LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova presents Wall Works, the newest exhibition in a series of projects designed to rethink and recontextualize the Permanent Collection. For Wall Works, on view June 11, 2011Spring 2012, six artists were invited to create site-specific wall installations in response to the Museums collection of modern and contemporary American art. In preparation for the exhibition, artists Kysa Johnson, Natalie Lanese, Caleb Neelon, Alison Owen, Justin Richel, and Mary Temple trolled the Museums database of 3,500 objects and selected an artwork to serve as a source of inspiration for their proposed wall work. The artists identified artworks that resonated with their varied interests and aesthetics and have consequently assembled an eclectic assortment of objects from deCordovas collection ranging from Teenie Harriss civil rights era documentary photographs to the quiet and poeti