Situating Movement: Anne Lilly / New Work

October 14 – November 27, 2016

Opening reception: Thursday, October 20, 5-7 pm

Gallery talk with the artist: 5:30 pm

To Wreathe, Mirror, aluminum, stainless steel, plywood, engineering components, motor, 60”H x 20”W x 30”D, 2016.

Kinetic sculptor Anne Lilly uses carefully engineered motion to shift and manipulate our perceptions of time, place and self. Her interactive, precisely constructed sculptures move in organic, fluid ways. As Cate McQuaid of the Boston Globe has written, “Anne Lilly’s captivating stainless steel sculptures…are so intricately engineered they appear to do magic “.  The pieces are usually fabricated in machined stainless steel, and require the viewer’s touch to initiate movement. Employing opposing modalities — analytical and intuitive, rational and emotional — Lilly’s sculptures elicit new connections between the physical space outside ourselves and our own private, psychological domain.

The artist says: “Over my career working with sculptural systems of movement, I have developed a formal visual vocabulary that is ordered, precise, and austere, but which nonetheless results in relaxed and hypnotic experiences of motion, at once graceful, spacious, and free. Plumbing this zone between the cold and the warm, the severe and the lush, has drawn the work through years of honing toward choreographies of rich, fluid complexity. Lines—thin and either perfectly straight or circular—have populated patterns of motion, fulfilling the possibilities inherent in their governing mechanisms.”

Anne Lilly has received the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Grant Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Blanche E. Colman Grant, and visiting artist positions at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Art Institute of Boston. Her work was included in a landmark 14-month exhibition of kinetic art at the MIT Museum, and has been collected by the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, and numerous corporate and private collections internationally. Lilly holds a Bachelor of Architecture, magna cum laude, from Virginia Tech, and has taught at MIT and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Ms. Lilly is represented by Galerie Denise Renée in Paris and Rice/Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA.

Related programming in the gallery:

Special Alumni Event – Situating Movement Exhibit and Reception with Anne Lilly

Thursday, October 13
5:30-7:00 pm

Enjoy a special preview of Lilly’s new work. The artist will give a tour of the exhibit and share her unique process of creating kinetic sculpture.

Opening Reception Gallery Talk
Thursday, October 20
5:30pm

Let’s Talk About Math!
Thursday, November 10
12:30 – 1:30pm

Suffolk University Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Edith Cook and artist Anne Lilly will discuss the mathematical aspects of her process and work.