STREETSIDE | Sculptures & Installations
Streetside brings artwork to the museum’s grounds where visitors can delight in discovering contemporary sculpture and provides regional artists the opportunity to present public art at the Cahoon Museum.
2024
Robin Tost: Odysseus
2024
“Turtles are attractive to me. They are very long-lived and, in their wandering, get more gnarly with age as they accumulate more detritus on their shells. I am a great collector of detritus and admire the look of aged things. I particularly love the various colors of old copper, surmounted with treasures from my inventory. I think of Odysseus’ accumulations as military honors, acquired in a long life of service to his kind.” – Robin Tost
2023
March 2023 – November 1, 2023
Daina Shobrys| Where’s Iris?
2023
Daina Shobrys creates monumental sculptures that pay homage to the importance of flowers to life on earth. An expert gardener, Shobrys finds inspiration in her home grown flowers and recreates them 12 times life size to call attention to the beauty and diversity of form, structure and color that may otherwise go unnoticed. The exhibition, featured in the gardens at the Cahoon Museum in 2023, included a geranium.
March 15, 2023 – November 1, 2023
Robin Tost | Cecilia the Sea Serpent
2023
Artist, Robin Tost made a quick drawing, then a paper and tape maquette of Cecilia, which evolved into 9’ x 25’ sculpture that took almost two years to create. “It saved me during Covid,” Tost explains. “ I have no idea how I developed the idea for the serpent, but the name came from a 1962 children’s TV show, Beany and Cecil. Cecil, or the Seasick Sea Serpent, was a large green serpent with a slight lisp. Memories of the show have stayed with me all this time.”
2022
March 16 – November 1, 2022
Robin Tost | Phoenix
2022
Sculptor Robin Tost creates colorful, whimsical ‘full metal quilts’ out of recycled automobile parts and cast off metal. The idea for her signature style began during a biking trip across Vermont through a region devastated by factory closings.
On View
Alfred Glover | Ralph & Martha Espalier Trees
2022
A lifelong artist and Cataumet resident, Glover is well known to regional audiences for his fanciful, enchanting sculptures created in wood and metal. His inspiration comes from exotic flora and fauna he has seen on his international travels, as well as stories and memories from his childhood. Two of his espalier trees, on view by the Museum’s front door, were inspired by time spent in Rockport Maine when he was a small child, fascinated by wrought iron espalier frames he saw on antique buildings.
2021
August 6 – November 2, 2021
Sui Park | PomPom
Hand dyed cable ties, 2018
PomPom is part of Floating Imagery consisting of six artworks by sculptor Sui Park located on the Museum grounds and inside the atrium: PomPom, Elixir, Summer Vibe, Synthwave, Thought Bubbles, and Karen, Just One More on Top. Floating Imagery consists of six artworks by sculptor Sui Park located on the Museum grounds and inside the atrium: PomPom, Elixir, Summer Vibe, Synthwave, Thought Bubbles, and Karen, Just One More on Top.
2020
May 1 – December 20, 2020
Alfred Glover | Garden Grove
recycled aluminum
Garden Grove consisted of a series of whimsical “trees” with giant ginkgo and philodendron leaves that are inhabited by baby birds in blue nests, spotted dogs, exotic flowers, and other creative creatures. The artworks were clearly visible from the street along Route 28 in Cotuit, throughout 2020.
2021
Sarah Peters | The Botanical Fainting Couch
Cast silicon bronze, on loan from the artist, 2011
A botanically themed sculpture with specimens fron Acer to Zea
Each letter on the Botanical Fainting Couch has the impression of a different plant which is identified by its scientific name – its Latin genus.
2019
On View
Konstantin Dimopoulos | The Blue Trees
water soluble pigment, 2019
The Cahoon Museum of American Art commissioned artist Konstantin Dimopoulos to create a bold and colorful environmental installation during the spring of 2019. With the help of community volunteers, the artist will colored trees on the Museum’s grounds a vibrant shade of blue. The blue pigment is safe, environmentally friendly, water soluble and washes off easily. Over time, rainfall will return the trees to their natural state.
2018
On View
Hilary Hutchison | Head of the Cod and Tail of the Fish, 2019
Bronze and patina
Cast at Laran Bronze foundry in Chester, PA
Gift of Jane and Steve Akin
2018.8
Artist Hilary Hutchison’s dramatic swimming fish sculpture celebrates the importance of the Atlantic Codfish to the history, economy, and ecology of New England.
*Part of the museum’s permanent collection