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Still, Moving
Featuring works from the Corcoran Legacy Collection
Art History Program Graduate Students, Curators
April 8 – May 21, 2023
Juan Downey, The White Box: 68, 1969. Acrylic paint, metallic paint, pencil and wax crayons, with cut and glued, printed and typed paper on cream paper, 20 x 30 in. Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barrett M. Linde).
Dorothy Dehner, Bird Machine I. 1952. Etching on paper, 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 in. Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of Mildred Constantine).
Helene Dawson Fesenmaier, Untitled, 1970. Pastel and acrylic paint on heavy black paper, 25 1/4 x 31 in. Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II).
Exhibition Overview
How is the relation between stillness and motion registered within individual works of art and across works of art set in dialogue with one another? This is the third exhibition since 2019 in which the museum has invited students to look to its Corcoran Legacy Collection not only as a source of exhibition content, but as source of provocations about this content. Pieces span from the 1950s through the 1980s and include the works of Anni Albers, George Rickey, Juan Downey, and many more.
Curators
Virginia Apperson, Juhianna Boeye, Austen Caudill, Kayla Conklin, Grace Edson, Kaelee Hess, Tyler Hirshon, Elizabeth Ho-Sing-Loy, Isabel Iem, Marie-Claire Kent, Amy Kruse, Karly Lainhart, Milo Mayfield, Grace McCormick, Annabelle Renshaw, Lexi Shulman, Hannah Spears, and Lacey Wilson