Anthony McCall: First Light
https://www.anthonymccall.com
January 11 - March 8, 2026
Gallery 308, Landmark Building A
Free Admission
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 2026, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture and the Kramlich Art Foundation announce Anthony McCall: First Light, the San Francisco Bay Area premiere of the pioneering British artist's revolutionary "solid light" works from the early 1970s. On view from January 10 through March 8, 2026, in Gallery 308, the exhibition features three seminal pieces that transformed the possibilities of cinema and challenged the boundaries between film, sculpture, drawing, and performance.
The exhibition presents Line Describing a Cone (1973), Conical Solid (1974), and Cone of Variable Volume (1974), works that invite viewers to step away from the screen and into the sculptural beams of projected light themselves. As theatrical haze catches the projector's light, evolving geometric forms materialize in three-dimensional space, creating elegant structures that viewers can walk through, touch, and interact with. Over the course of the films, these works transform spectators into participants and galleries into playing fields, making space for both contemplation and action.
Anthony McCall: First Light continues a partnership initiated in 2015-16 with Janet Cardiff's Forty-Part Motet, through an ongoing collaboration among the Kramlich Art Foundation and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.
Co-Organized by Fort Mason Art and the Kramlich Art Foundation.
Image Credit; Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone (1973). Installation view, Musee de Rochechouart, 2007. Photograph by Freddy Le Saux. Courtesy of the artist, Sean Kelly New York, and Sprüth Magers.
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https://www.anthonymccall.com
January 11 - March 8, 2026
Gallery 308, Landmark Building A
Free Admission
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 2026, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture and the Kramlich Art Foundation announce Anthony McCall: First Light, the San Francisco Bay Area premiere of the pioneering British artist's revolutionary "solid light" works from the early 1970s. On view from January 10 through March 8, 2026, in Gallery 308, the exhibition features three seminal pieces that transformed the possibilities of cinema and challenged the boundaries between film, sculpture, drawing, and performance.
The exhibition presents Line Describing a Cone (1973), Conical Solid (1974), and Cone of Variable Volume (1974), works that invite viewers to step away from the screen and into the sculptural beams of projected light themselves. As theatrical haze catches the projector's light, evolving geometric forms materialize in three-dimensional space, creating elegant structures that viewers can walk through, touch, and interact with. Over the course of the films, these works transform spectators into participants and galleries into playing fields, making space for both contemplation and action.
Anthony McCall: First Light continues a partnership initiated in 2015-16 with Janet Cardiff's Forty-Part Motet, through an ongoing collaboration among the Kramlich Art Foundation and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.
Co-Organized by Fort Mason Art and the Kramlich Art Foundation.
Image Credit; Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone (1973). Installation view, Musee de Rochechouart, 2007. Photograph by Freddy Le Saux. Courtesy of the artist, Sean Kelly New York, and Sprüth Magers.
Anthony McCall: First Light
https://www.anthonymccall.com
January 11 - March 8, 2026
Gallery 308, Landmark Building A
Free Admission
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 2026, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture and the Kramlich Art Foundation announce Anthony McCall: First Light, the San Francisco Bay Area premiere of the pioneering British artist's revolutionary "solid light" works from the early 1970s. On view from January 10 through March 8, 2026, in Gallery 308, the exhibition features three seminal pieces that transformed the possibilities of cinema and challenged the boundaries between film, sculpture, drawing, and performance.
The exhibition presents Line Describing a Cone (1973), Conical Solid (1974), and Cone of Variable Volume (1974), works that invite viewers to step away from the screen and into the sculptural beams of projected light themselves. As theatrical haze catches the projector's light, evolving geometric forms materialize in three-dimensional space, creating elegant structures that viewers can walk through, touch, and interact with. Over the course of the films, these works transform spectators into participants and galleries into playing fields, making space for both contemplation and action.
Anthony McCall: First Light continues a partnership initiated in 2015-16 with Janet Cardiff's Forty-Part Motet, through an ongoing collaboration among the Kramlich Art Foundation and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.
Co-Organized by Fort Mason Art and the Kramlich Art Foundation.
Image Credit; Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone (1973). Installation view, Musee de Rochechouart, 2007. Photograph by Freddy Le Saux. Courtesy of the artist, Sean Kelly New York, and Sprüth Magers.
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https://www.anthonymccall.com
January 11 - March 8, 2026
Gallery 308, Landmark Building A
Free Admission
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 2026, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture and the Kramlich Art Foundation announce Anthony McCall: First Light, the San Francisco Bay Area premiere of the pioneering British artist's revolutionary "solid light" works from the early 1970s. On view from January 10 through March 8, 2026, in Gallery 308, the exhibition features three seminal pieces that transformed the possibilities of cinema and challenged the boundaries between film, sculpture, drawing, and performance.
The exhibition presents Line Describing a Cone (1973), Conical Solid (1974), and Cone of Variable Volume (1974), works that invite viewers to step away from the screen and into the sculptural beams of projected light themselves. As theatrical haze catches the projector's light, evolving geometric forms materialize in three-dimensional space, creating elegant structures that viewers can walk through, touch, and interact with. Over the course of the films, these works transform spectators into participants and galleries into playing fields, making space for both contemplation and action.
Anthony McCall: First Light continues a partnership initiated in 2015-16 with Janet Cardiff's Forty-Part Motet, through an ongoing collaboration among the Kramlich Art Foundation and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.
Co-Organized by Fort Mason Art and the Kramlich Art Foundation.
Image Credit; Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone (1973). Installation view, Musee de Rochechouart, 2007. Photograph by Freddy Le Saux. Courtesy of the artist, Sean Kelly New York, and Sprüth Magers.
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