…he Earth, it would form an invisible double strain of DNA. Her early sketches depict the alignment of our bodies and DNA with the celestial bodies and the relationship between the Earth and the sky, where humans are the connection between the two. Lita Albuquerque, early sketches of Stellar Axis concept, 2003. Photo Courtesy: Lita Albuquerque Her conceptual language manipulates spaces for introspection and contemplation enabling us to gain a mo…

…e with the legacy of American Land art, I’ll often say “earth” or “soil.” A set of individual mud hands attached to vertical sticks inserted in the ground form a cluster outside. Installation view of Kiyan Williams, Reaching Towards Warmer Suns, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, July 29–December 5, 2021. Photo by Andrew Brodhead. Courtesy of Stanford University. LB How do these considerations manifest in the physical experience of worki…

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Anderson Collection September 9, 2015 – March 21, 2016 \Stanford has not one but four — count ’em — four exhibitions opening on Sept. 9. Among them are a collection of Richard Diebenkorn’s sketchbooks, a newly-acquired Edward Hopper painting and artwork that “demystifies” the artistic process. The Anderson Collection turns its focus to living artists with Constructive Interference: Tauba Auerbach and Mark Fox, presenting the work of two…

…ia Anderson “Putter” Pence. He was 95. A refreshingly unpretentious man in an art world known for its pomposity, Anderson was always called “Hunk” and his wife and collecting partner Mary Margaret went by “Moo.” They were “Hunk and Moo,” and their collection grew so vast that Stanford University had to build a new museum just to show it. Nearly 250,000 people have visited the Anderson Collection at Stanford University since it opened in 2014. Nei…

…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 important Pollock drip paintings, “Lucifer,” from 1947, hung for years above the bed of their daughter, Mary Patricia “Putter” Anderson Pence. Their collection was showcased in the major exhibition “Celebrating Modern Art: the Anderson Collection,” which ran from 2000 to 2001 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern…