For more than twenty-five years, Carmel-based artist Jean Brenner has traveled the world with the goal of experiencing traditional culture, as she puts it, "before it disappears under the rising tide of T-shirts and tennis shoes." For Brenner, her art is a way to connect with people as she earns their willingness to be photographed. It is also a means of bridging the worlds of her viewers and those of her travels.
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A technically accomplished painter, Cara Erskine presents a chapter of her ongoing research into the iconography of sports figures as related to feminism and spectacle.
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Goldfarb appropriates what typically passes for instantly familiar imagery — objects she photographs herself or sources from online photo archives — and subtly manipulates them, coaxing their appearance to near-flatness.
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Reconstruction is an exhibition of photogenic drawings, reconstructs and constructs the past through fantasy and the imagination. Artist and photographer Naomi Vanderkindren creates the negatives for her richly textured, silver gelatin prints through collage of family photographs, drawings, and photocopies. This act of re-envisioning a set of family photographs draws upon the artist’s conviction that photography can have an accidental power over memory, including the power to alter our remembrance of the past.
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"Pressed at the Seams" is an exhibition combining multiple series of works by the Oakland-based artist, Lisa Solomon, that together raise questions about the making of social spaces, histories, materials, and identities.
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The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research proudly presents I’m Dying Up Here, an exhibition of photography and mixed media works by Bay Area artist Tammy Rae Carland. Taking the pioneering humor of early female comedians as her point of departure, Carland’s work tackles the hilarious, absurd, and often abject world of stand-up comedy. Her large-scale color photographs isolate female performers in the glaring spotlight of vacant stages.
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The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research proudly presents I’m Dying Up Here, an exhibition of photography and mixed media works by Bay Area artist Tammy Rae Carland.
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Stanford faculty and editors of Ms. magazine selected 40 iconic Ms. magazine covers representing feminist issues, imagery and writing over the past forty years. These covers were the inspiration for a nationwide Iconic Cover Short-Essay contest. Ten winners were chosen based on their originality, vision, awareness of feminist values, and quality of expression.
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