your location: home > exhibitions > dougherty Patrick Dougherty Paradise Gate residency April 1-22, 2001 on view through June 8, 2003

North Carolina sculptor Patrick Dougherty returned to Smith College in April 2001 to create a site-specific work. Dougherty's memorable 1991 exhibition—Portals, Pivots and Perspectives, at the Smith College Museum of Art—was installed in museum galleries, but this sculpture is located on the lawn behind Neilson Library. To help maintain an art presence on campus while the Fine Arts Center is closed for renovation and expansion, the museum collaborated with the Botanic Garden to make this residency possible.

The finished sculpture, Paradise Gate, will remain on view through August 2003, or until it begins to decay. Patrick Dougherty's Installation & Residency at Smith College was funded by Smith College with additional support provided by the Friends of the Smith College Museum of Art and the Friends of the Botanic Garden of Smith College. The Landscape Studies Program of Smith College contributed funds to the installation brochure which is available, free of charge, in boxes located near Paradise Gate.