Overgrowth
This exhibition explores how artists represent prolific growth, expansion, and transformation in the natural world and the built environment. Coiling vines and other forms of unruly vegetation spread across the surfaces of paintings and works on paper. Scenes of vast urban construction convey the pinnacle of human ambition and ingenuity, as well as the negative effects of overdevelopment of the land. Artworks inspired by cellular mutation and the expansion of the universe reveal an equal fascination with microscopic and cosmic levels of transformation.
Overgrowth also examines how generative growth and additive processes are instrumental to the making of art. Viewers will observe different speeds of artistic creation, from slow, meticulous brushstrokes to rapid, painterly gestures. Biomorphic sculptures on view expand outward into real space, as if compelled by a vital life force. Drawn from deCordova鈥檚 permanent collection鈥攁nd featuring work by international, national, and New England artists acquired over the past fifty years鈥攖his exhibition demonstrates how ongoing change spans natural, man-made, and creative enterprises.
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This exhibition explores how artists represent prolific growth, expansion, and transformation in the natural world and the built environment. Coiling vines and other forms of unruly vegetation spread across the surfaces of paintings and works on paper. Scenes of vast urban construction convey the pinnacle of human ambition and ingenuity, as well as the negative effects of overdevelopment of the land. Artworks inspired by cellular mutation and the expansion of the universe reveal an equal fascination with microscopic and cosmic levels of transformation.
Overgrowth also examines how generative growth and additive processes are instrumental to the making of art. Viewers will observe different speeds of artistic creation, from slow, meticulous brushstrokes to rapid, painterly gestures. Biomorphic sculptures on view expand outward into real space, as if compelled by a vital life force. Drawn from deCordova鈥檚 permanent collection鈥攁nd featuring work by international, national, and New England artists acquired over the past fifty years鈥攖his exhibition demonstrates how ongoing change spans natural, man-made, and creative enterprises.
Artists on show
- Aaron Rose
- Alan Bray
- Albert Alcalay
- Alex MacLean
- Barbara Bosworth
- Barbara Takenaga
- Bill Ravanesi
- Bremner Benedict
- Brian D. Cohen
- Chris Enos
- Chris Taylor
- Constance Jacobson
- Cristi Rinklin
- David Benjamin Sherry
- David Wolf
- Donald Shambroom
- Edward Steichen
- Frank Gohlke
- Friedel Dzubas
- Gabor Peterdi
- Gary Webb
- George Hagerty
- Harold Eugene Edgerton
- Harold Tovish
- Henry Moore
- Jean Arp
- Jedediah Caesar
- Jeff Perrott
- Jon Imber
- Kurt Kranz
- Larry Fink
- Laura Kim
- Laura McPhee
- Laylah Ali
- Leah De Prizio
- Lee Friedlander
- Lois Tarlow
- Makoto Yabe
- Michael Mazur
- Nancy Burson
- Rachel Perry
- Robert Eshoo
- Sandra Allen
- Sarah Walker
- Sean Foley
- Sheila Gallagher
- Sumru Tekin
- Todd McKie
- William Christopher
- Willy Heeks
- Yeffe Kimball
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