Can isolation create connection?  🧍🏽 In Hughie Lee-Smith’s “Two Boys” (1968), a pair of figures on opposite sides of a crumbling urban landscape appear isolated from each other yet visually connected by their parallel positions. While the artist addressed the struggle for racial and social justice directly in his early Social Realist work and during his many years as an educator, in the 1950s and 1960s he adopted a Surrealist style he later called “metaphysical.” These meditative compositions blend remembered and imagined subjects in stage-like settings reminiscent of American cities to uncover a deeper shared experience of social alienation. Lee-Smith once said, “I think my paintings have to do with an invisible life—a reality on a different level.” On view now. Floor 2 Ticket link in bio. __ [Hughie Lee-Smith, “Two Boys,” 1968; Gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection; © Estate of Hughie Lee-Smith/ARS (Artist Rights Society), New York; photo: Ian Reeves] #Art #SFMOMA #ArtMuseum...