the 2010 decordova biennial
Possibly the most innovative museum in Massachusetts, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park will be hosting its 2010 Biennial exhibition, a showcase of seventeen featured artists spanning the last few generations with special connections to New England, through this April. The exhibition takes up the entirety of the museum’s square footage, including the rooftop, and judging by the exhibition page, it is definitely something worth checking out (on a nicer weekend, when this rain ends… welcome back to Trinity!)
ria brodell may brighten your day
First discovered this whimsical American artist, who works a lot with pencil and watercolor (but also does crazy sculptures!), at the DeCordova Museum in Massachusetts back in 2006, and I’m kind of obsessed with her. For anyone anticipating a week as stressful as mine’s going to be, take a minute to play around on her website. She has an amazingly articulated series called “The Distant Lands” outlining the fate of a world she imagines (the bird men and the whale are my favorite characters), and she is currently showing a new series, “The Handsome and the Holy,” that “is interested between the play between queer desire and the construction of gender identity as seen alongside her religious upbringing.” Her drawings are on the simple side, but that’s why I like ‘em. Not all contemporary art has to be so overstated!
Not to mention, Ria Brodell is ridiculously sweet and when I emailed her website senior year wanting to ask a few questions for an AP Studio project (not really expecting success), she personally answered me that day giving me more information than I could have possibly hoped for — so in my humble opinion, this chick’s awesome.
