Sarah Walker Wins Rappaport Prize

Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:04

LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park and the Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation announced this year’s recipient of the largest public annual award to an individual artist in Massachusetts, The Rappaport Prize. The $20,000 one-year stipend will be awarded to Sarah Walker—a 42-year-old Boston–based painter. Walker creates compositionally clear—yet dazzlingly complex—works that reference the cosmos and the ever-collapsing new conceptions of physical, mental, and virtual space. The artist’s non-objective paintings have appeared at DeCordova in The 2001 DeCordova Annual Exhibition. About Sarah Walker - Sarah Walker belongs to a new generation of artists who link their vision and practice with newly understood realities of the twenty-first century: genetic mapping and engineering, neurobiology, quantum mechanics, fractal geometry, information theory, and the virtual realms of the computer and the Internet. Her paintings consist of a central and vertical undulating feature set against broad modulated horizontal passages, or against a monochrome ground. The Rappaport Prize is administered by DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park and conforms to the Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation’s mission to encourage leadership in specific sectors of the community. DeCordova has attained a significant leadership position as the largest, most dynamic museum of contemporary American art in New England and serves as a national model for institutional involvement within the community.

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