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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 hallway.

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 titillating images for masturbatory purposes. He was first attracted to the tear lines visually as their simplicity and visual depth mimicked that of a Hiroshi Sugimoto seascape. “I noticed how similar this effect seemed to those tear lines in the spines of books and found that I could create a similar vastness and ethereality through my own photography.” He photographed the tear lines, which juxtapose the fields of color with their origin in a destructive and perverse action. During this continual cataloging and documentation, he has amassed over two thousand images. He used several of these images along with a projection instillation in a show at the Crystal City Motel in April 2007. To preserve the image’s roots in documentation, he was influenced by Wolfgang Tillman and the way he displays his photographs on flat surfaces and in nontraditional locations to create a connection with the photographs as sculpture. The viewers were able to interact with the photographs on the walls, on tables, in beds, in a sleazy “gallery” environment that reflected the images seedy origins. Since then Torn Porn has been shown in more reputable locations and resides in several private collections in DC, MD, NY, SC and Finland.

Crystal City Motel, Crystal City Virginia

Depot Gallery, Clinton SC

History of the Foggy Bottom Neighborhood, F street and 22nd NW washington DC

GW Mural, Marvin Center’s Colombian Square, Washington DC

Celebration of Music, AC Flora High School, Columbia SC, Carolina Moon, Columbia, SC

FURNITURE AND OLDER WORK

Sculpture

2-D

To heighten the viewers awareness of the roll of the gallery space in their perception of sculpture, I adjusted the lighting in the gallery in an aesthetically pleasing manner.  By doing part of the job of the curator, I examined the power of curation and space and how they give gravitas to a work.

Calder Brannock’s art office and studio reception area

Corporate Intervention Products

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 on the mall, the work deals with making secure decisions or comprimises that never allow us to realize our true dreams.  Interestingly as the work progressed, viewers changed from passing me warely to often stopping and watching/cheering, and even assisting with kite launch on several instances.

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 the work. This shifted its form gradually through the space as bones that break and reheal change shape.

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, a mobile art gallery Calder built in a converted 1965 Yellowstone Camper.

Curitorial Pursuits

Here or There,  Inaugural show for Camper Contemporary,  Miami FL, December 3-6

Shows and Commissions

Genesis of Form,  Holtzman Gallery, Towson University, July 9 - August 9 2009

MFA Candidate First Year Show, Group Two, MICA April 10-21 2009

Rinehart 104th,  Fox 3 Gallery, September 2008

Summer Group Show,  Fraser Gallery, Bethesda MD  August 8 - September 2, 2008

Affordable Art Fair,  Altman Building, New York City June 2008

“Progress” Mural Commission, George Washington University 2140 F Street completed November 2008

Cy Katzen Portrait Sculpture Commission, GW Cancer Institute presented May 2008, currently in the private collection of Dr. Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen

The Depot Gallery, Presbyterian College, January 18, 2008 - April 4, 2008, Clinton, SC

Torn Porn: The Acquisition of the Image, April 26, 2007, Arlington, VA

Viewing of installation in Crystal City Motel

Columbia Square Mural Commission, George Washington University Completed May 2007

Selected Works, The Dimock Gallery, January, 2007, Washington, DC

Chosen and curated by Anne Ellegood and Kristen Hileman, Curator and Assistant Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

The B-Sides, The Dimock Gallery, April 26, 2006 - May 5, 2006, Washington, DC

Fear., The Dimock Gallery, October 11, 2005 - October 21, 2005, Washington, DC

Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities Honors Traveling Show, 2003

National Scholastic Gold Key winner for 2-D work 2003

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