SUPER-SILLY-US: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Dates:
March 25, 2023 - June 4, 2023
Gallery:
Main Gallery
Overview:
Best known for her pioneering Supergraphics at Sea Ranch, Stauffacher Solomon has worked across disciplines in graphic design, architecture, landscape architecture, drawing, writing, and more.
2023 Bay Area Legends Exhibition
SUPER-SILLY-US: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
with Nellie King Solomon
March 25 - June 4, 2023
SUPER-SILLY-US, celebrates the work of nonagenarian Barbara Stauffacher Solomon in dialogue with that of her daughter, Nellie King Solomon. Their shared training in architecture speaks to the artists' expanisve and playful approach to visual art which challenges the boundaries of established rules or frameworks.
San Francisco-based artist Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (b.1928, San Francisco), perhaps best known for her pioneering Supergraphics (oversized graphics created in response to the scale of architecture first produced at 1960s Sea Ranch), has worked across disciplines in graphic design, architecture, landscape architecture, drawing, writing, and more. Her original training in dance and painting, coupled with rigorous study of Swiss graphic design, has allowed her to establish an approach to art making uniquely her own. More Info
Los Angeles-based artist Nellie King Solomon (b.1971, San Francisco) is an essential collaborator for her mother and an accomplished abstract painter in her own right. While the two remain distinct in their formal approaches to art making, presenting their work in proximity demonstrates their shared influences and interests across architecture, movement, and the body. A selection of King Solomon's recent paintings will be included in the exhibition. More Info
The presentation features a suite of never-before-exhibited drawings from Stauffacher Solomon's hand-made book SUPER-SILLY-US, as well as new Supergraphic installations created in response to the historic architecture of MarinMOCA’s 1933 Hamilton Field building, spanning the museum's Main Gallery and Ron Collins Lobby Gallery. (The lobby installation will remain on view through 2023.)
The MarinMOCA exhibition is one of many across the world rediscovering the art of Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, including recent installations at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; LAXART, Los Angeles; Graham Foundation, Chicago; and St. Moritz, Switzerland (commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery, London).
Critic and curator Peter Frank will write an essay to accompany the exhibition contributing important new scholarship to the artistic legacy of our region. Public program details will be announced in early 2023.
View the press release here.
Image Credits:
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Land(e)scape 2018, 2018; installation view, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 15, 2018-March 3, 2019. Courtesy JKA Photography
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, installation view of Relax Into the Invisible, LAXART, Los Angeles, June 2-August 10, 2019
Nellie King Solomon, U Sq 7, 2022, acrylic on mylar, 12 x 12 in. Courtesy the artist and Melissa Morgan Fine Art
San Francisco-based artist Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (b.1928, San Francisco), perhaps best known for her pioneering Supergraphics (oversized graphics created in response to the scale of architecture first produced at 1960s Sea Ranch), has worked across disciplines in graphic design, architecture, landscape architecture, drawing, writing, and more. Her original training in dance and painting, coupled with rigorous study of Swiss graphic design, has allowed her to establish an approach to art making uniquely her own. More Info
Los Angeles-based artist Nellie King Solomon (b.1971, San Francisco) is an essential collaborator for her mother and an accomplished abstract painter in her own right. While the two remain distinct in their formal approaches to art making, presenting their work in proximity demonstrates their shared influences and interests across architecture, movement, and the body. A selection of King Solomon's recent paintings will be included in the exhibition. More Info
The presentation features a suite of never-before-exhibited drawings from Stauffacher Solomon's hand-made book SUPER-SILLY-US, as well as new Supergraphic installations created in response to the historic architecture of MarinMOCA’s 1933 Hamilton Field building, spanning the museum's Main Gallery and Ron Collins Lobby Gallery. (The lobby installation will remain on view through 2023.)
The MarinMOCA exhibition is one of many across the world rediscovering the art of Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, including recent installations at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; LAXART, Los Angeles; Graham Foundation, Chicago; and St. Moritz, Switzerland (commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery, London).
Critic and curator Peter Frank will write an essay to accompany the exhibition contributing important new scholarship to the artistic legacy of our region. Public program details will be announced in early 2023.
View the press release here.
Image Credits:
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Land(e)scape 2018, 2018; installation view, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 15, 2018-March 3, 2019. Courtesy JKA Photography
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, installation view of Relax Into the Invisible, LAXART, Los Angeles, June 2-August 10, 2019
Nellie King Solomon, U Sq 7, 2022, acrylic on mylar, 12 x 12 in. Courtesy the artist and Melissa Morgan Fine Art
SUPER-SILLY-US: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Dates:
March 25, 2023 - June 4, 2023
Gallery:
Main Gallery
Overview:
Best known for her pioneering Supergraphics at Sea Ranch, Stauffacher Solomon has worked across disciplines in graphic design, architecture, landscape architecture, drawing, writing, and more.
