Perhaps the most noteworthy piece for the reopening, however, is
Sleeping Woman, a solid stainless steel sculpture by Charles Ray of a clothed black woman, clearly homeless, asleep on a b
Woman, a solid stainless
steel sculpture by Charles Ray of a clothed black
woman, clearly homeless, asleep on a b
woman, clearly homeless, asleep on a bench.
Highlights include three new acquisitions of major works by Mark Bradford, the Los Angeles artist who will represent the United States at the next Venice Biennale; a somber drawing - cum - sculpture that seems to predict a stormy future, which David Hammons «drew» with a bouncing basketball and graphite; and a solid stainless
steel «
Sleeping Woman» by Charles Ray, all gleaming dead weight anchoring the gallery around it.
Along the way, she has worked with scores of living artists — her 1990 Charles Ray exhibition was my introduction to that endlessly inventive Los Angeles artist, whose solid stainless
steel «
Sleeping Woman» anchors the seventh floor at the new SFMOMA.