Lucid Art Foundation Projects

Foundation Projects in 1998

1) Supported the public lecture Exploring Consciousness Through the Art of the Mind by Fariba Bogzaran. Presented at conference: Towards a New Science of Consciousness. Tucson, Arizona.
 

Foundation Projects in 1999

1) Published its first book Once Upon A Time, written by painter Gordon Onslow Ford with Fariba Bogzaran as collaborator.
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2) Supported the publication of Im Inneren des Wals, a book on Wolfgang Paalen by Andreas Neufert. This book contains an extensive catalogue raisonné of Paalen's paintings.
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3) Began a series of on-going educational seminars for graduate art students to study the Foundation’s collection of paintings and library artifacts as well as visiting the Foundation artists and their studios. (By invitation only)
 

Foundation projects in 2000

1) Supported the re-publication of Dyn by Wolfgang Paalen. The publication was released on August 1st, 2000 by Springer/Wien-New York.

2) Supported Shared Depth an exhibition of two California artists, painter John Anderson and sculptor J.B. Blunk, at the Eubank Studio, Point Reyes Station, California (June 22-July 22, 2000).

3) Organized public lectures on the works of artists John Anderson and J.B. Blunk. Lectures by Gordon Onslow Ford, Fariba Bogzaran and Charles Miedzinski.

4) Created Lucid Art, a website exhibition curated by Fariba Bogzaran based on her work in Voices of the Elders (Oakland Museum) and Through the Light. (John F. Kennedy University). The exhibition included works by the artists John Anderson, J.B. Blunk, Richard Bowman, Leonora Carrington, Roberto Matta, Lee Mullican, Gordon Onslow Ford, Fritz Rauh, Remedios Varo, Wolfgang Paalen, and Jack Wright.
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5) Organized a public lecture by Gordon Onslow Ford with an introduction by Fariba Bogzaran at Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco.

6) Supported a public lecture Research as Art, Art as Research by Fariba Bogzaran at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, San Francisco, California.
 

Foundation Projects in 2001

1) Published the book Beginner’s Beginning by painter John Anderson.

2) Launched a documentary video project on the artists represented by the Foundation.
 

Foundation Projects in 2002

1) Introduced The Quest of the Inner-Worlds, an annual Educational Summer Seminars. These seminars support art students who are graduating or recently graduated and have a similar direction in their work as the Foundation’s mission. These seminars serve as a support to the artist by visiting the Foundation artists’ studios. The seminars also include lectures, conversations with artists, dialogues, nature walks, the study of paintings and access to the Foundation’s books and archives.


Foundation Projects in 2003

1) Supported the visit of art historian, Tamara Ingels, from the University of Brussels, Belgium, who studied the lives and art of three Foundation artists and conducted research in the Foundation archives.

2) Co-sponsored a public lecture Gordon Onslow Ford at 90 with the Institute of Noetic Sciences, introduction by Fariba Bogzaran. Inverness, California.

3) Organized annual Educational Summer Seminar.

4) Supported a public lecture by Fariba Bogzaran called Crop Circles and Lucid Art in memory of Gordon Onslow Ford passing. Institute of Noetic Sciences. Petaluma, California.

5) Supported a public lecture Lucid Art: Exploring Cosmic Consciousness Through Creation by Fariba Bogzaran. The Cultural Integration Fellowship, San Francisco, California.

6) Organized a public lecture Artist/Shaman, Shamanism/Creation with Fariba Bogzaran and Lucid Art Foundation visiting scholar, Tamara Ingels. John F. Kennedy University Arts Annex, Berkeley, California.
 

Foundation Projects in 2004

1.) Organized and facilitated a monthly Educational Seminar consisting of established, professional artists.

2.) Loaned a painting for the upcoming show Surrealism USA at the National Academy of Design, New York, NY from February – May 2005 and the Phoenix Art Museum from June to September 2005.

3.) Will loan paintings for the upcoming retrospective of Lee Mullican at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

4.) Loaned a painting for the upcoming show Monet to Matisse, Homer to Hartley: American Masters and Their European Muses from June 24, 2004 – October 17, 2004 at the Portland Museum of Art (Portland, Maine).

5.) Awarded a grant to Lucid Artist, John Anderson, in order to create a Catalogue Raisonné of his paintings which span over fifty years.

6.) The Foundation received a grant from the Hugh Stuart Center Charitable Trust in order to launch the creation of a video documentary on the life and work of Gordon Onslow Ford.