Date and Time
- Thursday, Jan 22, 2026 6pm - 8pm
Location
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 3rd St
Details
Experience an evening of otherworldly, enchanting, and psychedelic California film and video works inspired by Stephen Kaltenbach: Portrait of My Father, a new publication by San Francisco curator and writer Jordan Stein. This event, with a special appearance by artist Stephen Kaltenbach, celebrates an illustrated oral history of his making Portrait of My Father (1972–79), a 20th-century masterpiece on permanent view at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Blazing a bold new conceptual trail in the early 1970s, the artist traded his heady downtown New York art world for a rural Northern California barn, where he spent most of the decade painting this enormous — and enormously cosmic — portrait of his dying father. The eclectic program illuminates various subjects at play in the book, including resplendent visions, spiritual awakening, and the ineffable nature of human consciousness.
Stein introduces each film with a short reading and joins Kaltenbach in conversation after the screenings.
Visions of Unearthly Splendor is presented in collaboration with Canyon Cinema.
