http://www.calderbrannock.com ART Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:47:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Camper Contemporary is a mobile gallery created and curated by Calder Brannock. It is a fully functional art gallery set up inside an altered 1967 Yellowstone camper.  Camper Contemporary gallery poses a solution for many problems a gallery faces in the modern art market.  It allows the gallerist to showcase ... http://www.calderbrannock.com/?p=25 [gallery=14] http://www.calderbrannock.com/?p=23 [gallery=9] The GW Cancer Institute commissioned a sculptural portrait of renowned art collector and benefactor Cy Katzen to be presented at their annual Gala.  The sculpture was extremely well received, with Archbishop Desmond Tutu pausing during his speech to applaud and compliment it.  The sculpture currently resides in Dr. Katzen's front ... http://www.calderbrannock.com/?p=20 [slideshow=1,575,250] http://www.calderbrannock.com/?p=18 [gallery=10] In his Torn Porn, The Acquisition of the Image series, Calder became frustrated by reading through an art book in a public library only to find that many of the images had been torn out. The destruction of these library books is mostly due to patrons tearing out the more ... http://www.calderbrannock.com/?p=15 The GW Cancer Institute commissioned a sculptural portrait of renowned art collector and benefactor Cy Katzen to be presented at their annual Gala.  The sculpture was extremely well received, with Archbishop Desmond Tutu pausing during his speech to applaud and compliment it.  The sculpture currently resides in Dr. Katzen’s front ... http://www.calderbrannock.com/?p=11 For our trip to the Armory show and Pulse in NY for 2009, I created a standardized uniform or "travelsuits" for the Rinehart School of Sculpture.  By giving up fashion identity, the group was able generate more interest in what we were doing and opened avenues for conversation and interaction.  ... http://www.calderbrannock.com/?p=9 [gallery=3] Everyday for several weeks I adopted the character of a middle management employee and during regular lunch hours, attempted to fly a metal kite on the corner of 22nd and I street NW in Washington DC.  Born out of watching children's frustration at broken kites during the annual kite festival ... http://www.calderbrannock.com/?p=7 [gallery=2] As people moved through the entrance way opening and shutting the doors to the building and the office that bookended this installation, the sections of drywall that the work was built out of would shift and gradually collapse.  As pieces fell, the sections that remained whole would be reincorporated into ... http://www.calderbrannock.com/?p=6 Calder Brannock Born: 1984 in South Carolina. Currently residing in Baltimore MD, Calder received his BA from The George Washington University and is attending the Maryland Institute College of Art in the Rinehart MFA sculpture program. He is currently focusing on curation as director of Camper Contemporary, ... http://www.calderbrannock.com/?p=13