…. It was described by Cultured Magazine as “work that explores what it means to be American.” “When I am heading into the studio or I am materializing thoughts around what I am desiring to make, the possibilities are endless,” said Irving. “There are material constraints, of course, but there are avenues of making today that are so exciting.” While distinct in form and style, Butterly, Irving, Leigh and Ruais have each been the subject of recent…

Stephanie Syjuco Goes Full Color The politics of color photography explored in new exhibit There’s a colorchecker at the center of Stephanie Syjuco’s collage Pileup (Brass Bells). It’s 24 squares of color contained within a black frame. The artist arranges sheaves of paper, journals, letters and photographs around the colorchecker to create a disorderly narrative. If there’s a plot, the world’s greatest detective might be able to piece together…

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…

…ction upon Stanford’s museums’ reopening, presents the work of four groundbreaking contemporary artists who push the boundaries of their medium and explore questions of value, identity, materiality, and the body: Kathy Butterly, Kahlil Robert Irving, Simone Leigh, and Brie Ruais. While distinctly different from each other, they share a reverence for ceramics’ rich and sometimes complicated history, and their practices provide both insight into th…

…h outline of the continental US using mud. The completed map contains numerous imprints of my hands, evidence of the process of creation and transformation. These material traces are related to questions of Diasporic embodiment. I think of them as an alternative archive, as evidence of lived experience for people whose lives elude traditional documentation. LB You’ve told me that sometimes you give yourself rules or guidelines in the creative pro…

…, permanent access to a cache of defining postwar American artworks. Low: Bay Area Now 7, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ triennial survey show ended in a ditch YBCA dug by delegating regional nonprofits to make its selections, which sometimes consisted of yet other, smaller collectives. MVP: Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, the couple whose gifts of otherwise unobtainable art to Stanford signify a lifetime’s self-education in connoisseurshi…

…n art studio where the students sat on the floor and listened to Hunk relate his personal history as a collector and the great satisfactions he took in putting together a stellar selection of late 20th-century American art. For most of my students, this was the first time they had ever seen a major private collection in a domestic setting and met someone who could articulate what it meant to live with, learn about and love the art of their time….

…not all public art is monumental and not all monumental art is truly impactful,Public Works focuses on temporary interventions online and in the urban environment. The list of participating artists — too lengthy to mention here — is an impressive one, including off-site commissions by Constance Hockaday and Jenifer K. Wofford. The exhibition spans media and generations, documenting the important projects that occupy space in the world, merging po…

…1; he said. Informal evening talks in the gallery have proven to be very popular, often with standing room only. In April, the daughter of Bay Area figurative artist David Park spoke about her father’s life and work, while sitting in front of his colorful “Four Women,” owned by the Collection. The Collection also collaborates with the Cantor Arts Center in presenting the annual McMurtry Lecture, which brings nationally recognize…

…st Mary Weatherford given by Debra and Steven Wisch, ’83, in honor of the Anderson family. Other works by Jensen and Neri were part of the original gift from Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson and Mary Patrica Anderson Pence to Stanford. The Weatherford gift brings the number of artists represented in the collection to 87. The Anderson Collection will host an anniversary celebration on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., featuring live m…

…t-sized exhibition this week, ahead of a major retrospective of his work at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art in late May. Turrell is famous for his meditations on light and space that play with your depth perception. Take the most eye-catching piece in the inaugural show at the newly opened Pace Gallery in Palo Alto. Pelée is a curvaceous LED screen that looks like a window — or really, more like an opening in the wall to another world. “You’…

Over the past decade, many university leaders and donors have come to the same conclusion: investment in the arts is essential to building a competitive institution in an increasingly global world. This year, around half a dozen new museums and arts centres are opening on campuses across the country, from Columbia University in New York to Rice University in Texas. They come on the heels of recently completed projects at Stanford in California,…

…strict, a $28 million renovation of Roble Gym into an “art gym” will add rehearsal and performance space. Before the Bing, students complained about the bad acoustics of an auditorium serving as an ad hoc concert hall. Mr. Hennessy’s initiative raised nearly $160 million from donors for new buildings. The university contributed roughly another $100 million, he said, primarily from discretionary presidential funds and Google patent revenue streams…