Join Mannion Family Curator Jeffrey De Blois for a deep dive into MC⁹, a monumental multi-channel video installation featured in Charles Atlas: About Time. In this curator’s choice conversation, get a closer look into Atlas’s work at the intersections of moving image, dance, and performance. 

Bring your dancing shoes and join us for Let’s Dance: Through the Ages, in the theater following this program. Discover dance from 1970’s to today inspired by the exhibition, Charles Atlas: About Time. 

About Jeffrey De Blois

Devoted to working closely with artists and an expert in all things books, De Blois has been part of the curatorial team on more than 30 exhibitions and 10 books at the ICA, successfully realizing some of the museum’s most ambitious projects. He curated the first U.S. solo museum exhibitions of artists Caitlin Keogh, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, and Tammy Nguyen. He has also organized solo shows with artists Rose B. Simpson, Carolina Caycedo, William Kentridge, and Raúl de Nieves, among others. Most recently, De Blois organized the first retrospective dedicated to pioneering artist Charles Atlas, opening, and the first monograph and U.S. solo exhibition of the work of Tau Lewis. 

Charles Atlas: About Time is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant. 

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making this exhibition possible.

Additional thanks to Charles Atlas: About Time media sponsor, Orange Barrel Media.