For Immediate Release
November 11, 2002
Contact: Brent Sverdloff 781/259-3628, bsverdloff@decordova.org
Sarah Smith 781/259-3663, ssmith@decordova.org
Exhibitions for the New Year at DeCordova!
Robert Kieronski: Photonic Evolution in Deep Time II
and
Bryan Nash Gill: Blow Down
Robert Kieronski: Photonic Evolution in Deep Time II
Window Gallery
Opens January 3, 2003
Computer-driven machines will produce wild colorful light beams and surprising dynamic spectrum shifts in the large window at the entrance of the Museum. Robert Kieronski presents the results of original experiments in kinetic light art using new mechanical inventions and a "free-form" ribbon of transflector material. The Dichroic plastic filter artwork will interplay with the sun during the day and with specially controlled lights at night.
Robert Kieronski has been involved with art and technology since the late '60s when, as a young Bell Lab Engineer, he worked on the now historic show, 9 Evenings of Theatre and Engineering, with artists like Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage. During a long engineering career, he has designed new electronic music synthesizers for Arp Instruments and holds several patents on unique watercraft designs based upon earlier work by Buckminster Fuller. Throughout his engineering career, Robert produced a number of artworks, mostly interactive and kinetic art incorporating a high degree of technology in their execution.
Robert Kieronski: Photonic Evolution in Deep Time II is organized by Curator of New Media George Fifield.
This installation is also part of The 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival, which will take place from April 26 through May 10, 2003. The Festival highlights artists working with new technologies in all media and includes exhibits, performances, screenings, and lectures and symposia at sites both in Greater Boston and on the Web. Detailed information about this festival is available online at www.bostoncyberarts.org.
Bryan Nash Gill: Blow Down
Grand Staircase
January - August 2003
Bryan Nash Gill is an artist from New Hartford, Connecticut, who works in many media-installation, sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking-to address issues about art, nature, artifice, and perception. Blow Down is a monumental relief, 40 feet tall, which will be installed against the Museum's elevator shaft wall. This sculpture is made from the bark of a single fallen tree, flattened and affixed to panels and mounted on a wall visible from both inside and outside the Museum. In this way, the sculpture operates in the territory where nature becomes architecture. Blow Down is accompanied by two other reliefs, spiral sculptures made of used chain saw blades that resemble the growth rings of trees.
Bryan Nash Gill received his B.F.A. from Tulane University, and an M.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; the New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT; and the William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Blow Down is organized by Curator Nick Capasso.
General Information
DeCordova Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm and on selected Monday holidays. Admission is $6 per person, $4 for senior citizens, students, and youth ages 6-12. Children age 5 and under, Lincoln residents, and Active Duty Military Personnel and their dependents are admitted free. The Sculpture Park is open year round during daylight hours and is free. The Store @ DeCordova and the School Gallery are open Monday through Thursday, 9:30 am to 7:30 pm, Friday through Saturday, 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, and Sunday 11:30 am to 5:30 pm. The Café @ DeCordova is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 am to 3 pm. Free guided public tours of the Museum's main galleries take place every Wednesday and Sunday at 2 pm. Free tours of the Sculpture Park are given on Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm from May to October. Visit www.decordova.org or call 781/259-8355 for further information.
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