…torial Council at Southern Exposure. You can discover her work here https://www.marcelapardo.com/ and follow her on Instagram. Artist Davina Semo explores Vija Celmins’ Barrier Davina Semo has a BA in Visual Arts from Brown University and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Semo has shown extensively throughout the United States and Europe. She has recently been featured in group exhibitions at the San Francisco Arts Com…

…s by Kathy Butterly, Kahlil Robert Irving, Simone Leigh and Brie Ruais – was postponed from spring 2020 and will be on view upon the museum’s reopening, hopefully in early 2021. A virtual tour of the show is available online now. “By sharing the work and voices of these contemporary artists, our visitors can engage with current issues while reflecting on work in the permanent collection,” said Jason Linetzky, director of the Anderson Collection….

Art collector and Stanford donor Harry “Hunk” Anderson dies at 95 The longtime friend of the university welcomed Stanford graduate students to study the art in his home and office, and then he and his family made the collection accessible to the world through a transformative gift. BY ROBIN WANDER Stanford neighbor, friend and philanthropist Harry W. “Hunk” Anderson died on Feb. 7 at his Bay Area Peninsula home surrounded by his family….

Richard Diebenkorn’s “Girl on the Beach” is one of the many pieces of postmodern American art displayed at Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson’s home.Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle 2014 Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson who, with her late husband Harry “Hunk” Anderson, built one of the most important collections of American modern and contemporary art in private hands, died Tuesday, Oct. 22, at her home on the Peninsula. Her death was confirmed Thursday,…

…y, Oct. 28. “Totem Lesson 1,” painted in 1944 by Pollock, and “Gansevoort Street” (1949) by de Kooning will both be on public display starting Wednesday, Oct. 30, at the free campus museum. The paintings were last shown in the Bay Area during the survey “Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection” from 2000 to 2001 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “These are two of the most coveted works by these influential artists still in privat…

…ough the galleries I could almost hear Hunk and Moo asking me: “What do you think?” A great deal has been written about some of the collection’s most precious works, and standing between Pollock’s Lucifer and Mark Rothko’s Pink and White Over Red is pretty cool, but what I came to see were the Bay Area paintings. A painter friend who doesn’t quite share my taste once called me “one of those David Park peo…

By Anna Koster For The Daily News Pushing boundaries has been the life work of Robert Irwin. His six-decade exploration of perception as the fundamental issue of art has expanded ideas of what art can be and can do. Irwin will speak about his work on March 10 at Stanford’s Cemex Auditorium. Irwin, born in 1928, in Long Beach, started as a painter in the 1950s with an abstract expressionist style, but quickly began removing all that was not…

…’ll see reds, and that can fade into other colors,” says Pace Palo Alto President Elizabeth Sullivan. “It’s just beautiful, mesmerizing, really meditative in a way.” Sullivan figures the most casual passer-by will be entranced by the light of the artwork spilling out onto the street. Even those unfamiliar with Turrell’s work may have been exposed by Drake’s video for “Hotline Bling,” albeit without Turrell’s consent: his work was ripped off. (F…

…tesy of the Anderson Collection unless otherwise noted) STANFORD, Calif. — Manuel Neri: Assertion of the Figure, on view at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University through February 12, 2018, offers up a choice selection of sculptures in plaster, marble, and bronze, and also works on paper by Manuel Neri, the 87 year-old dean of Bay Area figurative sculptors. Inspired by a gift from the Manuel Neri Trust to the Anderson Collection of three…

…eet, by its eponymous supporter Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson. Anderson donated the works in advance of her death on Oct. 22 in anticipation of the launch of a tandem effort to raise $10 million to enhance funding for the museum’s programs and exhibitions, which are free and open to the public. Jason Linetzky, director of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, stands between two new acquisitions, Willem de Kooning’s Gansevoort Street (c…

…biting new work by an artist whose research-based practice addresses significant issues of our time,” said Jason Linetzky, director of the Anderson Collection, who is always looking for ways to demonstrate the connections between the study, creation, and experience of art. On April 27, during a three-day campus engagement with students, Red Star will deliver the Anderson Collections’ annual Burt and Deedee McMurtry Lecture, a free public program….