Robert Rauschenberg, Scanning, 1963; fractional and promised gift of Helen and Charles Schwab, © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; photo: Ben Blackwell
On the occasion of the major retrospective Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules, SFMOMA is convening scholars and artists to consider the artist’s engagement with photography throughout the course of his career.
The morning session offers a look at Rauschenberg’s agile use of photographic images, explores his late transfer works, and brings together contemporary artists to respond to the artist’s work.
During the afternoon, we invite everyone into the galleries for focused discussions of artworks on display in Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules.
Videos available here.
Sarah Roberts, introduction
Meredith George Van Dyke, Robert Rauschenberg and the Optical Device
Beth Bird, The Cinematic in the Work of Robert Rauschenberg: Indexicality, Contingency, Temporality, and the Archive
Tomoko Kanamitsu, introduction
Tim Hyde, screening of Red Sun (2017–18)
Maria Elena González, Captiva-ted
Tim Hyde and Maria Elena González in conversation with Robin Clark
Tomoko Kanamitsu, introduction
Kaeleigh Thorp, The Object behind the Work: Notes on Rauschenberg’s Photographic Process
John Zarobell, Beyond Photographic Ontology: Response to ‘The Object behind the Work’
Emily Liebert, Rauschenberg’s Active Images
Indira Allegra on Robert Rauschenberg’s White Painting (1951) and Pelican (1963)
Gregory G. Geiger on Robert Rauschenberg’s Scanning (1963)
Amanda Hunter Johnson on Robert Rauschenberg’s Hiccups (1978)
Peggy Phelan on Trisha Brown’s Glacial Decoy (1979)
Indira Allegra, artist indiraallegra.com
Beth Bird, documentary filmmaker and PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley
Robin Clark, Director of the Artist Initiative, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Gregory G. Geiger, artist gregorygeiger.net
Maria Elena González, artist and associate professor, Sculpture and New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute
Tim Hyde, artist and assistant professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis timhyde.info
Amanda Hunter Johnson, conservator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tomoko Kanamitsu, program associate, Higher and Continuing Education, Education and Public Practice, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Emily Liebert, associate curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
Peggy Phelan, Ann O’Day Maples Chair in the Arts, Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and English, Stanford University
Sarah Roberts, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Kaeleigh Thorp, graduate student in Museum Studies at the University of San Francisco
Meredith George Van Dyke, curatorial assistant, Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
John Zarobell, associate professor and undergraduate director of International Studies at the University of San Francisco
Select programs presented in conjunction with Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules are made possible with support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
