Fall Arts 2019

OH DEAR: 'On My Way' by El Gato Chimney, is part of the Palo Alto Art Center's exhibit 'Encounters,' running from September through December.

Anderson Collection
314 Lomita Drive, Stanford
Anderson.stanford.edu | 650.721.6055

Left of Center
Sep. 20-Sep. 20, 2020
Subtitled "Five Years of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University," "Left of Center" celebrates both the fifth anniversary of the museum itself and the innovative artists who've lived and worked in the American West. Curated by current PhD candidates in the Department of Art and Art History, the exhibit will feature a survey of work by 20th century artists who "changed the topography of American modernism."

Jim Campbell
Sep. 5-Aug. 3, 2020
The best thing about going to a Jim Campbell exhibit is that the overhead lights in the galleries are turned off. Only his arrangement of lights brighten up the rooms. Whether it's video footage of people strolling through a park or patterns of LEDs hanging from the ceiling, he keeps the darkness at bay. This show will place his work "in dialogue" with the Anderson's permanent collection.

Process and Pattern
Aug. 15-Feb. 17, 2020
"Memory, history and making collide" in this group show featuring the work of contemporary artists McArthur Binion, Charles Gaines, Julie Mehretu and Analia Saban. Ostensibly, they share an obsession with pattern-making. How they execute that obsession is what makes each of them unique.

Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Drive, Stanford
Museum.stanford.edu | 650.723.4177

Richard Diebenkorn
Opens Sep. 4
This solo exhibit of Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93) focuses on his process and "his shift from figurative to more abstract work." There's a robust online component that's already launched with 29 of his sketchbooks scanned in. Over 1,000 drawings detail the artist's thought process as his ideas came to life.

The Melancholy Museum: Love, Death and Mourning at Stanford
Opens Sep. 18
Mark Dion has been working for a year on a "cabinet of curiosities" to commemorate the museum's founding 125 years ago. The Stanford family opened the museum in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., who died at age 16. To create his Melancholy Museum, Dion was granted access to the original Stanford family collection.

SHAPING UP: 'Crevice (Topo Series)' is part of NUMU Los Gatos' upcoming exhibit, Bernard Trainor: Grounded.

West x Southwest: Edward Weston and Ansel Adams
Sep. 26-Jan. 26, 2020
This photography exhibit will include over 1,000 photographs by American photographers Weston and Adams, along with works by Edward Curtis, John Gutmann, Helen Levitt, Wright Morris and Gordon Parks.

Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze.
Sept. 29-Jan. 5, 2020
"I've always had an inclination toward seeing people who might be easily unseen." Casteel lives in Harlem and paints portraits of the people she runs across in her community. "Returning the Gaze" will be her first solo museum show.

Institute Of Contemporary Art
560 S 1st St, San Jose
www.sjica.org, 408.283.8155

Sense of Self
Nov. 17-March 15, 2020
Bay Area photographers are after much more than taking selfies. This exhibition will try to "remind us of the enduring power of photographic portraiture to tell stories, break down barriers, and subvert assumptions."

Stas Orlovski: Chimera
Nov. 9-March 22, 2020
Soviet-era children's books, Japanese prints and Dutch botanical illustration compete for space in Orlovski's imagination. His animated projections "fuse Old World sensibilities with New Age technology" and are accompanied by Steve Roden's soundtrack of acoustic Victorian-era musical instruments.

New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU)
106 E Main St, Los Gatos
www.numulosgatos.org | 408.354.2646

Bernard Trainor: Grounded
Sep. 27-Feb. 9, 2020
Trainor founded Ground Studio, a landscape architecture firm based in Monterey and Napa. He studied landscape design and horticulture in London and Melbourne. "Grounded" will show Trainor's paintings, elements of his landscape designs, architectural renderings, site photographs, and studio and plein air sketches.

Triton Museum of Art
1505 Warburton Ave, Santa Clara
www.tritonmuseum.org | 408.247.2438

Expressions of Divinity
Aug. 31-Nov. 3
A selection of work by te Indian artists Arpana Caur and Devender Singh about the teachings of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism. Their work "depicts various aspects of Guru Nanak's travels, visions and poetry."

Hector Dionicio Mendoza: White Wilderness/Maleza Blanca
Aug. 31-Nov. 3
White Wilderness/Maleza Blanca "explores the intersection of photography, drawing, digital printing, installation and sculpture." The wilderness he's concerned with isn't an idealized Garden of Eden but the dangerous terrain that's been "an unsafe space for people of color."

San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
520 S 1st St, San Jose
www.sjquiltmuseum.org | 408.971.0323

Know Your Meme: Stitching Viral Phenomena
Oct. 20-Jan. 12, 2020
The artwork in "Know Your Meme" must "depict, relate to or reference a meme through a textile method such as quilting, embroidery, cross- stitching, knitting and crocheting, weaving, basketry, etc." and will be curated by the general public online.

Works/San José
365 S Market St, San Jose
Workssanjose.org | 408.300.6450

Patterns of Disintegration
Sep. 7-Oct. 13
This conceptual group exhibition addresses ecological to societal disintegration, with guest curators Monica Valdez and Emily Van Engel.

Benefit Art Auction
Nov. 2-Dec. 7
With the work of more than 100 regional artists, you can start or enhance your own art collection in one of the region's most eclectic and accessible art auctions.