PRUDENTIAL CENTER
Cicely Carew
Ambrosia, 2021
Lush and ethereal.
Commissioned by Boston Properties and curated and produced by Now + There, now known as Boston Public Art Triennial, Ambrosia was on view at the Prudential Center from March through August 2021. For the first time with Ambrosia, Cambridge, MA-based artist Cicely Carew moved her lush, mixed-media paintings off the canvas and to astral heights. Colorful, ethereal forms sculpted of everyday materials burst throughout one of Boston’s most iconic public spaces, building not only moments of awe but a shared experience of transformative, radical joy.
LOCATION
Prudential Center
PRUDENTIAL CENTER
Cicely Carew
Cicely Carew 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. Exuberant in its colorful forms, Carew's work is, in her words, "about radical joy and liberation."
Carew 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.