Posts Tagged ‘Ellsworth Kelly’

Five Questions: Adam and Rebekah Posted on January 8, 2010 by Megan Z

[Five questions to SFMOMA visitors, artists, staff, or guests.]

Adam and Rebekah

Adam and Rebekah in the Koret Visitor Education Center

Name/Place of Residence/Occupation/Hobby?

My name is Rebekah. I am an optician and I live in Noe Valley with my husband Adam. My hobby is—a couple of things: I like playing with the dog, Oliver, and then I also make music with my husband, Adam.

My name is Adam and I live in San Francisco, in Noe Valley. My job title is complicated. Let’s go with corporate analyst for an online developer for multi-player games. My hobby is hanging out with Rebekah and hanging out with the dog and playing piano and making music with just one of those two.

R: Not the dog.

Do you collect anything?

R: Lots of vintage clothes. And virtual cards.

A: We kind of collect art.

R: Kind of, but not much. We collect dust.

A: Dirty clothes. Dirty dishes.

R: We collect plastic furniture. I enjoy plastic furniture. Plastic jewelry. I collect glasses, that’s very true. I think we collect a lot of airline miles. We like to travel a lot.

A: I collect all of those thing, so maybe move a couple of those over. I collect musical instruments, I suppose. I have 4 or 5 at home and microphones. Because of Rebekah I’ve been collecting clothes as well. This is my seventh suit and third three-piece suit.

R: We collect friends. Not the TV show.

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Friday morning, 11am. Posted on May 8, 2009 by Suzanne

Ellsworth Kelly, being interviewed in the SFMOMA conservation studios, as part of the SFMOMA Oral History Project. Behind him, _Red Yellow Blue White and Black with White Border_, 1952-1953

Ellsworth Kelly, center, being interviewed in the SFMOMA conservation studios, as part of the SFMOMA Oral History Project. Behind him, Red Yellow Blue White and Black with White Border, 1952-1953

Ellsworth Kelly, redux, by special request Posted on May 7, 2009 by Suzanne

Click for the bigger, prettier one.

Ellsworth Kelly standing at right, with his 1973 sculpture _Stele I_at the left, and standing with Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture Gary Garrels, beside Barnett Newman's _Zim Zum_ (1969).

Kelly's 1973 sculpture Stele I at the left, with the artist in the middle of the frame standing with Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture Gary Garrels, beside Barnett Newman's Zim Zum (1969).

More at Flickr.

Ellsworth Kelly. Posted on May 7, 2009 by Suzanne

    Ellsworth Kelly, with _Stele I_ (1973), on our new rooftop garden

Ellsworth Kelly, with Stele I (1973), on our new rooftop garden

Ellsworth Kelly, on our rooftop sculpture garden for the first time, in front of his 1973 sculpture Stele I.

Many more pictures coming soon.

Have anything you’d like to ask Ellsworth Kelly? Posted on May 6, 2009 by Suzanne

SFMOMA’s Education & Conservation teams have been working together on an SFMOMA Oral History Project, and have the unusual opportunity to interview Ellsworth Kelly on Thursday, re: the trajectory of his (sixty-year) career, and about some of his works  in our collection.  What would you ask him, if you could? Questions that land in the comment box before end of day Wednesday I’ll pass along to the team doing the interview.