{"id":601248,"date":"2023-08-04T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T23:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/?post_type=exhibition&p=601248"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:45:08","slug":"barbara-stauffacher-solomon-strips-of-stripes","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/exhibition\/barbara-stauffacher-solomon-strips-of-stripes\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this large-scale commission for SFMOMA\u2019s lobby, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (b. 1928) connects the striped motif of the museum\u2019s 1996 Mario Botta\u2013designed building with the open space of the 2016 expansion designed by Sn\u00f8hetta. Strips of Stripes<\/em> is the newest of her signature \u201csupergraphics,\u201d first developed in the 1960s for the Northern California coastal development The Sea Ranch. Here, bold environmental stripes and the letters \u201cOK\u201d span walls and ceilings in response to the surrounding architecture.<\/p>\n

After studying \u201cinternational style\u201d graphic design at the Institut Kunst in Basel, Switzerland, Stauffacher Solomon opened a design office in San Francisco\u2019s North Beach neighborhood in the 1960s, bringing with her the crisp Swiss typeface Helvetica and a fluency in the formal rules of her training (along with a penchant to break them). Between 1962 and 1972, she designed SFMOMA\u2019s monthly program guides with bright letters and graphics that stretch to the edges of the page. This commission builds on Stauffacher Solomon\u2019s long relationship with SFMOMA, boldly activating our public space and welcoming visitors in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this large-scale commission for SFMOMA\u2019s lobby, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (b. 1928) connects the striped motif of the museum\u2019s 1996 Mario Botta\u2013designed building with the open space of the 2016 expansion designed by Sn\u00f8hetta. Strips of Stripes is the newest of her signature \u201csupergraphics,\u201d first developed in the 1960s for the Northern California coastal development […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":623139,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"department":[4,5],"class_list":["post-601248","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-architecture-and-design","department-painting-and-sculpture","theme-installations-and-special-projects","wpautop"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/601248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/601248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845054,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/601248\/revisions\/845054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=601248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}