1st Floor, Wisch Family Gallery
Image: Alteronce Gumby. Chasing Rainbows, 2023. Gemstones, glass, and acrylic on panel 53 x 70 in. Collection of Ayesha Selden. Courtesy of Alteronce Gumby Studio.
The Anderson Collection presents the first West Coast museum exhibition of New York–based artist Alteronce Gumby. Featuring nine recent works, the show celebrates Gumby’s ongoing investigation of color, the cosmos, and abstraction. Drawing inspiration from artists represented in the Anderson Collection, such as Mark Rothko and Joan Mitchell, Gumby’s luminous, textured surfaces extend the legacies of 20th-century American painting while forging a distinctly contemporary path. The exhibition will be on view in the Wisch Family Gallery from September 24, 2025-March 1, 2026.
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COLOR Film Screening with Artist Alteronce Gumby
Experience an evening of vivid cinema, conversation, and celebration with COLOR, a luminous journey through global festivals, landscapes, and artistic practice. From Holi in India to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, from Morocco’s spice markets to the Northern Lights of Alaska, the film explores how color shapes culture and creativity. With an introduction by artist Alteronce Gumby, a movie-night concession stand, and a short Q&A to follow.
About the Artist
Alteronce Gumby is a contemporary abstract painter interested in the history of monochromatic painting, color theory, cosmology, astrophysics, and interstellar photography. Gumby’s process is the fulcrum of his work. It begins with the examination of light and its properties, and media including resin, glass and gemstones. This unorthodox blend of materials results in works Gumby calls “tonal paintings”, each producing unique hues, values and energies. Dynamic and vibrant, Gumby’s paintings propose an expanded understanding of abstraction, color, life and the origins of the universe. Gumby graduated from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2016. He has won notable awards such as the Austrian American Foundation/ Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts and the Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship. Gumby has also participated in numerous international artist residencies such as the Rauschenberg Residency (2019), London Summer Intensive (2016), Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria (2015), 6Base (2016), Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship at the Fondation des Étas-Unis in Paris (2016) and is the 2024-2025 recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant for artists.
Alteronce Gumby is organized by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. We gratefully acknowledge the lenders, as well as major support from William Reller and Kristin E. Klint, the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation, and museum members. We extend special thanks to Nicola Vassell Gallery, Alteronce Gumby, and his studio for their generous partnership.
