Suzanne Jackson leads with love and invites you to do the same. With her first major museum retrospective spanning six decades of work, the 81-year-old artist demonstrates how freeing an expansive approach to life and art can be.

Color and buoyant joy fill the galleries of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love . Co-organized with the Minneapolis Walker Art Center, the exhibition proceeds chronologically. It’s a standard choice for a retrospective, but here the timeline discloses the sheer continuousness of Jackson’s work: prolific, exploratory, curious, and fascinated with material and light. Graceful undulating forms, gentle colors, and luminosity stay constant across a Jackson’s experiments in medium and form.

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