Artist ewan gibbs discusses the techniques he used to create san francisco, a suite of drawings commissioned by sfmoma in 2009. during a visit to california. Artist ewan gibbs discusses the techniques he used to create san francisco, a suite of drawings commissioned by sfmoma in 2009. during a visit to california in 2008 he took hundreds of digital snapshots of the city's landmarks, streetscapes, and everyday scenes.
Artist ewan gibbs discusses the techniques he used to create san francisco, a suite of drawings commissioned by sfmoma in 2009. during a visit to california in 2008 he took hundreds of digital snapshots of the city’s landmarks, streetscapes, and everyday scenes. Artist ewan gibbs discusses the techniques he used to create san francisco, a suite of drawings commissioned by sfmoma in 2009. In 2009 he commissioned a new work from u.k. artist ewan gibbs; the result is san francisco, a portrait of the city in 18 drawings. urbach describes how gibbs achieves ethereal atmospheric effects through an extremely systematic method.remember the end of manhattan, when woody allen asks himself what makes life worth living?. Demonstrating a similarly elusive and intricately hazy compositional methodology is one of the drawings from ewan gibbs’ sfmoma commissioned series of “translated” photos depicting san francisco landmarks. it re inscribes — by way of marks typically used for knitting patterns — an image of the windmill at golden gate park.
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