CURRENT EXHIBITS [116]

Stanford, Calif. — Beginning Feb. 29, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents a new installation of contemporary art, “Wood, Metal, Paint: Sculpture from the Fisher Collection,” in the Oshman Family Rotunda. The works will remain on view until fall 2013. Over the last decade the Fisher Family has been exceedingly generous in lending works of art from their unrivalled collect...   [more]

Opening: February 29th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This display explores the artist's collaboration with Kenneth Tyler at Gemini G.E.L. in series after series of striking monochromatic prints modeled on Stella's earlier paintings. Freidenrich Family Gallery for Contemporary Art   [more]

Virus Models Reveal Diverse Forms and Students’ Creativity Stanford, California — Demonstrating the beauty of the molecular world as well as the extraordinary creativity of Stanford students, models of herpes, papilloma, polio, rabies, smallpox and other human viruses fill the Rowland K. Rebele Gallery in the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Many of the models appear at first glance...   [more]

Art from Little-Known Region of Africa on View at Stanford Stanford, Calif. — “Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley” opens May 16 at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. Presenting more than 150 objects drawn from international collections, the exhibition gives a comprehensive view of the arts from along the river that flows across the center of Nigeria, joining the...   [more]

Opening: May 16th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This selection of works by artists active in Europe and the Americas in the mid-20th century features uncanny, unexpected photographs of urban streets, shops, and advertisements. Included in the rotation are works by Eugène Atget, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau, Robert Frank, John Gutmann, Lotte Jacobi, André Kertész, Lisette Model, and Edward Weston. Marie Stauffer Sigall Gallery   [more]

Opening: June 13th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

John Cage’s Visual Word Constructions on View at Stanford Stanford, Calif. — John Cage, the most prominent American experimental composer of the 20th century, also creatively explored with visual art forms. Beginning June 13, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents some of his earliest graphic works. The exhibition, which continues through November 11, includes the Sept. 5th cent...   [more]

Stanford, Calif.—“Guardians: Photographs by Andy Freeberg” opens July 25 at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. The exhibition, which remains on view through January 6, 2013, presents 16 critically acclaimed portraits of art museum guards in contemporary Russia as they protect treasured paintings and sculptures in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Andy Freeberg is a San Francisco-based photo...   [more]

Opening: July 25th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Pioneering Political Satire on View at Stanford Stanford, Calif. — Long before Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraiyeh was sentenced to 25 lashings for drawing a parliament member in a soccer jersey, 19th-century caricaturist Honoré Daumier and his colleagues at the weekly Paris journal La Caricature endured prison sentences, fines, and litigation for their scathing portraits of king Louis-Philipp...   [more]

Opening: August 1st, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

In the Media Room is a collaboration between artist Lynn Marie Kirby and student Bartek Rost, where the artist’s video is in dialogue with the student’s painting. The exhibitions address the the Bridge in a wide context, including as a metaphor for the bridging of communities. By presenting a combination of art organizations, art mediums, and artists of all ages, Catharine Clark Galley cel...   [more]

Opening: July 21st, 2012   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

San Francisco, CA: Catharine Clark Gallery announces a group exhibition showcasing six alumni of the Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco (AIR) and a selection of student’s work from San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsED). The exhibit celebrates the relationships between artists, galleries, and non-profits, in conjunction with city-wide programming for International Or...   [more]

Opening: July 21st, 2012   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

The Viewing Room and Media Room showcase work created through another unique non-profit program in the Bay Area, the San Francisco Arts Education Project. SFArtsED brings professional artists into San Francisco public school classrooms, where artists coordinate long-term, integrative curricula and enable experimental and sequential learning. The work exhibited in the show is a selection from th...   [more]

Opening: July 21st, 2012   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

The gallery is pleased to present a solo show of recent work by Japanese-born Seiji Yamauchi. Coral Spawning, is a series of paintings depicting reincarnation and rebirth of the soul, a notion derived from Buddhism and the Japanese traditional religion Shintoism. Each line and dot represents human life. The small and large dots combine to make waves symbolizing human biorhythms. The crossing lines a...   [more]

Cumulous presents the work of Leeza Doreian, Lisa Espenmiller, Danielle Mysliwiec and Sandra Ono, four artists whose work results from the accretion of marks, gestures or material.  Inherent in all of their working processes is repetition, which creates patterns of various forms. Leeza Doreian paints “still lifes” comprised of thrift store fabric.  She first arranges the fabric, deliberately...   [more]

Opening: August 3rd, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

A Sacramento native, internationally acclaimed Mel Ramos (born 1935) is one of the city's most celebrated artists. This is the first American museum survey of his work in more than 35 years and follows his recent solo exhibition at the Albertina in Vienna, Austria. The exhibition showcases each of the artist's creative phases, including his Abstract Expressionist early works, his comic book heroes...   [more]

This exhibition of 20 rare works created, used and collected in the late 18th century and first decades of the 19th century in the Cook Islands, Austral Islands and the Society Islands highlights natural materials and artistic techniques used to create images of worship, sacred objects and everyday articles. One of the most compelling aspects of these works is their variety of realistic and highly...   [more]

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk is the first major exhibition dedicated to celebrated French designer Jean Paul Gaultier. More than 130 iconic haute couture and prêt-a-porter ensembles created between the early 1970s and 2010 will be dramatically displayed in scenic contexts ranging from the boudoir to graffiti streets and the catwalk. Animated mannequins t...   [more]

Opening: March 23rd, 2012   8:00 PM - 10:00 PM