CURRENT EXHIBITS [119]

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Judith Foosaner Breaking and Entering   July 7 – August 24, 2012 Reception for the artist: Saturday, July 7, 2-4pm     Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to announce Breaking and Entering, a solo exhibition by Bay Area artist, Judith Foosaner, opening Saturday, July 7, with a reception for the artist from 2-4pm. Influenced by the pulse, beat, and movement of dance and...   [more]

Opening: July 7th, 2012   2:00 PM - 4:00 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

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

Halftones Chandra Cerrito Contemporary is pleased to announce Halftones, a solo exhibition by Sheila Ghidini’s. Ghidini’s graphite drawings and sculptural installation transform ordinary objects and explore the forty shades of gray visible to the eye. Her drawings of books were inspired by a recent visit to her writer friend's New York apartment, where she encountered volumes of poetry and a...   [more]

Opening: June 1st, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Outside In Chandra Cerrito Contemporary is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Esther Traugot: Outside In. Traugot’s sculptures and installations are comprised of natural objects that are "gilded" with hand-dyed, crocheted yarn. Suspended from the ceiling, lining the gallery walls and presented as specimens on pedestals, her sculptural arrangement creates a peculiar world onto itself. Pla...   [more]

Opening: June 1st, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

This May, CCC celebrates the fifth installment of its Xian Rui Fresharp Artist Excellence Series. This year the gallery features multimedia installation artist Adrian Wong, whose Orange Peel, Harbor Seal, Hyperreal opens May 12. Orange Peel, Harbor Seal, Hyperreal, is the first solo exhibition in the Bay Area of the work of critically-acclaimed American artist Adrian Wong. The six new sculptural...   [more]

Opening: May 12th, 2012   1:00 PM - 4:00 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]

A significant collection of great kilims gifted to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco by Caroline McCoy-Jones in 1989 is showcased in an exhibition of 20 of the finest examples. Presented in the textile arts gallery at the de Young, the pre-19th-century Anatolian kilims on view include a variety of design types, regional styles, as well as superb examples of technical and structural features.   [more]

Opening: September 10th, 2011   9:30 AM - 5:15 PM