Here’s your first look at “Suzanne Jackson: What is Love,” now open at SFMOMA ✨
For over six decades, Jackson has pushed the boundaries of painting with luminous color, light, and form—driven by an insistent search for creative freedom and a bohemian spirit she formed during her time in San Francisco. This first-ever retrospective brings together more than 80 works, from dreamlike canvases to suspended, sculptural paintings, alongside ephemera from her expansive creative life as a dancer, poet, theater designer, and community builder.
1. “¿What Feeds Us?” (2025), a new commission that reflects on the global environmental crisis
2. A gallery of more recent paintings that suspend acrylic paint in midair—a technique she developed in the late 90s
3. “Entering, Departing, Leaving, Ascending – Luminous Souls” frames the entryway between two galleries
4. Works that Jackson created in the 1980s, when she split her time between San Francisco and the small mountain town of Idyllwild, CA near L...
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