Art of Northern California: Three Views

Underscoring SFMOMA’s commitment to the art of California and the Bay Area specifically, the inaugural installation of the museum’s new California galleries feature local artists in three groupings:

1) artists associated with the University of California, Davis, including Robert Arneson, Wayne Thiebaud, and William T. Wiley; 

2) art by Joan Brown, Jess and Lee Mullican, emphasizing the personal, often spiritual, underpinnings of art produced in the region; and 

3) the Bay Area’s vibrant Conceptual art scene of the late 1960s and 1970s, explored through works by David Ireland, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Tom Marioni, among others. 

Exhibition overview from museum website