San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

SF MOMA has been closed while a new wing is being built. The anchor piece of the new space will be a Richard Serra sculpture. The interlocking steel spirals - which are 13 feet tall and together weigh a whopping 235 tons. And since the addition's ground floor will be clad in glass, the much-praised "Sequence" should be visible even when the museum is closed.

I went to the museum last month to watch the last of the 12 parts being moved into the space. After it is placed inside the rest of the building facade can be installed. While I was sketching a photographer from the SF Chronicle took photos of me sketching. So in the both Richard Serra and I were featured in the paper's article!

Sketching at the Cantor

I love visiting the Cantor Arts Center on the Stanford University campus. Instead of my usual hit-and-run sketching, last month  I luxuriated in spending the whole day there. Here are two of my sketches of my favorite sculptures. Above, is a drawing of Deborah Butterfield's horse (untitled 1999) installed in the main lobby. It is at once monumental, yet delicate with its weaving of bronze casts of driftwood.

Below is Richard Serra's Sequence (2006) installed outside in the courtyard. I rarely encounter anyone else in it as I wander its slot canyons. I enjoy the way it carves up space and sky and how it looks during different times of they day and throughout the seasons here.  But just for another year!  I've been told that this sculpture is destined to go into a new wing of SFMOMA in 2016.