SFMOMA

If you've never heard of Olafur Eliasson, you should try and remember that name. He is a young Icelandic artist who works with light and colour to create the most amazing art experiences. This is showing at SFMOMA until the end of February and if you're going to be anywhere near there, make an effort to go! He plays with coloured light, prisms, reflection, mist. He's also got a series of photos taken in Iceland, which are amazing and really well framed and arranged. This photo is of his "One way colour tunnel" installation on the turret bridge of SFMOMA.

Update: So, I told you to remember this artist's name, right? An article in the LA Times mentions an art installation he is doing in NYC this summer, near the Brooklyn Bridge. Sounds cool!

Update to the update: And here's a link to a conceptual drawing of what it will look like. Click on 'NYC Waterfalls'.

At the Asian Art Museum

This is a great little museum in San Francisco. My aunt Yvonne (Shen Shen) is a docent there and we went to check out an exhibit on Japanese contemporary fashion presented as sculpture. The clothes are kind of crazy looking if you think of them as clothing, however they are really remarkable as sculpture created out of fabric. Some of them had pleats, some had draping, some had cuts and pleats. The exhibit was conceived by a Japanese artist who had an accompanying exhibit where he showed fossils and ancient artifacts alongside his own assemblages of artifacts with modern items to create something completely new. Both exhibits were really interesting.