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.

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

Frank Stella and the art of the protractor

Frank Stella describes “art worth making”

David Smith and the search for “accidental beauty”

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