Under Construction: America at 250
Under Construction: America at 250 is a site-responsive exhibition reflecting on the nation’s 250-year experiment in democracy: its history, present condition, and possible future. Selected through a nationwide call for art, the exhibition brings together 17 works by individual artists and collaborative teams. The installations are spread across the Art Complex Museum’s landscaped grounds and two additional Duxbury locations, encouraging visitors to pause and consider the question, “What does America mean to me?”
The participating artists represented in the event information include sculptors, digital and textile artists, and makers working with bronze, granite, wood, metal, glass, textiles, software, found natural materials, and other media. Their practices address subjects including public memory, labor, architecture, landscape, technology, ecological awareness, spirituality, and the ways people move through shared spaces.
When: June 14, 2026–August 29, 2027
Venue: Art Complex Museum
Additional locations: Reynolds-Maxwell Garden, a Duxbury Rural and Historical Society property near the Bluefish River Bridge, and The Center on Mayflower Street in Duxbury
Tickets: Price not available
Exhibition format: Seventeen outdoor and site-responsive works selected through a nationwide call for art
Artists: Michael Alfano, William Brayton, Murray Dewart, Jacob Kulin, Cat Mazza and Remy Hunter, Andy Moerlein, and Richard Neal are identified in the event information.
Michael Alfano: The Hopkinton sculptor is known for finely modeled bronze figures, portraiture, large outdoor commissions, and philosophical or surreal-leaning public artworks. His work includes The Starter for the Boston Marathon, the Holocaust Monument in Jericho, New York, Stand Up, Speak Out on Long Island, and Ethics of Peace at Georgetown University. Alfano studied at the Art Students League of New York and Boston University and works in museums, parks, waterfront sculpture walks, and private collections.
William Brayton: Based in Conway, Massachusetts, Brayton works in sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and wall relief. His abstract forms explore intersections, contact, motion, light, and the boundaries of what can be known. His work includes branching structures combined with aluminum arcs, spheres, and luminous discs, as well as monochromatic reliefs in wood and other materials. Brayton is professor emeritus at Hampshire College, where he founded the sculpture program and served as Dean of the School for Interdisciplinary Arts. He has exhibited at institutions including Chesterwood Museum, The Mount, Brattleboro Museum, and Hudson River Museum.
Murray Dewart: The Brookline sculptor and co-founder of Boston Sculptors Gallery creates monumental bronze and granite structures resembling gates, portals, thresholds, or altars. His works are intended to slow viewers down and establish contemplative relationships with their surroundings. Dewart’s sculptures have appeared in public collections, sculpture parks, and institutional settings in the United States and abroad, often arranged in sequences that create architectural rhythms and meditative alignments.
Jacob Kulin: Kulin, from Boston, creates contemporary sculpture that combines industrial fabrication with organic forms. Working in wood, metal, and glass, he produces freestanding sculptures, reliefs, public commissions, and site-specific installations that use repeated elements, rhythmic lines, cantilevers, light, shadow, and changing viewpoints. His work explores how material, scale, balance, and structure can alter the experience of architecture and landscape.
Cat Mazza and Remy Hunter: Mazza, based in Milton, collaborates with Brooklyn-based digital designer and developer Hunter at the intersection of textiles, digital media, and social history. Their projects translate historic textile charts and labor histories into knitted works, software, participatory projects, online experiences, and virtual-reality presentations. Their Electroknit Dymaxion work combines archival research, coding, knitting charts, open-source tools, and public programming to connect craft, labor, and technology.
Andy Moerlein: The Maynard sculptor creates work ranging from intimate objects to monumental, site-responsive installations. He gathers wood, stone, and other natural materials from forests and riverbeds, using them to explore place, material memory, landscape, and ecological change. His outdoor sculptures respond to local history and topography while retaining a handmade, poetic quality. Moerlein has developed public commissions and temporary installations for museums, sculpture gardens, landscape projects, residencies, and international sculpture symposia.
Richard Neal: Richard Neal is also identified as a participating artist in the exhibition information.
Run time: Not applicable; this is an outdoor and site-based exhibition.
Showtimes: No individual showtimes are listed.
Age guidance: Not specified.
Accessibility: No accessibility information is provided.