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  • Through June 1, 2022 – Jeffrey Gibson: Because Once You Enter My House, It Becomes Our House

    The Trustees announce a large scale exhibit at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum beginning this June and running through June 1, 2022. A monumental sculpture by renowned artist Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Choctaw-Cherokee), the title, Because Once You Enter My House, It Becomes Our House, comes from a song Gibson associates with nightclubs that have provided haven and community especially for LGBTQ+ people and BIPOC.

    The ziggurat form references the earthen architecture of the ancient Mississippian city of Cahokia, which flourished in the seventh through fourteenth centuries, well before European contact. The installation will be adorned with phrases advocating for Indigenous space and culture and wheat-pasted posters co-created by Gibson and artists Eric-Paul Riege (Diné), Luzene Hill (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians), and Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota).

    Gibson has invited Riege and Hill to stage performances on and around the installation. Additionally, he invited Claxton to adapt one of her photographs, titled Lasso, to a monumental scale as a billboard which will be on view in the Sculpture Park by June 1. The installation opens with Riege’s performance on Friday June 4th from 12-4pm. Click here to learn more.

    Learn more about the past programs and performances for Because Once You Enter My House, It Becomes Our House while it was on view at Socrates Sculpture Park.

    About the Artist

    Jeffrey Gibson’s vibrantly patterned work addresses his Choctaw-Cherokee heritage as well as his queer identity, and the aesthetics and biases associated with those identity markers. He works across painting, sculpture, video, performance, and installation art. He draws on Indigenous process and materials, and queer histories that use camp aesthetics as a critical strategy to deny any romanticizing of Indigenous cultures. By exaggerating these aesthetics Gibson forges conversations that transcend binary thinking. Merging styles and historical references, Gibson states, “I have continued to think about my practice as encompassing the past and present while considering the future.”

    Gibson (b. 1972) earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London. His work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum and the New Museum, New York, and was included in the 2019 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, as well as more recently at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. A 2019 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, Gibson is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

    This project was originally commissioned by Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City. VIA Art Fund is the commissioning sponsor. For more information and hours, visit www.thetrustees.org

  • Through Sunday, September 12 – Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know

    Through large-scale textile pieces, interactive experiences, and performance, this exhibition, on view at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln through September 12, proposes a shift in the national discussion around race and remembrance. The Confederate Flag of Truce is a simple dishcloth employed as the South’s flag of surrender at the end of the Civil War in 1865. Yet, as Clark shows, propaganda continues to make the more familiar Confederate Battle Flag into the enduring symbol of this history. The exhibition asks: what was surrendered and who had the privilege of surrendering? Did the truce hold? Clark’s works explore the color, texture, and ideology of the Truce Flag, offering avenues for reevaluating foundational American narratives of truce and surrender.

    DeCordova is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions and a full slate of public programs relating to the art of Sonya Clark. A multidisciplinary textile artist and Professor at Amherst College, Clark’s work offers a profound encounter with race and the enduring effects of slavery in the United States. Click here to read about the companion exhibition, Sonya Clark: Heavenly Bound.

    Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know is organized by the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. DeCordova’s presentation is coordinated by Sam Adams, Curatorial Fellow.

    The exhibition is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Amherst College, Agnes Gund, the National Endowment for the Arts, Goya Contemporary Gallery & Goya-Girl Press, Rotasa Fund, the John Meyerhoff & Lenel Srochi-Meyerhoff Fund at the Baltimore Community Foundation, and Judith S. Weisman.

    Additional support for deCordova’s presentation comes from the Coby Foundation, Ltd., the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation, the Nathaniel Saltonstall Arts Fund, and the Roy A. Hunt Foundation. The exhibition is aligned with the Feminist Art Coalition. For complete information visit www.thetrustees.org.

    Credit: Carlos Avedaño
  • Thursday, February 13, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Japanese Floral Arranging: An Ikebana Workshop

    Thursday, February 13, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Japanese Floral Arranging: An Ikebana Workshop

    Inspired by the plants in Blossfeldt’s photographs, come experience a new way of arranging flowers with The Trustee’s ikebana workshop at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts on February 13 at 6:30 pm. Led by Joanna Callavello, President of the Ikebana International Boston Chapter, you will learn the history, styles, and concepts of ikebana arranging. The program fee covers all necessary materials, allowing you to take your new creations home. Trustees members $35, nonmembers $40. Register at www.thetrustees.org.

  • Through October, 2012: Urban Garden Art Installation

    The Rose Kennedy Greenway announces a sixteen month art installation. The Fort Point Channel Parks have been transformed. The recent installation of three contemporary sculptures based on botanical forms, together suggest a fantastic garden amidst the urban-scape of Boston. The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Boston Properties are proud to present Urban Garden, a sixteen month exhibition of sculpture on the Greenway.  Urban Garden features the work of internationally acclaimed artists, Tom Otterness, John Ruppert (his Pumpkins is below, in a photo by C. Ely) and James Surls and is curated by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum with generous support from Boston Properties. The exhibition can be viewed in Fort Port Channel Parks through October 2012.