Press Release Summary = DeCordova Museum featured artist Sandra Allen, who skillfully crafts drawings of the three-dimensionality of tree forms, will present an Artist Talk on Saturday, May 19 at 3 p.m.
Allen's detailed and realistic sketches can be easily mistaken for the photographs on which they are based. Allen takes these photographs around her neighborhood and in her travels, then utilizes them as a reference with which to render evocative, intricate, black and white sketches of the structures of trees.
Press Release Body = DeCordova Museum featured artist Sandra Allen, who skillfully crafts drawings of the three-dimensionality of tree forms, will present an Artist Talk on Saturday, May 19 at 3 p.m.
Allen's detailed and realistic sketches can be easily mistaken for the photographs on which they are based. Allen takes these photographs around her neighborhood and in her travels, then utilizes them as a reference with which to render evocative, intricate, black and white sketches of the structures of trees.
Allen recently created the thirty-seven foot tall, scroll-like drawing that hangs on the forty-foot wall of DeCordova Museum's grand staircase. This location allows the viewer to regard Allen's trunk of a palm tree drawing in juxtaposition with the other, actual trees outside in Sculpture Park. Installed in this location, the drawing can be seen in its entirety from the top of the staircase and in close detail from the bottom. Up close, the multiplicity of drawn marks such as squiggles, feathery lines, and cross-hatching are fascinatingly etched into the paper that so closely resembles a photograph,
On her art, Allen says "The structure, form and surface of a tree record the strength, fragility, growth and endurance of its life over time. I see a correlation between the development of the human psyche and personality and the visual narrative that is evident on the surface and form of a tree."
At the event, the artist will elaborate on her work and methods of exploring and experimenting, through the tree as her subject and drawing as her medium, "with the subtleties and possibilities of their visual meaning and metaphor."
More information can be found at Decordova.org or by calling the museum at 781-259-8355.
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