Exhibition Reflections
Diana Markosian, Wu Tsang, and Joan Mitchell
Film at SFMOMA celebrates the work of visionary artists with exhibitions currently on view at the museum. In October, we present the award-winning film Minari in conjunction with Diana Markosian’s exhibition Santa Barbara (Floor 3), a body of photographic and video work that taps into the artist’s personal experience of immigration, family history, and the American Dream. New Work artist Wu Tsang (Floor 4) uses a range of methods in her work that focuses on the visibility of queer and trans culture in America. In November, catch a screening of Tsang’s 2012 film Wildness, a non-fiction portrait of the Silver Platter, a Latino LGBTQ bar in Los Angeles. The Joan Mitchell retrospective (Floor 5) provides a view into the painter’s New York artistic circle, which included her close friend Frank O’Hara, whose poetry inspired several of her works. A rare screening of the avant-garde film The Last Clean Shirt (1964) is a collaboration between filmmaker Alfred Leslie and O’Hara, who wrote the subtitles.
Header Image: Alan S. Kim, Steven Yeun, Noel Cho, and Yeri Han in Minari. Lee Isaac Chung, Minari, 2020 (still); image: David Bornfriend/A24