Alexander Nemerov

Bruce Nixon

The exploration of the human figure has been the pursuit of artists for millennia. Manuel Neri (b. 1930), a California native and former student of Richard Diebenkorn and Nathan Oliveira, has spent a lifetime accentuating the gesture, surface, and materiality of the figure. He renders his work in several different mediums that include plaster, marble, bronze, and paper. This exhibition, drawn from and celebrating gifts donated to the museum by The Manuel Neri Trust, provides a glimpse into the artist's creative process and his quest to define the figure on his own terms. Manuel Neri is known for his prolonged artistic engagement with the figure in a variety of materials, starting with plaster in the late 1950s and moving into bronze and marble. The seven sculptures in the outdoor installation reference Neri's origins with plaster and his expressionistic manipulation of the medium. By casting plaster in bronze, tactile surfaces are preserved and enhanced.

Manuel Neri and the Assertion of Modern Figurative Sculpture

Better World is Possible - what Needs to be Done and how We Can Make it Hap

Walter Hopps

Timothy Anglin Burgard

Robert Flynn Johnson

Frank Lobdell

California Palace of the Legion of Honor

Portland Museum of Art

Bruce Guenther

The first comprehensive overview of Frank Lobdell's paintings, drawings, prints, and sketchbooks, and his long career as artist and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Art of Making and Meaning

Today, we face the greatest challenges in human history. There is a widespread collapse of confidence in current politics and economics, and our environment is teetering on the brink of catastrophe. The challenges are enormous, but so are the opportunities to create a society based on the wellbeing of all. This rigorously researched, compact and accessible book makes sense of the situation, offers hope and radical solutions. Above all it empowers you to get involved and shows you how you can actually make a difference. Do you want to create a happier, fairer, greener, more peaceful world? Then this book...

A Call to Greatness

The 21st Century Revolution

Bruce Nixon

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