For Immediate Release
December 15, 2014
Murray Dewart: Pulse of Morning
January 21- February 22, 2015
Artist’s Reception: Saturday, January 24, from 4 - 7 pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, February 21, from 4 - 7 pm
First Friday Reception: February 6, from 5 – 8 pm
All events are free and open to the public
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Sunday 12 - 6 pm
Boston, MA: Murray Dewart’s exhibition called Pulse of Morning features a wide array of
inventive sculptures both large and small. He has used every available industrial tool for his
lyrical and poetic purpose: brightly colored wall pieces in rolled and welded aluminum, stainless
steel that is cut with water-jets, magisterial works in slab granite, lost-wax bronze and cast glass.
The sculptor continues his quest for a universal language, borrowing from Celtic, Mayan and
Tibetan traditions, while sharing much with New England transcendentalists of the past. He uses
computer-aided technology for a poetic purpose that is nature-based. "When the granite is roughcut in the right way" he states, "you can still feel the mountain speak." On the wall is a text from
Emily Dickinson:"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." There is a sea stone
piece built with massive boulders. There are bird's nests and sea creatures that signal a lyrical,
psalm-like meditation on the natural world.
Last year in The Boston Globe, Sebastian Smee wrote: "I was impressed by Murray Dewart and
his signature granite and bronze gate-like forms, steadfast, symbol-laden works that seek to
offer a kind of spiritual shelter from the storm of contemporary ephemerality." Dewart is a
prize-winning artist whose “sculptures are world-class,” wrote critic Marty Carlock. His
international work includes recent sculptures in Israel for the city of Ra'anana and in Peru for the
San Marco Museum in Lima. He was commissioned by two Chinese cities to build large
sculptures for their international sculpture parks. He has work in more than thirty museums and
public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Profiled in Harvard Magazine
(Sculpture that Breathes) featured on radio and television (with Jared Bowen and WGBH),
Dewart has been hailed as “one of Boston's premier sculptors." He is the co-founder of Boston
Sculptors Gallery and an eloquent advocate for public sculpture.
Dewart’s work is shown concurrently with work by Christopher Abrams.
Contact:
Murray Dewart
617-877-6429
[email protected]
Jean Mineo, Director
617-482-7781
[email protected]
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