The audio tour for John Chamberlain: Choices shares perspectives on select key works from the exhibition.
www.guggenheim.org/chamberlain

Exhibition Website

John Chamberlain's Involvement with Abstract Expressionism

Kate Ragan presents her original composition “blink blank, blink blot,” 2024.

“Blink blank, blink blot” embodies Archipenko’s polychromatic palette and circular sense of motion in "Carrousel Pierrot," 1913 by passing material and repeated pitches between different instruments. The piece captures Archipenko’s negative space through a sparse texture populated with rests and exposed moments of repose. 

About the Composer
Kate Ragan is a DMA candidate in composition at Eastman School of Music. She received an MM in composition at Eastman and a BA in piano performance and political science from the University of Notre Dame, graduating summa cum laude. Her compositions often explore kaleidoscopic colors among instruments and stark, unpredictable contrast in register, texture, dynamics, and articulation. Also an active pianist, Kate strongly advocates for 20th and 21st century works, performing pieces by composers such as Olivier Messiaen, Tōru Takemitsu, Amy Williams, Tania León, and John Liberatore as well as premiering works by composers such as Marlies Hollevoet, Reilly Spitzfaden, and Trinity Hlynn Prater. As a passionate teacher, Kate has taught courses and lessons in composition, orchestration, and engraving for Eastman and University of Rochester undergraduate and graduate students. Through a research collaboration with Eastman Performing Arts Medicine and Eastman Community Music School, Kate is a piano instructor for adult students with Mild Cognitive Impairment and an accompanist for ENCORE, a choir dedicated to community members with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Her composition teachers include Daniel Pesca, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Robert Morris, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, and John Liberatore.  

Additional Support From
Tucker Johnson – Recording Technician 
Kaja Hammerschmidt – Flute 
Jacob Eichhorn – Clarinet 
Landon Chang – Alto Saxophone 
Noah Eastman – Bassoon 
Cynthia Chun-Hsin Liu – Piano

Orphism

“blink blank, blink blot,” 2024

As part of the Guggenheim Museum’s Summer of Know series, artist Ad Minoliti and activist Adam Werner discussed social and artistic responsibility, and building community on digital platforms, with moderation by X Zhu-Nowell, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum.

Photo: Ed Marshall

Archivo de la Memoria Trans
https://archivodelamemoriatrans.tumblr.com/

Queer Ancestors Project
https://www.queerancestorsproject.org/

The Feminist School of Painting
http://fschool.kadist.org/

Cromoactivismo
https://www.facebook.com/Cromoactivismo-1430319627007557/

Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal Seguro y Gratuito
http://www.abortolegal.com.ar/

Summer of Know

Conversation: Ad Minoliti and Adam Werner (2019)

Listen to audio about exhibitions and artworks at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark building is home to a collection of modern and contemporary masterpieces.

“blink blank, blink blot,” 2024

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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