CURRENT EXHIBITS [128]

Since Lutz Bacher’s first MATRIX exhibition in 1993, the Berkeley-based artist has become a leading figure in contemporary art; she was the subject of a retrospective at MoMA PS1 in 2009 and was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. MATRIX 242 presents an important but rarely seen series from 2006–07 that sheds light on the artist’s often elusive practice.Bien Hoa is is based on a set of ten pho...   [more]

Opening: July 18th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

D-L Alvarez’s first solo museum exhibition presents a haunting meditation on the violent end of innocence. Alvarez, an Oakland-based artist, focuses on the uncanny moments when social and domestic deviance collide. In Alvarez’s drawing series, The Closet (2006–07), we see an abstracted image of Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978), repelling the attacks of a masked psychopat...   [more]

Opening: July 18th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This exhibition presents a selection of works that have entered our collection over the past two years. This is our first opportunity to show most of these works, some of which have never before been exhibited anywhere. The title, At the Edge, evokes the ways in which these works convey a sense of reaching—and sometimes crossing—limits of perception and experience. Among the works on view are dr...   [more]

Opening: July 18th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  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]

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