San Jose Art Museum

Went for the first time today...
They have an exhibit up on Andy Warhol that I wanted to check out. The actual selection of pieces was blah--a couple rooms of screen prints that I've seen a million times before. But there was an interesting blurb about his "fascination with fame" on one wall and an informative documentary playing in one corner. The best part, though, was the little craft table in the middle of one gallery where you could combine Warhol's images (soup cans, a self portrait, and flowers) printed in black on clear plastic with your own compositions of colord paper cutouts and crayon drawings. It was neat.
Upstairs they had an exhibition called "Process as Paradigm" with works from the permanent collection and it was a great smattering of things, including Tony Oursler's Slip (2003), seen above. It's an S-shaped fiberglass sculpture with a video of a woman's mouth and lips projected onto it. Her skin looks green and there's a soundtrack of various phrases, some more intelligible than others, all emphasizing the 'sss' sound. It was both creepy and alluring; I really liked it.
There was also an exhibition of works by female printmakers, where these two aquatints:

by Pat Steir (whose work I just realized I also saw at Crown Point Press last year) really reminded me of my own work:


Other standouts:

Edward Corbett Untitled (Black Painting), 1950
(part of an exhibition on San Francisco Abstract Expressionism)


A detailed Franklin Williams 1972 thread and fabric canvas kind of like the one above.

Best Saturday Ever

The "Cop a Snack" car careening down Dolores Street during the Red Bull Soapbox Race in San Francisco. A fun way to spend the afternoon, especially if you can get into the VIP tent and snag free eats!

Estelle, Gym Class Heroes, and The Roots later in the evening at the San Jose Event Center. Goes without saying it was an epic show.
Couple more shots on my flickr...

Anderson Collection

Alexander Calder

Mark Rothko

Robert Motherwell

Vija Celmins

Franz Kline


I also liked work by Lynda Benglis, Carole Seborovski, Donald Sultan, Mark Fox (a recent Stanford MFA), and many more.
I had no idea this incredible collection of modern art was so nearby! I was lucky enough to see the private collection in the Anderson home, but there is also a public portion of the collection of which there are tours on the third Thursday of every month. The collection website is here with info about signing up for tours of the public collection. There's also a great feature on the SF MoMA website here that gives an in-depth look at 15 works from the collection and more. Check it out!