To celebrate our 10th year, the Anderson Collection is excited to present a discussion of film and media excerpts featuring Jackson Pollock, whose work is included in the Anderson's anniversary exhibition, An Expanded Lens, in addition to one of Pollock's painting contemporaries, Janet Sobel. 

Jackson Pollock, the most well-known postwar American artist, made his mark on art history through his “drip” painting method. He took direct inspiration from Ukrainian-born American artist Janet Sobel, who experimented with the drip method years before he did, but whose achievements were later downplayed and largely written out of art history. Spurred by Pollock's tour-de-force painting Lucifer (1947) which is currently on view at the Anderson Collection, this public program will present excerpts of media on Pollock and Sobel, followed by a discussion between Professor Richard Meyer and PhD candidate Emily Chun on issues of appropriation, inspiration, and the forces of canonization.

Light refreshments will be provided. 

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Seating is limited. First come, first served. 

Panelists

Emily Chun is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. She researches modern and contemporary art with particular attention to art of the 1980s and 1990s, and how they relate to the larger culture through their aesthetic, social, and economic dimensions. Before coming to Stanford, she worked in curatorial roles at the Tufts University Art Galleries and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. 

Richard Meyer is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University, where he teaches courses on modern and contemporary art, curatorial practice, and queer studies. He is the author, most recently, of Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered (2022), which was named by the New Yorker as one of the "Best Books of 2022.” He is also the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (2002), which was awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He is currently writing a book entitled Andy Warhol’s Guide to Everyday Life. The University recently named Meyer the incoming director of the American Studies program.