Cantor Arts Center & Anderson Collection Magazine | Spring - Summer 2024

SPRING/SUMMER 2024

Ando Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography
Museums by Moonlight is an elegant black-tie gala benefiting two
extraordinary art museums: the Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson
Collection at Stanford University. Held only once every two years, this
much anticipated event begins with cocktails under the stars followed
by a sumptuous dinner and dancing in the Rodin Sculpture Garden.
Guests have exclusive access to the galleries throughout the evening—
and in 2024, we will celebrate the Anderson’s 10th anniversary and
enjoy a special preview of a major new exhibition opening as part of
the Cantor’s Asian American Art Initiative.
Learn more about the gala
on September 14, 2024
museumsbymoonlight.stanford.edu
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SPRING/SUMMER 2024
5 WHAT’S NEW AT THE CANTOR
Sofía Gallisá Muriente: Celaje (Cloudscape)
Through May 19, 2024
TT Takemoto: Remembering in the
Absence of Memory
June 19–December 1, 2024
6–7 EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT
Day Jobs
Through July 21, 2024
8–9 WHAT’S NEW AT THE ANDERSON
Lita Albuquerque: Stellar Axis
March 27–August 18, 2024
Anderson Collection’s 10th
Anniversary Celebration
September 21–22
10-11 THINGS TO DO
What Makes Us Tick: An Introduction
to Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Thursday, April 4
Day Jobs | Sandy Rodriguez: Codex
Rodriguez-Mondragón
Thursday, April 11
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TT Takemoto: Remembering in the Absence of Memory
TT Takemoto (American), On the Line, 2018. Singlechannel
digital video with sound: hand-processed
8mm/16mm film, paint, found footage, digital video;
6:43 min. © TT Takemoto. Courtesy of the artist and
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
ART FOR ALL: Family Day
Sunday, April 14
CURATOR TALKS
Highlights from Day Jobs with
Veronica Roberts
March 13, April 24, May 8, May 30
Highlights from Day Jobs with
Jorge Sibaja
April 25, May 29, May 30, June 27
Anderson Collection: The Burt and
Deedee McMurtry Lecture
Wednesday, April 24
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Day Jobs
Vivian Maier, Chicago, 1978. Chromogenic print; printed
later (exhibition print). Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection,
Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York © The
Estate of Vivian Maier
COVER IMAGE: Julia Scher (American, born in 1954).
Security by Julia Uniforms, (detail) 1998. Two uniforms
with embroidery, installation dimensions variable.
Courtesy the artist, Ortuzar Projects, New York and
Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul. Photo © Jörg von
Bruchhausen
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Anderson Collection: Burt and Deedee McMurtry
Lecture with Lita Albuquerque. Photo: Tarek Naga
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

This season we invite you to visit our galleries to explore
Day Jobs, the first major museum exhibition to examine the
overlooked impact that day jobs have had on artists’ practices.
Opening on Wednesday, March 6, this exhibition features
over 90 works by 36 artists based in the U.S., from World War
II to the present, and will be accompanied by an exhibition
catalogue featuring 25 essays and interviews by living
artists who, in their own words, describe how their jobs have
impacted their art.
In conjunction with Day Jobs, featured artist Sandy
Rodriguez will give a public talk at the Cantor and a
multipart workshop for students studying Art, Art History,
and Latin American Studies. Rodriguez will address her day job as a museum educator
along with history, social memory, and contemporary politics in her series Codex
Rodriguez-Mondragón.
We are pleased to be reigniting the Distinguished Lecture in Asian Art in Honor of
the Lijin Collection, starting with the Seoul-based artist duo Young-Hae Chang Heavy
Industries, who will present one of their signature media works that sync original texts
with music to address the contemporary moment.
Later this summer, be on the lookout for the exhibition TT Takemoto: Remembering in the
Absence of Memory featuring this San Francisco-based artist, whose video works center on
queer experiences of intimacy in prewar and WWII contexts.
And, looking further ahead, save the date for Museums by Moonlight, our black-tie gala
that supports both museums, where we will be honoring the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson
on September 14.
Special thanks to our members and visitors, as well as our staff and dedicated
volunteers, for enlivening the museum every day. Because of you, the Cantor continues to
be a place where all visitors can find expressions of beauty, joy, and diverse perspectives.
Join us and bring your family and friends!
—Veronica Roberts, John and Jill Freidenrich Director, Cantor Arts Center
WELCOME
Lita Albuquerque’s exhibition Stellar Axis, opening on March 27,
will have viewers thinking about our planet’s celestial relationship
with the universe, just in time for the solar eclipse crossing North
America in April. The exhibition by this multidisciplinary artist
complements the ethereal and atmospheric Light and Space works
in the permanent collection by artists such as Larry Bell, Robert
Irwin, and Sam Richardson. Mark your calendar for April 24,
when Albuquerque will deliver the annual Burt and Deedee
McMurtry Lecture.
Another calendar date to save is September 14, when we are
delighted to welcome the artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman
Leeson back to campus, where she will be honored at the Museums by Moonlight gala. In
one of the Anderson Collection’s very first public programs in early 2015, we hosted a free
screening of Hershman Leeson’s film !Women Art Revolution. Following the film, Hershman
Leeson participated in a memorable panel discussion with feminist art historian and critic
Moira Roth and then chair of Stanford’s Department of Theater and Performance Studies,
Jennifer DeVere Brody. We look forward to engaging with the award-winning artist once again.
September is a momentous month for the Anderson Collection because it marks the
museum’s 10th anniversary, which we invite members to celebrate with us on September
21–22. I am honored to have worked with the Anderson family for 13 years while they were
building their outstanding collection and then transitioning to my role as the first director of
the museum after their transformative donation of 121 works. I am extremely grateful for 10
years of support and engagement from museum members and the remarkable community on
campus and beyond. Here’s to celebrating together!
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—Jason Linetzky, Director, Anderson Collection

Sofía Gallisá Muriente: Celaje (Cloudscape)
Through May 19, 2024
Madeleine H. Russell Gallery—105
This exhibition explores
the confluence of
recent natural disasters
with Puerto Rico’s
colonial histories and
present. Combining
home movies, footage
and sound recordings
of the artist’s late
grandmother, and
footage filmed in
post-Hurricane Maria and COVID-19-era Puerto Rico, Muriente refers
to the work as an elegy. She emphasizes the theme of impermanence by
degrading some of the film stock, an analogy for the ravages of the tropical
climate on the material evidence of history.
We gratefully acknowledge support from the Halperin Exhibitions Fund. Sofía Gallisá Muriente (Puerto Rican, born in 1986), Celaje
(Cloudscape), 2020. 16mm and Super8 film transferred to HD video, color, sound, 40 min. 57 sec. © Sofía Gallisá Muriente.
Courtesy of the artist
TT Takemoto: Remembering in the Absence of Memory
June 19–December 1, 2024
Madeleine H. Russell Gallery—105
This single gallery
exhibition features
two video works and
two complementary
series of small
handmade objects and
works on paper by
San Francisco-based
artist TT Takemoto.
Takemoto’s videos
Looking for Jiro (2011)
and On the Line (2018)
uniquely center queer
experiences of intimacy in pre-war and WWII contexts. The Gentleman’s
Gaman series (2009–2022) and an installation of handcrafted Kokeshi
dolls (2023) offer complementary modes of engagement with challenging
and overlooked narratives in Asian American history, as reimagined
by Takemoto.
We gratefully acknowledge support from The Robert Mondavi Family Fund at the Cantor Arts Center. TT Takemoto (American),
Looking for Jiro, 2011. Single-channel digital video with sound: performance, found footage; 5:45 min. © TT Takemoto.
Courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
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WHAT’S NEW AT THE CANTOR

DAY JOBS
Through July 21, 2024
Pigott Family Gallery—142, Freidenrich Family Gallery—221, Ruth Levison
Halperin Gallery—211, Lynn Krywick Gibbons Gallery—210
Day Jobs is the first major museum exhibition to examine the overlooked
impact that day jobs have had on artists’ practices. Artists often take on
day jobs as an economic
necessity, and success is
often measured by the
ability to quit their job
and focus full-time on
making art. But these jobs
can also spur creative
growth—by providing
artists with new
materials and methods,
hands-on knowledge
of a specific industry
that becomes an area of
artistic investigation, or
a predictable paycheck
and structure that enable
unpredictable ideas. The
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exhibition features over
90 works by 36 emerging
and established artists in
the U.S., from World War
II to the present including
Margaret Kilgallen, Barbara
Kruger, Narsiso Martinez,
Howardena Pindell, and
Vivian Maier.
Day Jobs upends familiar
narratives and myths
around artists, challenging
romanticized notions about
creativity and what success
looks like. The exhibition
aims to demystify artistic
production and overturn the concept of the artist sequestered in a
studio, waiting for inspiration to strike. Instead, it makes clear that
much of what has determined the course of art history in the late 20th
and 21st centuries are unanticipated—often accidental—discoveries
brought about as much by everyday lived experiences as by dramatic
epiphanies. As a corrective to traditional art-historical narratives,
Day Jobs encourages us to openly acknowledge the precarious and
generative ways that economic and creative pursuits are intertwined.
A major publication will function as the essential reader for
the exhibition, featuring 40 texts and accompanying archival and
comparative images, including 25 essays and interviews by living
artists who in their own words, describe how their jobs have
impacted their art.
We gratefully acknowledge lead support for Day Jobs provided by Pamela and David Hornik. Major support is
provided by Hilary Ley Jager and Edwin Jager, and Anonymous. Generous support is provided by the Ellsworth
Kelly Foundation, Suzanne Deal Booth, Anthony Meier Jr. and Celeste Meier, Judy and Charles Tate, and Carl
and Marilynn Thoma. Additional support is provided by Lea Weingarten, Anonymous, Jeanne and Mickey Klein,
Suzanne McFayden, Keris Salmon and Frank Williams, and Robin Wright and Ian Reeves. Sustained support
generously provided by the Halperin Exhibitions
Fund and The Lynn Krywick Gibbons Gallery
Exhibitions Fund at the Cantor Arts Center. IMAGES:
Margaret Kilgallen, Money to Loan (Paintings for
the San Francisco Bus Shelter Posters), detail, 2000.
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, gift of the estate of
Margaret Kilgallen and partial purchase with funds
provided by Julia Rothschild Foundation. Courtesy
of the Margaret Kilgallen Estate, photo by Tony
Prikryl • Narsiso Martinez, Legal Tender (detail),
2022. Mixed media on cardboard produce boxes.
Sean Leffers. Courtesy of Charlie James Gallery.
Photo by ofstudio • Violette Bule, Homage to
Johnny, 2015. Installation view, Blanton Museum of
Art, Day Jobs, 2023. Steel grate, forks, and magnets.
Collection of the artist. Photo by Manny Alcalá •
Tishan Hsu, Outer Banks of Memory, 1984. Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York; purchase,
with funds from the Painting and Sculpture
Committee, © 2024 Tishan Hsu / Artist Rights
Society (ARS), New York
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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT

WHAT’S NEW AT THE ANDERSON
Lita Albuquerque: Stellar Axis
March 27–August 18, 2024
In 2006, artist Lita Albuquerque led an expedition to the farthest
reaches of Antarctica near the South Pole to create Stellar Axis:
Antarctica. The journey to the ice included a team of experts,
researchers, and artists with Albuquerque at the helm. Their sole
purpose was to create a sculpture and ephemeral event on a scale
and in a place that was completely unprecedented. The expedition
was aided by a grant from the National Science Foundation and was
the first and largest ephemeral artwork created on the continent.
The resulting installation consisted of an array of 99 fabricated blue
spheres where each sphere’s placement corresponded to the location
of one of 99 specific stars in the Antarctic sky above, creating an earthly
constellation at the earth’s pole. As the planet rotated and followed its
orbit, the displacement between the original positions of the stars and
the spheres drew an invisible spiral of the earth’s spinning motion.
In 2014, The Nevada Museum of Art, Center for Art + Environment,
home to Lita Albuquerque’s Stellar Axis archive, organized an exhibition
and published a major monograph of the work. This year, for her
solo exhibition at the Anderson Collection, one of the surviving 99
spheres will be on view amid a bed of salt,
accompanied by a selection of photographic
works from the Antarctica installation, a
video documenting the artwork, and one
painting from the Auric Field series.
Since the early 1970s, Albuquerque
(born 1946, Santa Monica, CA) has created
an expansive body of work, ranging from
sculpture, poetry, painting, and multi-media
performance to ambitious site-specific
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ephemeral projects in remote locations around the globe. Often associated
with the Light and Space and Land Art movements, Albuquerque has
developed a unique visual and conceptual vocabulary using the earth, color,
the body, motion, and time to illuminate identity as part of the universal.
She represented the U.S. at the Sixth International Cairo Biennale and
was awarded the Biennale’s top prize. Albuquerque received the National
Science Foundation Artist Grant Program for Stellar Axis: Antarctica,
three NEA Art in Public Places awards, an NEA Individual Fellowship
grant, a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and MOCA’s
Distinguished Women in the Arts award.
On April 24, Albuquerque will deliver the Burt and Deedee McMurtry
Lecture on the North Lawn between the Anderson Collection and the
Cantor. Registration will open to members and the public in mid-March.
Anderson Collection’s 10th Anniversary
Celebrate with us on September 21 and 22
Ten years ago, Stanford became home
to the core of the Anderson Collection,
one of the world’s most outstanding
private assemblies of post–World War
II American art. The collection was a gift
from Harry W. “Hunk” and Mary Margaret
“Moo” Anderson and their daughter, Mary
Patricia “Putter” Anderson Pence, the
Bay Area family who collected the art for
nearly 50 years. Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects designed the building
exclusively for the collection that maintained the casual, accessible, and
open qualities of experiencing the collection at the Andersons’ home.
Thousands of visitors have enjoyed the permanent collection, exhibitions,
educational programs, and tours, and dozens of students and scholars have
had the opportunity to engage deeply with individual works, museum staff,
and the community.
Since the opening, there have been numerous special exhibitions
celebrating contemporary voices in the visual arts, such as Jim Campbell,
Nick Cave, Wendy Red Star, and Stephanie Syjuco, outdoor installations
by alum Kiyan Williams and students in Stanford’s Architectural Design
program, plus several significant acquisitions of works by Manuel Neri,
Eamon Ore-Giron, and Mary Weatherford.
Save the date for a weekend celebration on September 21 and 22, when
a series of exhibitions highlighting new perspectives on the collection, the
love of living with art, and the Anderson family’s relationships with artists
opens at the museum.
Screenshot: Lita Albuquerque, Stellar Axis: Antarctica, 2006, © Lita Albuquerque, Center for Art + Environment at the
Nevada Museum of Art • Lita Albuquerque, She has shifted scales on the planet, so we can see, 2021, 24k gold leaf on resin,
pigment on panel, 84 x 84 in., © Lita Albuquerque • Willem de Kooning, Gansevoort Street, c. 1949, oil on cardboard, 30 x 40
in., Gift of Mary Margaret Anderson, 2019.1.1
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What Makes Us Tick:
An Introduction to
Young-Hae Chang
Heavy Industries
Thursday, April 4, 6 PM
Oshman Hall
YOUNG-HAE CHANG
HEAVY INDUSTRIES is
yhchang.com is Young-hae Chang and Marc Voge. Based in Seoul,
YHCHI have created a signature style of syncing original texts and
music in English, Korean, and twenty-four other languages, showing
many of them in major art institutions and biennials.
Day Jobs | Sandy
Rodriguez: Codex
Rodriguez-Mondragón
Thursday, April 11, 6 PM
Cantor Auditorium
Join Los Angeles-based Chicana
artist and researcher Sandy
Rodriguez for an artist talk at the
Cantor Arts Center, where she
will discuss works from the Day Jobs exhibition and her series Codex
Rodriguez-Mondragón. Rodriguez works at the intersections of history,
social memory, and contemporary politics.
Sandy Rodriguez. Nocturne for Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch, 2020-2021. Hand-processed watercolor on amate
paper. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 2022.6
THINGS TO DO
Curator Talks
Enjoy in-gallery talks about the Cantor’s special
exhibition. Curator talks are first-come,
first-served.
Day Jobs highlights with
Veronica Roberts
Wednesdays, March 13 and April 24, 12:30 PM
Wednesday, May 8, 12 PM
Thursday, May 30, 12:30 PM
Day Jobs highlights with Jorge Sibaja
Thursday, April 25, 12 PM
Wednesday, May 29, 12:30 PM
Thursday, June 27, 12 PM
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your Fact is Stranger than Fiction), 1983. Black-and-white photograph, in artist’s frame.
Private Collection, New York. Courtesy Sprüth Magers, David Zwirner, and the artist
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AT THE ANDERSON COLLECTION
Family Fun
There’s something for everyone at the Anderson! Visitors
of all ages can enjoy our art scavenger hunt, Josef Albers
activity guide, and coloring, drawing, and reading materials
in the Denning Family Resource Center. More art offerings
in the works include the return of our popular art boxes and
additional activity guides.
Contemporary Themes in Modern Art
The Redefining Feminism self-guided tour, written by Irmak Ersoz ’24, has
proven so popular that the Anderson Collection is now presenting two
new tours. Recent graduate Callum Tresnan ’23 explores Spirituality and
the Ethics of Inspiration, and another tour by Ersoz covers Friendships in the
New York School, each through four permanent collection artworks. Pick
up a guide card at the Visitor Experience desk, scan the QR code, or look
in the galleries for artworks that have extended labels with an orange
“spirituality” or green “New York” symbol in the upper right corner. The
texts provide insights and ask questions that can deepen your experiences
with the art.
The Burt and Deedee McMurtry
Lecture
Wednesday, April 24, North Lawn
Artist Lita Albuquerque delivers the Burt
and Deedee McMurtry Lecture
Photo: Tarek Naga
ART FOR ALL: Family Day
Sunday, April 14, 10 AM–3 PM
Celebrate art and family with a
day of art-making and musical
performances on the lawn
between Cantor and the Anderson collection.
Family Day is made possible through the generous support of the Hohbach
Family Fund
Learn more about all our programs
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