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September 16, 2009 – January 3, 2010
From Their Studios
This exhibition showcases the excellence of current faculty studio art practice at Stanford while also connoting the exchange of ideas among faculty and students and the quality of the campus art studio experience. While some work is in traditional formats such as oil on canvas or straight photography, often the media have been filtered through modern technology to be displayed as digitally scanned or computer-assisted photographic prints, custom-shaped canvases, video footage incorporated into sculpture, or mechanical projection devices that defy description.
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October 7, 2009 – June 26, 2011
Longing for Sea Change
This series presents video installations by contemporary artists living and working in Africa and the diasporas. Emotionally stirring and symbolic, the visual narratives address broad issues of humanity in moments of upheaval, fragmentation, and transition. The works are also deeply personal, with a longing for transformation and the desire to belong. The series begins with Spirit of ’76 (6 minutes, 24 seconds), made by South African artist Berni Searle in 2007, on view through January 10, 2010. Other video installations follow through June 26, 2011. Learn more
November 11, 2009 – February 21, 2010
Frank Lobdell Figure Drawings
Although he is known primarily as a San Francisco abstract expressionist painter, Frank Lobdell participated in weekly figure-drawing sessions throughout his career. Lobdell used these weekly drawing sessions as a springboard to develop a vocabulary of abstraction that was informed by the study of the human body and grounded in the formal issues of expressionist gesture and line. This exhibition, organized by Anne Kohs & Associates, will feature approximately 60 figure drawings in ink, pencil, crayon, and wash dating from the 1960s and 1970s, including several works by Lobdell’s former sketching partners Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff that illustrate how each artist approached the figure in a unique way. Learn more
February 17 – July 4, 2010
Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China
This landmark exhibition illuminates a turning point in the development of Chinese ink painting during the 20th century. Drawing upon paintings and calligraphy on loan from Chinese collections new to American audiences, the exhibition highlights the monumental portraits, vibrant bird-and-flower painting, and spectacular landscapes by Wu Changshuo (1844-1927), Qi Baishi (1864-1957), Huang Binhong (1865-1955), and Pan Tianshou (1897-1971). Collectively known in China as the "Four Great Masters of Ink Painting," these artists faced the dual challenges of negotiating the impact of encounters with the West, while inventing new directions for long-held practices of ink painting. Learn more
June 23 – September 26, 2010
William Trost Richards–True to Nature: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches at Stanford University
In 1992, M. J. and A. E. van Löben Sels gave the museum more than 230 works by William Trost Richards (1833–1905), an accomplished landscape and marine painter. This exhibition includes approximately 75 works, including pen and pencil drawings, watercolors, small oil studies, and a sketchbook, that reveal both his precise technique and his devotion to nature. Richards began to draw in his childhood, and although he lived on the East Coast most of his life, he traveled to Europe more than 15 times, producing numerous studies in fair and foul weather. Seascapes were his favorite subject, and his watercolors and oils contain views of both smooth and turbulent waters and the luminous sky.
August 4, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas
This exhibition is the first major American exhibition to present a comprehensive examination of the dynamic visual arts associated with water spirits. More than 200 works present a compelling range of art forms that portray the water deity widely known as Mami Wata (pidgin English for “Mother Water” or “Water Mistress”). The exhibition highlights both traditional and contemporary images of Mami Wata and her consorts from across the African continent, as well as from the Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States. It offers a rich variety of media including magnificent masks, kinetic sculptures, vibrant paintings, and inspired shrine recreations.
October 13, 2010 – March 20, 2011
Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of Initiates
This exhibition presents compelling diptychs by the Belgian photographer Jean Dominique Burton, who sensitively portrays Vodoun practitioners in Benin and their sacred shrines. The images provide an exceptional glimpse into the esoteric domain of this traditional Fon religion, which is now variously called Vodou, Vodun, Vaudou, or Vaudoux and practiced throughout West Africa and the African diaspora. Burton combines black-and-white with color photographs to reveal a fascinating blend of his subjects' personal charisma and the union of sculpture, painting, and installation art in the interpretation of creation laws that visibly manifest themselves in spirits of plants, animals, humans, and ancestors.
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