The 2000 DeCordova Annual Exhibition
Joyce and Edward Linde Gallery, James and Audrey Foster Galleries, Media Space @ DeCordova/Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Gallery
May 13 – September 4, 2000
Laura Baring-Gould, Apiary (detail), 2000, installation: straw, steel, copper, copper wire, blown glass, New England honey, light, video of bee shadows, sound of flying bees, 14' x 13' x 20'
One of the highlights of the New England summer art scene, The 2000 DeCordova Annual Exhibition opens at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park on May 18 and is on view until September 4, 2000. Organized by Director of Curatorial Affairs Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Curator Nick Capasso, Curator for Media Arts George Fifield, and Curatorial Intern Gillian Nagler, The DeCordova Annual Exhibition brings together some of the region's most outstanding visual art talents.
Since 1989, DeCordova has filled its galleries each summer with some of the most exciting, fascinating, and important contemporary artwork created by artists from the New England region. This yearly series of shows, recently renamed the DeCordova Annual, has featured over 100 emerging, mid-career, and established artists and artist-teams in a format that stresses variety and quality rather than an over-arching theme.
For The 2000 DeCordova Annual, curators Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Nick Capasso, George Fifield, and Gillian Nagler selected ten artists who work in a broad spectrum of media: painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, and multi-media installations. The content of their works reflect an equally diverse range and include personal and cultural identity, nature and biology, technological ambivalence, society’s fascinations with violence and death, and transformational spiritual experience. One particular aspect that sets this show apart, and reflects a particularly strong trend in contemporary art, is a pervasive use of decidedly non-traditional art materials. As you explore The DeCordova Annual, you will find honey, hay, pollen, motor oil, live ants, recycled computer circuit boards, sawdust, coffee filters, and lint!
The ten artists selected for The 2000 DeCordova Annual Exhibition are:
| Ri Anderson Somerville, MA |
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Theo Appel |
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| Laura Baring-Gould Somerville, MA |
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| Doug Bosch Exeter, NH |
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| Ambreen Butt Boston, MA |
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| Remo Campopiano Seekonk, MA |
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| Frank Egloff Jamaica Plain, MA |
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| Nancy Hayes New Bedford, MA |
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| Jill Slosburg-Ackerman Cambridge, MA |
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| Patricia Trevisan-Woods Center Ossippee, NH |
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