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A Quiet End to the Year at the Museum

·San Francisco, California·#winter#photography#bay area#art#museum
Looking up at a building interior with a circular skylight, colorful art installation, and a large abstract wall mural.

The last couple of days of 2022 felt quiet and slow, that strange in-between time after Christmas but before the New Year. I spent an afternoon wandering through a museum, which felt like the right speed. The main atrium was the first thing that caught my eye, with its huge circular skylight and a colorful installation suspended high above the floor.

I spent most of my time with the modern and abstract collections. The galleries were filled with large-scale pieces, from a metal sculpture that looked like an intricate, deconstructed plant to canvas after canvas of intense brushwork. Some were muted and almost chaotic, while others were incredibly vibrant, with thick layers of bright paint.

It's a pretty simple way to spend a day, just walking from one white-walled room to the next and letting your eyes rest on something. The last piece I saw was a striking split portrait of a human and a cat, one side day and the other night. A calm, reflective way to close out the year.

A metal sculpture of dark green perforated leaves and brown branches rests on a white display surface in a bright room.An abstract painting featuring light and dark brushstrokes, framed in black, hangs on a bright white gallery wall.Abstract painting with an inverted figure in blue, black, white, and red, with visible brushstrokes, on a white wall.Abstract painting in dark and neutral colors with a large white rounded shape, red marks, and blue and yellow lines.An abstract artwork with beige and brown tones and dark smudges hangs on a white wall above a wooden floor.A large abstract painting with dark blues and oranges hangs on a white wall above a light wooden floor.A vibrant abstract painting with layered and textured strokes of red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.A diptych painting depicts a half-person half-cat figure, with a sun on a yellow side and a moon on a blue side.

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