Concord’s Mill Brook Gallery is opening its 21st Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit to the public this week.
The gallery’s founder Pamela Tarbell curates and hosts the exhibition each year at her home on Hopkinton Road. The house overlooks acres of fields and a pond and is filled inside with her spring and summer exhibit of art, which opened on May 3.
The outdoor portion of this season’s exhibitions opened on May 15 for public viewing, but its opening reception is May 27 from 2 to 4 p.m.
The exhibit includes many types of sculpture, from small to large and from realistic to abstract. One piece depicts a life-sized bronze woman holding a baby in great detail, and one is a minimalist steel piece that captures the motion of a dancer.
One of Tarbell’s favorite pieces in the exhibit was not created as a stand-alone piece of art, but rather part of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Carousel in Boston. Sculptor Jeff Briggs created the gray elephant, along with shrimp and lobsters, to replace the traditional horses on the Greenway’s merry-go-round.
Artists featured in the outdoor exhibit include Michael Alfano, Paul Angiolillo, David Borrus, Lindley Briggs, Jeffrey Briggs, James Calderwood, Scott Cunningham, Josie Campbell Dellenbaugh, Murray Dewart, Liz Fletcher, Ronnie Gould, Joseph Gray, Bruce Hathaway, John Isherwood, Al Jaeger, Evan Jesperson, John Lacz, Madeleine Lord, Andy Moerlein, Evan Morse, Boyan Moskov, Nancy Reilly, Dale Rogers, Antoinette Prien Schultze and Bob Shannahan.
As a one-woman operation, Tarbell has put much of her time, as well as her home, into building the gallery into one of the few visual art spaces in the Concord area.
“I’ve been doing this for 21 years, and because I’m an artist too, I’ve just built the gallery slowly by word of mouth over the years,” she said.
Why does she do it?
“It’s here to support the artists,” she said. “Some people see the gallery and think it’s just a museum, but if I don’t sell things, they don’t make any money.”
All of the outdoor sculpture pieces are for sale until mid-October when the exhibit closes. Until then, the gallery is open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information, visit themillbrookgallery.com.
