The Person You should Know So Well, But Don't Know At All Oil on canvas, 2008, 42" X 60" The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor...It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me. A face that toils so close to stones is already stone itself... he is superior to his fate. He is stronger than his rock. -Albert Camus,... Read More

Photographer Sharon Wickham has been making remarkable images for many years: still life, botanicals, found elements, people, and architecture. Animalier Electricite is her new series of prints displayed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art café gallery. Wickham says she was inspired by the Animalier School, where artists and sculptors, active in both Europe and America in the 19th and early 20th century, were more concerned with expressing the essence of their subjects--both wild and domesticated animals--than with rendering them in all their realistic detail. So in this spirit, her large format photographs are not conventional portraits, but are... Read More