Dwelling: An Exhibition of Outdoor Sculpture

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Hours:	Open daily: 8:00am to dusk
Ages:	Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults
Cost:	Free see below
Category:	Nature & Outdoors

For Boston’s Victorians, Forest Hills Cemetery was the ultimate domestic space: a home for eternity. They transplanted the architecture and furnishings of their 19th century homes into a romantic park, creating a pastoral landscape filled with marble staircases, balustrades and ornamental urns, gothic spires and miniature mansions.

For the Trust’s fourth exhibition of contemporary art in this grand landscape, 15 contemporary artists respond to its Victorian origins as the ultimate domestic space, and to “dwelling” as a process of lingering reflection.

They have constructed inviting outdoor rooms for rest and thought, using gathered branches, growing vines, and living sunflowers. They have transformed a tombstone with mirror, a grassy lot with a colorful oriental carpet, the silent air with a sound collage.

These works and more will be on view through October 31, 2006. The exhibition opens with a festive public reception on the afternoon of June 24. Walking tours will take place monthly with participating artists joining historians who specialize in the Victorian era.

Hours
Open daily: 8:00am to dusk

Directions
One block from Forest Hills T station, Orange Line, via Tower Street shortcut. Free parking.

COST

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FREE

WEBSITE

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www.foresthillstrust.org

LOCATION

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95 Forest Hills Ave, Jamaica Plain, MA, 02130 map
Phone: (617) 524-0128