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    De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection

    De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection

    San Jose Museum of Art

    October 13, 2007-January 6, 2008

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    Broadly defined, to denature is to change the character or condition of something. In the milieu of contemporary painting, sculpture, and work on paper seen in this exhibition, it is the connection between artist and nature that has changed. Gone are the romantic vistas and picturesque scenes of traditional landscape painting. Instead we find images of pollution and alienation that mirror the post-war urban-industrial landscape, depictions in which artistic media have been pressed into embodiments of natural elements (and vice versa), and abstractions that highlight a distance between the world perceived and the world represented. Featuring works by artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Roy DeForest, David Hockney, Vija Celmins, Ed Ruscha, Frank Stella, Louise Nevelson, and Richard Diebenkorn, the art of De-Natured presents a sampling of the many ways that artists have engaged with their changing environs. At a time when we are increasingly "growing up denatured," as one New York Times writer recently described the divide between urban and pastoral life, these artistic collisions with nature (or its absence) have much to tell us about our own relationships with the environment, both natural and urban. This exhibition was curated by Heather Pamela Green, a doctoral candidate in Art History at Stanford University, and features work drawn from the Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, as well as the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's Anderson Graphic Arts Collection.

    • Ticket Info

      Tickets: $5-$8
      Children under 6 free
      SJMA Members free

      Info Phone: 408-271-6840

    • Dates & Times

      Dates:
      October 13, 2007-January 6, 2008

      Times:
      Tue-Sun: 11am-5pm
      Closed Monday, and all holidays

    • Venue Info

      San Jose Museum of Art

      110 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113

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    • Accessibility Info
      • Wheelchair Access

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