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DeCordova Presents Wall Works on View through Spring 2012

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, 2011–Spring 2012, six artists were invited to create site-specific wall installations in response to the Museum’s 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 Museum’s 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 deCordova’s collection ranging from Teenie Harris’s civil rights era documentary photographs to the quiet and poeti