMA fascinating and inspiring.  Marsha Cottrell, Casey Reas, and Stan Allen, among others, comprised a wing of the museum that was very forward and encompassed a lot of the art forms we studied and experimented with over the course of the semester.  And delved into ideas and ways by which to make art that I had never considered.

Marsha Cottrell
"A Black Powder Rains Down Gently On My Sleepless Night"
Spellbinding.  A huge mulberry paper, crumpled and covered with what looked like the universe.  She used a computer to draw many lines, circles, and shapes all over in random pattern.

Casey Reas
"Process 7"
Used a system of rules to generate a performance/ behavior of objects and shapes.

Stan Allen
"First 2,500 iterations of an infinite series of plan variations"
Patterns art.  Variations of similar line segments with specific rules laid out to determine placement.

In a separate wing, I was fascinated by Eva Hesse, Sol Lewitt, and Bruce Nauman's work.  Highly conceptual, 3-dimensional works that encouraged open interpretation.

Eva Hesse
"Sans II"
Polyester resin and fiberglass.  Like rectangular honeycombs.  Catacombs.  Inviting, delicate, yet solidly encompassing.  Especially cornered with Sol Lewitt's "Wall Grid 3X3".  The painted white squares were inviting.  The scale of both pieces large and catacomb-like.  Window like. ~a Portal to eternity.

Mondrian
Showed an incomplete work.  Using tape to lay out the painting.  Geometric form.  He claimed to paint more free-form, yet appears mathematical.