Artist Pelle Cass and Chief Curator at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Sarah Montross join in conversation at the Coolidge Corner Theater during Cass's solo exhibition Tossed.
Pelle Cass is a photographer from Brookline, Massachusetts. His work is in the
collections of the Fogg Art Museum, the deCordova Museum, the Peabody Essex
Museum, and the MFA Houston. His photographs have appeared in publications
such as Beaux Arts Magazine, McSweeney’s, GQ, The New York Times, Die Zeit,
The Atlantic, The Economist, and many others. New York Magazine commissioned
Cass for the cover of its celebrated end of year 2022 “Reasons to Love New York”
issue. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Polaroid Collection, and the
Artist’s Resource Trust. He’s published the monograph “Pelle Cass” (Just an Idea),
and contributed to the books Photoviz (Gestalten), Deleuze and the City
(Edinburgh University Press), Langford’s Basic Photography (Focal Press), and The
Beautiful Sparkle: Ptical Illusions in Art (Prestel), ICP Concerned: Global Images for
Global Crisis (G Editions).
Sarah Montross, Ph.D., is Chief Curator at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum,
and has organized exhibitions including Screens: Virtual Material and Cool
Medium: Art, Television, & Psychedelia, 1960-1980. Prior to deCordova, Montross
worked at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art where she organized shows and
publications including Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art
of the Americas (MIT Press, 2016). At the Clark, as part of a summer working
group, she is preparing Visionary New England, an exhibition and publication that
examines the legacy of visionary, spiritualist, and utopian practices in the region
and their impact on contemporary artists.
