Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Phone: 650-723-4177
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In 2020, Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center acquired “Untitled (LC.012, Wall of Masks)” by the late legendary Bay Area artist Ruth Asawa. These 233 masks, initially displayed on the exterior of Asawa’s family home in Noe Valley, had never been exhibited anywhere. Following two years of conservation treatment and meticulous planning, the artworks became a long-term installation, The Faces of Ruth Asawa, at the Cantor.
“Legal Tender,” the epic mixed media work by Long Beach artist Narsiso Martinez, is art you’ll be thinking about days later.
The piece, created in 2022, is on view as part of “Day Jobs,” the group exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University examining the impact that needing outside work to survive has on an artist’s creative practice. Taking up its own wall, the 23-by-7 foot composition of “Legal Tender” is meant to evoke paper money. But instead of the white Founding Fathers we’re used to seeing on bills, it features images of farmworkers surrounding a central portrait of...