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Patty Chang: surfacing

What does the ocean remember?

Patty Chang: surfacing brings to light hidden histories of Chinese fishing communities along the California coast, connecting stories of labor, loss, and legacy.

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Artist Talk with CFGNY: A Practice in Collaboratio Artist Talk with CFGNY: A Practice in Collaboration

Please join us, Nov 3, 5:30 pm, for a roundtable discussion with CFGNY (Concept Foreign Garments New York) (@cfgny2)— an artist collective whose multidisciplinary practice combines image making, installation, performance, and garment making — moderated by artist Vincent Chong ('26)(@crystalmonkeycalligraphy). The collective uses materials such as porcelain, stuffed animals, photography, drawing, and corrugated cardboard to investigate notions of mass production and fetishistic desire. At the heart of these investigations, Asian identity fractures and fragments into what the collective refers to as “vaguely Asian.” 

🗓Tuesday, November 3, 5:30 to 7pm

📍Anderson Collection, The Denning Family Resource Center
314 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305

For more information, click the link in bio.

📸 1-4: Photo by David Brandon Geeting. Courtesy of the artists and Amant, New York.
📸Ten Izu
📸Daniel Chew
📸Tin Nguyen
📸 Image courtesy of Vincent Chong.
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Join Kelsey Chen(@silkpunkbaby), Exhibition Co-Cur Join Kelsey Chen(@silkpunkbaby), Exhibition Co-Curator, on a special tour of “surfacing,” Monday, October 19, from 1 to 2pm.

“Patty Chang: surfacing” engages the ocean as a physical, geopolitical, and symbolic space. Incorporating fish specimens, archaeological remains, archival materials documenting the lives of Chinese fisher families in the early 1900s, and a porcelain table that travels from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to take new form at the Anderson, Chang’s sculptural practice surfaces the mysterious intimacies and unrecorded histories that haunt the Pacific Ocean and its coast. 

“Patty Chang: surfacing” will be on view in the Wisch Family Gallery from September 17, 2026 – February 8, 2027.

To RSVP and for more information, click the link in bio.

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“Lucifer,” one of Jackson Pollock’s earliest “Lucifer,” one of Jackson Pollock’s earliest experiments with “action painting” and a pillar of the Anderson Collection, is now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for the special exhibition, “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” which explores the parallel careers and artistic practices of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. 

We’re thrilled to contribute to this groundbreaking exhibition, which runs from October 4, 2026–January 31, 2027. 

If you’re planning to travel to New York, please go check out this must-see exhibition and say hello to “Lucifer” in its home away from home.

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What’s something nice someone has done for you a What’s something nice someone has done for you at a museum?

It’s “Do Something Nice Day” today, so we’re giving a little appreciation to our incredible Visitor Experience team. Thank you for everything you do! 🫶❤

A museum visit is about more than the artwork on the walls—it’s also about the people who welcome you through the doors, answer your questions, lead programs, and help make the Anderson Collection a welcoming place for all.

Joa Suorez, Keith Jantzen, Sharon Wu, Maria Raimundo, Giovanni Corbelletta, Helen Peters, and Kelly Lee—we’re grateful to have you at the Anderson. 

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🤳Anderson Aperture First Fridays The Anderson 🤳Anderson Aperture First Fridays

The Anderson Collection has a new initiative featuring the museum through the lens of our guests. 

Check out some of our recent user-generated content to witness the unique moments our guests have created during their experience here at the museum. 

Get inspired, come in, and make your own moments. 

Tag the museum and/or include #AndersonCollection in your post, and you might be featured in next month's Anderson Aperture. 

Images:
2.) @tylorsbigday
3.) @ehoweler
4.) @ehoweler 
5.) @matthewrad

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Thank you, 48 hills (@48hillssf), for the shoutout Thank you, 48 hills (@48hillssf), for the shoutout!

In 48 hills’ “Fall Art Preview: 8 gallery and museum shows you simply must see,” Emily Wilson writes that Patty Chang “has no interest in making people comfortable.” Instead, her work delves into “grief, rage, gendered violence, and unseen labor.”

And that’s part of what makes "Patty Chang: surfacing" such an important exhibition. Chang asks us to sit with difficult histories and stories that have too often remained unseen—like the displacement of Chinese fishing communities on the California coast.

We’re grateful to see “surfacing” recognized in 48 hills’ fall art preview. 

Read the full review at the link in bio.
What a gathering to celebrate "Patty Chang: surfac What a gathering to celebrate "Patty Chang: surfacing"! 

The Patty Chang members-only event went off swimmingly, and members got to enjoy great conversation, edible treats, refreshing cocktails, and, of course, the first look at our newest exhibition, “Patty Chang: surfacing.”

In "surfacing", Patty Chang engages the ocean as a physical, geopolitical, and symbolic space, inviting you to consider the work of collection and recollection. Chang’s multimedia sculptural practice brings together archaeological remains from Point Alones Chinese Fishing Village, fish specimens from Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, and archival materials documenting the lives of Chinese fisher families on the Monterey Peninsula. In a critical encounter with the scientific enterprise of survey and collection, Chang brings to light the mysterious intimacies, forgotten collaborators, and unrecorded histories that haunt the Pacific and its coast.

Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate this new exhibition, and to our members for their continued support of the Anderson Collection.

"Patty Chang: surfacing" is on view through February 8, 2027, in the Wisch Family Gallery.

Photography: Harrison Truong
Sunday, September 27 at 4PM is the Morton Feldman Sunday, September 27 at 4PM is the Morton Feldman Centenary Concert!

In celebration of the centenary of the American composer Morton Feldman (1926–1987), the Stanford Symposium on Music and the Brain, the Department of Music, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, and the Anderson Collection at Stanford University present a program examining the decades-long aesthetic dialogue between Feldman and the painters of the New York School. Throughout his career, Feldman enjoyed close friendships with artists including Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Willem de Kooning. Feldman’s music, like the works of these artists, concerns abstract patterns, subtle variations, surface, materiality, and scale.

New York City’s BlackBox Ensemble will be performing works of Feldman’s alongside responses by Stanford composers Jonathan Berger, Erik Ulman, Lemon Guo, Calvin Van Zytveld, Celeste Betancur, and Brian Brown across two concerts. The first concert takes place at Stanford’s Anderson Collection, where the music of Feldman can be heard amidst paintings of Feldman’s friends. The second concert will take place at the CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics) Stage. These concerts are part of a symposium, Stopping Time: How music alters time perception, and will include public lectures providing perspectives on Feldman’s unique temporal world and the psychology and neuroscience of durational artistic experiences.

Click the link in bio for more information.

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