Person

Edgar Howard

Directing

Biography

Edgar Howard is the Founder and President of Checkerboard Films, a non-profit foundation established in 1979 to document the American arts for archival and educational purposes. He has produced and/or directed over 45 films, beginning with his first profile on painter Brice Marden in 1977.

Known for

Filmography

2022Vladimir Kagan: A Life of DesignDirector
2022Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in MemoryDirector
2021Julie Mehretu: PalimpsestProducer
2019Frank Stella: Black Aluminum CopperDirector
2019James Rosenquist Up CloseDirector
2018On The Wings of BrancusiDirector
2018The Architecture and Art of Cornell TechDirector
2015Inventing Cornell Tech: The VisionProducer
2014Jeff Koons: The Whitney RetrospectiveDirector
2013Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High LineProducer
2012Eric Fischl: The Process of PaintingDirector
2012Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of ArtDirector
2011James Salter: A Sport and a PastimeDirector
2010Sol LeWitt: Wall DrawingsDirector
2009Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular EvolutionProducer
2008Jean Nouvel: Guthrie TheaterProducer
2008Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch BuildingProducer
2007Ellsworth Kelly: FragmentsDirector
2003Rudy Burckhardt: Man in the WoodsProducer
1985Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn ExpansionDirector
1978Duane Michals (1939-1997)Director
—Brice MardenDirector
—Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among ArchitectsProducer
—John Richardson: The Art of Picasso 1927 - 1973Director
—Peter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona CardinalsProducer
—Studio Gang Architects: Aqua TowerProducer
—Thom Mayne: U.S. Federal Office Building, San FranciscoProducer

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