CURRENT EXHIBITS [144]

Over 70 outstanding artists including Kim Anno, Robert Brady, Squeak Carnwath, Tom Holland, Hung Liu, Tom McKinley, Maria Porges, Kay Sekimachi, Joe Slusky and Katherine Westerhout are featured in COLLECT!, a special exhibition and on-going silent auction opening on Saturday, June 16 and culminating in a closing party and final bidding bash on Saturday, July 14. Join us in an opportunity to a...   [more]

Opening: June 16th, 2012   5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that bo...   [more]

Opening: January 15th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The journey of Himalayan Pilgrimage continues with Liberation Through Sight, a reinstallation that focuses on artworks created as vehicles to enlightenment.Vajrayana, the esoteric form of Buddhism that prevails in Tibet and the Himalayas, employs myriad icons of deities to reveal the true nature of the Buddha’s teachings. The making of these icons is in itself a devotional act, bringing merit t...   [more]

Pard Morrison Recent Work   May 3 – June 30, 2012 Reception for the artist: Saturday, May 5, 4-6pm   Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of works by Colorado artist, Pard Morrison, opening Thursday, May 3, with a reception for the artist on Saturday, May 5, from 4-6pm. Featured will be Morrison’s signature work that takes the form of colorful, wall-mounted paint...   [more]

Opening: May 5th, 2012   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Adam Fowler Hide/Reveal   May 3 – June 30, 2012 Reception for the artist: Saturday, May 5, 4-6pm   Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to announce the San Francisco debut of New York artist, Adam Fowler, opening Thursday, May 3 with a reception for the artist on Saturday, May 5 from 4-6pm. Hide/Reveal features Fowler’s precise cut paper constructions that are comprised of layered, gestural draw...   [more]

Opening: May 5th, 2012   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Stanford, California — The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces new displays of contemporary art. When the art museum at Stanford reopened in 1999 as the Cantor Arts Center, the top floor of its new wing was devoted to art of the past four decades. Since then, more than 750 works of European and American art in diverse media have been added to the modern and contemporary co...   [more]

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

Stanford, Calif. — From March 21 through July 8, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents “Light Works: Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin,” which features two large pieces. One work is by installation artist and painter Dan Flavin (U.S.A., 1933–1996). The other is by environmental artist and sculptor Robert Irwin (U.S.A., born 1928). Beginning in the 1920s, with the work of the Construct...   [more]

Opening: March 21st, 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]

Catharine Clark Gallery announces the solo exhibition of new works in photography by Ellen Kooi.  The photography of Dutch artist Ellen Kooi is featured in a second solo exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery. Kooi’s vividly-colored, hyper-sharp, large-scale photographs present moments that have been clipped out of a larger narrative to which the audience is not granted access. The stills—fro...   [more]

Opening: June 16th, 2012   12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Presented in the Media Room is Lauren Kelley’s stop-motion animated short Upside. Completed during her residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2009–2010), Kelley’s video expresses a bittersweet pathos through a narrative told from the vantage point of a child assessing her family’s lot as a swimming pool party goes awry. Employing a wry wit when commenting on matters of sexuality, race,...   [more]

Opening: June 16th, 2012   12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

In the world of literature, K is the alternative to both the “I” of psychoanalysis and the “we” of politics. In Franz Kafka’s books The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), K signifies the simultaneous and reciprocal emergence of the institution and its subject. An exhibition curated by Kadist Curatorial Resident Juan A. Gaitán, featuring works by Liam Everett, Claire Fontaine, Ken Lum, Pedro...   [more]

Opening: May 31st, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM