This event is in the past.It took place on July 30, 2026 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE 1
Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE 2
Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE 3
Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE 4
Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE 5
Fine Arts Exhibition
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Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE

August 23 - July 30

At San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Transbay, San Francisco

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🏫Albers taught both artists at Black Mountain College
✍️Typofacture = drawings that mimic printed or handwritten text
🗺️Find it on Floor 2, included with admission

See how a single Black Mountain College exercise turned text into visual territory. Paul Klee's dreamy symbols and Ray Johnson's obsessive, field-note marks reveal what happens when letters stop behaving.

Artist dialogue across eras
Abstract and conceptual
Modernist foundations
Intimate scale works

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

151 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

www.sfmoma.org

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