Floor 5: 5th Floor City Gallery (exiting Kelly North)
Overview
Gallery Wayfinding
You are in the 5th Floor City Gallery. This is a long, narrow gallery that spans the entire length of the main galleries behind you, with three large windows along the front wall that look out to the rows of high-rise buildings in downtown San Francisco. You've entered the long narrow gallery from the middle of the long back wall. This gallery contains prints by Sol Lewitt and the Co-Lab space.
Immediately in front of you is a staircase leading up to the 6th Floor. Immediately to your to the left and on the front wall are framed prints by Sol LeWitt. On the back wall directly across from the prints are two benches. Further down at the far-left end of the gallery on the front wall is a staircase down to the 4th Floor.
To your right, there are more prints by Sol LeWitt on the front and back walls, followed by an entrance to the Sol LeWitt Gallery on the back wall. Continuing to your right, at the far-right end of the gallery is the Co-Lab, an interactive space with various activities. You'll know you're in the Co-Lab when the flooring shifts from wood to carpet. Right before the flooring changes from wood to carpet, on the right wall is the QR code, marked with a perpendicular tactile floor strip.
Note to visitors: If this is the beginning of your journey on the 5th Floor, you might be starting halfway through the exhibition. To find the start of the exhibition, turn left and walk to the 5th Floor Landing where you can find the 5th Floor Tactile Map on the wall across from the elevators.
Objects
2 objects in the order you'll encounter them from this entrance. Select an object to view details.
Artwork Label Text
1982
Etchings and aquatints, ed.15/25
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Acquired by the Fisher family, 1988
Visual Description
A series of twenty-four grayscale aquatint-and-etching prints, each about the size of a small, square wall poster and individually framed, represents various geometric solids created by removing different sections of a cube.
Twelve of the prints are arranged in a single long row stretching across one wall of the narrow City Gallery, and the other twelve are arranged in a single long row on the facing wall. Each print repeats the faint outline of a cube in perspective. Within this, a different blocklike form is rendered with crisp edges and four shades of gray ranging from near-white to deep charcoal. Several shapes are simple, single solids (a cube, a wedge, a tall rectangular block), while others are compound constructions with cutouts, inset cubes, or stacked steps that form L-shapes and interlocking volumes.
Each volume is rendered as though it is transparent, revealing the combination of lines and planes that cut across the outer cube to create it.
Artwork Label Text
1982
Screenprints, ed.18/25
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Acquired by the Fisher family, 1988