Leonor Antunes, A Spiral Staircase Leads Down to the Garden, 2016, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Leonor Antunes, A Spiral Staircase Leads Down to the Garden, 2016, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Leonor Antunes at SFMOMA

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Excerpt / From the perspective of artist Leonor Antunes, the gallery is a complete volume. Every inch of the floor, ceiling, and walls plays an active role in narrating the histories reworked by the artist. Newly commissioned for SFMoMA, A Spiral Staircase Leads Down to the Garden, 2016, mines the creative trajectories of pioneering women autobiographically tied to midcentury California but obscured from the era’s modernist cannon, such as architect and interior designer Greta Magnusson Grossman and artists Anni Albers, Kay Sekimachi, and Ruth Asawa. Their outputs are the sources for a series of sculptural pieces that hang, roll over, and illuminate the white box of the museum’s dedicated new-work gallery.

— “Leonor Antunes at SFMOMA” Artforum (Critics’ Picks on Artforum.com), July 22, 2016

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