Projects

Foundation Projects in 2009

  1. Artist seminar: "Geographies of the Mind" with Jeremy Morgan, MFA
  2. Artist seminar: "Cultivating the Edge" with Mary Hull Webster, MFA
  3. Exhibition: "Realms of Being" Paintings by Jeremy Morgan held at IONS, Petaluma
  4. Exhibition: "Symphony of Colors" Paintings by Fritz Rauh held at IONS, Petaluma
  5. Exhibition: "Sacred Beauty of the Inner and Outer World" Photographs by Sondra Barrett and San Hoffman held at IONS, Petaluma
  6. Exhibition: White Passages V Inner Journey Paintings by Chiyomi Longo held at IONS, Petaluma
  7. Artwork loan to "The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplative Asia, 1860-1989" Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 
  8. Artwork loan to "Alice Rahon: Una Surrealista en Mexico 1939-1987" El Instituto Nacioal de Bellas Artes y el Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
  9. Residency Artists:  January and February: Max Lamb and Gemma Holt; June: Lynne Riding; July and August: Julia Goodman; October and November: Alicia Escott

Foundation Projects in 2008

  1. Artist seminar: "Geographies of the Mind" with Jeremy Morgan, MFA
  2. Artist seminar: "Source, Transformation, Object with Mary Hull Webster, MFA
  3. Public lecture: The Evolution of Consciousness and Art", with scholar Dr. Robert McDermott. Piano accompaniment by Jasper Blunk and art by Nancy Beck. Dance Palace Community Center, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
  4. Public lecture: "Giacometti and Existentialism, Time and Space" by Clark Poling PhD. Inverness, CA
  5. 3rd annual fundraising event "Unlocking the Enneagram: Is Ennybody Home?" Performance by Sheila Glover.  Dance Palace, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
  6. Curator and cosponsor of "Landscapes of Consciousness" exhibition with Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  7. Residency Artists: June and July: Cameron Kelly and Nicole Buffett; September: Jacob Tillman; October and November: Michael Cran

Foundation Projects in 2007

  1. Artist talk: “Surrealist Women in Mexico,” with guest lecturer Teresa Arcq, MA.
  2. Artist discussion on Wolfgang Paalen with Andreas Neufert, PhD.
  3. Artist seminar: “Inscape: Geographies of the Mind,” with artist Jeremy Morgan, MFA, Chair, Painting Department, San Francisco Art Institute.
  4. Artist talk: “Surrealism and the Sacred,” with professor Celia Rabinovich PhD.
  5. Co-sponsor, with JFK University Department of Arts and Consciousness, conference: “Holistic Approaches to Arts Education.” Berkeley, CA.
  6. Artist talk and discussion on André Masson by professor Clark V. Poling, PhD.
  7. Artist seminar: “Mind and Matter,” with Judit Hersko, MFA.
  8. 2nd Annual Harvest Moon Celebration fundraiser for Foundation's artist seminars.
  9. Exhibition cosponsor, with Weinstein Gallery, Gordon Onslow Ford from the Vallejo: 1949-1959. San Francisco, CA.
  10. Loan of artwork for the exhibition Dreams on Canvas, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York.
  11. Loan of paintings for the exhibition 1937 Perfektion und Zerstorung, Kunsthalle-Bielefeld, Germany.


Foundation Projects in 2006

  1. Curated exhibition: Threshold of a New Art, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, CA.
  2. Public lecture: “The Spiritual in Art,” at CIIS.
  3. Artist seminar and dialogue organized for the artist members of Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA.
  4. Public seminar with anthropologists and authors Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D and Dennis Tedlock, Ph.D, Dance Palace, Point Reyes Station, CA.
  5. Artist talk with Australian poet Robert Adamson and photographer Juno Gemes.
  6. 1st Annual Harvest Moon Celebration fundraiser for artist seminars, featuring art historian Martica Sawin, Ph.D. and Ikebana master Soho Sakai.
  7. Winter solstice poetry reading for local artists and poets.
  8. Loan of paintings for the exhibition Roberto Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark, San Diego Museum of Art, CA.


Foundation Projects in 2005

  1. Loan of a painting for the exhibition Surrealism USA, National Academy Museum, New York, NY.
  2. Public seminar with guest lecturers Matica Sawin and Sepp Hiekisch-Picard.
  3. Solstice poetry reading for the local artist community.
  4. Loan of two paintings for the show Lee Mullican: An Abundant Harvest of Sun, LACMA.
  5. Studio visit and dialogue, “Looking for Lucia,” with Mary Hull Webster.
  6. Dialogue and panel, “The Subjects of the Artists,” with three faculty members from the Department of Arts and Consciousness, John F. Kennedy University at Eubank Studio. Point Reyes Station, CA.


Foundation Projects in 2004

  1. Monthly educational art seminars with established, professional artists.
  2. Loan of a painting for the show Monet to Matisse, Homer to Hartley: American Masters and Their European Muses, Portland Museum of Art. Portland, Maine.
  3. Grant to Lucid Artist John Anderson to create a catalogue raisonné of his fifty-year painting career.


Foundation Projects in 2003

  1. Supported visit of art historian Tamara Ingels, University of Brussels, Belgium, to study the lives and art of three Foundation artists and conduct research in the Foundation archives.
  2. Co-sponsor, with the Institute of Noetic Sciences, public lecture: “Gordon Onslow Ford at 90.”
  3. Year-long seminar for post-graduate MFA students.
  4. Public lecture by Fariba Bogzaran: “On Lucid Art.” The Institute of Noetic Sciences. Petaluma, CA.
  5. Public lecture by Fariba Bogzaran: “Lucid Art: Exploring Cosmic Consciousness Through Creation.” The Cultural Integration Fellowship, San Francisco, CA.
  6. Public lecture with Fariba Bogzaran and Lucid Art Foundation visiting scholar Tamara Ingels: “Artist/Shaman, Shamanism/Creation.” John F. Kennedy University Arts Annex, Berkeley, CA.

 

Foundation Projects in 2002

  1. Introduced “The Quest of the Inner-Worlds,” an annual educational summer seminar for graduating or recently degreed art students whose work complemented the Foundation’s mission. Included visits to Foundation artists’ studios, lectures, dialogues with artists, nature walks, painting studies, along with access to the Foundation’s art library and archives.


Foundation Projects in 2001

  1. Publication of Beginner’s Beginning by painter John Anderson.
  2. Documentary video project on the artists represented by the Foundation.


Foundation Projects in 2000

  1. Supported re-publication of Dyn by Wolfgang Paalen (Springer/Wien-New York).
  2. Organized Shared Depth, an exhibition of California artists, painter John Anderson and sculptor J.B. Blunk, at the Eubank Studio, Point Reyes Station, CA.
  3. Public lectures on the works of artists John Anderson and J.B. Blunk by Gordon Onslow Ford, Fariba Bogzaran and Charles Miedzinski.
  4. Launched website exhibition, Lucid Art, curated by Fariba Bogzaran, including works by 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.
  5. Public lecture by Gordon Onslow Ford with an introduction by Fariba Bogzaran, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
  6. Public lecture by Fariba Bogzaran: “Research as Art, Art as Research.” Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, CA.


Foundation Projects in 1999

  1. Published Once Upon A Time by painter Gordon Onslow Ford and collaborator Fariba Bogzaran.
  2. Supported the publication of Im Inneren des Wals, by Andreas Neufert, Ph.D. Book contains an extensive catalogue raisonné of Wolfgang Paalen's paintings.
  3. Hosted ongoing educational seminars for graduate art students.


Foundation Projects in 1998

  1. Public lecture: “Exploring Consciousness Through the Art of the Mind” by Fariba Bogzaran at the conference “Towards a New Science of Consciousness.” Tucson, Arizona.

Periodically, the Foundation publishes or supports the publishing of texts about art and artists that explore the inner worlds and are thereby expanding the notion of Lucid Art.

Lucid Art Foundation publications include:

Once Upon A Time, written by painter Gordon Onslow Ford in collaboration with Fariba Bogzaran, 1999.

Beginner’s Beginning by painter John Anderson, 2001.

To purchase these books along with other original art books written by Gordon Onslow Ford, visit the online bookstore on Gordon Onslow Ford's website.


Publications that the Foundation has supported include:

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

The publication of Im Inneren des Wals (1999), a book on Wolfgang Paalen by Andreas Neufert, which contains an extensive catalogue raisonné of Paalen's paintings.