They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

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ARTIST PANEL: Monday, February 23, 5-7pm | Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building

What are the limits of experience? This exhibition explores forms of appearance that press against the edges of perception—phenomena that are felt only indirectly, sensed as traces, intensities, or disturbances rather than as stable objects. “Extra/phenomenality” refers to this ambiguous zone of surplus and slippage: where aspects of the world exceed or elude our usual modes of noticing, while still shaping how we see, feel, and understand.

Such excess takes many forms. It can be found in natural processes whose scales outrun human attention; in cultural and spiritual traditions that treat appearance as layered or illusory; in psychological or bodily states that strain the coherence of conscious experience. It also takes shape in today’s technical environments—where images, signals, and decisions circulate through systems that operate faster than we can perceive. New modes of appearance are at stake, but also new zones of non-appearance—gaps, blind spots, and operations that remain perceptually inaccessible. In all of these cases, the limits of experience are stretched and reconfigured.

The artists gathered here engage this terrain of extension and attenuation. Some work with subtle shifts of color, rhythm, or material to draw attention to thresholds where perception begins to blur. Others stage encounters with forms that flicker between visibility and invisibility, inviting viewers to sense what hovers at experience’s margins. Still others explore how contemporary computational systems generate patterns that enter our lives without ever presenting themselves directly.

Taken together, the works invite reflection on how the phenomenal world is never given all at once, but is continually inflected by forces that lie just beyond phenomenality itself. EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES asks viewers to slow down, to look again, and to inhabit the unstable relation between what appears and what exceeds appearing—an aesthetic space where the subtle, the oblique, and the barely perceptible can take on new significance.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Morehshin Allahyari, Mark Amerika, Will Luers, & Chad Mossholder, Brett Amory, Rebecca Baron + Douglas Goodwin, Jon Bernson, Daniel Brickman, Paul DeMarinis, Karin + Shane Denson, Ebti, Frank Floyd, Gabriel Harrison, DJ Meisner, Joshua Moreno, Carlo Nasisse, Miguel Novelo, Andy Rappaport, William Tremblay, Camille Utterback, and Kristen Wong

CURATED BY:
Brett Amory, Karin Denson, and Shane Denson

VISITOR INFORMATION:
Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm (except on opening day, Jan. 22), and will be closed February 16-17. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

Please note: due to the nature of the work on view, this exhibition is not suitable for children under the age of 10. Visitors should also be aware that video monitoring is in use as part of the exhibition experience; no footage is recorded or retained.

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Unearthed, Unbound gathers the work of the MFA First Year cohort: Alyssa Aviles, Imani Dennison, Monte Marin, Jess Sabogal, and Chukwudubem Ukaigwe. Across distinct practices, these artists turn toward geographic, cultural, ancestral, and bodily origins as a site of inquiry. They examine how power is inherited, how trauma is transmitted, and how identity is shaped within systems designed to constrain it. It is an exhibition about reclamation.

The exhibition spans across a diverse range of mediums, including ballpoint pen drawing, painting, performance, sound, video, installation, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and layered narrative forms. The artists unearth personal and collective histories through embodied, material, and archaeological gestures. Queer and Trans experiences, racialized histories, and lived memory are not treated as fixed subjects, but as evolving terrain that is shared and reimagined. These artists build futures that center Black, Brown, Queer, and Trans lives as sources of wisdom and possibility. Unearthed, Unbound offers a practice of worldbuilding rooted in resistance and care, an insistence that what has been buried still speaks and might even help us heal.

Terry Berlier, Curator

ON VIEW: February 10-March 13, 2026

OPENING RECEPTION: February 12, 4-6pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 12-5pm, and will be closed on February 16-17. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

Connect with the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

View on site | Email this event

They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

Connect with the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

View on site | Email this event

They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

Connect with the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

View on site | Email this event

ARTIST PANEL: Monday, February 23, 5-7pm | Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building

What are the limits of experience? This exhibition explores forms of appearance that press against the edges of perception—phenomena that are felt only indirectly, sensed as traces, intensities, or disturbances rather than as stable objects. “Extra/phenomenality” refers to this ambiguous zone of surplus and slippage: where aspects of the world exceed or elude our usual modes of noticing, while still shaping how we see, feel, and understand.

Such excess takes many forms. It can be found in natural processes whose scales outrun human attention; in cultural and spiritual traditions that treat appearance as layered or illusory; in psychological or bodily states that strain the coherence of conscious experience. It also takes shape in today’s technical environments—where images, signals, and decisions circulate through systems that operate faster than we can perceive. New modes of appearance are at stake, but also new zones of non-appearance—gaps, blind spots, and operations that remain perceptually inaccessible. In all of these cases, the limits of experience are stretched and reconfigured.

The artists gathered here engage this terrain of extension and attenuation. Some work with subtle shifts of color, rhythm, or material to draw attention to thresholds where perception begins to blur. Others stage encounters with forms that flicker between visibility and invisibility, inviting viewers to sense what hovers at experience’s margins. Still others explore how contemporary computational systems generate patterns that enter our lives without ever presenting themselves directly.

Taken together, the works invite reflection on how the phenomenal world is never given all at once, but is continually inflected by forces that lie just beyond phenomenality itself. EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES asks viewers to slow down, to look again, and to inhabit the unstable relation between what appears and what exceeds appearing—an aesthetic space where the subtle, the oblique, and the barely perceptible can take on new significance.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Morehshin Allahyari, Mark Amerika, Will Luers, & Chad Mossholder, Brett Amory, Rebecca Baron + Douglas Goodwin, Jon Bernson, Daniel Brickman, Paul DeMarinis, Karin + Shane Denson, Ebti, Frank Floyd, Gabriel Harrison, DJ Meisner, Joshua Moreno, Carlo Nasisse, Miguel Novelo, Andy Rappaport, William Tremblay, Camille Utterback, and Kristen Wong

CURATED BY:
Brett Amory, Karin Denson, and Shane Denson

VISITOR INFORMATION:
Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm (except on opening day, Jan. 22), and will be closed February 16-17. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

Please note: due to the nature of the work on view, this exhibition is not suitable for children under the age of 10. Visitors should also be aware that video monitoring is in use as part of the exhibition experience; no footage is recorded or retained.

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Unearthed, Unbound gathers the work of the MFA First Year cohort: Alyssa Aviles, Imani Dennison, Monte Marin, Jess Sabogal, and Chukwudubem Ukaigwe. Across distinct practices, these artists turn toward geographic, cultural, ancestral, and bodily origins as a site of inquiry. They examine how power is inherited, how trauma is transmitted, and how identity is shaped within systems designed to constrain it. It is an exhibition about reclamation.

The exhibition spans across a diverse range of mediums, including ballpoint pen drawing, painting, performance, sound, video, installation, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and layered narrative forms. The artists unearth personal and collective histories through embodied, material, and archaeological gestures. Queer and Trans experiences, racialized histories, and lived memory are not treated as fixed subjects, but as evolving terrain that is shared and reimagined. These artists build futures that center Black, Brown, Queer, and Trans lives as sources of wisdom and possibility. Unearthed, Unbound offers a practice of worldbuilding rooted in resistance and care, an insistence that what has been buried still speaks and might even help us heal.

Terry Berlier, Curator

ON VIEW: February 10-March 13, 2026

OPENING RECEPTION: February 12, 4-6pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 12-5pm, and will be closed on February 16-17. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

Connect with the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

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They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

Connect with the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

View on site | Email this event

ARTIST PANEL: Monday, February 23, 5-7pm | Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building

What are the limits of experience? This exhibition explores forms of appearance that press against the edges of perception—phenomena that are felt only indirectly, sensed as traces, intensities, or disturbances rather than as stable objects. “Extra/phenomenality” refers to this ambiguous zone of surplus and slippage: where aspects of the world exceed or elude our usual modes of noticing, while still shaping how we see, feel, and understand.

Such excess takes many forms. It can be found in natural processes whose scales outrun human attention; in cultural and spiritual traditions that treat appearance as layered or illusory; in psychological or bodily states that strain the coherence of conscious experience. It also takes shape in today’s technical environments—where images, signals, and decisions circulate through systems that operate faster than we can perceive. New modes of appearance are at stake, but also new zones of non-appearance—gaps, blind spots, and operations that remain perceptually inaccessible. In all of these cases, the limits of experience are stretched and reconfigured.

The artists gathered here engage this terrain of extension and attenuation. Some work with subtle shifts of color, rhythm, or material to draw attention to thresholds where perception begins to blur. Others stage encounters with forms that flicker between visibility and invisibility, inviting viewers to sense what hovers at experience’s margins. Still others explore how contemporary computational systems generate patterns that enter our lives without ever presenting themselves directly.

Taken together, the works invite reflection on how the phenomenal world is never given all at once, but is continually inflected by forces that lie just beyond phenomenality itself. EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES asks viewers to slow down, to look again, and to inhabit the unstable relation between what appears and what exceeds appearing—an aesthetic space where the subtle, the oblique, and the barely perceptible can take on new significance.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Morehshin Allahyari, Mark Amerika, Will Luers, & Chad Mossholder, Brett Amory, Rebecca Baron + Douglas Goodwin, Jon Bernson, Daniel Brickman, Paul DeMarinis, Karin + Shane Denson, Ebti, Frank Floyd, Gabriel Harrison, DJ Meisner, Joshua Moreno, Carlo Nasisse, Miguel Novelo, Andy Rappaport, William Tremblay, Camille Utterback, and Kristen Wong

CURATED BY:
Brett Amory, Karin Denson, and Shane Denson

VISITOR INFORMATION:
Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm (except on opening day, Jan. 22), and will be closed February 16-17. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

Please note: due to the nature of the work on view, this exhibition is not suitable for children under the age of 10. Visitors should also be aware that video monitoring is in use as part of the exhibition experience; no footage is recorded or retained.

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Unearthed, Unbound gathers the work of the MFA First Year cohort: Alyssa Aviles, Imani Dennison, Monte Marin, Jess Sabogal, and Chukwudubem Ukaigwe. Across distinct practices, these artists turn toward geographic, cultural, ancestral, and bodily origins as a site of inquiry. They examine how power is inherited, how trauma is transmitted, and how identity is shaped within systems designed to constrain it. It is an exhibition about reclamation.

The exhibition spans across a diverse range of mediums, including ballpoint pen drawing, painting, performance, sound, video, installation, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and layered narrative forms. The artists unearth personal and collective histories through embodied, material, and archaeological gestures. Queer and Trans experiences, racialized histories, and lived memory are not treated as fixed subjects, but as evolving terrain that is shared and reimagined. These artists build futures that center Black, Brown, Queer, and Trans lives as sources of wisdom and possibility. Unearthed, Unbound offers a practice of worldbuilding rooted in resistance and care, an insistence that what has been buried still speaks and might even help us heal.

Terry Berlier, Curator

ON VIEW: February 10-March 13, 2026

OPENING RECEPTION: February 12, 4-6pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 12-5pm, and will be closed on February 16-17. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

Connect with the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

View on site | Email this event

ARTIST PANEL: Monday, February 23, 5-7pm | Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building

What are the limits of experience? This exhibition explores forms of appearance that press against the edges of perception—phenomena that are felt only indirectly, sensed as traces, intensities, or disturbances rather than as stable objects. “Extra/phenomenality” refers to this ambiguous zone of surplus and slippage: where aspects of the world exceed or elude our usual modes of noticing, while still shaping how we see, feel, and understand.

Such excess takes many forms. It can be found in natural processes whose scales outrun human attention; in cultural and spiritual traditions that treat appearance as layered or illusory; in psychological or bodily states that strain the coherence of conscious experience. It also takes shape in today’s technical environments—where images, signals, and decisions circulate through systems that operate faster than we can perceive. New modes of appearance are at stake, but also new zones of non-appearance—gaps, blind spots, and operations that remain perceptually inaccessible. In all of these cases, the limits of experience are stretched and reconfigured.

The artists gathered here engage this terrain of extension and attenuation. Some work with subtle shifts of color, rhythm, or material to draw attention to thresholds where perception begins to blur. Others stage encounters with forms that flicker between visibility and invisibility, inviting viewers to sense what hovers at experience’s margins. Still others explore how contemporary computational systems generate patterns that enter our lives without ever presenting themselves directly.

Taken together, the works invite reflection on how the phenomenal world is never given all at once, but is continually inflected by forces that lie just beyond phenomenality itself. EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES asks viewers to slow down, to look again, and to inhabit the unstable relation between what appears and what exceeds appearing—an aesthetic space where the subtle, the oblique, and the barely perceptible can take on new significance.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Morehshin Allahyari, Mark Amerika, Will Luers, & Chad Mossholder, Brett Amory, Rebecca Baron + Douglas Goodwin, Jon Bernson, Daniel Brickman, Paul DeMarinis, Karin + Shane Denson, Ebti, Frank Floyd, Gabriel Harrison, DJ Meisner, Joshua Moreno, Carlo Nasisse, Miguel Novelo, Andy Rappaport, William Tremblay, Camille Utterback, and Kristen Wong

CURATED BY:
Brett Amory, Karin Denson, and Shane Denson

VISITOR INFORMATION:
Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm (except on opening day, Jan. 22), and will be closed February 16-17. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

Please note: due to the nature of the work on view, this exhibition is not suitable for children under the age of 10. Visitors should also be aware that video monitoring is in use as part of the exhibition experience; no footage is recorded or retained.

Connect with the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

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Unearthed, Unbound gathers the work of the MFA First Year cohort: Alyssa Aviles, Imani Dennison, Monte Marin, Jess Sabogal, and Chukwudubem Ukaigwe. Across distinct practices, these artists turn toward geographic, cultural, ancestral, and bodily origins as a site of inquiry. They examine how power is inherited, how trauma is transmitted, and how identity is shaped within systems designed to constrain it. It is an exhibition about reclamation.

The exhibition spans across a diverse range of mediums, including ballpoint pen drawing, painting, performance, sound, video, installation, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and layered narrative forms. The artists unearth personal and collective histories through embodied, material, and archaeological gestures. Queer and Trans experiences, racialized histories, and lived memory are not treated as fixed subjects, but as evolving terrain that is shared and reimagined. These artists build futures that center Black, Brown, Queer, and Trans lives as sources of wisdom and possibility. Unearthed, Unbound offers a practice of worldbuilding rooted in resistance and care, an insistence that what has been buried still speaks and might even help us heal.

Terry Berlier, Curator

ON VIEW: February 10-March 13, 2026

OPENING RECEPTION: February 12, 4-6pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 12-5pm, and will be closed on February 16-17. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

Connect with the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

View on site | Email this event

ARTIST PANEL: Monday, February 23, 5-7pm | Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building

What are the limits of experience? This exhibition explores forms of appearance that press against the edges of perception—phenomena that are felt only indirectly, sensed as traces, intensities, or disturbances rather than as stable objects. “Extra/phenomenality” refers to this ambiguous zone of surplus and slippage: where aspects of the world exceed or elude our usual modes of noticing, while still shaping how we see, feel, and understand.

Such excess takes many forms. It can be found in natural processes whose scales outrun human attention; in cultural and spiritual traditions that treat appearance as layered or illusory; in psychological or bodily states that strain the coherence of conscious experience. It also takes shape in today’s technical environments—where images, signals, and decisions circulate through systems that operate faster than we can perceive. New modes of appearance are at stake, but also new zones of non-appearance—gaps, blind spots, and operations that remain perceptually inaccessible. In all of these cases, the limits of experience are stretched and reconfigured.

The artists gathered here engage this terrain of extension and attenuation. Some work with subtle shifts of color, rhythm, or material to draw attention to thresholds where perception begins to blur. Others stage encounters with forms that flicker between visibility and invisibility, inviting viewers to sense what hovers at experience’s margins. Still others explore how contemporary computational systems generate patterns that enter our lives without ever presenting themselves directly.

Taken together, the works invite reflection on how the phenomenal world is never given all at once, but is continually inflected by forces that lie just beyond phenomenality itself. EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES asks viewers to slow down, to look again, and to inhabit the unstable relation between what appears and what exceeds appearing—an aesthetic space where the subtle, the oblique, and the barely perceptible can take on new significance.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Morehshin Allahyari, Mark Amerika, Will Luers, & Chad Mossholder, Brett Amory, Rebecca Baron + Douglas Goodwin, Jon Bernson, Daniel Brickman, Paul DeMarinis, Karin + Shane Denson, Ebti, Frank Floyd, Gabriel Harrison, DJ Meisner, Joshua Moreno, Carlo Nasisse, Miguel Novelo, Andy Rappaport, William Tremblay, Camille Utterback, and Kristen Wong

CURATED BY:
Brett Amory, Karin Denson, and Shane Denson

VISITOR INFORMATION:
Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm (except on opening day, Jan. 22), and will be closed February 16-17. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

Please note: due to the nature of the work on view, this exhibition is not suitable for children under the age of 10. Visitors should also be aware that video monitoring is in use as part of the exhibition experience; no footage is recorded or retained.

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Unearthed, Unbound gathers the work of the MFA First Year cohort: Alyssa Aviles, Imani Dennison, Monte Marin, Jess Sabogal, and Chukwudubem Ukaigwe. Across distinct practices, these artists turn toward geographic, cultural, ancestral, and bodily origins as a site of inquiry. They examine how power is inherited, how trauma is transmitted, and how identity is shaped within systems designed to constrain it. It is an exhibition about reclamation.

The exhibition spans across a diverse range of mediums, including ballpoint pen drawing, painting, performance, sound, video, installation, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and layered narrative forms. The artists unearth personal and collective histories through embodied, material, and archaeological gestures. Queer and Trans experiences, racialized histories, and lived memory are not treated as fixed subjects, but as evolving terrain that is shared and reimagined. These artists build futures that center Black, Brown, Queer, and Trans lives as sources of wisdom and possibility. Unearthed, Unbound offers a practice of worldbuilding rooted in resistance and care, an insistence that what has been buried still speaks and might even help us heal.

Terry Berlier, Curator

ON VIEW: February 10-March 13, 2026

OPENING RECEPTION: February 12, 4-6pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 12-5pm, and will be closed on February 16-17. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

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ARTIST PANEL: Monday, February 23, 5-7pm | Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building

What are the limits of experience? This exhibition explores forms of appearance that press against the edges of perception—phenomena that are felt only indirectly, sensed as traces, intensities, or disturbances rather than as stable objects. “Extra/phenomenality” refers to this ambiguous zone of surplus and slippage: where aspects of the world exceed or elude our usual modes of noticing, while still shaping how we see, feel, and understand.

Such excess takes many forms. It can be found in natural processes whose scales outrun human attention; in cultural and spiritual traditions that treat appearance as layered or illusory; in psychological or bodily states that strain the coherence of conscious experience. It also takes shape in today’s technical environments—where images, signals, and decisions circulate through systems that operate faster than we can perceive. New modes of appearance are at stake, but also new zones of non-appearance—gaps, blind spots, and operations that remain perceptually inaccessible. In all of these cases, the limits of experience are stretched and reconfigured.

The artists gathered here engage this terrain of extension and attenuation. Some work with subtle shifts of color, rhythm, or material to draw attention to thresholds where perception begins to blur. Others stage encounters with forms that flicker between visibility and invisibility, inviting viewers to sense what hovers at experience’s margins. Still others explore how contemporary computational systems generate patterns that enter our lives without ever presenting themselves directly.

Taken together, the works invite reflection on how the phenomenal world is never given all at once, but is continually inflected by forces that lie just beyond phenomenality itself. EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES asks viewers to slow down, to look again, and to inhabit the unstable relation between what appears and what exceeds appearing—an aesthetic space where the subtle, the oblique, and the barely perceptible can take on new significance.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Morehshin Allahyari, Mark Amerika, Will Luers, & Chad Mossholder, Brett Amory, Rebecca Baron + Douglas Goodwin, Jon Bernson, Daniel Brickman, Paul DeMarinis, Karin + Shane Denson, Ebti, Frank Floyd, Gabriel Harrison, DJ Meisner, Joshua Moreno, Carlo Nasisse, Miguel Novelo, Andy Rappaport, William Tremblay, Camille Utterback, and Kristen Wong

CURATED BY:
Brett Amory, Karin Denson, and Shane Denson

VISITOR INFORMATION:
Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm (except on opening day, Jan. 22), and will be closed February 16-17. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

Please note: due to the nature of the work on view, this exhibition is not suitable for children under the age of 10. Visitors should also be aware that video monitoring is in use as part of the exhibition experience; no footage is recorded or retained.

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Unearthed, Unbound gathers the work of the MFA First Year cohort: Alyssa Aviles, Imani Dennison, Monte Marin, Jess Sabogal, and Chukwudubem Ukaigwe. Across distinct practices, these artists turn toward geographic, cultural, ancestral, and bodily origins as a site of inquiry. They examine how power is inherited, how trauma is transmitted, and how identity is shaped within systems designed to constrain it. It is an exhibition about reclamation.

The exhibition spans across a diverse range of mediums, including ballpoint pen drawing, painting, performance, sound, video, installation, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and layered narrative forms. The artists unearth personal and collective histories through embodied, material, and archaeological gestures. Queer and Trans experiences, racialized histories, and lived memory are not treated as fixed subjects, but as evolving terrain that is shared and reimagined. These artists build futures that center Black, Brown, Queer, and Trans lives as sources of wisdom and possibility. Unearthed, Unbound offers a practice of worldbuilding rooted in resistance and care, an insistence that what has been buried still speaks and might even help us heal.

Terry Berlier, Curator

ON VIEW: February 10-March 13, 2026

OPENING RECEPTION: February 12, 4-6pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 12-5pm, and will be closed on February 16-17. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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Open Studios offers an opportunity to see student work where it was created, featuring drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, virtual reality, experimental media, and more. Join us!

VISITOR INFORMATION: The McMurtry Building is located on Stanford campus at 355 Roth Way.

Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne Garcia at juggarci@stanford.edu. This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

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They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

Connect with the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

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They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

Connect with the Department of Art & Art History! Subscribe to our mailing list and follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

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They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

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They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

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They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

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They Said No!!! will be a three-part live drawing realized over the course of a single day (postponed to February 18), serving as a warning, inspiration, and celebration. Divided into three parts, the work explores terror, martyrs, and most importantly, us. Drawing from Crispus Attucks to Renee Nicole Good, Rick focuses on the commonality shared by these martyrs, asking not what makes them exceptional, but what makes them common, just like us.

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From an early age, Rick connected learning, drawing, and safety, collapsing histories, myths, and personal experience into new stories in conversation with the wider world. Rick received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Stanford University in 2022. Rick has exhibited at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally.

Image: Gregory Rick, In the Shadow of the Second Amendment, 2022. 5 × 5 ft.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Vitrine Gallery is located in the McMurtry Building (ground level, across from the main office) at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.

This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free. The exhibition is installed in a gallery window and can be viewed from outside by passersby during regular daytime hours.

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Second-run

Niloufar Emamifar’s practice includes sculptural, filmic, and architectural elements, as well as collaborative, site-specific and linguistic ones. Her work often explores the causal connections between site, situation, and subjectivity, and the psychosocial dynamics inherent in built space.

Her lecture unfolds in chapters that move between past and present work, beginning with her collaborations with anti-establishment architectural collectives and extending toward the architecture of crisis. She approaches crisis not as spectacle or sudden rupture, but as a structural counter-position operating within totalizing systems sustained by certainty and narrative coherence.

Niloufar Emamifar currently lives in New York. She has exhibited her work at various institutions, including Kunsthalle Zürich; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; MoMA PS1, New York; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; SculptureCenter, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Human Resources, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles; and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Italy, among others.

She has participated in programs including the Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP); the Capp Street Fellowship at the Wattis Institute, San Francisco; the Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Amant Foundation, New York; and the London College of Communication, London.

Emamifar holds a BFA in Architecture from Soore School of Architecture in Tehran, Iran, and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine.

VISITOR INFORMATION
This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Space for this program is limited; advance registration is recommended. Those who have registered will have priority for seating. Admission is free.

Oshman Hall is located within the McMurtry Building on Stanford campus at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and is free after 4pm on weekdays. Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne Garcia at juggarci@stanford.edu.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: April 14-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 4-6pm
Curated by Camille Utterback
Coulter Art Gallery (McMurtry Building)
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

VISITOR INFORMATION: Coulter Art Gallery is located at 355 Roth Way (McMurtry Building) on Stanford campus. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster
Akcan will introduce her new book that explores architecture’s role in healing after conflicts and disasters by discussing buildings and spaces in relation to transitional justice and energy transition. Focusing on lands held by former Ottoman Empire and putting forth the concept of resettler nationalism as a source of partition and displacement, the book locates spaces of political and ecological harm, and advocates for healing on individual, communal and planetary levels. It construes healing as a matter of rights and a holistic notion of justice to be achieved retroactively, and calls for instituting accountability and reparations against internal social, state and business-led violence.

About the Speaker
Esra Akcan is professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University and the 2025-2026 Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center. Akcan’s research on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism foregrounds the intertwined histories of Europe, West Asia and Northeast Africa, and offers new ways to understand architecture’s role in global, social and environmental justice. She has written extensively, lectured globally, and received multiple fellowships on critical and postcolonial theory, racism, immigration, climate change, reparations and transitional justice, architectural photography, translation, neoliberalism, and global history.

VISITOR INFORMATION
This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Space for this program is limited; advance registration is recommended. Those who have registered will have priority for seating. Admission is free.

Oshman Hall is located within the McMurtry Building on Stanford campus at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and is free after 4pm on weekdays. Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne White at jgwhite@stanford.edu.

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Join us for a screening of three short documentaries by Jan Krawitz, followed by a discussion with the director.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art & Art History and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.

About the Films
MIRROR MIRROR, 17 minutes
This film provocatively explores the relationship between female body image and the quest for an elusive ideal.

IN HARM’S WAY, 27 minutes
A personal memoir that questions the fragile myths instilled in children growing up in the Cold War era.

NICE GIRLS DON'T ASK, 17 minutes
Offering a cautionary tale in the current political climate, the film casts an incisive lens on the “rules for living” embodied in archival social guidance films.

About the Filmmaker
Jan Krawitz is Professor Emerita in the Stanford Department of Art & Art History. Her documentaries have screened at festivals in the U.S. and abroad including Sundance, The New York Film Festival, SXSW, AFI Docs, Edinburgh, Visions du Réel, Full Frame, and the Krakow Film Festival. Six of her films received a national broadcast on PBS (Independent Lens, P.O.V., America ReFramed) and Big Enough was broadcast internationally in eighteen countries. She has had artist residencies at Yaddo, Docs in Progress (Washington, D.C.), and the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy. Jan was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and a recent Fulbright Scholar in Austria.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Oshman Hall is located within the McMurtry Building on Stanford campus at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and is free after 4pm on weekdays. Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne White at jgwhite@stanford.edu. This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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On View: May 12-June 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5-7pm
Curated by Jonathan Calm
Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

Final Viewing: Sunday, June 14, 10am-12pm, 2:30-4pm

VISITOR INFORMATION: Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall, off Palm Drive. The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 12–5pm, and will be closed Memorial Day (May 25). Visitor parking is available in designated areas and payment is managed through ParkMobile (free after 4pm, except by the Oval). Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. This exhibition is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.

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