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Eamon Ore-Giron: Non Plus Ultra

Presidential Residency on the Future of the Arts 2020-2021

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Up Close: One Painting Tours With Artists

A project of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University Hosted by art historian and the associate director of ITALIC at Stanford, Kim Beil, the micro-video series “Up Close: One Painting Tours with Artists” focuses on a single object in the Anderson Collection, sparking dialogue with a guest artist. This project is made possible by a grant from Stanford Arts and the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Artist Rebekah Goldstein explor…

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American Progress: Wendy Red Star’s Exhibition at the Anderson Collection

…Star’s exhibition “American Progress” at Stanford’s Anderson Collection… June 21, 2022 By ALBERTO QUINTERO This story is among a series written by CCSRE’s 2022 Public Writing Fellows. If you have ever entered a pool or a bathtub, you have probably noticed that as your body sinks, water overflows and spills over the sides. This reflects Archimedes’ principle, which, for over two thousand years, has explained a…

Color Shift (Correctional Overlay)

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‘Formed & Fired: Contemporary American Ceramics’ at the Anderson Collection breaks the mold

From ancient pottery and medicinal clay to 3D-printed joints and pajamas that restore athletes’ muscles, the use of ceramics for objects rooted in decoration, ritual and utility is as old as it is expansive. The practices of four living artists whose exploration of the medium provides commentary on its past and insight for the future are presented in Formed & Fired: Contemporary American Ceramics at the Anderson Collection at Stanford Univer…

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The Anderson Collection presents a solo exhibition of works by Stanford alum Stephanie Syjuco

The Anderson Collection presents a solo exhibition of works by Stanford alum Stephanie Syjuco Through various mediums, the artist provokes a shift in perspective on U.S. history and inclusion. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email By Robin Wander In the exhibition White Balance/Color Cast at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Oakland-based artist, educator, and Stanford alum Stephanie Syjuco uses photography, video, and ins…

Convergence Zone

Stanford art museums, Frost Amphitheater begin to reopen

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Anderson Collection paintings on summer holiday next door at the Cantor

…e five Anderson Collection works are on view in the Marie Stauffer Sigall Gallery at the Cantor through Aug. 15, 2021, and then they will return home to the Anderson, where they will be reinstalled with the permanent collection in time for the museum’s reopening on Sept. 22, 2021. Two special exhibitions will also be on view when the museum reopens: Eamon Ore-Giron: Non Plus Ultra and Sam Richardson: Islands, Ice, and Sand.   Image: Installa…

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New acquisition by David Park on view at the Anderson Collection

…sition by David Park on view at the Anderson Collection The museum reopens to the public on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. ROBIN WANDER | September 15, 2021 Late last year, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University received a gift from two individuals, one who has been giving the gift of time to the museum for years and the other an alumnus. Keith Jantzen and his husband, Scott Beth, ’82, donated Untitled (Portrait of Tom Jefferson), 19…

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Forms That Don’t Yet Exist: Kiyan Williams Interviewed by Louis Bury

Kiyan Williams is not afraid to get dirty in quite literal ways. From a performance in which they emerged from a trash bag beside a New York City dumpster (Trash and Treasure [2014]) to a sculpture of uplifted, zombie-esque arms made from soil and installed without permission on the riverbank of a colonial-era slave dock site (Reaching Towards Warmer Suns [2020]), their art places them in intimate relation with the abject and the taboo so as to…

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Eamon Ore-Giron Named to Presidential Residency at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University

Celebrated abstract painter explores the visual possibilities of cross-cultural aesthetics and expression through large-scale geometric works June 18, 2020 STANFORD, CA–In the Stanford tradition of providing a home for art and artists who advance dialogue on contemporary issues, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University will welcome visual artist Eamon Ore-Giron to campus for the 2020-2021 Presidential Residency on the Future of the Arts. “…

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Mary Margaret ‘Moo’ Anderson, modern art collector and benefactor, dead at 92

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,…

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Works by Pollock, de Kooning donated to Stanford’s Anderson Collection

Gansevoort Street (1949) by Willem de Kooning depicts the meatpacking district of Manhattan in the postwar years. Photo: Anderson Collection The Anderson Collection at Stanford University is adding major works by midcentury masters Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, officials announced Monday, 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,…

Richard Diebenkorn: A Centennial Celebration

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Why Artist Wendy Red Star Centered Indigenous People in Her Abstracted Revision of the Iconic Manifest Destiny Painting ‘American Progress’

Artist Wendy Red Star was usually a sleepy freshman during her 9 a.m. intro to art history class at Montana State University during the early 2000s. But one morning, her professor projected a slide of John Gast’s American Progress (1872) onto the lecture hall’s massive screen. It jolted her awake. The iconic painting is meant to promote the idea of Manifest Destiny, centering on an oversized Lady Columbia who illuminates a path for white settler…

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Art shines light on plastic pollution

Art shines light on plastic pollution A new Anderson Collection art exhibition focuses on humankind’s negative impact on natural bodies of water.   Titled Convergence Zone, the exhibition features artworks by Deborah Butterfield, who is known for her ghost horse sculptures; artist and ocean scientist Ethan Estess, BS ’11, MS ’12; eco-artist pioneers Helen and Newton Harrison; and Jean Shin, the 2022-23 Denning Visiting Artist and an artist-…