Helios/ Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change

Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change

The first retrospective exhibition to examine all aspects of Muybridge’s art, 

will be on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. 

April 10 – July 18, 2010

Best known for his groundbreaking studies of animal and human locomotion, 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge was also an innovative landscape artist and pioneer of documentary subjects.

Structured in a series of thematic sections, Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change includes
numerous vintage photographs, albums, stereographs, lantern slides, glass negatives and positives, camera equipment, patent models, Zoopraxiscope discs, proof prints, notes, books, and other ephemera. Over 300 objects created between 1858 and 1893 are brought together for the first time from numerous international collections. Muybridge’s only surviving Zoopraxiscope—an apparatus he designed in 1879 to project motion pictures—will also be on view.

Wednesday, April 07, 2010  7pm
Join photographer Mark Klett and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit in a first lecture celebrating Helios:  Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change.  Klett and Solnit discuss their collaborations on projects that probe and re-examine Muybridge’s photographic explorations of the changing physical and cultural landscapes of the West.

Opening weekend is full of excitement:  on Sunday, April 11, join for an entirely FREE day at the Corcoran!  The museum will be free and open to the public all day Sunday, and between 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., for Lights, Camera, Action! Family Day, a FREE day of fun and entertainment for children and adults alike.  Live aerial dancers, acrobats, art-making workshops, and an authentic Victorian-era “magic lantern show” are just a few of the events to take place.

American Falls: Phil Solomon
April 10 – July 18, 2010
American Falls: Phil Solomon is a new multi-projection video installation by celebrated experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon, commissioned for the Corcoran’s Rotunda. Inspired by Frederic Edwin Church’s 1857 masterpiece Niagara, one of the best-known paintings in the Corcoran’s collection, and by Washington’s memorial architecture, American Falls explores the aspirations and struggles that lie at the heart of the American Dream.

Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design
(202) 639-1700
www.corcoran.org

Call for Artists: Participate in the Urban Forest Project

This spring, The Urban Forest Project will plant 100 street banners by local designers and students in downtown Washington, DC. Each banner will use the form of, or metaphor for a tree, to make a powerful visual statement about the environment. This project is being brought to Washington, DC as a platform to engage the public in the District's environmental efforts.

The banners will be hung on light poles in downtown Washington, DC during the spring of 2010 in celebration of Arbor and Earth Days. They will then be recycled into unique one-of-a-kind totebags designed exclusively for the project. Proceeds from the sales of the totebags will go to nonprofit environmental efforts that help make Washington, DC a clean, green and sustainable city.
This project, conceived by Worldstudio, is being presented in Washington, DC in collaboration with the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH), AIGA DC and Corcoran College of Art and Design.

For more information, contact Rachel Dickerson at Rachel.Dickerson at dc.gov or call 202-724-5613.  To download the call to artist visit:  http://newsroom.dc.gov/show.aspx/agency/dcarts/section/2/release/18804

Corcoran’s Art Anonymous

My two pieces sold at the Corcoran Art Anonymous Fundraiser. You can see them, Numbers 213 and 216 online.

The sale generated an important contribution of funds for the Corcoran College of Art + Design’s BFA Scholarship Fund.

Go HERE to see pictures of all Art Anonymous pieces and the names of the artists who contributed them.

Art Anonymous / 5" x 7" postcard-sized works

We're back online (not the titles) and still anonymous.
Express Article by Rachel Kaufman


We're getting close to the date so get your ticket ready.
On View May 1-10, 2008

Saturday, May 10, 2008
Members $50, Non-Members $65
All works $100

Raffle for the first 10 picks $50

6 p.m. Preview and Raffle
7 p.m. Bidding Opens
Drinks and dancing until 11 p.m..

Here's a story about the two paintings that I am exhibiting. I won't mention the titles even though you won't know what they look like. Everyone's work is labeled on the back and that's the fun...to collect work you like and maybe, just maybe, you can pick out your favorite artist's work and/or collect a new to you artist. Lot's of great artists to choose from. Back to my story.... These two little, then unnamed paintings, traveled in April to France by train, plane and automobile. These American made paintings hit the road for eight days encased in their own padded black box. They toured several cities and acquired a four day patina of Parisian air and a varnish of Parisian raindrops before being put back in their padded black box for the trip home to the good ole US of A. I'd like to say they visited the Duchamp exhibition at the Musee Maillol but they didn't. The truth be told, they were created as small studies for surface treatment and process, left to air out, rain and shine before traveling back home again. They are happily dispersed among the other entries at the Corcoran's Art Anonymous show sporting their new air and titles on back. For friends and collectors, here's an opportunity to acquire a "traveling work of art" which was made in the USA and aired in France. See you at the opening. Oh and if you miss mine, there will be plenty of good work to be brought home.

P.S. The letters "Pari" are in the titles.

The Corcoran Gallery of Art and FRIENDS of the Corcoran first Art Anonymous fundraiser exhibition - May 1 - 10, 2008
List of Participating Artists HERE

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Gallery 31
500 Seventeenth Street NW
Washington, DC 20006

RSVP for this event by May 1, 2008. For more information call (202) 639-1753.
Works will be available for viewing beginning May 1 in advance of the event in the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s Gallery 31. To access Gallery 31, please use the New York Avenue entrance.

Art Anonymous

SAVE THE DATE / May 10, 2008 / 6pm
I will have 2 works in this show. New and seasoned collectors will have a field day promoting this worthy cause. Take home great art at great prices.

The Corcoran Gallery of Art and FRIENDS of the Corcoran are proud to host their first Art Anonymous fundraiser, benefiting the Corcoran College of Art + Design’s BFA Scholarship Fund. Leading contemporary artists will offer for sale original, postcard-sized works alongside the creations of students, faculty, and staff of the Corcoran College of Art + Design and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. All works are only $100—the catch: all artwork is signed on the back, so the identity of the artist will remain a mystery until after the purchase.

Art Anonymous is an exciting and affordable way to add to your collection. Anyone could walk away with a fantastic bargain—will you?

Reception, drinks, and dancing included.

*Saturday, May 10, 2008
Members $50, Non-Members $65
All works $100
Raffle for the first 10 picks $50

6 p.m. Preview and Raffle
7 p.m. Bidding Opens
Drinks and dancing until 11 p.m..

Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 Seventeenth Street NW
Washington, DC 20006

RSVP for this event by May 1, 2008. For more information and to register, please click here or call (202) 639-1753.
Works will be available for viewing beginning May 1 in advance of the event in the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s Gallery 31. To access Gallery 31, please use the New York Avenue entrance.

Participating artists include: Irene Abdou, John M. Adams, Dana Aldis, Geoffrey Aldridge, Shahdeh Ammadi, Alida Anderson, Tim Anderson, Sondra N. Arkin, John Aquilino, Geoff Ault, Patricia Autenrieth, Jennifer Axner, Malena Barnhart, Jessica Grace Bechtel, Diane Blackwell, Lisa Blas, Raya Bodnarchuk, Tanya Bos, Richard Boswell, Mark Cameron Boyd, Joseph Bradley, James Brantley, Courtney Bratun, Lindsay Bratun, Julia Braun, Jean Brinton- Jaecks, Andrew Brown, Jason Bulluck, Renee Butler, Craig Cahoon, Colby Caldwell, F. Lennox Campello, Julie Carrasco, Stevens Jay Carter, Julie Casey, Gloria Cesal, Sarah Chamberlain, Amy Chan , Natalie Cheung, Nannette A. Clark, Lauren Clay, Michael Clements, Genevieve Cocco, Cindy Ann Coldiron, Tim Conlon, Bryan Conner, Sarah Coombs, Ellen Cornett, Patricia Correa, Adger W. Cowans, Robert Creamer, Christopher Cunetto, Emily Cunetto, Christopher Cunningham, Jasmine Daraie, John Deamond, Adam de Boer, Marianela de la Hoz, Rosetta DeBerardinis, Francks F. Deceus, Kate Demong, Jennifer DePalma, Rosanna Dixon, Nancy D. Donnelly, Joel D’Orazio, Katie Drenga, Nekisha Durrett, Steven Eson, Lori Esposito, Steven E. Frost, Lee Gainer, Lacey Gentry, Casey Goldman, Janis Goodman, Pat Goslee, Liz Gordon & Anna (Na Kyung) Ahn, Melissa Green, Tom Green, Lauri Hafvenstein, Mohamed A. Hamo, Rion Harmon, Carol Harrison, Jonathan Hartshorn, Stephen Hay, Sean Hennessey, Dayan Herrara, Randall C. Holloway, Jackie Hoysted, Michal Hunter, Melissa Ichiuji, Megan Irving, Ema Ishii, Harry L. Jaecks, Chris Jamison, Susan Jamison, Ian Jehle, Ryan Carr Johnson, Sue Johnson, David Jolkovski, Adam Jones, Coty Jones, Benjamin Gray Jones, Courtney Jordan, Mila Kagan, Margaret Kepner, Amy Kincaid, Marti Deppa Kirkpatrick , Nick Kirkpatrick, Katherine Kisa, William Knipscher, Steve Lakatos, Nick Lamia, Joshua Levine, Gina Marie Lewis, Katie Lewis , Amy Lin, Heidi Lippman, Carol Lukitsch, Raymond MacDonald, Akemi Maegawa , Dana Maier, Susan Makara, Isaac Maiselman, Isabel Manalo, Joey P. Manlapaz, Katherine Mann, Nathan Manuel, Anne Marchand, James Marshall (Dalek), Madeline Marshall, Myra Maslowsky, Leah Matthews, Cory May, Lisa McCarty, John McDaniel, Joseph McSpadden, Robert Mellor, Ashleigh Nicole Meusel, Trace Miller, Adrienne Mills, Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette, Camille Mosley-Pasley, Marci Nadler, Otto Neals, Emilia Olsen, Kerry O’Neil, Jonathan Ottke, David Page, Paulette Palacios, Chul Beom Park, Annie Peters, Brian Petro, Pamela Phillips, Ryan Pierce, Michael B. Platt, Nick Popovici ,Antonio Puri, Carole Rabel Nicoteri, Camden M. Richards, Marcel Richter, Charlotte Riley-Webb, Emily Rockwell, Andrew Roda, Lisa Rosenstein, Michael Knud Ross, Ron Rumford, Anna Samaha, Nancy Scheinman, Kahn & Selesnick, Mike Shaffer, Joanna Silver, Kristy Simmons, John Simpkins-Camp, Kerry Skarbakka, Paul So, Judy Southerland, Ashley A.. Sullivan, Lynn Sures, Zach Storm, Erik Swanson, Jordan Swartz, Tim Tate, Steve Taylor, James Stephen Terrell, Katurah L. Thomas, Kevin Tierney, Erwin Timmers, Susan Powell Tolbert, Patricia Truitt, Alexia Tryfon, Nicholas Tryfon, Katie Tuss, Linn Meyers and Bert Ulrich, Jessica van Brakle, Izel Vargas , Oliver Vernon, Ivi Volanska, Christopher Walker, Cheryl Warrick, Ellyn Weiss, Moon Young Wohn, Sharon Wolpoff, Antoinette Wysocki, Thomas Xenakis, Lindsey Nicole Yancich, Michelle Yo, Trevor Young, and Toopy Zerotree.