RESCHEDULED: Pioneers of Practice: Corday, Frankenthaler, Glass
This program has been rescheduled for June 8, 2024.
Radius Books and SITE SANTA FE present Pioneers of Practice: Corday, Frankenthaler, Glass, a multidisciplinary program that will bring together the creative, intellectual, and practical elements of artists Christine Corday, Helen Frankenthaler, and Philip Glass.
The program features two symbiotic sessions on Saturday, June 8, in the Marlene Nathan Meyerson Auditorium at SITE SANTA FE. Both sessions are in-person and ticketed separately at $5 each; free for SITE members, students, and educators.No-one will be turned away for lack of funds. During the interval between presentations we invite you to explore current exhibitions at SITE SANTA FE.
SATURDAY, JUNE 8
10 AM | SOAK-STAIN: A MATERIAL CONVERSATION
Marlene Nathan Meyerson Auditorium
Christine Corday and scholar Douglas Dreishpoon discuss the enduring legacy of Helen Frankenthaler’s soak-stain technique and its continued influence on generations of artists across media. Moderated by David Chickey, Radius Books.
Doors open at 9:30 AM.
2 PM | COMPOSITION: A MATERIAL CONTINUATION
Marlene Nathan Meyerson Auditorium
A multidisciplinary presentation with Christine Corday accompanied by a live performance of A Madrigal Opera composed by Philip Glass. Guest violin: Karina Wilson.
Doors open at 1:30 PM.
CONTRIBUTORS
Christine Corday is an international multidisciplinary artist known for monumental concepts and installations. Recent projects include Sans Titre which culminated in Art as the thirty-sixth nation and final global contributor to the material build of a star on Earth, ITER [Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France] as well as ongoing solo museum exhibitions and public works in civic collections Worldwide.
As sculptor, Corday engages a material-based practice in the evolving human-scale of perception and fundamental forces. She works in temperature, pressure and material states of atomic elements in close collaboration with Nobel laureate astrophysicists and EarthShot finalist chemists; National Academy of Engineering-awarded engineers; and a broad range of earth, space and material sciences, cultural anthropology, and phenomenology. The subject and scale of materials are informed from her astrophysics internship at NASA/SETI (1991) as well as classical training at the piano. In the late 90s, Corday devoted full-time to Art and traveled to paint and live in various art historical and cultural contexts, including Tokyo, Japan (1999–2000), Seville, Spain (2000 –2004), and Greenpoint Brooklyn, New York (2005-2008). In Spain, Corday created Foundation Civilization for Art-led multidisciplinary works including Instrument for the Ocean to Play, 2001 (Tidal Energy); Sans Titre, 2019 (Fusion Energy); The Sun Is The Way, 2022 (Agriculture); Project Diagon, 2022 (Carbon Capture and Sequestration); and Project Troposphere, 2022 (New Carbon-Sequestered Materials). Corday's first solo exhibition in the United States was sited at the New York High Line (2008), followed by Director-commissioned solo museum exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2014) and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2019), and was selected by Architect Michael Arad to create the color and surface for The National September 11 Memorial, Ground Zero (2011). For more about Christine Corday, visit her studio website: https://www.christinecorday.com
Douglas Dreishpoon, chief curator emeritus at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York, is currently director of the catalogue raisonne project at the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York, and consulting editor with The Brooklyn Rail. His most current publications include Modern Sculpture: Artists in Their Own Words, Documents of Twentieth-Century Art, University of California Press, 2022; Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1988–2009, Radius Books, 2022; and Still Striking: Art and Aging, Critics Page, The Brooklyn Rail, December– January, 2023-24. For more on the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, please visit: https://www.frankenthalerfoundation.org
Karina Wilson is an internationally known performer blending the worlds of international fiddle traditions, classical violin music, and modern sound experimentation. With a background in classical music she has been a fixture in the Santa Fe music scene since 1997 when as a child she debuted with the Pearl Potts Ballet company as the music for their production of Beatrix Potter. Throughout the years she has joined on stage members of the NM philharmonic, NM symphony, Pro Musica, Santa Fe community orchestra, High Desert Corral, NM Symphony chorus, numerous and international dance bands both in the states and abroad. In 2004 she began a personal journey to study traditional music and the place of tradition music within the context of community, culture, history and human migration. Since that time she has traveled through 18 different countries to track and study over 30 different styles of traditional music. This work is now manifesting as a full time member of Lone Pinon Orquesta Tipica Nuevomexicana, touring nationally and most recently collaborating on a lecture series with the NM Humanities Speakers Bureau. Her modern composition, soundtrack and sound experimental collaborations include CCA (1998); Shakespeare in Santa Fe (1999-2001); High Mayhem (2004); Santa Fe Play house (2011-2013); ARCOS Dance company (2013); Circus Luminous(2018); Lumenscapes productions (2020); George RR Martin Films (2021); music for aid and awareness with Ukrainian composer Volodimir Kuzmenko (2022); and Meow Wolf (2024).
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