DENNIS – The Cape Cod Museum of Art opened a 50-piece exhibition on Thursday of artist renditions of what the phrase, ‘We the People’ means to them.
The museum issued a call to artists asking what the words that begin the Preamble of the United States Constitution mean to them and how they would represent that in art.
The museum received 362 total submissions from visual artists residing in twenty-seven states across the country, along with a submission from China.
“We were both surprised and thrilled with the response from the art world,” said Benton Jones, Acting Executive Director of the Cape Cod Museum of Art.
“The breadth of work, both in mediums and messages, makes for an extraordinary and thought-provoking exhibition. Juror Lauren Della Monica had a challenging task of selecting just fifty pieces.”
With a Fine Arts Degree from Vanderbilt University and graduate degree from Christie’s Education in Connoisseurship, juror Lauren Della Monica gained additional experience at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, a well-regarded American paintings gallery in Manhattan, and worked with the Citibank Private Bank Art Advisory Service.
To complement her fine arts education and training, she obtained a Juris Doctorate degree from Brooklyn Law School, and practiced commercial litigation and art law before she established LPMD Fine Art Consulting in 2004.
She has also lectured extensively for private groups at galleries and museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is a contributor to major American arts periodicals and magazines.
“Some of the artists have responded to the challenge of We the People as a commentary on the collective experience of being American,” said Della Monica.
“Others have taken aim at perceived wrongs in leadership and community as a form of political protest. Others have taken a more personal approach, laying bare the fact that each person has different motivations, fears and priorities.”
A complimentary Opening Reception will be held on April 12 from 5:30 p.m. through 7:00 p.m. For more information, visit ccmoa.org.
The exhibition will be on view through June 9.
By TIM DUNN, CapeCod.com News Center
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