There will be a retrospective art exhibit in Boston next week for Kirsten Anne Malone, a 1993 Staples graduate who died in June 2004 at the age of 29 as a result of injuries received when she was hit by a car while bicycling.
“Kirsten A. Malone: Retrospective,” a three-day exhibition, opens Thursday at the Copley Society Boston, 158 Newbury St. It will be the first retrospective of her photography, video, sculpture, and performance since her death.
An online description of the exhibit says: “Malone introspectively integrates her own experiences with acute commentary on the social constructs affecting her life as a young woman in Boston. Employing her characteristic intelligence and sharp wit, personal histories become pertinent social critique of stereotypes, consumption, and technology.”
Malone grew up in Westport and after Staples attended Boston University where she graduated in 1997 with a bachelor of arts in photo journalism. She went on to study at the Massachusetts College of Art, graduating in 2003 with an additional bachelor of arts in fine arts.
She was planning to attend the Chicago Art Institute, where she was one of only a handful of applicants accepted for the masters of fine arts program.
The exhibit was curated by a group of Malone�s friends, with the support of her family and estate.
Drawing from her surviving original works, the show will feature selections from Malone’s entire career with video, photography and, installation. Much of the work in the exhibit will be on public view for the first time. The Copley Society donated space for the show.
The work at the Copley Society will be for sale, and the profits will benefit a Mass College of Art Scholarship fund for innovative young women artists. Further events to raise money to endow the fund, including art auctions and a memorial bike ride, are forthcoming, according to the Web site.
Malone was the daughter of William N. and Carol A. Rondelli Malone of Ambler Road, Westport. She died June 15, 2004, as the result of injuries received three days earlier when she was hit by a car while riding her bike in Boston’s Allston area. (See WestportNow June 19. 2004)
