The Paul J. Cronin Memorial Lecture
Featuring Artists George Greenamyer, and Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter
Wednesday,
November 14, 6:30 pm
(Doors open at 6 pm )
Massachusetts artists George Greenamyer, and the team of Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter, are among the most prominent and successful practitioners of public art in America today. Their artworks can be found in libraries, universities, airports, train stations, parks, courthouses, and other municipal buildings across the country.
Greenamyer’s work is straightforward and colorful, and rooted in an American folk art sensibility. Helmick and Schechter combine sculpture and technology in installations comprised of thousands of small objects that visually combine to form colossal images suspended in space. While their works look very different, their aesthetic approaches share a passion for the figure, narrative, and accessibility. And all three artists are participants in the DeCordova exhibition Trainscape: Installation Art for Model Railroads.
Together they will discuss public art and their role in the field at DeCordova’s Paul J. Cronin Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, November 14 at 6:30 pm in the Museum’s Dewey Family Gallery.
Reservations requested. Please contact jneas@decordova.org or 781/259-3629 for tickets.
DeCordova’s annual Paul J. Cronin Memorial Lectures were established in 1981 to consider topics that are broadly focused upon changing attitudes towards twentieth and twenty-first century art. They are made possible by a generous grant from the Grover Cronin Memorial Foundation.
This event is co-sponsored by the UrbanArts Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. UrbanArts is a Boston-based non-profit organization that works to promote excellence in public art and design.
A wine and dessert reception will be offered after the lecture. The ticket price is $10 for Members and $12 per person for Non-Members; Student tickets are $8 (a valid ID is required). This event is free for YMOD Members (click here to join YMOD). Space is limited and reservations are required. No tickets will be sent. Tickets will be held at the door. The lecture will be held at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in the Dewey Family Gallery.
Reservations requested. Please contact jneas@decordova.org or 781/259-3629 for tickets.
Image: George Greenamyer, New Jersey on Parade (detail), forged fabricated painted steel, overall dinemensions 12' h x 72' l x 20' h; installed in 2002 at the New Jersey Transit Concourse in Pennsylvania Station, New York, NY; Commissioned by NJT Transit with assistance from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; Photo: Beverly Burbank
