Artist Interviews

SFMOMA is committed to partnering with the most forward-thinking artists of our time and bringing their visions to life. Here, in their own words, many of these artists share their creative process and their stories.

Kara Walker on the dark side of imagination

Kara Walker explains her interest in “demoted” art forms

Kara Walker depicts violence and sadness that can't be seen

Doris Salcedo: Memory as the essence of work

Doris Salcedo: "Extreme experiences as a point of departure"

Ed Ruscha on combining painting and photography

Ed Ruscha: Drawing with gunpowder

Ed Ruscha takes a leap from canvas to book

Ed Ruscha: Painting words

Ed Ruscha’s big-city visions

Why Pipilotti Rist works with video

Pipilotti Rist: Our hearts are “rinsed” every second

Pipilotti Rist’s fairy tale about a destructive goddess

Pipilotti Rist’s “instant diamonds”

Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party

Lindy Roy’s liquid inspiration for Poolhouse

On target: Jasper Johns on creating his target paintings

How Zen poems influenced Brice Marden’s paintings

Because he says so: Jasper Johns is not a Dadaist

Frank Stella: Rebuilding painting

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