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.

Mike Light: Flying photographer

Mike Light: The West

Richard Deacon on being a “fabricator”

Betye Saar believes she has the best of both worlds

Betye Saar controls her destiny

Frank Stella paints tracks and circuits

Elizabeth Murray: Finding the artist inside the painting

Eva Hesse's spontaneous artistic process

Eva Hesse was true to her materials

Preserving Eva Hesse's latex

Robert Bechtle: Photorealism at high speed

Robert Bechtle: The car is a landscape

Antony Gormley answers: What is art?

Robert Bechtle's dabs of enlivening color

Sol LeWitt on making wall drawings

Robert Arneson on becoming an artist

Robert Bechtle: The intensity embedded in the paint

Richard Diebenkorn: “The sky took the place of the ocean”

Hilla and Bernd Becher invented a new genre of photography

Sol LeWitt on working with assistants

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