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Livien Yin, Thirsty No. 1, 2022. Collection of David Liu and Michael Fountas. Image courtesy of the artist and Micki Meng.
Tucked into the rear corner of Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center, Livien Yin’s Thirsty might be easy to miss. Made up of just thirteen works, the exhibition presents the Brooklyn-based artist’s ongoing series “Paper Suns,”…
Jarod Lew, 'Untitled (Mom on the Couch),' detail, 2021. Courtesy the artist
In the introduction to the catalogue for Spirit House, an exhibition at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center through Sun/26, curator Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander writes about how she, like her mother and grandmother, had sleep paralysis,…
Tidawhitney Lek, Refuge, 2023.
Lek is featured in “Spirit House” at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. The exhibition considers how 33 contemporary artists of Asian descent challenge the boundary between life and death through art, including how the…
Installation view of "Spirit House" at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. Photo by Glen Cheriton. Courtesy Cantor Arts Center.
How do we contend with loss that transcends the individual—in other words, loss that becomes collective, loss untethered from linear time or geographical boundaries? This complex set of questions emerged throughout “Spirit House,” a group…
Catalina Ouyang, “reliquary corpus,” 2021. Wood, soapstone, hair, gray wolf skull, plaster, paper pulp, epoxy clay, color pigment, resin, beeswax, chiffon...
How do you define a ghost? Typically we think of ghosts as the spirit of someone who passed away, who returns to haunt the living. What if a ghost is also a family secret that is passed down through generations? Or the memory of someone we only…