…lock hung for many years in the bedroom of Harry W. “Hunk” Anderson and Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson’s daughter. It’s now part of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University.Photo: Harrison Truong, Anderson Collection Their collection eventually grew to 1,400 works, worth hundreds of millions. It was loaned to museums, displayed in the halls of Saga Corp. and hung on the walls of their own home, which they offered up for tours. One of the most…

…als of capitalism and individualism at the expense of the people, cultures, and wildlife that had long inhabited it. In this image, Lady Columbia effectively chases out what white settlers saw as undesirable, unwanted, and disposable.” Looking to the future Other collaborative works in the exhibition include a projected digital slideshow of tribal seals of the United States and a corresponding work titled Their Land, which locates the communities…

…siege as a result of that museum’s expansion, the building is simple and unpretentious, Most importantly, it provides a tasteful showcase for the art – the majority of which is installed on the expansive second floor – while not overshadowing it. Clerestories allow for filtered natural light on either side of a central staircase that has a curved ceiling above it; best of all, an open floor-plan that mimics the flowing, interconnected spac…

Stanford Gets ‘Left of Center’ New exhibition of nonrepresentational abstraction opens a world of possibilities October 9, 2019 by Jeffrey Edalatpour My heartbeat accelerated when I caught a glimpse of Joan Mitchell’s Before, Again IV from the bottom of the wide steps that lead up to the main gallery upstairs. Her periwinkle- and rust-colored scribbles were the welcoming salvo into abstract expressionism that I’d been w…

…rk being unveiled as the inaugural winner of the High Line in New York City’s series of large-scale commissions, it was designated “the best thing in the Hudson Yards area.” In October, she became the first Black woman to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, which will next occur in April 2022. As artists rewrite narratives within art history and beyond it, their work takes on new meaning in the context of a changed and changing so…

…the Anderson Collection at Stanford University from Jul. 29 to Dec. 5. Williams has also created numerous other works of art, such as “Pig Roast,” inspired by police violence toward Black people. They previously worked at Virginia Commonwealth University and served as a fellow with New York University. Their art will be exhibited in New York City this coming fall. The Stanford Daily [TSD]: What inspired your current exhibit, “Reaching Towards Wa…

…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 clues relating to the discovery of musical artifacts. A version of t…

To the Andersons, their art is family—and so is Stanford, its new caretaker. September/October 2014 The Collection of a Lifetime To the Andersons, their art is family—and so is Stanford, its new caretaker. ©Henrik Kam 2014 The striking centerpiece of the new Anderson Collection building is a grand staircase ascending to the main gallery spaces—airy, open, graced with natural light—and their cornucopia of art. When the collection opens on Septemb…

…University. That is, Lucifer, the celebrated 1947 Jackson Pollock painting now hangs against a white background. It sits opposite Mark Rothko’s Pink and White Over Red, completed 10 years later. Both together constitute just two of 121 works by 86 artists in the Anderson Collection at Stanford, located in a brand new building just north of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. Designed by Richard Olcott, the building exist…

…usually chats with the staff before declaring, “I’m off to see my friends.” Those friends are the more than 100 works of art, including paintings and sculptures, that she and her husband, Harry (“Hunk”), along with their daughter, Mary Patricia (“Putter”) Anderson Pence, gave to the university several years ago. In September, the Anderson Collection opened its doors, allowing the public to view and appreciate the postwar American art that the fa…

…r of the gallery wall and exact placement of four spotlights. When properly displayed, the disk is otherworldly. It appears to be floating. The disk blends with its shadows, which in turn seem to take on substance and merge with the disk. Prolonged gazing can make a viewer feel that he or she is levitating along with the work. Advertisement One work in this series commands its own wall at the Anderson Collection at Stanford. A conveniently placed…

…s Sept. 14 and runs through Aug. 14, 2017. The Anderson Collection is located at 314 Lomita Drive on campus. The works in the Nick Cave exhibition are on loan from the Anderson family, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and private collectors. Genre-crossing works Cave, born in Missouri and now based in Chicago, is the director of the graduate fashion program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is known for his Soundsuits, which…

…, and the UC Davis cluster, Wayne Thiebaud, Roy De Forest and Robert Arneson. In 1996, the Andersons donated 650 works of graphic art to the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, to create the Anderson Graphic Art Collection. In 2000, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art showed off the Anderson holding in “Celebrating Modern Art: the Anderson Collection.” It was one of three shows of the Anderson art over the years, and along the way 55 of their w…

Reviews Stephanie Syjuco: White Balance/Color Cast | Anderson Collection at Stanford University BY Rachel Heise Bolten, January 3, 2023 Stephanie Syjuco’s exhibition White Balance/Color Cast, on view through March 5, manufactures histories, real and counterfeit. Her work includes photographs, though she does not call herself a photographer – she teaches sculpture as an associate professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Her pictures…

…rt movement that had international acceptance,” as Mr. Anderson says. “And we wanted to be a part of it.” It took two years of “wooing and wining and dining” various collectors and dealers 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 ab…

…distinctive approach to puppetry, which features the manipulation of everyday objects, prompts us to view these items in ways we usually do not. One of Twist’s most acclaimed works, “Symphonie Fantastique,” is performed underwater in an aquarium. The piece intends to create a dynamic show of swirling color and form using materials like feathers, glitter, plastics, vinyl and mirrors. In his rendition of “The Rite of Spring,” commemorating the 100…

…nstraints, of course, but there are avenues of making today that are so exciting. Given your work exploring what it means to be an American, how are you thinking about this moment of uncertainty in our nation and the further implications it will have on an ailing democracy and your practice? The moment of uncertainty and the ailments we are facing are issues we have been facing since the country’s conception. I am thinking about this moment among…