Aaron G. Beebe is an American artist and curator working in Brooklyn, NY. He was the Director of the Coney Island Museum.,[1] is a co-founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum[2] and is the creator of the Congress for Curious People[3][4]
Beebe was born in Lakewood, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University and New York University.[5]
During his tenure at the Coney Island Museum, Beebe produced several collaborative installations. In fact, Beebe has said that he views museums themselves as a type of installation work.[6] Notable work at the Coney Island Museum included:
- "Postcards from Paradise" - A humorous work about the history of mailed images and texts, featuring a working post office and postmaster. With performance artist Martha Wilson.
- "The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and it's Circle" - An installation by Zoe Belloff.[7]
- "The Great Coney Island Spectacularium" - A reproduction of a 19th-century dime museum that used the original, 19th century, collection of the former Niagara Falls Museum to cross-examine the history of spectacle and dime museums. With Joanna Ebenstein.
- "The Cosmorama of the Great Dreamland Fire" - an immersive installation that recreated a 19th-century panoramic painting of the destruction of Coney Island's largest amusement park in 1911.[citation needed]
In 2014, Beebe worked with Joanna Ebenstein, Tracy Hurley Martin, Tonya Martin, and Colin Dickey to co-found the Morbid Anatomy Museum.[8] The museum was the result of a confluence of interests and ideas that the five held, and Beebe's experience in Coney Island provided the structural know-how to create a new institution. He then oversaw the design and construction of the museum (designed by Robert Kirkbride and Anthony Cohn) and helped produce the first exhibitions there.
References
edit- ^ Gill, John Freeman. "A Tweed Suit for the Bearded Lady". Retrieved November 5, 2018.
- ^ Mansky, Jacqueline. "Morbid Anatomy Museum Closes Its Doors". Smithsonian. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
- ^ "The Congress for Curious People, Barcelona". The Congress for Curious People. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
- ^ "The Congress for Curious People, London". The Congress for Curious People. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
- ^ "Aaron G. Beebe resume". Retrieved January 20, 2020.
- ^ "The Coney Island Museum". Aaron G. Beebe. July 25, 2011. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
- ^ Strausbaugh, John. "At the Coney Island Museum, the Strange Case of Sigmund F." Retrieved November 26, 2018.
- ^ "Museum of 'Morbid Anatomy' to Open in Gowanus". DNAinfo New York. Archived from the original on July 29, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2018.