Gallery 31
Corcoran College of Art + Design
October 30, 2008–January 25, 2009

Gallery 31 is the Corcoran’s dedicated exhibition space for the Corcoran College of Art + Design. The space hosts exhibitions by the Corcoran’s faculty, students, alumni, visiting artists, and annual senior thesis exhibitions.

Maya Lin
Systematic Landscapes
March 14, 2009–July 12, 2009

The Corcoran Gallery of Art will present the exhibition Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes—a dramatic installation of major new works by this renowned contemporary artist and architect. Lin addresses notions of landscape and geologic phenomena in her art. Organized by the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, this exhibition explores how people perceive and experience the landscape in a time of heightened technological influence and environmental awareness.

Wounded Cities
Photographs by Leo Rubinfien
Closed January 25–March 13, 2009–Reopen March 14–29, 2009

On the morning of September 11, 2001, photographer Leo Rubinfien was in his Tribeca apartment across the street from the World Trade Center. Through those hours of destruction and days of displacement, Rubinfien did not pick up his camera to chronicle his experience. Months later, while working in Tokyo at the time of the Bali bombings, Rubinfien recognized the lingering effects of “freelance warfare” on a population that had experienced terrorism in its own past. The effects are not the physical wounds of an attack, but rather the psychological marks left in its aftermath: the sadness, the trepidation, and the determination. Since that time, Rubinfien has traveled to 17 cities, including London, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Istanbul, Dar es Salaam, and Jerusalem, to capture the physical and psychological wounds inflicted by terrorists not only on survivors but on all residents. In the exhibition, large prints of Rubinfein’s photographs will appear to float in the gallery, creating an interactive, immediate experience for the viewer.