…olor basically falling off the edge of the painting was shocking,” Red Star, who is of Apsáalooke (Crow) descent and uses historic materials to create multimedia works reasserting her tribe’s experience, described in a recent interview. Her professor discussed American Progress in strictly formal terms, ignoring any conversation about how Manifest Destiny and colonization in general led to the displacement of numerous Indigenous peoples. That “di…

Many in the art world have been anticipating the opening on Sept. 21 of the collection of Harry and Mary Margaret Anderson at Stanford — even from afar. In 2011, the couple donated 1 21 works of contemporary art, filled with paintings by the likes of Pollock, Diebenkorn, Rothko Elsworth Kelly, de Kooning, Joan Mitchell (Begin Again IV at left), and Elizabeth Murray, to name a few, to Stanford on the condition that it build galleries to house the…

…ford graduate students. Richard Diebenkorn ©The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Back when most American collectors and curators considered New York the sole fount of art, the Andersons began embracing California painters, none more so than Diebenkorn, ’44. The couple became part of his social circle and acquired more than 80 of his paintings, drawings and prints between 1969 and 1990, of which three paintings are part of their gift to Stanfor…

…ers to get Jackson Pollock’s “Lucifer.” They also bought pieces by Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Franz Kline. “This collection is built without a curator,” Mr. Anderson says. “What’s right about the collection belongs to Moo and Hunk Anderson, and what’s wrong with the collection belongs to Moo and Hunk Anderson.” In 2011, the couple had more than 800 pieces. They decided to give the “…

…e estimates the painting, Lucifer, might fetch as much as $100 million at auction.) Maybe because I was used to seeing art in generously sized museums—and still am—the intimate, close-quarters abundance of the Andersons’ home struck me then as a higher-end form of pack-rattery. Ever since, I’ve wondered what it would be like to live day in, day out with a Rothko. I still do; really, I can’t imagine a more sublime aesthetic experience. (If any…

…vices on Mt. Tam. The headliners are Wilco, fresh from a stint at the Fillmore, plus Los Lobos, the Stone Foxes, and Bill Frisell doing his album Guitar in the Space Age, which ought to sound very cool in the Mountain Theater around 4000 feet up. Bring a cushion and warm clothes. Details here. Nick Cave’s soundsuits in the work ‘Drive By’ (Photo: James Prinz/courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery and the artist) Sept. 14 – Aug. 14, 2017: The Anderso…

…had stumbled upon. In the past, I’ve shied away from nonrepresentational work, which often looks daunting and difficult to parse. Yet, despite the varying approaches and materials in this show, “Left of Center: Five Years of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University” presents something cohesive and communal—the unmistakable consciousness of the American West, and more often than not of California, in the mid to late 20th c…

…ht, new ideas and the breaking of tradition. Jackson Pollock, Totem Lesson I, 1944, oil on canvas, 70 x 44 in. Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Gift of Mary Margaret Anderson (Image credit: © 2019 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York) Those themes not only apply to the Abstract Expressionists, they permeate the DNA of Stanford. What’s more, they reflect the dynamic nature of the collection. Since i…

…t have existed for a long time and came to the forefront this year. I can’t help but want to be in the galleries to look at his work really closely in response. In addition, his use of news clippings illustrates this moment of reckoning in our country. “Not to mention that views on the tactile have changed so much in the last six months,” Shapiro continued. “The handmade is more meaningful now – and perhaps is even more so when you consider how p…

…one 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 the past and ideas for the future. Earlier this year, Irving provided a glimpse into his process and how he’s thinking about the present.   What drew you to clay? I think the question is, why have I continued to return to clay since I was 12? I think…

American Progress: Wendy Red Star’s Exhibition at the Anderson Collection Lady Columbia floats from above, greeting museum visitors at the entrance to Wendy Red 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 noti…

…rk Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York. Photo: John Janca) The exhibition opened on Sept. 18 and will be on view through March 5, 2023. The Anderson Collection is always free and open to the public. “Presenting Stephanie’s work at the Anderson Collection is important for us because she is deeply committed to uncovering and re-presenting histories and making them more visible in relation to people of color,” said Jason Linetzky…

…n patterned garments against contrasting patterns on the wall behind her. “I didn’t want to subject someone else to some of these tropes,” Syjuco says. “When I was styling the images and playing with them, I felt it was safer to stay within my own level of responsibility in making them. I was more interested in the projection the viewer would put on this character, as being exoticized or ethnicized.” Far from a reflection of how she sees herself…