The 2001 DeCordova Annual Exhibition

Joyce and Edward Linde Gallery, James and Audrey Foster Galleries, Media Space @ DeCordova/Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Gallery

June 9 – September 3, 2001

Opening Reception: June 15, 2001, 6 – 9 pm

One of the highlights of the New England summer art scene, The 2001 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, opens at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park on June 9 and is on view until September 2, 2001. Organized by Director of Curatorial Affairs Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Curator Nick Capasso, Curator of Media Arts George Fifield, and Curatorial Fellow Jennifer Uhrhane, The DeCordova Annual Exhibition brings together some of the region's most outstanding visual art talents. The Nathaniel Saltonstall Art Fund provided major support for The 2001 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, its exhibition catalogue and educational programming.

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 region. This yearly series of shows has featured over 100 emerging, mid-career, and established artists and artist-teams in a format that is focused on the quality and diversity of contemporary art created in the six New England states, and consciously avoids any overarching themes based on media, content, or subject matter.

For The 2001 DeCordova Annual, DeCordova's Curators selected 10 artists from four states to participate. Their artwork ranges from traditional media like painting, sculpture, and photography to more cutting edge forms of expression like installation art, digital prints, and interactive art-and-technology works. Subjects include abstraction, portraiture, landscape, politics, consumer culture, and imaginative transformations and juxtapositions of found objects. Although not intentional, two themes seem to serendipitously connect much of the work in The 2001 Annual: the increasing cultural dominance of technology, and the ongoing pervasive influence of Surrealism in contemporary art.

The 2001 DeCordova Annual Exhibition participating artists are:
(Click on name or image for artist statement and statements by the Curators)

Ahmed Abdalla West Somerville, MA
Brett Bigbee South Portland, ME
Kelly Heaton Cambridge, MA
Kelly Kaczynski Cambridge, MA
Richard Klein Norwalk, CT
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew Providence, RI
Janice Redman Provincetown, MA
Marian Roth Provincetown, MA
Dean Snyder Pawtucket, RI
Sarah Walker South Boston, MA