In-Person Program: Guided Tour of Cicely Carew's Ambrosia

Guided Tour of Cicely Carew's Ambrosia

Join us in celebrating Cambridge-based artist and CAA board member Cicley Carew's current installation, Ambrosia, on-view at Boston's iconic Prudential Center until June 30th, 2021. 

With Ambrosia, Cicely moves her lush, mixed-media paintings off the canvas and to astral heights.This large-scale, multi-media installation sparks generative healing as we reimagine our public spaces as sites of meaningful community engagement and daily creative discovery. In Greek mythology, "ambrosia" is the immortality-granting nectar reserved only for the gods. But Cicely’s project rewrites the ancient myths, focusing instead on the modern definition of ambrosia as “delight for the senses:’ 

To commemorate the installation's final week, Cicely will be offering an in-person guided tour of the artwork followed by a brief Q&A. This event is FREE and open to the public. Prior registration to the event and appropriate face-masks are required of all attendees. The tour will meet outside and in front of the Boylston Entrance to Prudential Center at 11:00am. 

Ambrosia was curated and produced by Now + There and commissioned by Boston Properties. 

Cicely Carew

Cicely Carew’s work wields the formal, material, and sculptural aspects of painting to evoke radical joy, hope, and liberation. Through vibrant color, rebellious mark-making, sweeping gestures, and references to the natural and galactic world, Carew captures and conserves the fleeting magic of the present.

Outside the studio, her life as a mother, movement instructor, and nature enthusiast heavily influence her practice. She spent her formative years in Los Angeles surrounded by artists, writers, sculptors, photographers, and teachers. She moved to Boston for her undergraduate degree at MassArt, and after stints in Mexico and on the West Coast, returned for her MFA at Lesley Art + Design in Cambridge, MA. 

She has received several honors and grants over the years, such as the Cambridge Art Association's Emerging Artist's Exhibition award, the Sustainable Arts Foundation award, Strauch-Mosse Merit Scholarship Award, and a Cambridge Arts Council grant. Carew's work is in private, corporate, and University collections. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA, with her son.