deCordova | Corporate Art Loan Program

Today’s Install: Reservoir Place

We installed artwork in the South Building and Link Location of 1601 Trapelo Road in Waltham, also known as Reservoir Place! Here are some action shots of the team hard at work:

Elliott finding the center of the wall for Don McKillop's three acrylic on canvas, mounted on wood pieces, Littoral, Sojourner, Pronunciamento.

Nathan had previously mapped out where the L brackets would go for Erika Heffernan's Aisle Series c-prints before arriving on site today- measure twice, drill once!

Laura Baltzell's Live Juicy painting on the end wall definitely catches your eye!

Cydney installing Penn Young's wall label for One Color Painting, Blue #13 

After hanging Resa Blatman's An Abstract Notion in the Link, Elliott takes another look to make sure it’s level!

The property management set up two ladders for us to install in the stairway

Amanda Millis' After Amira oil on canvas work catches the light nicely and looks great in that location!

MINED over MATTER

Seen Around Town | Kenji Nakayama and Dana Woulfe

This past weekend marked the opening of Lot F Gallery’s Its Virtue is Immense exhibition, which runs through April 25^th and showcases deCordova Lending Artist Kenji Nakayama’s text-based, hand painted signs.  You can catch Kenji in action with his fellow Best Dressed Signs colleagues, including the show’s curator Meredith Kasabian, at Lot F Gallery for a live script lettering demonstration on Saturday, April 12 during 1-3pm.

Read more about Its Virtue Is Immense in Juxtapoz Magazine.

Kenji Nakayama; ABC Script; Enamel and variegated leaf on MDF

Kenji Nakayma for Converse Wall to Wall

Recently, Kenji’s Somerville mural was featured on the back cover of the January 2014 issue of Juxtapoz Magaine as a part of Converse’s Wall to Wall project.  Coincidentally, the work of fellow deCordova Lending Artist Dana Woulfe splashes across the April 2014 back cover of the magazine.  Both Woulfe and Nakayama have previously designed for Converse.

Dana Woulfe for Converse Wall to Wall

Also during this past weekend, the South Boston arts community The Distillery celebrated its former tenants in a tribute show entitled The Departed. Dana Woulfe has a piece in the show that runs until April  7^th.

Alexander Squier Joins as New Lending Artist

With his recent exhibition Inside Out at 210 Broadway in Cambridge, Boston-based printmaker Alexander Squier loans six works to the Corporate Program.

Originally from Texas, Alexander’s work studies Boston’s architecture, our relationship with structure, and the dynamics between new and old.

Ace Ticket I; screenprint; 28.5 x 20.5”

Ace Ticket II; screen print; 28.5 x 20.5”

Squier’s work deals with the in between of nostalgia and excitement, as he considers the urban landscape in a constant state of flux.

Fenway Car Wash I; screen print; 28.5 x 20.5”

Fenway Car Wash II; screen print; 28.5 x 20.5”

The artist will be exhibiting during SGC International Printmaking Conference in the San Francisco Bay Area at the end of this month. Thank you for loaning the work, Alexander!

Lending Artist Exhibits at C7A

DeCordova’s Corporate Program Lending Artist Ellen Waitzkin invited me to view her exhibition of photographs at the Paul Dietrich Gallery, located in the offices of Cambridge Seven Architects in Harvard Square. 

The works on view include images from the artist’s Water, Meadow, and Beach series.

Working in large format photography, Ellen has been playing with color, contrast, and compositions of her triptychs.

On view until May 2, Triptych Project - 2013 is located on the 5th floor of 1050 Mass Ave and open Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm.

Resa Blatman at Tufts University Art Gallery

Art Openings and Events!

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Lending Artist Kayla Mohammadi exhibits work in the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts.

Audubon Terrace, west side of Broadway
between 155 and 156 Streets, New York City.

MARCH 6–APRIL 12, 2014
Thursdays through Sundays
1 to 4 p.m.

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Lending Artist Corey Corcoran curates From Life at Aviary Gallery. Show Opens March 6, 6-9pm and runs until the 30th.

Hilary Doyle, Netflix

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This April, please be sure to visit deCodova Lending Artist Evelyn Rydz’ exhibition Forever Yours, at the MFA. 

"Evelyn Rydz (b. 1979, Miami) received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2005. Rydz explores America’s coasts, photographing the manufactured remnants of modern life that wash up on the shoreline. Plastic’s resilience is exactly the quality that makes it valuable to us, but what we use, discard, and dump in the sea is useless to marine life. Materials that never decay become a permanent part of the oceanic ecosystem. Nature’s attempt to reclaim these cast-offs fascinates Rydz, who draws our attention to their transformation on their long journey along the global ocean current, and to the larger implications of society’s everyday actions. This exhibition is the first to include Rydz’s bold photographs, which, combined with her delicate drawings, depict these fragments in surprising ways."

April 19, 2014 - September 14, 2014
Gallery 265

The artist also celebrates the inclusion of her work at the Anchorage Museum in GYRE: The Plastic Ocean
On view Feb. 7 through Sept.  

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Please Join the New Art Center tonight!

Left Image: Michael Cappabianca; Right Images Top to Bottom: Hiatt, de Rosas, Asquith Shrier

Corporate Night 2014 Photos

Thank you Rick Mansfield for capturing the great moments of this event!

Thank you!

Thank you to all the Lending Artists, Corporate Member employees, deCordova staff, Genzyme staff, and Corporate Program supporters who braved the elements last night! While the group was more intimate in size, our team thoroughly enjoyed your presence, conversations, and ongoing enthusiasm for our work in connecting regional, contemporary artists with the Boston business community. Thank you for celebrating Corporate Night with us!